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[Solved] Wher to look in a computer for gold

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huny   01-28-2012 at 06:46:25 AM

Hello,
where is gold located in the scrap computer

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jsc   01-28-2012 at 07:00:04 AM

Connectors. Unfortunately, we are talking about 50 microinches of gold plating. That is .000050 inches.

Salvaging gold from electronics requires large scale industrial processing.

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Tehseen_Akhtar   01-29-2012 at 04:56:18 PM
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Yup jsc is very rite..
but i heard that a person got rich just by extracting those micro inches of gold from scrap computers :)

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kewlx25   01-29-2012 at 06:36:33 PM

It's also a great way to get whole body chemical burns and messed up lungs from not doing it correctly.

Lots of VERY VERY bad chemicals.

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huny   02-04-2012 at 03:56:10 PM

Tehseen_Akhtar wrote :

Yup jsc is very rite..
but i heard that a person got rich just by extracting those micro inches of gold from scrap computers :)



thank you im pleased that some one can reply in good humer coz pennys make pounds and here in the philippines one pound is worth curency exchainge of 68 %

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Mousemonkey   02-04-2012 at 04:12:19 PM

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