Gold Recovery - 2017 Weigh-In
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- My final weigh-in for 2017. Was originally aiming for 3 ounces, very happy with the final result. All Gold recovered from E-waste as a hobby. Merry Christmas to everyone, looking forward to a productive 2018
I started my ewaste and gold bearing items collecting and hoarding in 2017, I started watching Ewaste Ben first then about a year later I started to also watch Sreetips. I've watched a many others as well & been learning alot.
Ewaste Ben encouraged me to wait until I was educated enough to start refining, so I do it right and be safe.
I was referred to you by someone in the comment section of Sreetips and I'm really glad I started to watch you. I have watched at least a few videos from several dozen different ewaste refiners, but you are by far the best I've seen hands down!!
Really Sweet Weigh in for 2017!!
Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!!
Ah that's great, yep, haha, I actually went through almost the same path back then!
Nice way to bring in the New Year. Congrats. Love your videos, so thank you for taking the time to do them for us all to enjoy.
Thanks for the great comment, love your username. All the best for 2018!
Had to find a way to let peeps know Im female and hope they stop calling me "Dude" LMAO
you videos are second to none .very informative very interesting absolutely excellent .Tim from Victoria Melbourne Australia. merry Christmas to you .
Thanks for the kind words Tim, very much appreciated. Merry Christmas and all the best for 2018
Successful Engineer thanks for the reply now I have collected 7 to 10 tones of computers and tvs over the last year my issue is pulling it all apart what have I done i need mental help therapy .
Geez, yep, I have a similar problem to a lesser degree with crap filling up my workshop. And to make things worse, the weather has been great here for the last month, so I much prefer to be out doing things than pulling apart computers in the workshop!
Congrats my friends. Looks awesome. Can’t wait for you to post the video of connectors ends I’ve sent. Merry Christmas
Hi David, for sure, looks like it will be the first video of 2018, I think that will be of interest to many viewers! Hope you have a fantastic Christmas and a very productive 2018. Will let you know when the package arrives at work, I start back on the 3rd, may be waiting for me by then.
Good haul, nice results. I appreciate your videos. If its not outside your scope do you plan on doing any MLCC refining for Pt/Pd? Once again- great videos.
S Dunca Thanks for the great comment, Ive always been a gold-bug, so have never seriously looked at MLCCs, I have a large container of them saved up, so should probably investigate it at some point.
It's nice when you can see the results of all the work.
Spot on mate, very happy with that result.
Merry Christmas mate
The most important thing to remember is to heat your mold as hot as you can to get the best result
Hi Jesse, yep, definitely needed a bit more heat, that graphite crucible definitely sucks the heat out much faster than my regular melting crucibles! Think it may be time for a oxy-acetylene kit!
Well done, all the best for 2018
Thank you very much, I think I will slow down a bit in 2018, do less gold volume and more refines of unknown interesting materials. All the best and hope you have a productive, happy and healthy 2018
Happy New Year May next year bring 10 x more gold Did you refined any silver or palladium?.
Thanks for the best wishes! I end every solution by cementing any left-over PMs on Copper, the black powder then goes into a 'retirement' bottle. So I've never targeted Pt or Pd particularly. All the best for 2018!
great score mate, I hope i will get to your level at some time, cause at the time i make 4 grams of powder so you are master for me, comparing to my results, keep going regards Rafal
Thanks for the comment Rafal, every gram counts! All the best for 2018
thanks a lot and wish you success in a new year, Your are welcome to look on my channel what i just start to rebuild not so many contents is there but every day im work to improve it, good luck
What did it cost you to get that amount of gold? An impressive payout but if you had to buy your waste then all of the chemicals and pay for haz waste disposal it will cut into your profit. Since it is a hobby the time doesn’t really count. Nice work and thank you for sharing your videos. Did you recover anything else? Silver, palladium, copper, iron?
Great question Paul, certainly not 100% profit! I estimate about a third of the value would cover the costs, not counting time and lab-ware. Still a solid profit, but since I don't sell it, the value of it is only in my head. Might sell it off one day and take the wife on a well deserved trip for putting up with all my weekends in the shed! I basically sell off boards as low grade E-waste after harvesting the Gold bearing parts, so there is certainly some cash that also came from that. Things like Copper and Aluminium I gather up in big containers and also sell off once or twice a year. I think the Cu and Al would pay for the chemicals and glassware.
Drastically different maths if you take time into account, if I take time into account then I would probably struggle to make minimum wage!
Congratulations nice work. those pieces will fit that crucuble if enough melting heat. 3 oz per year is a good goal for a hobbie. keep that good work and waiting for more of your experiments in yield of ic chips tipes. i`m following your steps to do the same thenks for the data. happy new recovering year!!!
aHi Luis, yes, I think it's time for a Oxy-Acetylene kit, struggling a bit with the MAPP gas! Appreciate your comments, would be interested to hear how your yields compare to mine! All the best for 2018
Gorgeous !
Thanks Karl! All the best for 2018
Very nice
Thanks! Appreciate the comment!
Successful Engineer you're very welcome. I always enjoy your videos.
How much urea is needed to denox 200ml of gold chloride and how long it takes. How much SMB is needed to precipitate.
Hi there, the amount of urea depends on the amount of free Nitric acid present, the best way is to use an indicator Gold button to show you when all the Nitric acid has been converted. I have a earlier video that shows how to do this. I usually use about 2g of SMB for every expected gram of Gold.
Awesome work, make sure to tell the tax man, just kidding.
I hope to have one soon with what you've shown.
Two Thumbs Up!!!
Hi Brian, thanks for the comment! Keep plucking away at it, the grams definitely add up over time. These buttons are made up of many 1 and 2g drops! All the best for 2018, please let me know how you go!
That's some nice shiny gold awesome video
Thanks mate, back from camping yesterday, looking forward to catching up. How did you do in 2017 ?
2017 brought around 2.5 oz I'm hoping this next year is better
2.5Oz is awesome man, I know 100% how hard you have to work for every gram with E-Waste!
9:03 my 3 big precious ! watch out for gollum :)
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Hello sir plg job half
nice payout for a hobby
For sure, even after costs are taken into account, very happy with that.
Hey Engineer! I Sent you a PM on here. when you have a chance can you check it out?
Hey Matthew, replied to your message. All the best for 2018.
Same to you!
Hello I admire your work I want you to teach that idea please whats needed?
Hi there, look through my videos and ask questions if you need more detail on anything
Nice. I have z double garage full of ewaste to recover. About 6 kilos of fingers and a maybe 25 kilos of chips. Boxes of boards to break down. Might recover it all next year see what i got
Awesome, I found consistently making a few grams a week was key. Slow and steady :)
You weren't kidding when you said you were going to need the big scales! I did have to wait a few days before commenting as I was waiting to finish off my latest run of ic chips from 200 ddr2 ram sticks. I can't remember the start weight of them but I recovered 1.38 grams, this brought my total for the year to 18.06 grams. I haven't yet had time to do a 2nd or 3rd refine, but for my 1st year of gold recovery I'm more than pleased with the total amount I've recovered.
Nick Stoyles Hey mate, happy new years. 18g for the short time you have been at it is awesome. Every gram adds up in the end!
Happy New year to you too my good man! Without your help on processing ic chips it probably would have been more like 10 grams. Thanks to you posting videos and answering god knows how many of my questions, that is what made the 18 grams possible. I've got my hands on some bga chips which I'm going to process for a local laptop repairman, before I start processing them I may need some more advice from you as I don't want to make any mistakes with that batch.
For sure Nick, always happy to help where I can. BGAs are fantastic to process, the yield relative to difficulty is very good with them. I assume you are talking about the gold-corner type BGAs ? Like North Bridge chips ? If so, you can expect around 10g per kg of the black tops with bases peeled off.
Yes that's the type of chip I'm referring to. I'm not sure of the total weight yet as I haven't finished pulling them off the motherboards. I just wanted to check on how I process both parts. The black top parts I believe I process in the same manner as I've been doing for the ic chips off my ram sticks, correct? The green bottoms I believe I process them in ap with an air bubbler, the same as I would for the gold fingers off ram sticks, yes?
The black tops you process as normal for ICs, but you don't have to do any HCl leach because they have no Tin / Iron inside them. So just straight to HNO3 after washing / blue bowl, then wash out the Copper Nitrate and dissolve with AR. I have never bothered to process the bottoms, they only have ENIG plating, so you would be creating a lot of waste acid for a very very small amount of Gold. I basically just throw away the bottom parts.
Really nice work. Maybe you could melt all three pieces from this year together and stamp the year 2017 on it and then compare to 2018.
Awesome idea Scott, although I have 2 kids, so maybe cut it in half and do a 2017 for each of them for when I kick the bucket. I think Ill buy a Oxy-Acetylene kit first, the MAPP gas was starting to struggle with that 50g bar!
@@successfulengineer acetylene is a dirty, dirty gas... but hotter for cheaper than propane, i suppose. i'm neurotically biased- i'm a glassblower; we can't use acetylene as it soots and fouls the glass.
Great job! Thank you for posting these great videos! It has really motivated me to keep piling up the e-waste for precious metal recovery in the future.
Thanks for the message Kyle, keep piling up and let me know how you go. All the best for 2018
Hello plz hepl I am follow u
Very well done! Thanks for sharing with us.
Thanks for the comment, all the best for 2018!
How mani carat sir
Faris Faris Hi there, this is all refined Gold, so around 99.9% pure (24 karat)
+Successful Engineer Congrajulations Thanks Sir
Absolutely beautiful. It makes my day whenever you post a video. I am working on BGAs today. Have a great day sir.
Hi Mike, thanks as always for the kind words and communication through 2017, always a pleasure to hear from you! I love BGAs, especially since I got the microscope! Look forward to seeing your progress through 2018!