It's super inefficient unless you do it in huge industrial sized batches. Otherwise the gold u get is like worth 10bucks in return for like 70bucks of raw materials!
It's probably pretty worth right now. I pulled 9 grams out of about 25 CPUs (pentium 166), which wasn't worth enough to recoup the cost when I did it, but it's worth a lot more now.
A good question indeed. Makes one wonder why there's companies out there selling complete sets with everything needed to start gold-recycling at your own home. That is chemicals, tools, containers, etc. One might believe it's just an initial cost that will swallow any profits, and once one get started the profits should soon roll in if one just keeps it up for long enough. Well.. yeah... kinda... but on have to get up in ridiculous volumes, it's not feasible doing it in the home kitchen any more. Energy and consumables cost a whole lot compared to the return. Once one is at extremely large industrial volumes, one can almost see some really really small profits. TL;DR: ... For the home brewer in the kitchen it's not worth it at all anywhere. Only at large industrial volumes it might be profitable, and even then it's questionable if it's worth all the hassle/risks.
It is most certainly profitable at large scales. There are many other metals that can be recovered from these parts, not just gold. It was profitable when gold was $400/oz back in 2005 when I played with it, and the gold alone is worth three times that much now. And when you consider that most people see old tech scrap as worthless and will literally give it to you, you eliminate a large cost and you basically just have labor and chemicals. I mean, nobody is going to get rich doing this in their backyard (you REALLY don't want to do this in your kitchen, unless you enjoy remodeling), but you can certainly make good money doing it at large scales.
afthefragile that's what happened in certain places in China right now. Mountains of electronic wastes being torn into pieces by underpaid workers without proper protection so it can be processed to extract the gold from it.
“This is way beyond school chemistry” lmao our 9th grade (age 14) science class involved making aqua regia as an educational lab. It’s literally just mixing two liquids...
He might have lost a ton of it when he poured out the "green liquid" after he liquefied the gold. Because it's very dense so allot of it might have gotten stuck with all the other crap in the container. You have to really rinse that all down to get all of the material out. That's why gold miners have WASH PLANTS! that's where you separate the gold
Stannous chloride test solution is one of the most important tool and a most have for any precious metal recovery and refining process, this test solution will tell you if there is presence of dissolved precious metals (Gold, Platinum and Palladium) in a solution or not. IM shocked he didn't test anything.
You can confirm it's there by dissolving some tin in dilute hydrochloric acid making stannous (tin) chloride an extremely sensitive test for the presence of gold in solution 1:57
Norma I was thinking the same. Nurdrage and Cody used hydrochloric acid and chlorine gas to disolve gold (same result as from aquaregia, ourochloric acid) but hydrochloric acid and recirculating the chlorine gas seems way cheaper than this bruteforce attempt.
Norma, Laharl: As someone else in the comments stated: it is only profitable at an industrial level. The costs alone of buying the used chemicals far outweigh the profit of the gold. (Not even to mention the high cost of getting rid of the chemical waste!)
That's really a show of its own. To intense and speedy voice. Also doubious : You don't need complex receipe. You don't need to dissolve the gold either. Usually, nitric acid will disolve everything but gold in less than an hour. Then you dilute the liquid by pouring the solution in double the water. Then you rinse your bucket with water, add that to the solution, then you filter out the gold from the solution with coffee filters. Repeat the whole nitric acid + filtering process will help you get rid of any other remaining metal. If some other metal remains : rinse well and try to dissolve with chlorhydric acid, rinse filter and so on. Absolutly DONT mix chlorhydric and nitric or it will dissolve your gold.
I have done a project during my master's on this to extract precious metals from e-waste. Hell lot of dangerous activities required to get milligrams of gold, platinum and other metal.
Once you use the acid the first time and you loosened up all the gold that’s when you take tweezers and pull the gold off of the undissolved circuit board
he made purist GREEN! why not just poor mercury on the boards to absorb the gold, the evaporate the mercury to leave the gold behind? the mercury will collect in a separate container through tubes and condense.
Green solution? Sounds like copper or nickel contamination. Dissolved gold in this manner is called chloroauric acid. It's usually an orange like color when pure.
The amount of “drama” he spouts is hilarious. “If Oye mess opp this next step oye whell blow up the beelding we’re fellming in at this cuhrent moement”
Came to the comments to express disappointment in the fake uncertainty and 'danger' in the video, but it seems literally everybody else is saying this too.
BrandonTheBoss I mean a place but me is a scrap yard for electronic like this they got thousands of those board and my uncle is a chem teacher and can get he chemicals I could get like 4000 of those hoard for free so I think with the right shit you could mask a lot
Ed Stephenson You win the Internet for this quotation! It was the first thing I thought of when he mentioned ‘green’ and I heard it in Percy’s voice? As I did when I read what you had written!
Why aren’t there captions for this video? You should at least turn on the automatic ones so people can follow along that aren’t able to hear the audio track. :)
Just a word of warning.... If you do this in your backyard, your neighbors might freak out and call the police thinking you're a meth lab... But at least your kids will get to see the hazmat truck and fire engines.
That twit wasted a lot, including gold he failed to recover. I think the dramatic music was there because the producers knew they were filming an idiot that could injure himself while trying to use a potato gun.
So after all that work and all that risk of those chemicals,you wind up with not even a teaspoon of Gold? Would that even be enough to purchase more chemicals?
The gold comes out more pure at the end if you remove the gold from the fingers first without acid and only use enough nitric acid in the aqua regia so that you don't need urea. A more clear liquid will produce a more pure gold. You'll see what I'm saying in the melting process and especially if you have to roll the gold for anything. C.M Hoke wrote the bible on this. She was a precious metals genius
Don't mix your aqua regia before hand. Add the nitric acid little by little using just enough to get the job done. You can get the gold off the fingers with an aerator. Clarifying what I meant.
1. When I clicked on this video I thought I could’ve done this with a few things around the house, in my backyard. I did not expect flesh melting acid. 2. All that for that tiny sprinkle of gold?!
He used hydrochloric acid. If you own a pool or driveway you have this. He mixed it with Nitric acid. If you have a yard, you have fertilizer, which is probably made from nitric acid(since the sulfuric acid salt is probably super expensive). Salts of nitric acid(all fertilizers) can be used to create nitric acid itself. After mixing the two acids, he boils them. That's it. He's making it sound complicated amd scary on purpose.
Gold only is expensive when it's made into a bar. If you looking for money go look for the most valuable thing that is possible to get that isn't dark matter.
Matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed they can only be converted from one to the other it's the law of conservation of mass and energy so as long as you don't throw anything way it will still be there even if you can't tell it is
Title should say "most expensive, least efficient way to extract gold from circuit boards. Use HCl and peroxide to dissolve the base metals. Rinse with clean water to remove gold from boards and discard boards. Weigh gold to calculate proper amount of AR to use to dissolve gold. Also use gold weight to calculate proper amount of SMB, it's 1:1, to drop gold from solution. Wash precipitated gold several times with HCl then dry and melt.
I wonder how much that process costs in comparison to the price of the gold obtained.
It's super inefficient unless you do it in huge industrial sized batches. Otherwise the gold u get is like worth 10bucks in return for like 70bucks of raw materials!
It's probably pretty worth right now. I pulled 9 grams out of about 25 CPUs (pentium 166), which wasn't worth enough to recoup the cost when I did it, but it's worth a lot more now.
A good question indeed. Makes one wonder why there's companies out there selling complete sets with everything needed to start gold-recycling at your own home. That is chemicals, tools, containers, etc.
One might believe it's just an initial cost that will swallow any profits, and once one get started the profits should soon roll in if one just keeps it up for long enough.
Well.. yeah... kinda... but on have to get up in ridiculous volumes, it's not feasible doing it in the home kitchen any more. Energy and consumables cost a whole lot compared to the return. Once one is at extremely large industrial volumes, one can almost see some really really small profits.
TL;DR: ... For the home brewer in the kitchen it's not worth it at all anywhere. Only at large industrial volumes it might be profitable, and even then it's questionable if it's worth all the hassle/risks.
It is most certainly profitable at large scales. There are many other metals that can be recovered from these parts, not just gold. It was profitable when gold was $400/oz back in 2005 when I played with it, and the gold alone is worth three times that much now.
And when you consider that most people see old tech scrap as worthless and will literally give it to you, you eliminate a large cost and you basically just have labor and chemicals.
I mean, nobody is going to get rich doing this in their backyard (you REALLY don't want to do this in your kitchen, unless you enjoy remodeling), but you can certainly make good money doing it at large scales.
afthefragile that's what happened in certain places in China right now. Mountains of electronic wastes being torn into pieces by underpaid workers without proper protection so it can be processed to extract the gold from it.
Lmao why was the editing and music so intense? It's like a couple of bucks worth of gold, it's not life or death whether he loses it
That looks like more than a couple bucks.
It's a struggle for survival after brexit. I remember that NileRed also made a video like this but without the intensity (he's canadian)
The editor is implying he has a loan shark after him
You do know gold is $1400 an ounce and is only going to go up in price right? That was more than a few dollars... lmao
Like a James Bond movie. He must be Goldfinger. I know, bad joke.
I am so triggered when people call lab procedures recipes.
Get over it. People die everyday and you cry about this?
Yeah but who cares about death that you don't experience? /s
This is a popsci show and it's not like chemistry procedures aren't comparable enough to recipes.
Calm down Albert Einstein
I am so triggered when people call baking procedures a science.
Oh wait.... no I'm not, because I'm not a bitch.
its just a normal chemistry process why all the drama? Wait its the BBC!
what a coincidence, a TARDIS commenting on a BBC video
If she cheat Imma choke her 😂random
God the BBC always has one up their ass.
If she cheat Imma choke her 😂😂👍
0:50 “this is way beyond school chemistry”
“This is way beyond school chemistry” lmao our 9th grade (age 14) science class involved making aqua regia as an educational lab. It’s literally just mixing two liquids...
pyromen321 wtf I’m a freshman and I don’t do this shit
pyromen321 you must go to a private school
@@Dontcrybebetter true lol
Aqua regia
3 parts of hcl + 1 part of nitric acid
I had that too in the 9th grade
I didn't make it or anything but knew what it was the in 9th grade anol
He might have lost a ton of it when he poured out the "green liquid" after he liquefied the gold. Because it's very dense so allot of it might have gotten stuck with all the other crap in the container. You have to really rinse that all down to get all of the material out. That's why gold miners have WASH PLANTS! that's where you separate the gold
Stannous chloride test solution is one of the most important tool and a most have for any precious metal recovery and refining process, this test solution will tell you if there is presence of dissolved precious metals (Gold, Platinum and Palladium) in a solution or not. IM shocked he didn't test anything.
@asser: yeah, his methods were pretty sloppy.
You can confirm it's there by dissolving some tin in dilute hydrochloric acid making stannous (tin) chloride an extremely sensitive test for the presence of gold in solution 1:57
Could you add the urea by pissing in the bucket?
As long as that bucket was clear and you let the water evaporate first... maybe. Smells bad though
You need to do shit to your urine to get to the urea
Acids if given small amount of water generate heat and concentrated acids like this can just explode
Happy pissing
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little bit co2 from the anus
@@bbokgomu5422 Nope. It's in there.
You just have to do some disgusting work to purify it.
Please don't use Windows for circuit boards use Mac's instead
💔💔💔😂😂😂😂😂
Shut up.
Of course. Software does not contain gold. Hardware does.
This topic was covered thoroughly (and much more informatively) about 6 years ago.
Care to tell us by who?
www.youtube.com/@sreetips@@bluezy710
I don't even know if that quantity of gold is enough to pay for all the chemicals you used to extract it.
Norma
I was thinking the same. Nurdrage and Cody used hydrochloric acid and chlorine gas to disolve gold (same result as from aquaregia, ourochloric acid) but hydrochloric acid and recirculating the chlorine gas seems way cheaper than this bruteforce attempt.
Norma, Laharl:
As someone else in the comments stated: it is only profitable at an industrial level.
The costs alone of buying the used chemicals far outweigh the profit of the gold. (Not even to mention the high cost of getting rid of the chemical waste!)
Gerwin Bergsma there goes my gold farm
The editting work cost more than the gold
@@ThangPham-ol8fy No it doesn't... The software for editing costs money at first purchase, after that editing is completely free...
Lol the amount of gold on a pcb is negligible compared to the copper they just trow away😂
SillieWous facts the amount of metal they should have siphoned
Well that's why they filmed it for youtube
Ikr they’re such idiots for throwing it away! 😂
Emu🐦 ✔️ Lol idiot it’s the BBC of course they’re not gonna care about cooper worth a few bucks they want their episode done nigga
Thunderbolt No, i mean the people that throw it away are such idiots.
Thank you Cody's lab for helping me see through these lies.
Spent $100 dollars worth of chemicals to get a $50 piece of gold
That's really a show of its own.
To intense and speedy voice.
Also doubious :
You don't need complex receipe. You don't need to dissolve the gold either.
Usually, nitric acid will disolve everything but gold in less than an hour.
Then you dilute the liquid by pouring the solution in double the water. Then you rinse your bucket with water, add that to the solution, then you filter out the gold from the solution with coffee filters.
Repeat the whole nitric acid + filtering process will help you get rid of any other remaining metal.
If some other metal remains : rinse well and try to dissolve with chlorhydric acid, rinse filter and so on.
Absolutly DONT mix chlorhydric and nitric or it will dissolve your gold.
Cody's Lab did it better.
Aeleas, yep, Cody’s lab did not dramatize everything and flat-out lie about the facts.
I hope that "I've made pure Green" was a Black Adder reference.
Finally, real gold, not like those diamonds from peanut butter
Did anyone else get the Blackadder reference at 1:59? Some pure green.
I have done a project during my master's on this to extract precious metals from e-waste. Hell lot of dangerous activities required to get milligrams of gold, platinum and other metal.
1:00
My expectation: Strong enough to dissolve a human body.
The reality: Strong enough to dissolve gold.
Gold have different colours at different particle sizes...it might even turn blue when it is made into a colloid i suppose...
Cody’s lab do this all the time with no over reaction
how to recover gold from e waste at home , gold recovar steps video :ua-cam.com/video/dFBmM13rwX4/v-deo.html
This guy: This isn't high school chemistry.
Me: Gets identification of Ni in school exam using aqua regia
Sir please keep your goggles on in the lab 😂! Great video!!
Forget the gold. The process and the diversity of chemicals is way more interesting 🔥
“Potentially lethal chemicals.” Every single chemical is potentially lethal. I want to die.
Now you need 9 of those and you have a gold bar.
6 hours, $125k in equipment, and $2300 in supplies and you get $27 in gold.
Once you use the acid the first time and you loosened up all the gold that’s when you take tweezers and pull the gold off of the undissolved circuit board
i love how this video started so early without a long boring intro . . .
Amazing extraction from circuit board
Before I click on this video, I thought it will be simple like snapping the gold off 😂😂😂
Instructions not clear.
FBI broke my door down.
Step one: Buy a 2,000,000$ lab, step two: Melt the stuff, step three: get 6$ worth of gold. Profit?
he made purist GREEN! why not just poor mercury on the boards to absorb the gold, the evaporate the mercury to leave the gold behind? the mercury will collect in a separate container through tubes and condense.
Green solution? Sounds like copper or nickel contamination. Dissolved gold in this manner is called chloroauric acid. It's usually an orange like color when pure.
The amount of “drama” he spouts is hilarious.
“If Oye mess opp this next step oye whell blow up the beelding we’re fellming in at this cuhrent moement”
This is Breaking Bad in a parallel legal universe.
Me coming here to see what i can do with old spare parts.. well guess im not going to do this 😂😂😂😂
Came to the comments to express disappointment in the fake uncertainty and 'danger' in the video, but it seems literally everybody else is saying this too.
Went nuts with that nitric acid
The process seems expensive.
its only profitable in large quantities
@@komocho7195
no im talking about on an industrial scale, if you did this with multiple tons of e-waste, you would make alots of money.
BrandonTheBoss I mean a place but me is a scrap yard for electronic like this they got thousands of those board and my uncle is a chem teacher and can get he chemicals I could get like 4000 of those hoard for free so I think with the right shit you could mask a lot
Thanks to you guys, now my friends is in a grave danger because he's an idiot who think it might be a doable shit after seeing your video.
Why does this video remind me of basically every episode of any show Gordon Ramsay is in....and he reminds me of Gordon Ramsay 💀
Ok, where's my old phone. Time to make so gold🤪
Oh, Edmund, can it be true, that I hold here in my mortal hand a nugget of purest green?
Ed Stephenson You win the Internet for this quotation! It was the first thing I thought of when he mentioned ‘green’ and I heard it in Percy’s voice? As I did when I read what you had written!
_It looks like you've sneezed._ 🤭 Bless me.
Why aren’t there captions for this video? You should at least turn on the automatic ones so people can follow along that aren’t able to hear the audio track. :)
"This is way beyond school chemistry...", Lmao we learn about Aqua Regia in 9th standard here in India
Sahi bola
that's why India is known as the country of science not the country of rapists 😂
We did this in my school in 10th grade, and my class was behind.
And labias, flabias, and flip flaps!
is there nothing that can be done to just pull the gold off the circuits?
After trying that I discovered it was cheaper to go to the flea market and just buy a few ready made nuggets. : )
Gold value = 100$
Extraction cost = 200$
Does it worth???
So this is why they hold computer recycling at schools around Southern California.
Just a word of warning.... If you do this in your backyard, your neighbors might freak out and call the police thinking you're a meth lab... But at least your kids will get to see the hazmat truck and fire engines.
Use $100 worth of chemicals to get $5 worth of gold. NICE!!!
There's gold in the chips? I didn't knew that.
1000 degree hot knife vs Circuit Board
What kind of nitric acid is used to gold recovery and silver recovery
This video makes me sympathize with those monks who immolate themselves.
Next on BBC Earth Lab; How to Make Meth on a Budget.
What method does industry use to get the gold?
1.30 No the gold cant be gone forever,its still there.Might be in another form or shape etc but the gold is always there!!!
Cody's lab
Oh yeah! Get gold and get your lungs poisoned from all that dangerous fumes! OH YEAH! FREE GOLD!!
Plot twist: that’s pyrite
Metal extraction has never been this epic (;
That twit wasted a lot, including gold he failed to recover. I think the dramatic music was there because the producers knew they were filming an idiot that could injure himself while trying to use a potato gun.
$50 worth of gold made with chemicals worth of $200
Way beyond school stuff??? 😂
We literally did exactly that in school too
And at the end the candle costs more than the ferneral
Thanks for the video
This video is not about the money, it's about the science. Deal with it.
Dramatic music is like he is fighting 300 spartans
So after all that work and all that risk of those chemicals,you wind up with not even a teaspoon of Gold? Would that even be enough to purchase more chemicals?
I can process several Oz of Gold per 2 liters of Concentrated Nitric acid. 2 Liters cost me about $100 US. I can make almost $2,500 US
The gold comes out more pure at the end if you remove the gold from the fingers first without acid and only use enough nitric acid in the aqua regia so that you don't need urea. A more clear liquid will produce a more pure gold. You'll see what I'm saying in the melting process and especially if you have to roll the gold for anything. C.M Hoke wrote the bible on this. She was a precious metals genius
Don't mix your aqua regia before hand. Add the nitric acid little by little using just enough to get the job done. You can get the gold off the fingers with an aerator. Clarifying what I meant.
www.youtube.com/@sreetips
My gold bangle reacted to thermometer Mercury, will it will be removed from gold or it is now turned into Mercury?
You probably paid 7x price for those nuggets , I mean the acides price ...
0:49 Guess what Aqua regia was in our school syllabus in class 10th
I legit thought the title said Goku instead of gold since ive been watching a bit DB.
Now I'm going to break my computer
All that work for a lil bit of gold
You can do the same with vinegar and table salt it would just take weeks
Spent more on the chemicals than the amount of gold you got out of it
I’m pretty sure you would make more money selling the circuit board than buying all that material to extract the gold and then selling it
1. When I clicked on this video I thought I could’ve done this with a few things around the house, in my backyard. I did not expect flesh melting acid.
2. All that for that tiny sprinkle of gold?!
He used hydrochloric acid.
If you own a pool or driveway you have this.
He mixed it with Nitric acid. If you have a yard, you have fertilizer, which is probably made from nitric acid(since the sulfuric acid salt is probably super expensive).
Salts of nitric acid(all fertilizers) can be used to create nitric acid itself.
After mixing the two acids, he boils them. That's it.
He's making it sound complicated amd scary on purpose.
Gold only is expensive when it's made into a bar.
If you looking for money go look for the most valuable thing that is possible to get that isn't dark matter.
Matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed they can only be converted from one to the other it's the law of conservation of mass and energy so as long as you don't throw anything way it will still be there even if you can't tell it is
"This is way beyond school chemistry" we literally learned about aqua regia in school
U copied another comment haha so pathetic
WOW!!!
I got some baking soda & an old computer out in the garage. CaaaGHING!!
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Title should say "most expensive, least efficient way to extract gold from circuit boards.
Use HCl and peroxide to dissolve the base metals. Rinse with clean water to remove gold from boards and discard boards. Weigh gold to calculate proper amount of AR to use to dissolve gold. Also use gold weight to calculate proper amount of SMB, it's 1:1, to drop gold from solution. Wash precipitated gold several times with HCl then dry and melt.
Nothing you said was correct
Gold/Green giving me Blackadder vibes.
About 67 bucks a g but I guess it depends if you're purchasing or just finding material
I just read theyve discovered a way to use a fiber based material to extract gold now.
Are there any video links or documentation?
I’d like to know the cost vs gold recovered
It will cost you bankruptcy just to have a gold due to those processes
So how can i get that lab procedure?
its about a 2 gram button.. Nicely done.
they make it sound so serious when its not, ha.
Great bro informative video ✌️
So your telling me that I could take the gold from my 1080 ti and sell it,
hell yeah who needs good graphics