Out Sand Sifting Again For That Elusive Gold

[John-Edmonton]

My buddy from Costa Rica came back to the Edmonton region, so we hooked up for a water hunt today. A little cold and breezy, but we did put in a solid 8 hours in the lake. The coins were plenty, the rings were not. Probably some 3-4 months ago, the lake was frozen, and some people were playing hockey. A partial hockey stick and hockey puck were found. I also found a Blackberry. It was ruined of course from the water, but I did manage to salvage the "OTTER BOX" protective covering. I believe one of my sons has the same machine, so he can use it.


I'll get the gold next hunt!

 

[fella]

There's gold in the phone John. A few hundred more of em and you might have something!

 

[sailoffwithme]

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My buddy from Costa Rica came back to the Edmonton region, so we hooked up for a water hunt today. A little cold and breezy, but we did put in a solid 8 hours in the lake. The coins were plenty, the rings were not. Probably some 3-4 months ago, the lake was frozen, and some people were playing hockey. A partial hockey stick and hockey puck were found. I also found a Blackberry. It was ruined of course from the water, but I did manage to salvage the "OTTER BOX" protective covering. I believe one of my sons has the same machine, so he can use it.


I'll get the gold next hunt!

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Take it from an electronics recycler that phone is full of gold!

 

[sailoffwithme]

There's gold in the phone John. A few hundred more of em and you might have something!

They paying 15$ a phone at the mall here and I know there is about 50$ worth of gold in one!

 

[John-Edmonton]

They paying 15$ a phone at the mall here and I know there is about 50$ worth of gold in one!

I had never heard o anyone buying phones for their rare metals? I will have to search around Edmonton, as I have several that I have found. Thanks for the heads up!

 

[Kodiak43351]

I also have a lot of old cell phones. When did they use gold in them? I guess what I'm asking is how new do they have to be to have gold in them?

 

[fella]

When did they use gold in them?

Forever! Almost everything with a circuit board has gold in/on it!

 

[Kodiak43351]

Forever! Almost everything with a circuit board has gold in/on it!

oh no now I'm going to be taking apart all my old cell phones and lap tops lol. Anyway is it hard to extract the gold?

 

[fella]

Anyway is it hard to extract the gold?

Damn near impossible! It can be done but the amount of resources ($) used to extract the gold usually outweigh the gold value. And there is NO WAY there is $50 worth of gold in em. We're talking pennies!

$50…lol!

 

[RobRieman]

If your extraction process is very refined it takes on average 71 cell phones to get 1 gram if gold. Then you have to take in account the hundreds of thousands of dollars worth the equipment it took to extract it. Less than $2 a phone at best so your in for a lot of work to make up the difference.

 

[Kodiak43351]

Well dang it there went my get rich quick scheme. Guess I'm gonna have to keep working lol

 

[sailoffwithme]

If your extraction process is very refined it takes on average 71 cell phones to get 1 gram if gold. Then you have to take in account the hundreds of thousands of dollars worth the equipment it took to extract it. Less than $2 a phone at best so your in for a lot of work to make up the difference.

You can get all the stuff you need at Lowes to recover the gold from a cell phone
To refine it you need to get nitric acid and know what your doing or you could boil your skin off!

 

[sailoffwithme]

Well dang it there went my get rich quick scheme. Guess I'm gonna have to keep working lol

I recycle phones and there is quit a bit of gold in them more so than any other circuit boards