How to Extract Pure Gold From Busted Electronics

That little bead properly there ? That ’s all the gold in four and a one-half hammer of electronics waste . And it took so very much work to get there .

Here ’s what YouTuber is no stranger to the elaboration of precious metal . Previously he ’s get silver fromshit - tier fireworksand found Pt dust on theside of the road . But happen upon atomic number 79 in debris electronics is just so much more Byzantine than expected . Here ’s what he had to do to get that tiny pellet :

crunch it all up in a testis mill

burn and sift the ash tree

Do some panning to remove the tripe

Run a magnet through the slop to get rid of bit of iron

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Melt it down at 1,700 degrees to slay lead

Stick it in a water supply - and - acid bath and electrocute it to remove the copper

thaw the whole matter in more pane

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Melt it , yet again , with flux and litharge

And at the end of all that work , Cody was left with … four milligrams of gold , from a two - kilogram pocketbook of busted circuitboards . As he mention betimes on , the margins on this type of work are very miserly , but for the purposes of the video , it ’s deserving it to watch the bright ostentation of that gold bead solidifying .

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