Easy Gold From E-Waste: Gold IC Chip Processing

In this "Easy Gold Recovery from E-Waste" video, I finally tackle my collection of gold-plated IC chips. This is the one you have been waiting for. During this part 1 video I get served up a few unexpected problems from the gold recovery process, and from Mother Nature, necessitating a part 2 in the future. Watch and see how easy it is to recover gold from e-waste. Please visit my blog at mdpub.com/Urban... for more information.
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[@afineliner740]

What a nuisance that rain can be. Yes that second extraction was surprising. 👍

[@TrevorsBench]

For ceramic CPUs I like to crush them into small chunks but not pulverize. I find the fine dust from pulverization interferes with the filtering and slows down reactions. It makes washing the pregnant solution out more difficult. Yes, a second extraction is usually beneficial. If I'm doing CPUs in batches, I will collect all the leftovers and do a second extraction on the lot. Sometimes I get more gold from the second extraction than the first

[@GeorgiaDogScrapper]

Stay safe my friend and I will be waiting for the rest of the work. Looks like you will have lots of gold from those chips.

[@MickNailZ]

I wanted to thank you for this series. The metal can transistors were giving me a little trouble and found that the plated bottom ones yield muck less than the epoxy ceramic bottom ones. One note was there was some white paste in ones that had a green bottom, that may have been your haze. I used cable cutters from harbor freight to snip the hundreds of them, I found three with paste. I use KNO3 prills and more sulphuric than you plus a 5 liter beaker and it pretty much heats it self.

[@ExtractingMetals]

Looking forward to part 2

[@garrettmillsap]

Mighty mill is on my list of things to aquire. At least its locally manufactured lol

[@M0DiFiEDZ]

Have been successfully using the same ceramic Corning hot plate for years, the key is laminar flow within the fume hood. All fumes are pulled upwards and back. If fumes are eating your plates it’s possible they are also nibbling you too as that means the hood does not have proper laminar flow which allows the fumes that are denser than air to settle and rest at the bottom of your hood which if using outward opening doors would then cause the dense accumulate to pour into your personal breathing space each time a door is both opened and closed. To study how air flows around and through the hood you can use incense around all inlet surfaces and watch how the smoke travels then make modifications to guide it upwards and back in a streamlined fashion. A little bit of proper fumehood adjustments will save you a lot of time and money by not dissolving your lab equipment but more importantly your health. Also I’m surprised you didn’t incinerate right after crushing then was surprised again when you didn’t incinerate the leftover solids before aqua regia. Your enemy tin among other things is preventing full dissolution of your gold in AR…but you already knew that…I’m just reminding you

[@levimichael1136]

Maybe i missed the reason but why not use Ecogold X?

[@teltwosheds2972]

Looking forward to part 2. Take care till then 👍

[@goldensadventures1229]

That rain is a real bummer. Hope your tree farm is not effected. Thanks for the video

[@front2760]

Hi.Was wondering if the water table was right below you?No drainage around your area?Anyway, enjoyed watching and look forward to the next one.

[@rockman531]

Hi Mike, New business - "Mike's row boat rentals"?? OMG - what did you do to upset the rain gods? lol Just stay safe! Your ingot of gold can wait a few more days! Thumbs up! Jim

[@markavargosr]

have you done a full on video of the tools and everything to extract the gold from electronic chips ect.

[@Alex-kp3hr]

Great video for us poor scrappers who can't get nitric. Just a note: can any nitrate work ie calcium, potassium, etc?

[@garrettmillsap]

Yes. I use sodium nitrate a lot

[@garrettmillsap]

But not calcium nitrate.

[@omegageek64]

Calcium nitrate works for poor man's aqua regia, yes. Not for poor man's nitric acid. Calcium (anything) plus sulfuric acid makes gypsum.

[@richardhulbert9480]

My stir plate got used once before the fumes killed it. Stir bar is like new though.

[@scrapman502]

Every refiner's Nemesis: IRON

[@petepeterson4540]

have you heard of silicon caulking to seal your equipment high temp

[@koryrowland5302]

will calcium nitrate work the same way as the sodium nitrate does for the pour mans acids?

[@omegageek64]

For poor man's aqua regia, yes. Not for poor man's nitric acid. Calcium (anything) plus sulfuric acid makes gypsum.

[@RuneChaosMarine]

@43:23 they dont make rubber waders like the used to . sad.

[@iamthenotbenamed365]

how much more Water until House starts Floating ...