Gold is only one of many materials that have an effect on prices. While useful, and helpful, there are two that are far more important Copper, and nickel While tethered in escrap pricing, you can expect boards to jump roughly 10-15č-25č for every 50č in copper or nickel. After the international Elimination of lead in electronics in 1994 nickel became the highest recovery material in circuit boards (excluding plastic and wood based carbon). Most modern ICs have more copper and nickel than anything else, metal wise. Gold needs to make a major jump to have any change in scrap prices. Where gold value does makes a difference is in the obvious gold targeted categories. Gold finger cards rise about a dollar per two hundred. Older CPUs, like gold caps and the numbered 86 and K00 chips, will show jumps faster as well. But the most immediate class change occurs in gold fingers.
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