marked141 wrote:
I do think it would be cool to be able to send in X number of RAM sticks to someone and then get the approximate amount of gold back (even if it's not from the RAM I sent) just to be able to say I recovered $X of gold...
By today’s consumer price of gold, $1120/poz, gold finger ram will give you somewhere around $12-$15 worth of gold on average pp.
I believe I know what those blanks are (3rd party for HP and/or Dell servers).
I’m 90% positive on my deductions on them.
You may not have been here long enough but my prior signature was “I blow myself up so you don’t have to”. Which I use on other sites to this day.
I’ll put a 2014 prototype demo caddy to my point that I’m positive there is no refining method in existence as of 2019 that I have not seen in action if not tried myself. From electrical separation to old skool acids to to nuclear.
Refining less than 1000lbs of escrap is a lost cause.
It takes around 300-500lbs of the very wide range BoardSort classifies as peripheral to break even in pure acid/base refining.
Electrolysis methods can bring that point down to 100-250lbs.
There’s only one RX company in the world, in Sweden, that has shown you can get that BEP to around 25lbs. But who wants to deal with radiation in their back yard. Not figuring on the legal aspects of it.
I did a board very close to, if not exactly, (it was otherwise black masking), the top board here.
After cutting it to Apx 2 inch squares I milled it with a large hobbyist rock polisher into powder. After an HCL bath for 6 weeks, a mixture of base separations to separate all metals, I wound up with just under 1/20 dwt of 20ish kit gold by today’s consumer value of very close to the above mentioned rate. And why my initial though was peripheral.
To directly quote from Chris
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That is not to say your judgement about the sandwich is not correct,
it is just that we have had bad experiences trying to recoup on
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There are very few companies in the world set up to do this profitably without secondary materials.