Scrap Metal Bugatti in Thailand

Palladium from blue monolith ceramic capacitators!

Palladium recovery from 1.4kg ceramic capacitors

Is there enough copper in a sealed unit to pay for them?

From scrap metal to museum piece | Agg-Net

From scrap metal to museum piece | Agg-Net

 Liebherr restore last remaining example of 60-year-old wheel loader prototype: the LSL 1500

Making nitric acid for gold and silver refining.

And in Conclusion......Top 3 Gold Pans!

Dan Hurd has done an excellent job in my opinion of testing these different gold pans, this is a great lead in for panning and prospecting and I highly recommend you give him a subscribe and a bell as his videos are always educational and fun :-) 

Have a great day All :-)

Dumpster Diving "Looks Like Yellow Tea"

Check out "Mike the Scavenger", Like and subscribe guys 

I love this stuff :-)lol

Monday Meltdown! Aluminum Ingots / bars from Hard Drives Trash to Treas...

I love watching Moose melt stuff on his Monday melt Videos, I recommend giving him a like, a sub and hitting the bell folks:-) 

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10 Tip and Tricks to become a better gold panner!!

I Love the way Dan Hurd explains his craft, this is an awesome tutorial on using the pan.

Please like and subscribe Dan Hurd guys... :-)  

Gold Flakes Foils How Much Gold

Sreetips uploaded an awesome video showing how to test gold flake, 

watch out for scams people... 

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Gold Recovery from ICs Without Incineration - Part 3 - The full process!

Fine Gold Recovery System

Urban Mining In Your Home

I found an interesting article entitled

How to mine precious metals in your home

Below is an excerpt that I found interesting, might have to look into how to reclaim Cobalt :-)


From one tonne of mobile phone batteries, Umicore claims it can extract between 135-240kg of cobalt, depending on the generation of phone – modern smartphones have more. They say they can also reclaim 70kg of copper and 15kg of lithium from the same handsets. Even once the battery has been removed, the electronics inside a phone can surrender around 1kg of silver and 235g of gold per tonne of devices. This compares very favourably to primary mining, which only averages 100g of silver in each tonne of mined ore, and 2-5g of gold per tonne of ore.

Full Article Here... 

How To Recover Gold From Computer Scrap with Household Chemicals

Please remember that RECOVERY and REFINING are two totally different processes. 



With escrap, and with many other forms of gold scrap, the gold must first be RECOVERED from the scrap before it can be REFINED to high purity gold. 



 In this video, RECOVERY is the process of separating the gold from the circuit card material that the gold foils cling to. 



SREETIPS used hydrochloric acid and hydrogen peroxide with an aquarium bubbler to RECOVER the gold foils so that those foils could be REFINED in later steps. 



After the gold foils were lifted from the circuit card fingers by the action of the the air bubbling through the hydrochloric acid and over-the-counter 3% hydrogen peroxide, I collected all the foils in coffee filters - at this point the RECOVERY process is complete. 



 Now SREETIPS proceeded to the REFINING of the RECOVERED gold foils. 



REFINING is the process of 



1) dissolving the gold foils 

2) filtering out insoluble material 

3) then reconstituting the gold out of solution with a chemical precipitant.



In this video SREETIPS used sodium metabisulfite. Sodium metabisulfite, when mixed with the chloroauric acid (dissolved gold) produces sulfur dioxide gas. The gold atoms in the chloroauric acid have an affinity for the sulfur atoms in the gas and they begin to cling to the sulfur atoms, but they don't bond chemically. At some point the gold gets too heavy and falls (precipitates) out of solution. 



When this happens then the REFINING process is complete. 

KUDOS to SREETIPS for making this video, please support by clicking here and giving him a sub/donation :-)

Have a great day .

Bent to the Task

Bent to the Task: There's a new exhibit showcasing unique sculptures made out of recycled scrap metal and rail materials at California Railroad Museum and Jordan Segundo was there to learn more!

Reasons why "Urban Mining" rocks.

What is Urban Mining?

The electronics industry is now competitive with both the religious world and the jeweler for gold. It takes only forty cell phones to use up one gram of the stuff. But, it takes a ton of mined ore to produce that gram.

“Urban mining” is the picking of valuable minerals and metals out of discarded electronics. Though recycling is only beginning to catch on in many places, a metric ton of recycled laptop circuit boards can yield 40 to 800 times as much gold as the ore.


    For every 1 million cell phones that are recycled, the following amounts of precious metals can be recovered:

    16,000 kg of copper

    350 kg of silver

    34 kg of gold

    15 kg of palladium
    Benedette Cuffari, “Extracting Gold from E-Waste” at AZO Cleantech (October 26 2017) 

Currently, we use heat to burn out the metals, or chemicals to leach out the metals, both are effective but toxic.  A company in America has developed a method using water with some additives, and electrolysis to separate valuable metals.  It will be interesting if this process becomes public, urban miming might just take off... :-)

If anyone knows of any other methods, I'd love to hear about it in the comments section below.  Have a great day :-)