Have you sold old circuit boards?

[mrsklamc]

So I got DH to part with a bunch of old electronics stuff. There's a local electronics recycling thing tomorrow so prior to that I took it to a metal yard to see if they would purchase any of it.

As they sorted, one of the guys there spotted a few circuit boards and said they might have gold in them, another customer of his said he could get about $60 worth of gold out of the porcelain piece.

So I came home and started googling, but mostly I am finding a chemical process you can do, which I'm not really interested in. I'm wondering, though, if I can find a place that will purchase them for that reason.

 

[swilshire]

When I was in college about 30 years ago, one of the professors always cut the gold part off the old boards. No idea what he got for them.

Sheila

 

[quikah]

most circuit boards have precious metals in them. But it is a miniscule amount. $60 worth of gold? What is it? Seems unlikely.

Just dump it in the recycling. You would need to process MANY boards to get a decent amount of metal out of it.