Scrap Gold Recovery

Being Layed Off and Keeping Positive.

2021-05-13T16:13:00.001-07:00

Is it possible to remain positive when being made redundant? Today is my last day at AT&T/DXC after 19 years and I'm about to find out.

Being positive in a difficult situation is hard but it's going to give you better results than perpetuating bad feelings.

Chronic stress causes you to be in a constant state of heightened awareness, which can create havoc in your body. You may start to experience physical symptoms such as irritability, fatigue, headaches, and insomnia. So take care of yourself even if you may not feel like it.

Try to do more things that give you happiness. Find your comfort where you can. And please do not feel guilty about taking time for yourself.

Posts to my blogs may be a little sporadic for a while as I sort myself out :-)

Have a great day :-)

High Purity Gold Powder With Oxalic Acid - SREETIPS

2021-04-24T00:17:00.002-07:00

I highly recommend Sreetips YouTube channel for awesome videos showing precious metal recovery and refining methods.

Please give Sreetips the like and subscribe.

You won't be disappointed I promise :-).

Car Dismantler Powerhand VRS (Vehicle Recycling System)

2021-04-11T02:08:00.006-07:00

Now this looks like awesomeness.... :-)

Hammond's House of Heavy Metal: An artist transforms scrap into sculpture

2021-02-11T14:22:00.002-08:00

Hammond's House of Heavy Metal: An artist transforms scrap into sculpture: In Hammond, east of Ottawa, it’s not hard to spot Ranger’s home. Recycled nuts, bolts, screws and gears are creatively welded together to form towering sculptures; dragons, birds, and military medics.

Making nitric acid for gold and silver refining.

2021-01-21T10:21:00.002-08:00

Reactivity Series of Metals for Refiners

2021-01-20T02:59:00.000-08:00

Sreetips has provided an Invaluable piece of Knowledge here on the Reactivity Series of Metals.

I strongly recommend checking out Sreetips channel https://www.youtube.com/user/sreetips and definitely recommend subscribing and smashing that bell :-)

Scrap Metal Bugatti in Thailand

2020-12-28T08:27:00.003-08:00

Palladium from blue monolith ceramic capacitators!

2020-12-24T17:19:00.004-08:00

Palladium recovery from 1.4kg ceramic capacitors

2020-12-19T05:01:00.001-08:00

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

2020-11-14T22:32:00.001-08:00

From scrap metal to museum piece | Agg-Net

2020-10-29T23:06:00.004-07:00

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.

2020-09-04T01:10:00.001-07:00

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

2020-07-26T23:24:00.001-07:00

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"

2020-06-23T15:14:00.001-07:00

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...

2020-06-16T17:41:00.001-07:00

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

Have a great day...

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

2020-05-06T19:05:00.004-07:00

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

2020-05-01T03:06:00.001-07:00

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

watch out for scams people...

Have a great day...

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

2020-04-29T16:06:00.001-07:00

Fine Gold Recovery System

2020-04-20T20:51:00.001-07:00

Urban Mining In Your Home

2020-04-08T03:37:00.000-07:00

I found an interesting article entitled
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

2020-02-13T03:12:00.001-08:00

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

2020-02-08T12:53:00.001-08:00

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.

2020-01-24T13:00:00.001-08:00

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 :-)

Happy New year 2020

2019-12-31T07:31:00.000-08:00

Lets start the new year with a laugh, Lord knows we need it after 2019 :-)

New years resemble restart buttons. You want to push the button and begin things all once more however then understand your life is too destroyed to be restarted new!

Sorry for all the irritating stuff I did last year. May you allow me to do that again in the New Year?

Another year doesn't come to transform you. It comes to advise you that one more year has gone you're as yet the equivalent pointless imbecile who figures he can make his goals work out as expected!

Here's to an awesome 2020

Lets make it GREAT!!!

Merry Christmas for 2019

2019-12-23T06:27:00.000-08:00

:-)

Merry Christmas Everyone - I hope Santa brings you something cool :-)

A venturesome individual is one who goes over a heap of scrap metal and sees the creation of an awesome figure. A venturesome individual is one who passes through an old run down piece of town and sees another lodging advancement. An ambitious individual is one who sees opportunity in all everyday issues.

Or just has FUN scrappin :-)

Merry Christmas everyone - Ian

Lets Just go Fishing :-)

Check out Anglers warehouse catalog for some Christmas Ideas

Scrap Gold Recovery

Being Layed Off and Keeping Positive.

High Purity Gold Powder With Oxalic Acid - SREETIPS

Car Dismantler Powerhand VRS (Vehicle Recycling System)

Hammond's House of Heavy Metal: An artist transforms scrap into sculpture

Making nitric acid for gold and silver refining.

Reactivity Series of Metals for Refiners

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

Making nitric acid for gold and silver refining.

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

Dumpster Diving "Looks Like Yellow Tea"

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

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

Gold Flakes Foils How Much Gold

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

Fine Gold Recovery System

Urban Mining In Your Home

How to mine precious metals in your home

How To Recover Gold From Computer Scrap with Household Chemicals

Bent to the Task

Reasons why "Urban Mining" rocks.

Happy New year 2020

Merry Christmas for 2019