"Eeyore" wrote in message
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Arfa Daily wrote:

I know that they do recover gold from gold-plated connectors

A couple of microns ?

and IC pins

Since when have "IC pins" had gold on them ?

Since they put about a million of them on the bottom of a big chunk of
ceramic, called it a processor chip, and then tried to persuade all those
pins to make a good electrical connection via a ZIF socket ...

I saw a TV programme about a facility in the UK that recycles computers, and
removes the gold from various bits and pieces at a 'secret' location, and I
was astounded by the amounts of gold that were recovered, that not only made
this worth it from a recycling point of view, but also extremely financially
lucrative for the company doing it.

Take a look at this link for more facts than I could give you

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs060-01/fs060-01.pdf

Arfa