How I sort Gold, Palladium, Silver and Precious Metals after depopulating boards 

This is incredibly long but one of the most important videos one needs to watch if interested in urban gold. Highly recommended! .

I've learned alot from you videos on every subject from Copper to Ewaste scrapping. Separating everything to the basic value. Thanks keep it up.

i just started scrapping all the crap my mother has kept in her garage for 20years. This video is extremely helpful in explaining every piece that you can find on a board. Much thanks!

Ben....ty once again for breaking it all down.....love all your videos....don't ever lose confidence in yourself when shooting these. YOU ROCK!

I love love love you cable processing videos. I would watch them all day long.

Hi Ben, thank you for a new feature-length explanatory video. 😂👍 Stay healthy and best wishes from Bearlin !! 😉

Ben, thanks for this video. Super informative and I look forward to seeing more!

Absolutely the best video I've seen for a beginner like myself! Very explanatory and very helpful! Thanks for this!

Very helpful and informative video. I'm learning quite a bit about my wore out or non working electronics. I have wanted to this as a serious hobby for a couple of years now.

Gold corner BGA chips, have most of the bonding wires in the top black part. Many don't even bother with the bottom green half, despite the small bit of visible gold. Certainly the tops are processed separately and among the highest yielding materials. Mast ash them, rinse with water and then pan out the pure gold bonding wires.

Hi Ben, For some of the things you're not sure if they are brass or gold. Just a suggestion. I would get a gold acid test kit. you can rub the piece on the stone and find out if it even tests out to be gold of any karat. It could keep you from throwing out any gold. Really enjoy your video's sir. I always learn so much. You know what you're doing. Thanks for sharing

Another awesome video! Looking forward to street scrapping! Thanks.

The black Top of the BGA have Gold bonding Wire in it the blacktop is the most valuable thing on the whole BGA Chip

Hey Ben 👋🏼 glad to see you got your workshop in order, and hope your doing well. I’ve been needing a way to make money during the lockdown so I decided to take the leap of faith and do some street scrapping. I’ve been riding around on my bike with 3-4 grocery bags of electronics on my handlebars😅. Definitely jealous that you have hard rubbishy days in Australia... here in Canada I’ve got to look in all the bins and most of the time people don’t bother separating their garbage from their hard recyclables.

Yes I also picked up on that, the plastic tops on your bag have the gold bonding wire in 2nd pile from right on top row. Great video

Bake the MLCCs for several hours in a slow fire. It makes the ceramic very crumbly. You can then powder them easily. I'm doing test batches of test-tube quantities of components, determining what solutions are best for each board component.

Really good information. Thank you. I am collecting everything I find for free and separate it - maybe one day I will recover it in to 24K ingot

Another informative video - thanks Ben

Thanks for sharing this information with us

I've been hoping for one of these sorting or depopulating videos!! Thanks Ben!! Have a GREAT Day!!!

It's very interesting to sit and watch to see what the value and what's in them

Learning so much, thanks for sharing

Great tutorial

Vintage white ceramic and gold chips are collectible and some are pushing $1000 these days. Careful what you scrap.

Great Video Ben Keep Bringing The Videos Dude 👍👍

Great video Ben this is exactly how I sort my components as I strip all my pcb's. I just don't get near the volume you do unfortunately but I hope to. I am considering starting to buy E-scrap to see if I can start pulling in more volume. Just have to check to see if my current license will cover buying scrap for metal recovery. Because our license covers gifts and goodies we make and sell. Government licenses can be tricky in the buisness at least here in the USA and certain states. I should be ok as I will be turning scrap metal into gift bullion bars to sell but who knows.

The solder beads beneath many of the chips are sometimes a tricky tin-bismuth type. Dissolving it in nitric produces insoluble, white bismuth oxynitrate which forms when the initially soluble bismuth nitrate heats up.

Yea! Hey from the USA! 🌺🌺

great instructive video fox

Hi Ben! Later in this video you showed some things that I was really wondering about (around 1:21:00). I thought that perhaps some of those jacks, or those little pins, could be Beryllium Copper. It would be great if you did a video on the subject of distinguishing all your BeCu components. Cheers!!!

👍the collection is coming along I think the long piece of gold plate looks like the end of a scart lead👍

Hey . Thank you so much for that very helpful video 😊

Very informative. I actually like to use a good chisel to remove the pins of the green cpus. no heat involved so no sticking together.

You sir are awesome. Thank you for sharing what you know as how you flow 👌🏼👌🏼

Hi Ben, Thanks for this interesting guide! I have a question/suggestion. I have noticed that jumpers (at least the onces on HDD's) seem to contain a nice gold plated metal inside, do you collect them also? Further, the inside of the HDD, the leads up to the heads and the bonding wires(?) of the little pickup chips on the heads seem to contain gold as well, correct? Kindly. Bas

This is awesome! Thanks man!

Awesome video!

THAT WAS VERY INFORMATIVE INDEED - THANK YOU !!!!

Great video thank you for sharing

Well Ben, I don't do this kinda stuff. When I did salvage scrap it was for the base metals. However, I do realize, to each their own. You certainly enjoy yourself, and make a good living for yourself. Now, to me, that's all that matters, heah? I really enjoy channels like yours. Thanks for taking me on your life's journey. But please, more sit downs with the chooks!! Have a great week!👍👍

Wow! what a system!

cool Ben and those roud thingy mixed with your crystal oscillator are transistors 👍😀👍

My old vinyl siding snips cut off gold fingers really neatly from the fiber boards vs breaking them off with pliers.

I'm sure you already know this but if you get whole undamaged old purple or white ceramic & gold top/pin chips... they are always going to be worth more sold to collectors than for the gold value alone.

This is a great video with lots of info!

Thumbs up for Ben! He is doing a great job. Feel free to email him for information as he replies and gives you good and valid information!

new subscriber, not a scrapper but your videos are fantastic. I can tell that you planned it out a lot before filming and put a lot of work into your videos.

When you close your eyes at night, I bet you see billions of little circuit parts! Lol! Great video! Thank you for the detailed information!

Gold pins are easy. Just make sure all the solder is cut off. Weak nitric will destroy everything else in them except the gold. I still recover all the copper, cuz it's fun to watch the crystals grow off iron, AND I can melt it down into long tapering wedges I use for silver recovery... and then recover the copper again. THEN you can recover some of your nitric acid by merely boiling the iron nitrate solution! Iron nitrate decomposes right around boiling water temp, so in a sealed set-up, you just pipe the orange NO2 through an aquarium bubbler in a long water column, and voila! Weak nitric again you can use for stripping base metals!

Ben did you know that if you look at a I.C. from the end you'll see two little gold dots. I believe it is also gold. One day you where holding a tool you didn't know what it was for. It looks like a 3" long silver color rake. If you remember what it looked like it's for straighting the fingers on E prom, old style processer with little fingers. And one last thing, the gold corner on some processer is for showing #1 pin. Love your show learning a lot. Thought I would help you. Bill Opstrup

Super interesting thanks Ben .............. Thumbs Up

great vid thanks for the helpful advice. take care

No Joke, even though I operate an ewaste center, I learn new things from you every video, keep it up Ben!

What you call IDE style connectors are IDC - Insulation Displacement Connector

Love your channel

WOW, just wow, I recently got into this hobby (hopefully business), because I recently figured out that this is what my grandpa used to do this in the 80's, 90's so I have quite a lot of boards, and already selected parts, now my job is to find out what's what and learn as I do which I actually quite enjoy, and after reading so much and watching so many videos, this video of yours is just the top of them all. Awesome job man! Got a quick question, I keep finding this big ceramic capacitors unlike anything I can find online, without any signs on them, and no way of knowing any info about them just that they are at least 30 years old, would this mean that I can be sure that they got palladium in them? How to tell if they do? In my country no one even wants to see them to tell me what they are, let alone buy them so I have difficulties in my sorting's, thanks, and keep up with the amazing videos, I will literally recommend you to anyone who is into this for the rest of my life, BIG THUMBS UP!

Check if you can sell the chip for more than the income from processing one, there are some "retro ones".

@ 1:05:01 those pin can be submerged in duilited nitric acid bath and as the base metal is corroded the gold will float to the top of the bath in the exact form it was on the pins so that the gold looks just like the shape of the pins . Same way with fingers the gold plating floats to the top of the bath and the tabs of gold plating remain intact like they were on the circuit board

All chips use gold bond wires. They use it exclusively as connectivity and the malibility or bend ability is critical. I know this as I was in the semiconductor industry. Silver and gold are the metals used in semiconductor chips. As well as palladium, platinum, copper. Nickel is used to stop corrosion.

Really awesome video Ben! Thanks for all the knowledge. By the way, to process the "low grade gold pins" use a mixture of vinegar and table salt. That concoction is strong enough to dissolve the steel and the rest of base metals, leave the gold behind and cheap enough not to waste the good acids on that kind of stuff.

The low grade metal stuff is going to take a while to process, perhaps you could already start processing. I would throw it in a large (closed) bucket with a low concentration acid and let that eat away the base metals for a couple months. Would be interesting to see what happens.

What is thé méthode do you use to extract gold or silver from oscillator ?

with the IDE plugts, would it be worth making a jig where you 'plug in" to and it ejects the pins

even under any gold plating there is gonna be a base metal so all of them are contaminated so idk if it should matter so much as far as process right?

IAM not a scrapper but that was very interesting, thanks 🤠🖍️😎🇮🇪🚜

Twenty minutes in and I've already learned more about IC Chips than I've been able to learn on the entire rest of RU-vid. Kudos man! I recycle ewaste as a hobby and you've been my #1 source of knowledge since day one

question why wouldnt you use a ball mill to make these into powder? then separate? ie gold wheel...

The metal cap of the gold band crystal oscillators intrigues me. I've been toying with them. It's layered with multiple metals, and the final plate does not dissolve in nitric, but isn't aluminum.

whats a good place to see motherboards? i have a bunch to sell and growing pile

Learn something new Nice.

Would love to buy some of your gold plated connectors from your too hard basket. I could use them for my electronics cables and connectors etc. I am sydney though..😔

999 Dusan does a lot of refining of these items and shows how much yield comes from different items, i.e. magnetic vs non-magnetic MLCCs and all kinds of chips and circuit board things.

icb chips from tv boards are they good to take for silver recovery

Awsome video my friend

Do any viewers know where in Ontario Canada is a good place to sell this type of material?

Good video ben, I hope you the best in these times with the virus and everything.

Keep up the good work! Because of your videos I kept a lot of old processors and now I had the time to sort them out. The best ones I have sourced probably are thoe Intel Pentium Pro ceramic with the gold metal cap. :)

Great video that’s a lot of gold

Great video

Thanks Ben. Great info. It is my understanding that the black plastic tops/caps on the gold corner BGA chips (Your #2 class), have the majority of the gold bonding wires. In other words, the black plastic tops have a much greater amount of gold in them than the gold flashing on the green fiber part underneath the black caps. In this video you say that the flashing on the green fiber part is where the majority of gold is on this type of BGA. Could you clarify, or someone else comment?

PLEASE SEND ME ALL UR BARREN PLASTIC TOPS!!!!! LOL. seriously, very large mass of gold in the black tops vs. the enig flashing on the green fiber. Long solid bonding wires from center to edge of plastic!

What are generally the devices with the better common boards to pick up?

This would have been a PERFECT idea for content on a live stream Ben. Just sayin mate, I'd love to crack a brew and pick your brain on E Waste gold recovery through live chat and I bet Im not alone here, especially during the lockdown.

Very good explanation brother !thanks

Ben i highly advise you not to throw Away The Black top from bgas All The bonding Wire are in the black tops look it up

How long do I have to wait for you to pick up the gold plated pins

Amazing to see ben its not my thing to depopulate boards i only take removable ic chips for fun cant wait that you give it a try to extracte gold from something

Can I ask, how about in resistors, is there some gold that can be recovered?

How do you KNOW the big brown MLCCs that you showed have palladium? I would like to know your source for this information

Ben please do a gold melt. Look on youtube how to do it!!

Thank you.

a lot of good information here. you know, a good one to pick gold out of, a lot of microwave equipment, very high frequency stuff.l in another way to make money, keep an eye on older chips you are using as scrap. I've been looking for a lot of old chips from the 70s, and I'm sure there's many other people there doing the same thing. I don't know what you get for scrapping integrated circuits, but getting from .50 cents to $10+, sounds like a hell of a good deal to me.

How do you remove the mother boards & chips? If you hear them, what do you use?

Black plastic piece on the north south bridge chips are the most important part. That is where most of the gold is.

what precious metal is in the ram chip is it gold plating?

Very good 👏👏👏

Need you help Ben I have a unisys cwp 5753 can't find any info on it

What’s on the bottom left corner with the black and legs?

Hey Ben how you doing there. Great video very very helpful. I was wondering do you have any of those pins for sale

why the low grade slot pins Ben? It just the tips. I can't even get them apart...