How to Scrap old Cell Phones for *Gold Recovery

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This video shows how and what to scrap in old cell phones and prepare them for gold and other precious metals recovery.
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🔴 Visit our website: www.goldnscrap.com
Also, see the USGS pdf report "Recycled Cell Phones-A Treasure Trove of Valuable Metals" (2006):
pubs.usgs.gov/f...
But do not forget to adjust the prices to gold's current value.
The report suggests an average gold content of 0.034g per cell phone:
In 2005 - 0.034g was worth 0.4$
At today's prices (1,800$ an ounce) - 0.034g is worth 2.02$
Will scrapping cell phones make you rich? probably not.
But it will make you some extra cash.
#goldrecovery #ASMR #preciousmetals
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I have made this short list for US citizens who wants to sell scrap electronics. You can contact these following scrap buyers:
Gold Chip Buyer - tinyurl.com/coz...
Relectrocycle - tinyurl.com/8va...
CashforComputerScrap - tinyurl.com/92d...
Mike, South Eastern Ohio - (740)350-1272
I have hand picked these scrap buyer as i know they are very honest and straight forward.
I did not receive any incentive nor will i receive any future commission from these scrap buyers. I'm happy to put their links here as i believe they are trustworthy and will treat you fairly.
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@solosheba5pointssquare 8 лет назад

Thank you for solving a 14 yr. bet with my husband, that gold was underneath certain phones we purchased. Yes yes!! GREAT PRESENTATION.

@laxmipriyaswainlipun1918 4 года назад

@Smith6265 Год назад

Golds underneath your old keyboard as well if ,you have an old computer.

@lorihood6697 5 лет назад

Thank u for the best how to video I've ever come across, no god awful bulshit music blaring throughout the entire video, no irritating annoying voice talking about everything BUT the subject at hand, or any other nonsense added to make the video so horrible u can't make it through the first minute much less to the end. I love your style, very informative & very easy to watch & learn from, great job man, thx a million

@JOBEEHUSTLER 2 года назад

You really come a long way.... 11 years later.... Saw this this video back in 2012... So much has changed, since then...

@ohioguy727 Год назад

Same

@indeedItdoes 12 лет назад

Distinguishing gold plate from brass may be a little tricky at times. the may clue would be the application of the component, for example (of this video), the housing of which the antenna is screwd into, must have a good and relible connection, therefor, it is gold plated. There are other ways to tell the difference... experienced folks can tell just by looking at it. Others may use acid spot test (like in silver jewelry).

@MakeGold 5 лет назад

Wow, Very Good. Cell Phones Gold is usually located at the junction of electronics. outdated electronics are likelier to produce parts with a high enough level of gold to make the procedure worthwhile. 👍👍👍👍👍

@ss-lz6je 3 года назад

Hi brother please reply my message

@vankhuu3359 3 года назад

ccc lol

@namritannbung6412 3 года назад

Hello sir where are you and how to sale about?

@indeedItdoes 2 года назад

Thanks Bud. Love you channel!

@ohioguy727 Год назад

Probably watched this video 30 times 😂 10 years later and I'm somehow watching again lol

@Willie_C. 12 лет назад

I think the reason for using gold in electronics circuit is that gold is the best electrical conductor there is, second is silver. Correct me if i'm wrong.

@therethinkables 2 года назад

Yea that's right

@f...kthatpoliticalrightwor1900 19 дней назад

Plus gold You can melt 2g of gold in to 2km long wire like

@rugto 12 лет назад

This is nice! Thanks for teaching us how to make business out of cellphones. You just made me a proposition that will not only benefit my entire life but as well as future families of 10 generations - making an ounce of gold for 10 centuries of time.

@shiningstarry7636 Год назад

Did you make any money from this?

@shanigee4026 Год назад

@parvenu5042 11 лет назад

Thank you....at the rate of increase on gold prices, this is well worth a look into as a hobby with a little income now, and possibly a lot later.

@mwm2929 11 лет назад

Thank you for making this video! It is important for everyone to know how to extract precious metals from our "trash." If we continue to throw this stuff in the landfill, we will be a poor country indeed. We need to keep our metals in circulation so we can be less dependent on foreign sources.

@tobbegute 5 лет назад

There are 0.034 grams of gold in each cell phone, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. That's the equivalent of 0.001 troy ounces, worth about $1.82 at today's prices.

@jujuondabeat8490 2 года назад

Yes you are correct

@GAMESAVAGE71 Год назад

Google huh

@gratefuldoge8598 4 месяца назад

That’s the average of every cell phone ever invented and sold, modern cell phones use far less gold so they taint the sample size, the further back you go the more gold you find. The better question is how much gold does each cell phone from 95-05 hold.

@gsmscrazycanuck9814 10 месяцев назад

I love these videos. since there is no talking, I can blast through a 4 minute video in 30 seconds.

@laimonaslb 10 лет назад

Wow this guy had about $180-$200 worth of gold! Better get started!

@UPSCx 5 лет назад

Fact: 6000 mobile phones can gives you 340gm of Gold, 3.5kg of silver, 140gm of palladium and 130gm of copper.

@Azim_cv6c Год назад

At 0:59 bro threw it like trash😂😂😂

@aslamtaq555 9 лет назад

That's why your phone get's fkd after you ask the repair guy to fix em.

@basictowel9636 8 лет назад

idk why but watching this is just so satisfying

@basictowel9636 8 лет назад

the sound especially

@nicknameshorty 10 лет назад

I have had a few friends that do this. There is enough gold from 5 phones to equal one wedding band (depending on the phones and ring size)

@wobblewobble7330 5 лет назад

dismantle 24 phones.. sold the gold.. bought a lolly-pop.

@icyburger 9 лет назад

no wonder old nokia phones were made to withstand the jaw snap of an adult crocodile

@kingsolomon5278 2 года назад

I like this comment lol

@すももももももももももすもももももももも 2 года назад

Thank you for making this video.i did not even know there was gold in cell phones...

@brandonhorsley7585 7 лет назад

the gold is this video has 7 million views that is GOLD

@ginakapay 6 лет назад

Brandon Horsley 7

@4486xxdawson 6 лет назад

Dam it he got me too

@iamjass0527 6 лет назад

😁😂😂

@danielherrera8574 6 лет назад

Brandon Horsley 9.5M now...

@sselvinmon523 5 лет назад

Brandon Horsley 11M now 😅😅😅

@DirtTreater 11 лет назад

Well, time to cancel my flight to Alaska to pan for gold. :]

@carolbryce9012 9 лет назад

I used to sell electronics to the gaming industry, and met a man who put those large bins in the stores for collection of used ink cartridges and cell phones. That was 25 years ago. He hired people to take the gold out of electronic devices. The guy is mega millionaire now.

@89clavos 10 лет назад

thanks for the introduction. do you have a video on how you get so many cell phones?

@VexxJacobs 5 лет назад

Albert Boulanger thats the real question, isnt it?

@OwensReaper 10 лет назад

really, if you think about it, if there's $1 of gold per phone, and you can get an endless supply (for free), and can dismantle a phone in around 5 minutes or less, thats around $12 an hour, pretty much taxless. so like 15-17 an hour in the working world. not to mention you can recycle the magnets and other metal parts too.

@kevinbodiford6591 11 лет назад

the nuts being pulled away are brass but the plating is soft gold on top of hard nickle, on top of the copper traces. which is used both to protect exposed copper and to ease the flux process when populating the board with semiconductors.

@kylebank8818 3 года назад

Explain to me in simplier terms.

@yebook 8 лет назад

now reassemble it

@jjjaaasooonnn 8 лет назад

lo l

@haidarsk394 6 лет назад

yebook Hi

@syahrulfauzi6344 6 лет назад

rewind the video that's it

@jeffknoefel2838 6 лет назад

yebook

@rekhateju8490 6 лет назад

yebook

@chrishellstern5409 11 лет назад

How do you find your electronic devices to take apart? How many does it take to make it worthwhile?

@Ryan74751 11 лет назад

TradeMe,Ebay garage sales all sorts of places

@justinphillips9712 10 лет назад

Those kinds of phones in this day in age is just as rare a finding gold ..

@santhoshpalwai11 6 лет назад

Now I came to know why Jio kept the exchange offer of Rd rs.501

@williammcquiston2820 9 лет назад

GREAT VIDEO.THANK YOU FOR THE INFORMATION

@Cerinth 11 лет назад

All he needs is a commentator with a thick Canadian accent and a contract with the Discovery channel and this guy would really be making money

@fn9362 6 лет назад

I’m waiting for the gold recovery 🤔

@scroptels 11 лет назад

With the new modular cellphone this won't be very much needed. But thanks for posting!

@banditry121 11 лет назад

A great idea and a good resource for those wanting to make some cash as well. I have people giving me old cellphones that no longer work.

@pacoblancosmith 10 лет назад

There's more than a dozen reasons all serious scrapers look at indeeditdoes as the main source of gold ( and much more) recycling. I wish I could make enough with this hobby to send him so he could hire someone to review and delete the comments made by non-scrappers.

@yvonbug 10 лет назад

I agree with you. I find indeeditdoes's videos very well done. I've been scrapping since 1980. I started scrapping and refining the gold since 1982. And I've got a stash of "cleaned" gold, ready to process, that would blow anyone away. But like they've been saying, the refining of gold; by the backyard refiner is a Hobby! And it's fun, especially when you hold that fat button in your hands, and know that it was yourself that refined it to 999%! It's SO PRETTY! I'm 57 now, and have slowed down a bit, but I'm STILL doing it! (and I'm a female. just thought I'd throw that in) Non-scrappers just don't get it.

@Jaxdia0000001 7 лет назад

I would not make that too horribly public. Or at all.

@tejasgandhi7045 6 лет назад

Hi, Even I like to do the same so can you please tell me the procedure?

@peruzijanac 3 года назад

@@yvonbug Im a complete newbie to scrapping and I see your comment is pretty old but I would love to get some tips from you, you have a lot of experience.

@peternolan5632 Год назад

Gold in them phones you just need chemicals to get it out ..

@mohamedmotala4811 4 года назад

One of the better videos but,is there a better way to identify the gold from the scrap?

@madhukarsaxena5310 8 лет назад

not all yellow looking things are gold

@Anonymous-wf1zg 6 лет назад

Shh he’s having fun

@Fsoricko 6 лет назад

*are real gold

@النورس-د9غ 6 лет назад

ليست كل حمراء لحمه وليست كل بيضاء شحمه وليس كل مايلمع ذهبا انت تقول حكمة وانت لاتدري

@MrBiggysmalls87 6 лет назад

BRASSSSSSSS YA ASS

@blaski3670 5 лет назад

@@Fsoricko could be brass

@sammustard2145 10 лет назад

Man, you have a severe case of GOLD FEVER.

@guyh.4553 6 лет назад

Interesting. Does explain to me why cell phones are too expensive. Nice info

@Profitwithgoldsocial 10 лет назад

I was not aware that there's gold nuts in some cell phones. Are they expensive or how much is the value of it in the market today?

@indeedItdoes 10 лет назад

The components in electronics are plated. In the grand scheem of things, the gold value of each is very low, but every little bit adds up.

@vlogealtraroba....2216 9 лет назад

+indeedItdoes Low?How much one of those parts costs(nuts for example)

@henrymoreno667 8 лет назад

+indeedItdoes is not gold

@shaherubaina2081 8 лет назад

less than a quarter ounce in a whole cell phone.

8 лет назад

+Shahe Rubaina 1/4 ounce? Try again, not even close. At the end of the video when he showed all the boards and parts, COMBINED you wouldn't have 1/4 ounce. 1/4 ounce per phone would be almost $300 to $400 per phone. NOT!

@imrans2288 8 лет назад

im an engineer.. and after watchin this i got curious n excited.. so i got some phones and did the same thing n tuk it to a jweller whoz a fren.. he did some process n what we got is a very very cheap industrial gold i mean less than a 1 carat.. its not worth.. waste of time n energy !!

@Lou13Cyf3r 8 лет назад

wow man...for an engineer your grammar is disgusting

@akashsarkar7850 8 лет назад

+cjmelton86 😂😂😂

@biplopsharma7617 8 лет назад

Akash Sarkar

@troyalger5975 7 лет назад

I doubt he's an engineer +cjmelton86

@alejandrogonzalex1885 7 лет назад

imran shaikh

@alaherongpinoytv3911 3 года назад

Very nice work,. Sending support here from the philippines,.

@25894641 11 лет назад

how much gold you can find in one phone (in grams)?

@armaniii8579 3 года назад

About 0.34 grams.

@nutrilite5376 Год назад

@@armaniii8579 0.034*

@DaddieNormz 10 лет назад

what are the next steps involved after this? have you put a vid out?

@William.Shakespeare 5 лет назад

sulpfuric acid I think . some kind of nasty chemical you have to jump through hoops to get and it does make noxious fumes . not for laymen.

@darthraider450 4 года назад

Sulfuric Acid or Nitric Acid in concentrated form to extract the gold in a solution, then reverse engineer the process to extract the Gold in a layer, then wash the layer with distilled water

@bizmuthhelm9115 11 лет назад

The desirable electrical property of gold is that it doesn't corrode. Gold contacts always make the best connections over time. As a conductor however gold is not what you have been led to believe. The best conductor of electricity is silver at about 105% of that of copper(The standard by which conductivity is measured), pure gold comes in at about 70%(about the same as aluminum), and around 83% for the gold alloys used in electronics.

@Gbigapplekid3 9 лет назад

this operation is a mute recovery

@aramali4801 4 года назад

ددووووڕ

@finn3588 8 лет назад

I took apart my 1000$ phone for this!!!

@Fsoricko 6 лет назад

He didn't, he's trying to brag or lie that he is rich.

@nikolamarinkov2638 6 лет назад

DjFreeCopyRight Dj man... Look at the whole video and put a finger on your head if u have one!?! And I will give u my finger ,middle one 😂😂😂

@djfreecopyright1050 6 лет назад

Nikola Marinkov that made zero sense like your comment to this post...

@dilbertusi 11 лет назад

Gold is an excellent electrical conductor

@salehabdullah9573 10 лет назад

That's great mate and i had alots of old cell phone .. I'll do that and will be the cost 50 % / 50 % for you hahaha but really it's so fantastic .. Good men 👍

@weedfreer 10 лет назад

To all the haters on this thread think of it like this. Studies show that there is more gold in a tonne of old scrap mobiles/electronics than there is per tonne of gold ore. This process is therefore not without merrit.

@KK-jb1fy 9 лет назад

Wow, write something beginning with "Studies show..." -> must be legit! Any link to these studies? Link to this source? What a dumbass...

@rexcon1216 9 лет назад

+Hookah Boy lol you're the only dumbass here you dipshit..... Get the fuck out of here little kid

@TheNelston 9 лет назад

+Rex con Scuse me, are you okay? He is trying to make a good point, you imbecile

@weedfreer 9 лет назад

Here ha are...legit news outlet reporting the European Commissioners view point on te matter. Ok, so the process so far as it is at present wouldn't be viable to do as a mass processing industrial business...but find a way to extract not just the gold and to do so at a relatively small scale, maybe it could sustain a couple of people Woking as a co-op...you'd be right to say I'm just spitballing there though www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28802646

@kernu11 7 лет назад

+weedfreer, you forgot to add "you are the dumbass"

@homeistheearth 11 лет назад

How much money do you do by this? And who do you sell to? Normal junkyards? I junk metal too as a roofer and plumber. But only like iron, brass, cobber, lead, zink and aluminum they are easy to recognise. How do you make sure it is gold?

@joanjimmy3672 5 лет назад

90 percent of the land in my country has gold,diamond and other minerals,others found the gems when farming,any idea how do I detect them plz.

@DEJANasd 11 лет назад

Gold my ass

@ocramas 10 лет назад

it IS gold, with a single phone you cannot do much, but for some hundreds as well as some CPUs that also have, you will make good bucks out of them. The best commercial material for conductivity is the gold, so they use as part of the antenna system, and processors of course. Obviously this not applies to all the phones, and that is why there are sites buying phones in different prices.

@vinniweee 11 лет назад

you do realize that gold leaf on a circuit board is so little that the amount is less than you can often find inside of some cheap alcoholic beverages and topped on birthday cakes. the time you spent taking the phone apart cost you more money than recycling one beer can. thumbs up great vid

@TheOnlyWarumono 9 лет назад

Thought you were gonna show how you seperated the gold?..

@TheOnlyWarumono 9 лет назад

dude, chill xD

@jthunderdraws3175 9 лет назад

smail smailovic Actually, there is. Gold is a great conductor of electricity; however, there is so little of it in a cell phone, you would have to take apart 41 to get 1 gram. "Of course, you can recycle gold from a range of different products, but how far could we satisfy our appetite for gold from phones alone? According to Dave Holwell, about 2,700 tonnes of gold are produced every year from mining - about 7.4 tonnes per day. To get that from mobile phones we'd need to recycle 300m of them. And if we did that every day, the world's estimated seven billion mobile phones in active use would run out in 23 days." Source: www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28802646

@terrandroid 9 лет назад

+smail smailovic go away you little child, go play with you're hotwheels

@TheNelston 9 лет назад

+smail smailovic You seem pretty immature for an adult

@yas1137 9 лет назад

Why don't we all just STFU and go search for other ways to make money..

@rakib2921 8 лет назад

its not gold nuts its golf plated..

@davidschomer9655 6 лет назад

raqeb patel You nut, I want to see a gold plated golf ball.

@TheChrisg67 6 лет назад

What's golf got to do with it?

@jaxv94 6 лет назад

gold nuts?

@VuStudiosVuNaples 11 лет назад

This is a great instructional video

@shanesxe 9 лет назад

What in the holy fuck is going on in the comments section.

@dede9806 6 лет назад

LOL.. US ! :D

@thevisi0naryy 11 лет назад

your birdy approves this message

@mikekrow 4 года назад

This is horrifying and intriguing all at the same time.

@davidsasson1328 4 года назад

LOL was thinking the same!

@Treasurehunters2015Blogspot 8 лет назад

Oh,God! We found over pack of telephones and thrown them in the trash. Why?

@ragnarbjork1371 8 лет назад

+Treasure Hunters / Кладоискатели Oh no! You would have been a billionare:(.. Next time.

@dogemate4058 8 лет назад

I save my old cellphones Since the 1947 we collected and passed down old and new phones from family

@mattmcneice7223 10 лет назад

so a 10 dollar phone produces 3 cents worth of gold.... not worth the effort.

@MCRroxas 9 лет назад

3 cents worth of gold would be only .0009 grams, you couldnt even plate a screw with that.

@doluseb 9 лет назад

MCRroxas umm. you're kidding right? that would probably coat like 5 square inches easy. look at gold plating solutions and see how much actual gold is in there.

@neverloosehope4233 7 лет назад

MCRroxas There is much more cooper in the phone.

@laisondebbarma430 7 лет назад

Matt McNeice

@laisondebbarma430 7 лет назад

Matt McNeice up

@arlbenfiance927 2 года назад

Slmat sa pagshare nyo idea sir more power❤️❤️❤️

@johnnybates7580 9 лет назад

I've heard per pound recycled electronics yields more gold than paydirt.

@chandrapalsingh7838 5 лет назад

What can I do with small keypad screens plz tell me

@71avalon36 3 года назад

I always figured the reason why places have bins for recycling old phones was to get the gold. Of course, they don't mention that.

@silverfullbuster9177 3 года назад

Any luck starting hoarding gold??

@YakuiMeido 11 лет назад

Sell it? Judging from your name you wanna make something out of it though. I wouldn't bother. It's a very small amount of gold that comes out of these things.

@TheLazarman211 10 лет назад

there is gold in old lg phones

@tabishmalik4730 4 года назад

Hlo

@joachimh.9000 3 года назад

I guess you get more money if you sell the LCD Display to some DIY guys, as with the Gold inside the phone.

@BlueXephosiscool 10 лет назад

it would be really easy with the iphone 6 LOL

@angelmanuel1218 10 лет назад

thanks!!!

@jibannongmaithem4278 5 лет назад

Yes it's true

@rahulvijeeth7722 11 лет назад

If you still do scrap finding in mobile. What method do u use to find gold ?????

@frankdziewit7918 10 лет назад

Great video could use some conversation .. process

@benfeliz9356 8 лет назад

and you doing it today 2016?

@nikoskoli3154 11 лет назад

thank's man you have helped me a lot

@popana8893 9 лет назад

I GOT IT! He can't talk because he's holding the camera with he's moth !

@johnrusselsantos2288 5 лет назад

You deserve some likes!!

@katherineirving7189 5 лет назад

Mouth.

@joost3472 5 лет назад

IS THAT ALL GOLD?!?

@ivsongold322 7 лет назад

Very good job, my friend.

@kyolym 10 лет назад

But scraping it to who? who buys plated gold scrap?

@ms.mosley2902 6 лет назад

kyolym😂😂😂 this joke will never get out dated

@matthewherzog6155 10 лет назад

Step one: obtain electric screwdriver.

@ScrappingIrish 6 лет назад

I am working on mobile boards at the moment hope to have video up soon,my video will show how to recover and refine the gold

@vittodx7510 8 лет назад

"gold plated" aint gold ._.

@mgt4673 8 лет назад

I just farted.

@jaxv94 6 лет назад

way to be productive bud!

@Nelo-s9i 11 лет назад

well done man, well done

@jhackie008 10 лет назад

Great! another reason for someone to steal cell phones. ^_^

@picklecollector9571 6 лет назад

Jackieline Dequina the gold in there is not that valuable

@thaneshcg3866 6 лет назад

Jackieline Dequina u r absolutely ryt

@dede9806 6 лет назад

I'd rather steal gold chains... Easier to separate the gold from it.

@nakalsinghsingh4614 6 лет назад

Jackieline Dequina

@yermita847 5 лет назад

@@thaneshcg3866 yttttfgfgğhh6hy .vvyyuuyhhhhhsCS c

@NGTASSASINOPStatus 8 лет назад

ohh so that way they buy old cell phones

@FKR606 5 лет назад

Nice school video thank you bro

@yourfather4723 8 лет назад

hahahaha these are not gold its gold color plated things :D

@jet7825 10 лет назад

You're better off donating your phone to them agency that helps women who gets abused. They hand off these phones to them without a plan so that at least they can dial 911 incase they get beat-up from their partners.

@MagicMango1234 10 лет назад

And u should donate $ to the kids in africa if u care so much

@chadjabes6141 10 лет назад

Edmond Isayan nice

@randomvideosn0where 10 лет назад

Phones can break, and then they are only good for scrap. If the women have an abusive partner they should just leave, not ask for a free phone to call the police when they get beat up again that is just stupid.

@cynthiabassett3214 9 лет назад

Thank you for sharing. I am not sure that I will "scrap" my old cells for gold but I did find it very interesting. One small correction, and this is not mean't to be a condescending comment. In your presentation you used the word the homonym "sore" to describe what may happen to the price of Indium. I think you mean't "soar", meaning to increase, or go higher, not "sore" as in something that is painful. : )

@arianelegaspi2620 10 лет назад

Thank you i have a gold and a I sell in the philippines 1.M ^_^ (y)

@luckystig1 8 лет назад

just get a job, earn more per hour...

@cgconsign3225 8 лет назад

SMFGDH. It is my job. LOL.

@stephenscott7792 8 лет назад

😁

@buntrezit1259 6 лет назад

Get a job and serve the system, for depopulation - people

@nutrilite5376 Год назад

What's that part at 2:43; it looks like pure gold

@JustBetter10 8 лет назад

Just got $15,000 from the gold inside of my iPods / iPhone... I had no idea

@JustBetter10 8 лет назад

+Captain CoolDown up to $95,000...

@ragnarbjork1371 8 лет назад

+Hugh Jass OMG, can i buy ur Iphone for 10000Dollars?

@JustBetter10 8 лет назад

+Ragnar björk sure send me your payment info and we'll talk business

@ragnarbjork1371 8 лет назад

+Ra mos Yes! its Amazing i also sold the gold in my Iphone and got 17,000 dollars

@JustBetter10 8 лет назад

+Ragnar björk I'm up to $1.5 million

@arunasai4234 4 года назад

wow what an idea

@BigDaddyKai620 9 лет назад

Hey dee dee dee solder sticks best to gold because gold is super conductive that's why it's used on the connection. Anything with a solder connection or electronic currents connection point and even some wire are gold plated or sold gold micro wire

@OnyxLocker 11 лет назад

es, modern electronics use gold, but it's gold plating only microns thick. There's more precious metal in a bottle of Goldschlager than in a hundred cell phones.