Scrap Cell Phones aren't worth much for Gold Recovery 

After having worked with a lot of refiners: Refiners do not and will not share accurate information on their precious metal recycling. The numbers they publish are not the TRUE numbers, they make a lot more in the extracting process than they let on. The numbers in how much they extract are closely guarded, and you can take that to the bank.

I am new to your channel. thanks for tutorial. Very helpful!! Linda from Southern California

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I remember my 1st phone I got scrapping it was a Samsung Smart phone, I was really exited thinking I hit the jackpot for gold recovery. Then I looked it up and seen this video. So I never scrapped it. I've got a box with a bunch in it now. Not as exited when I get them now as I was with the 1st one. But I guess that goes with everything, the 1st is almost always the biggest rush!!!

Hi. To a degree you are correct, it is the older phones that have the most gold. If you are going to do gold recovery get the older phones not the newer ones. For me i get phones that are not miro usb or anything apple.

Hey Ben, I came across something of note while I was scrapping a Blackberry the other day. I was depopulating the mother board of IC’s I happened to crack the top off of the corner of one, and imbedded in the chip was a layer of MLCC’s. Above it was layer of gold plated something. There was green fiber bottom layer of the chip with a distinctly different solder pattern than any cell phone IC I’ve picked off. Thickest IC I’ve come across comparably but not the largest IC on the board either. High grade chip I’m thinking. Anyways, I just wanted to share that back ✌🏼thanks for all the great video’s mate 👌🏼

Ben, thanks much for this upload. I have a question though.. Dont you think you would have gotten much more out of the phone boards if you would have removed the green solder mask? From my expirience the "visible" gold plating is not all you can get from these type of boards. I usually remove the green solder mask in boiling water /w Lye to check whats under the surface.Cheers Buddy

How to take apart a cell phone with screwdriver and not touching the screws love it.

such beautiful pieces and scrap for gold? oh yeah that would fit my collection

hi ben ....Dont forget there are other precious metals in phones.....one for example is iridium in touch phone screens....check it out.....we are running out of iridium at a rapid rate . Happy scrapping!

Yea i wouldn't buy them right now but getting em free they are fun to take apart while watching some television or something. Im trying to convince some people that opening a digital recycling plant would be a little profitable if done on a large scale and also help the community with the ever growing problem of all our technology filling up the landfills. Your videos are great to show people who know nothing about the process Thanks so much for putting them up all the time

good stuff Ben. as you said they make good filler when doing the final processing from computer boards.

nice I'm from Romania,Europe and your idea is very cool

thanks for video

There’s a huge circuit board in that nokia he bothered not to show…😂

nice ben thanks!!

Uh, umm…ergh ah uhh umm what was I talking about again? 😂 lol

Hi Ben, are the sim cards worth keeping for gold recovery?

Blackberries gave the most gold I have found. I worked at The tip for a while. I pocketed a mobile phone nearly everyday I was there. Didn't cost me a cent.

You're missing out on that big Nokia phone, you only took out the keypad board. Should've gotten the main board.

you also have to figure in the batteries which are lithium ion they are wortb money also and the screens are worth money also if they work, people will pay 100 dollars or more... so if people are smart you can make a lot more!!!!!

And gold?

LG Optimus S LS670 Android (Froyo) have much more gold then you would assume.

But you are right the newer the phone the lesss gold but if you can find super old cell phones and car phones you will expect a lot bigger return!!!ohones from 80 and early 90s

Not even 1 dolar per phone. The majority even the older ones, even tablets haves no more than 1g of ic chips per piece. And the yeld is just 0.5g of gold per 100g ic chips, 5g gold per kg ics, and there is the main gold on phones. Even boards that have gold under green mask solder is just flushed and not plated. So for en gros phones have just 1 point gold each, so will take 100 phones for 100 points gold meaning 1g gold,for most of them.

its about in your time here about 50 phones to make about 85 dollars golds gone up

1 dollar per phone adds up when you have a good amount of phones though

I have 2.4 ton 1kg cell phone board have 1.7-2.2 gram gold

I'm new to your forum as well and i think it's great,thanks for all your knowledge.If you get a chance,look up scrapper girl on youtube about cell phones,she has a place she sends them to without dismantling them and gets good returns.

What about mlcc's and smd's

Yesterday I Scraped 22 Phones, weighing 1.8 Lbs, that's like a kg & a half. Scrapyard buys boards $3.00 a lb.

Sir one kg mobile board we get one gram gold

How about HD tvs and printers too? But gold has been suppressed. Hold on to those babies and take the rocket ride!

I know this from experience of processing them myself

orginal or fake . this gold ?

But Also The Batteries, Chips, cut Gold Plugs off, wires, the Brass, Aluminum, Metal Screws, added up all together is also the same price as the boards. I Jus Scraped my last Cell Phone = 24 phone 2 kg, = $6 for the boards & $6 for the metals = $12. That's .50 cents a piece. The person that says you are wrong needs to present the facts on Who to sale the boards to so we all can make more money. what i jus made isn't even a $1.00 a board.

THESE COULD BE SOLD!

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They are more worth in one piece than scraping them for gold 😂😂

woooo beautiful thankio

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Let me start by saying that I really do enjoy your videos eWaste Ben so don't get me wrong or take it personal when I say.... you're dead wrong. Most of the sources I read says there is at least $5 worth of gold in each phone BUT there's a bigger story here... I don't have a nice piece of paper like your's with information written on it however I do have several news articles that talks about Apple and how they harvested $39.6 million worth of gold from recycled phones last year. Several news sources stated that Apple extracted 2,204 pounds of recycled gold in 2015 from old phones. Out of 63 million pounds of scrap material they also collected 23 million pounds of steel, 13 million pounds of plastic, and the rest made up of glass, aluminum, copper, cobalt, nickle, lead, zinc, tin and silver. Sure the ratio of scrap to gold is low BUT almost $40 million... hard to argue with that in just one year of scraping the phones. I mean no offense by my comment but this time you're wrong. Anyone who says scrap cell phones aren't worth much has clearly missed that Apple and a number of other companies have made hundreds of millions over the past decade. If you don't think it's worth it then send me your scrap phones. :)

yeah sure there not worth it..don't pay attention to the 100 phones i have here on the table...lol

your equation is incorrect. value the amount of gold you get from everyone..at the price of gold today $1200.00 a troy ounce is worth it..

Nice info friend. But i think the problem is your mobile scrap price is more expensive. In my country indonesia only us$ 0.22/pcs and i can get 5-6 gram of 23k gold from 1 kg mobile's ic chip. Fyi, i need 400 pcs mobile to get 1 kg ic chip. After that i got profit too from silver, pcb without ic, plastic cover for that. I can get 100% profit for that.

The amount of bullshit you will go through with this is not worth it. The amount of time you will burn the amount of chemicals you will need much less fireing up a crucible. Yeah fk this.

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Fake video. I can not believe video

sounds like you're just tryna get ppl to stop collecting old phones

674 phones 433 old flip phones $3 a piece anyone

I will come to my own conclusions thank you. Everyone's idea of what has value is different from everyone else.

F**n TROLLS. "Don't go out and buy these"13:00. Get the message. if you're dyslexic, I apoligise becoz he spelt et out plane an clare!

If it's not worth it how come you have so many I'll buy yours for a dollar cell phone. What you used to make money off of everybody else is cashing in

If you're not making any money in it then why would you be in it You're doing the same thing as everybody else

I THINK PHONES ARE GOOD FOR SALVAGE ANYONE WANA SEND ME SOME WOULD BE GREAT FOR GOOD CAUSE. THANK YOU! 👍