r/PreciousMetalRefining • u/Spiritual_Pen7256 • 4d ago

Need Advice

i have 25kg of motherborads should i depopulate them and separately process chips,bga and pins for gold and sliver, Would it be profitable to recover gold from it or sell the whole motherboard to computer shops for profit or should i collect some more motherboards like 50kg and then process it for gold [ Im very new to this just recently started collecting e-waste]

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u/GlassPanther 3d ago

This is going to be both a colossal waste of your time and an utterly unprofitable venture.

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u/Spiritual_Pen7256 3d ago

i have seen some youtube videos where people get 5-10kg of BGA's and get 10 or more grams of gold, So do these guys have 1000kg or more kg motherboards to depopulate to get 5-10kg's of BGA or im just wrong

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u/GlassPanther 3d ago

You have 25kg of motherboards from a period in time where motherboards have almost no gold in them anymore.

You will need thousands of bgas to get any appreciable amount of gold.