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The coppers probably easy enough to get most of it. The gold will mosty be thin bits on the circuitry and you’d need extensive work to remove it and process into a sellable product.
True, but if you had 1000 circuit boards, i’ll bet you could find an interested buyer that knows how to do the complicated bits.
Most of them only take stuff for free. Unless you have a lot of high quality boards. I thought about doing it myself years ago but it wasn’t worth the investment and time for me even with me getting free appliance circuitry from work.
Once you have a 1000 circuit boards, it makes sense to extract it on your own. These sort of procedures scale well. The more circuit boards you have, the less time it takes per gram of gold.
I thought, this couldn’t be true, because surely, one of those cameras doesn’t cost more than like $200. There’s no official price list, but I’m finding numbers online of $2500 per year. This includes maintenance, footage hosting and cell service, which is likely the bulk of the cost. Either way, jeebus, that’s a lot of money.
Government contracting is a grift with a long, long history. I bet if you travelled back in time to ancient Egypt, you’d find military leaders overcharging the pharaohs for security services.
I know someone who can provide the Pharao with the best quality copper for a fair price.
