Recover Your Own Gold from Old Electronics

Gone are the days when gold prospectors sift through rocks and dirt in rivers and hills. Modern-day prospectors get their gold from old phones and computer components. Best of all, just about anyone can do this in their apartment or garage with just a little collecting.

The Instructable in the source link illustrates the entire process, but you’re basically, just collecting old electronics, soaking them in a mixture of readily available chemicals, and then melting down the result into a gold ingot. With that in mind, it's time sit in sadness like the rest of us while you think about all the electronics you have thrown in the trash over the years and all the gold that could have amounted to.

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