Quote Originally Posted by newattitude View Post
but brass looks like gold and vice versa. To me anyways. The computer cable ends I've seen look the same color as where the memory sticks and cards plug into the motherboards and those are not gold as I've been told by e-waste folks so you can see where the confusion comes from. I just assumed the ends were brass like any other plug end. *shrugs*
rocket science to some maybe but not to others.
Actually, I have come to believe that the ends of circuit boards, and also some of the connectors between two or more circuit boards are indeed gold. So, who told you that they weren't? It seems to me that some gold (electronics, precious metals) refiners are willing indeed to buy them as such, so who told you that they weren't?
Of course some of the scrap that you mentioned only contain a very small amount of actual gold (they often are no-where close to 24-karat).