what if it came from a floppy disk but has visible gold
Olddude, I don't think this question got answered in all the confusion. If you want to take the time to remove the little board then it goes with the CD/DVD boards. Our buyer bought the whole floppy drive, and we hauled them to the buyer with our load we took. It was not worth the time for us to break them down, their not as easy as the cd drives. If you have to ship your e-scrap then you might want to break them down to save needless weight.