gold pins could and would be refined. low grade but it would be refined.

cascade must be the best kept secret in the country if they are refining ewaste. specifically circuit boards.



perhaps it is a confusion over terms. many people use the term refiner when the company is actually just processing the material into a metal state. and not actually refining the material into a pure metal state.

ie. the gold pins would have the gold separated from the base metal they are plated to and eventually a pure gold bar would be poured.

processing simply removes the unwanted non metallic material and most of the base metals, leaving a copper dore bar that has a very very small percentage of precious metals contained in it.