Found a really nice load of early 80's super high grade gold scrap. Need buyer.

I'm trying to figure out how to find a buyer in the Colorado Springs/Denver area to take a look at this scrap. I'm guessing it should produce about 1 ounce of gold per pound of scrap. Also, how do I post quality pics? Or if any buyers in the Colo Spgs/Denver area just wants to PM their email I can send you pics that way.

Its about 90lbs of early 80's telecom boards.

One old pin board? Not sure what to call it. It had 3/4" long gold plated pins. 100's of them. Weighs about 4lbs.

9lbs of old white ceramic cpu's without pins.

2 to 3lbs of gold plated pins.

37 pounds of green board that just has gold plating. No components or other metals. Just 1/4" to 3/4" gold plated bands all over them. 27 boards total weighing 37lbs. I would be surprised if the didn't have 2 to 4 ounces of gold per board. Each board is about 16" x 20" or so.

Other odds and ends.

I have never seen any boards that are 1/16th gold by weight ...

The first thing you need to do is follow steps 1-3.


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1 ounce of gold per pound of scrap? Sounds like someone has gold fever.

Rule of thumb on this forum is fairly simple.........If there are NO PICS it didn't happen

How do you post good pics. I can't figure it out. I don't do forums much I just figured someone would like to get their hands on this stuff and I would like to make some money off of it.

So, how much do you think this roughly 140#'s accumulation of high grade 1 oz per pound gold containing scrap is worth? If it is 140 oz of gold, you would be looking at $175,000.00.

Go to the Buyer's section, there's a tab at the top. There is a great Colorado buyer on this forum. Your math is inaccurate.

I see your all hung up on the once of of gold per pound comment. I wasn't trying to offend. Just going off of what I could find. If anyone has constructive input it would be appreciated.

My goals are:

Get pics loaded
Find buyer

Thanks.

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Originally Posted by ScrappinRed

Go to the Buyer's section, there's a tab at the top. There is a great Colorado buyer on this forum. Your math is inaccurate.

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I will say that I thought the once per pound seemed off for the telecom boards but if you saw pics of the stuff thats just green board and gold plating you might change your mind. PM me an email and I will shoot you pics.

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Originally Posted by Scoty1

I see your all hung up on the once of of gold per pound comment. I wasn't trying to offend. Just going off of what I could find. If anyone has constructive input it would be appreciated.

My goals are:

Get pics loaded
Find buyer

Thanks.

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I gave some very constructive input and I'm not offended but I can only speak for myself.

If you would do what I suggested and read a little, you're questions would be answered.

There's not many people here willing to spoon feed you.

Welcome to the forum.......now go INTRODUCE yourself.

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Originally Posted by Scoty1

I'm trying to figure out how to find a buyer in the Colorado Springs/Denver area to take a look at this scrap. I'm guessing it should produce about 1 ounce of gold per pound of scrap. Also, how do I post quality pics? Or if any buyers in the Colo Spgs/Denver area just wants to PM their email I can send you pics that way.

Its about 90lbs of early 80's telecom boards.

One old pin board? Not sure what to call it. It had 3/4" long gold plated pins. 100's of them. Weighs about 4lbs.

9lbs of old white ceramic cpu's without pins.

2 to 3lbs of gold plated pins.

37 pounds of green board that just has gold plating. No components or other metals. Just 1/4" to 3/4" gold plated bands all over them. 27 boards total weighing 37lbs. I would be surprised if the didn't have 2 to 4 ounces of gold per board. Each board is about 16" x 20" or so.

Other odds and ends.

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Originally Posted by Scoty1

I see your all hung up on the once of of gold per pound comment. I wasn't trying to offend. Just going off of what I could find. If anyone has constructive input it would be appreciated.

My goals are:

Get pics loaded
Find buyer

Thanks.

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Ok. Sorry I got caught up in the 1 ounce gold per pound of scrap. How many 1 pound increments would you estimate contain 1 ounce of gold?

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Originally Posted by Scoty1

I will say that I thought the once per pound seemed off for the telecom boards but if you saw pics of the stuff thats just green board and gold plating you might change your mind.

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What you described are "high yield" boards. They can sell for $5 - $25 per pound ( depending on type and buyer ). The layer of gold ( even in old stuff ) is not very thick.
http://thumbs.picclick.com/00/s/MTAz...d-Scrap-_1.jpg

We're hung up on the 1oz of gold per pound because we hear that a lot an know better.

Dig about an you'll find why we say that. Jimi gave you some excellent advice on how to find the buyers, Mike answered the Pic one, an Red even told ya about a buyer right there in CO. He is a good buyer an a long time forum member, he also has a thread in the buyer section. If your wondering why we're not naming names...see the post about advertising/seeking buyers. ;) An yes..Introduce yourself, it's not a bad thing an it shows your serious an not just a fly by poster.

An I assure you...unless those are military grade boards or you got some serious gold plating, I think your gonna be little sad in what they bring. If you want gold...find a gold refiner, their not here, an we don't discuss gold refining. GRF(Gold Refining Forum) is where you want to go to seek out a toll refiner. You can also try an sell your boards on eBay.

Easy solution..find your buyer, take pics, an then send them to the buyer via email if you don't plan to make 10 posts(it's 10 posts if I recall to put up pics). Mike mentioned Photobucket, there is also..imgur, and many other picture hosting sites. most are free some charge, depends on your needs.

With that said...you've been given excellent advice. An all from folks who've been here awhile.

Good luck an remember, we like to help folks, but we also get a lot of folks who come through just seeking info an then vanish without even a thank you, or any sign their thankful for the help.

Sirscrapalot - Keeper of the traveling cooler an doesn't know a thing he's talking about. ;)

Funny how perspectives work. I'd be dancing in the streets if his load even brought the value of one ounce of gold and at least fist pumping in the air even if its was $500 in total. I think he'd be pretty bummed with even a grand in his pocket from the stuff. Good luck Scoty1 getting some coin for your old boards but I hope reality does kill your anticipated score. I don't know if you paid for these boards or got them for free. If the latter, you're way ahead even if its only a few hundred bucks. Now go find some more...

I spoke with you on the phone for 15 minutes yesterday while running a local clean up event here in denver. Was very nice talking to you over the phone and I hope I explained it to you enough for you to learn a little bit about what the boards are actually worth. As stated above we buyers get the its got to be worth this all the time. I gave you my email address and your more then welcome to send me pics. I am probable one of the more open buyers on this forum and usually share more info then I probable should. But i still believe that the more the seller know the better experience it will be for the both of us. Hope to hear for you soon.

Congrats Part-Time for stepping up.........Would be nice to see pics of this lovely "HOARD".......with scrap prices what they are I've been getting more biz just for the fact that when I tell a customer the **** is not worth anything I'm really not lying......I take a loss on all the metal/plastic etc.......

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I spoke with you on the phone for 15 minutes yesterday while running a local clean up event here in denver. Was very nice talking to you over the phone and I hope I explained it to you enough for you to learn a little bit about what the boards are actually worth. As stated above we buyers get the its got to be worth this all the time. I gave you my email address and your more then welcome to send me pics. I am probable one of the more open buyers on this forum and usually share more info then I probable should. But i still believe that the more the seller know the better experience it will be for the both of us. Hope to hear for you soon.

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But i still believe that the more the seller know the better experience it will be for the both of us.

PartTimeScrapper, That is an awesome statement. It says a lot about you.

When I saw where OP was from my first thought was "call PTS".

When I saw what OP thought his boards were worth, my next thought was, "I hope he doesn't call PTS!" :))


Actually, that's not fair... I think that PTS would probably be the best guidance on this. It'll be disappointing, but honest.

wheres the pics?

Scoty1, what you are calling pins are referred to as fingers. Old PCs have more value in gold scrap than anything else. Email pics to my gmail please.

kcp70buys

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Originally Posted by RLS0812

What you described are "high yield" boards. They can sell for $5 - $25 per pound ( depending on type and buyer ). The layer of gold ( even in old stuff ) is not very thick.
http://thumbs.picclick.com/00/s/MTAz...d-Scrap-_1.jpg

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I would guess 50lbs if this^^ could bring 1 oz of 24k gold? Possably 25lbs? (I know that is a big difference in poundage). Any other guesses?

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I would guess 50lbs if this^^ could bring 1 oz of 24k gold? Possably 25lbs? (I know that is a big difference in poundage). Any other guesses?

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I don't think you would get an oz of 24k gold out of 500 pounds of boards like those.

Ah yes, high yield boards. What old dungeon did you pull those out of?

I found some of those a while back. Had a few hundred pounds. I'm serious, I was like you when I found them. I thought I hit the money! But some digging told me they weren't worth the heart attack I was having.

It's fun, isn't it? Were kind of a gruff bunch here....don't let that scare you away. Get some posts under your belt and tell us what you're about. Sure you'll fit right in.

Happy scrapping.

I would very much like to see pics of those boards, I haven't been fortunate enough to come across anything like that

I will try to find time to email some pics. The pic floating around by rls0812 is no where near the same quality as some of the boards I have. From what I have been able to find out is its old 70's white board with one side covered by about 13 inches by 15 inches of gold plating thick enough that if you just cut under it with a razor blade you can peel the entire band off by hand. Its like the thickness of a very thin sheet of sheet metal. Hard to explain.

pics speak louder than words

Sent yo my email like you asked. Still have not received the pics you wanted to send.

I think we are all losing sleep over not being able to see pics of these mystery boards

Can't wait to see these. The suspense is killin me ( kinda like when Heraldo opened the safe ) does anyone remember that one ?

I haven't logged in to post in a long while now, but this post brought me back from lurking... PICS NOW!!! Please and thank you :)

Like the others...I await to be amazed.

We've seen some nice boards on here before. So..I hope their worth the hype.

Sirscrapalot - Thanksgiving...the one time of the year you can sit back, an watch your neighbor set his house on fire by frying a turkey.

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Like the others...I await to be amazed.

We've seen some nice boards on here before. So..I hope their worth the hype.

Sirscrapalot - Thanksgiving...the one time of the year you can sit back, an watch your neighbor set his house on fire by frying a turkey.

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I did hear the fire trucks go by a few hours ago. Mike

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Originally Posted by Sirscrapalot

Like the others...I await to be amazed.

We've seen some nice boards on here before. So..I hope their worth the hype.

Sirscrapalot - Thanksgiving...the one time of the year you can sit back, an watch your neighbor set his house on fire by frying a turkey.

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Sir, I wouldn't hold my breath. Everyone's been waiting on pics since 10/9 and I see Hobo has released the goats.

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I did hear the fire trucks go by a few hours ago. Mike

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Mike, I was talking to wife this morning about house fires caused by people frying turkeys. There's usually a few fires every Thanksgiving in this area and I saw the first one happened around 11 am this morning. Fried turkey is awesome but people really need to be careful.

For all of you who have been waiting on pics..........Bacon wrapped turkey!

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g6...s_done_2_1.jpg

Oh My God. Wife wants to know how you kept from burning the bacon. Mike

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Oh My God. Wife wants to know how you kept from burning the bacon. Mike

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Mike I have no idea. I found the pic on google. It does look good though.