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Electronic scrap is an especially fertile source of value. The value is not always obvious, because small quantities of precious metals are typically hidden in large quantities of base metals, plastics and ceramics. It makes sense to save defective or obsolete electronic components. There’s gold and silver in those relays and contact points, pc boards, semi-conductors, transformers and diodes, grid wires, anodes and wave guides. Platinum group metals are hidden in thermocouples, tube grids, switches and igniters. And
that’s only the beginning. Any or all precious metals may turn up in
connectors, sealed
headers, lead frames, integrated circuits, slip ring assemblies,
laminates, batteries, capacitors, resistors and transistors. |
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| The percentage of precious metals in electronic scrap may be very small. But its value may be very high. |  |
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