*Reads title *looks at old computer Old computer: heavy sweating

1 - buy expensive chemicals 2 - extract a blank amount of gold 3 - realize you lost money 4 - make a youtube video to try to recover money with adsense

Wife: Honey have you seen any of my laptops? Husband: Forget about your laptops. I got you a gold ring. Happy anniversary!

Actually Old CPUs can be more worth more than the extracted gold itself, the retro computer community does pay really well

I like how he can say “ I didn’t have any cyanide” and it’s normal

shout out to the ant at 6:52 i hope you're living a good life

Your instructions were unclear, I ended up doing methamphetamine

"I didn't have any cyanide" Boy, I can relate.

Try with antique computers. The gold plating is usually thicker tho. Like a lot

Made a twitter! twitter.com/NileRed2

I usually put the aqua regia beaker into a warm water bath to speed up the reaction. I use urea (which is very cheap) to bring up the pH, and then precipitate with warmed metabisulfite solution. Warming the neutralized gold chloride and metabisulfite, I found, caused almost instantaneous precipitation of all the gold into a sponge-form, which is then very easy to recover.

can we all agree that Nigel’s voice is very soothing and makes you feel good

Summary of gold recovering business: 1. Add acid 2. stir 3. filter 4. repeat and repeat 5. Realizing it's not making money.

many computer repair places will just give you pcb's if you ask. they tend to have a ton and dont recycle them on their own.

1) The green color is copper, silver and small amounts of platinum metals 2) The Aqua Regia and acid amounts DO affect the resulting recovery efficiency. 3) Grinding or burning the boards means that step 1 takes a day or 2 instead of a week.

You can also use dilute nitric acid for the initial cleaning of the boards. Weak nitric acid easily removes copper and nickel, but won't touch gold, platinum, palladium, or rhodium at all. It will dissolve silver, but so does HCl and peroxide.

Funny thing, I actually worked at the factory that these exact PCBs. Those are actually test coupons. I can tell by the silkscreen code on the coupons.

these videos are very soothing and good before bed

*FBI questions why you need cyanide, what is your response?:* "I"m devolving gold from computer parts."

i like how the disclaimer at the beginning says not to try this but he also gives us exact directions and amounts of everything as if we were going to do it

A lot of times computer scrap will contain lead. I noticed you did not add sulfuric to drop out lead before adding SMB to your solution. Hopefully these PCB's were lead free, or your gold is going to be contaminated. I have been watching sreetips channel. That guy has been doing this a long time, and seems to have perfected every method. I also love watching Cody'sLab (who I see also commented here), but sreetips is the one i always tend to go back to when I have any questions. But I love your's and Cody's channels because you guys are actually chemists, and describe the actual chemical processes that are happening. Keep up the awesome work. I love how you can actually learn things on KZfaq and it is not all just stupidity, conspiracy theories, and bickering. You guys who are hear to teach the world, are what make KZfaq great, in my opinion.

+NileRed very nice video

I'm in the middle of recovering gold from a variety of junk I've had sitting around for ages. Dead computer/phone parts, gold-plated connectors, and unassembled prototype PCBs. I'm using hydrogen peroxide and vinegar, which is working great for how simple it is. It only really dissolves copper, but that'll get gold off of PCBs and some contacts. Pretty sure I spent *way* more time than it's worth recovering this stuff. Really, I only have _maybe_ half a gram here if I'm being optimistic. But hey, I'm having fun and getting an excuse to buy cool glassware.

Aquarium pumps are meant to have a bubbler stone at the output end of the tube. That disperses the air coming through the hose into hundreds of tiny streams of air making incredibly small bubbles.

I would love to see you redo this with different computer parts or materials and a few more years experience to see how it affects your yield/profit. Extracting precious material from junk is so cool to me, even if it's not technically worth it.

0:58 we're not breaking even we're breaking bad

it's 2 am in the morning and I have 3 more assignments to complete then now I'm learning to extract Gold from old tech parts. Great!

It seems like even if you know exactly what parts to buy, that when you take into account the cost of materials, the time hunting down the right deals, and the time put in to the actual recovery, that the profit per hour would be less than a minimum wage job.

This guy must really like his coffee filters.

This is luxury thing :diamond :gold :gold solution

I’d like to see a video on how to extract gold from old dental crowns that were removed by my dentist. And no, I didn’t let the dentist keep them! I think this would be a much different process (as it’s big chunks mixed with other metals, and not gold plated).

wanted something I could try, ended up in a chemistry class :). thanks man

Processors with pins are a great source, FYI.

13:33 ... Black Gold. Texas Tea. Oil, that is.

Some PCBs are have whole-board ENIG, which means stripping the solder resist with strong base might expose more copper pour and help recover more gold.

omfg that filter adjustment at 8:10 was heaven! 😍 I was *immediately* annoyed by the way it crumpled, and then you immediately rescued my rapidly-deteriorating emotional state by fixing it. Thanks, man. I was only a few seconds away from losing my shit there. lol

Very familiar with this process, very nice first try. I use the same process to recover gold from slag (I process small amounts of other metals from other ores). My first few attempts weren't very efficient to say the least :)

whos with me for a colab of Nile red and Cody slab🙆

"I moved the gold to the front so you could really see what was going on in this step" *pop up ad immediately covers the front of the beaker*

0:58 I know you already did by uploading this video 😁 This channel is a treasure, worth more than gold

I like it when he says "Gold."

Processors, RAM, and anything with a PCI-E bus aren't bad choices. Connectors (processor pins, RAM buses, PCI-E buses) are what are most commonly gold-plated because gold being soft and conductive confers desirable properties when plating connectors.

"Little bit of chemical treatment" *explains the process in 3 videos*

my old calculators from middle school served me well, now it's time to use one to calculate how much gold I could get from them edit: I got about 44 Canadian dollars

I love your videos, they help me when I have trouble sleeping

I tried to start a business like this, because I had access to a lot of junk electronics in my job just after high school. I talked to my high school chemistry teacher to try to get some help but she didn't trust me lol

6:45 you can also tie a loose knot in the air tubing and slowly tighten it to get your desired bubble rate

I love the bug photo bomb at 6:50 lmao 😂

this is how people get gold in the future, nile is way ahead of his time.

My Old Windows: uh oh.... My Broken Laptop: oh shit... Me: *slowly putting on Gloves*

He is the only person to ever say I’m fresh out of Cyanide 😂😂

Hey Nile, I love watching your channels even though I don't understand most it. Anyways, could you do a video on extracting platinum from dirt you get from highways?

Me :"watching the video" My computer : Oh man i'm dead...

I like how he sounds surprised that he doesn't have cyanide on hand.

This is why these companies be holding these computer recycling events.

Hey... You've saved a life today, and I want you to know that i'm very grateful for you. I love you and please keep going.

0:29 gamer juice

Can you make a video on extracting silver from film

This is a new way to get rid from some electronic parts and save gold for the future

KZfaq finally recommends this after 3 years

0:00 "Wow I'm rich." 14:20 "Oh, forget it."

Hi man! Your channel is great and I learn a lot from it. Gold recicling is a thing that needs a lot of reasurch and practice. What I've probably spotted in your video, and what I think is a mistake is that you did not neutralise the aqua regia solution before adding the metabisulfite, which resulted in immediate re-desolving of the perticipated gold, which one can see on the the immediate gas that was emmited after the addition.... I made that mistake and it cost me maybe 10-15 g. of gold and me running around trying to fix things... What do you think - IMO you have to neutralise with urea or pottasium bicarbonate before SMB addition... Waiting for your thoughts on that... Regards form Sofia, Bulgaria!

Instructions unclear, my stomach is now plated in computer parts

Next video will be making a bomb out of paper, I swear this dude can make everything out of anything

The mason jar says potassium metabisulfite while you said sodium metabisulfite.

I feel that crushing the parts or grinding them prior to adding the acid can make the process faster and might give more gold as the surface area of reaction increase. But again this can only really work if the suspension made is not allowed to settle and you have to make sure not to waste a lot of the powder from grinding it.

I love you Nile!

Good suggestions, warnings, and use of language to indicate precautions necessary. This process includes some chemistry notes, and it helps people understand what you are doing.

2016: Extracting gold from computer parts 2020: Extracting computer parts from gold

6:52 aww how sweet. You brought on a guest :-)

man , it got recommended now(finally)

The fact that it costs more to seperate the gold from the computer parts, than the amount of money the gold is worth

This guy rlly gets gold from anything mad respect for you bro

Never destroy a working older part. Plenty of people looking to build retro gaming rigs out there. That old 80486 or Pentium chip is likely worth far more to a collector / gamer than as scrap. Even bent or missing pint can be fixed on really old chips. More modern chips like the P4 on up are much harder to fix once broken. But an early Pentium or 386/486 can be easily fixed.

"At the time of this recording I didnt have any cyanide" hah! Gosh, I love chemists. I love that that wasn't even a joke lol

“I’m personally not even close to a master at gold recovery” is such an Alpha statement I can’t explain why

NileRed, your videos are great; I have learned how to make many interesting things from you. That said, I have a n00b question: how does the aquaregia not utterly destroy the coffee filters and the plastic funnel?

Me: I would like to be rich. My KZfaq Recommendations System: Yes.

6:52 A bug runnin! Those were your good ol days!

I just went to the grocery store. My eyes lit up when I saw muriatic said!!! I thought of you!!😂

My Siri went off at 6:45 when you said it was really important

is the recovery from processors the same as from RAMs? I mean, should I do something different to separate the gold from the metallic connections, or it's the same as you do for RAMs?

He sounds no older or younger than today. His video as a whole looks no older than today. I also have no idea what half the chemicals he is talking about. Amazing.

This is really satisfying

Could you please make video about extracting silver from x-ray films

Tutorial: how to clean ur ram sticks

BIG thumps up to this boy.. love it

Cool video! Have you ever done one on recovering silver and maybe antimony from a sulfide ore ?

I just realized that this was made 3 years ago..

6:59 never say basic in a chemistry video unless you mean it has a pH greater than 7😂

Great chemistry lesson!

chemistry at its finest

KZfaq recommendation: "Extracting gold from computer parts" Me: "finally a good way to get money" Me: *clicks on the video* Video: *chemistry* Me: "ight imma head out"

Nice new icon dude

Suddenly this became a lot more relevant

0:08 I did think he maked a "computer juice"

POV: You are getting this video recommended 5 years.

14:14 cameraman: hey, can u do it again? i just realised i wasn't filming

This must be the Gold Experience!

6:52 i think you gave that ant a super scare lol