Scrap Cell Phones aren't worth much for Gold Recovery
Scrap Cell Phones aren't worth much for Gold Recovery
If your stacking cell phones you get for free then that’s great, but if your paying for scrap cell phones then you might consider the low recovery value in a single mobile phone, about $1 on average, $2 at best.
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Selling your cell phones can be more profitable, often bulk lots sell for $2-$4 per phone and much more for newer models.
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The amount of bullshit you will go through with this is not worth it. The amount of time you will burn the amount of chemicals you will need much less fireing up a crucible. Yeah fk this.
F**n TROLLS. "Don’t go out and buy these"13:00. Get the message. if you’re dyslexic, I apoligise becoz he spelt et out plane an clare!
Yesterday I Scraped 22 Phones, weighing 1.8 Lbs, that’s like a kg & a half.
Scrapyard buys boards $3.00 a lb.
Hi Ben, are the sim cards worth keeping for gold recovery?
Nice info friend. But i think the problem is your mobile scrap price is more expensive. In my country indonesia only us$ 0.22/pcs and i can get 5-6 gram of 23k gold from 1 kg mobile’s ic chip. Fyi, i need 400 pcs mobile to get 1 kg ic chip. After that i got profit too from silver, pcb without ic, plastic cover for that. I can get 100% profit for that.
Blackberries gave the most gold I have found. I worked at The tip for a while. I pocketed a mobile phone nearly everyday I was there. Didn’t cost me a cent.
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I remember my 1st phone I got scrapping it was a Samsung Smart phone, I was really exited thinking I hit the jackpot for gold recovery. Then I looked it up and seen this video. So I never scrapped it. I’ve got a box with a bunch in it now. Not as exited when I get them now as I was with the 1st one. But I guess that goes with everything, the 1st is almost always the biggest rush!!!
thanks for video
Plz give me ur whatsapp number
you also have to figure in the batteries which are lithium ion they are wortb money also and the screens are worth money also if they work, people will pay 100 dollars or more… so if people are smart you can make a lot more!!!!!
Ben, thanks much for this upload. I have a question though.. Dont you think you would have gotten much more out of the phone boards if you would have removed the green solder mask? From my expirience the "visible" gold plating is not all you can get from these type of boards. I usually remove the green solder mask in boiling water /w Lye to check whats under the surface.Cheers Buddy
sounds like you’re just tryna get ppl to stop collecting old phones
674 phones 433 old flip phones $3 a piece anyone
How about HD tvs and printers too?
But gold has been suppressed. Hold on to those babies and take the rocket ride!
I am new to your channel. thanks for tutorial. Very helpful!! Linda from Southern California
Yea i wouldn’t buy them right now but getting em free they are fun to take apart while watching some television or something. Im trying to convince some people that opening a digital recycling plant would be a little profitable if done on a large scale and also help the community with the ever growing problem of all our technology filling up the landfills. Your videos are great to show people who know nothing about the process Thanks so much for putting them up all the time
And gold?
Ben..I thought you’re a serious person.
You scrap wires,you cut gold painted fingers of paper thin ribbon …and you try now to convince us that there’s no enough gold in cell phones…really?!
By percent,there is way much gold in a cell phone than in a computer.
It is bad,and sad.
But you are right the newer the phone the lesss gold but if you can find super old cell phones and car phones you will expect a lot bigger return!!!ohones from 80 and early 90s
Fake video. I can not believe video
What about mlcc’s and smd’s
I’m new to your forum as well and i think it’s great,thanks for all your knowledge.If you get a chance,look up scrapper girl on youtube about cell phones,she has a place she sends them to without dismantling them and gets good returns.
Traduccion en espanol por favor
THESE COULD BE SOLD!
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LG Optimus S LS670 Android (Froyo) have much more gold then you would assume.
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nice ben thanks!!
I have 2.4 ton 1kg cell phone board have 1.7-2.2 gram gold
yeah sure there not worth it..don’t pay attention to the 100 phones i have here on the table…lol
But Also The Batteries, Chips, cut Gold Plugs off, wires, the Brass, Aluminum, Metal Screws, added up all together is also the same price as the boards.
I Jus Scraped my last Cell Phone = 24 phone 2 kg, = $6 for the boards & $6 for the metals = $12. That’s .50 cents a piece.
The person that says you are wrong needs to present the facts on Who to sale the boards to so we all can make more money.
what i jus made isn’t even a $1.00 a board.
This seems like a scheme to get people to sell their phones to you for a dollar or less so you can get the 2 – 5 $ in gold value out in the future lol !! Lmao nice try
orginal or fake . this gold ?
Hi. To a degree you are correct, it is the older phones that have the most gold. If you are going to do gold recovery get the older phones not the newer ones.
For me i get phones that are not miro usb or anything apple.
How to take apart a cell phone with screwdriver and not touching the screws love it.
nice I’m from Romania,Europe and your idea is very cool
Let me start by saying that I really do enjoy your videos eWaste Ben so don’t get me wrong or take it personal when I say…. you’re dead wrong. Most of the sources I read says there is at least $5 worth of gold in each phone BUT there’s a bigger story here…
I don’t have a nice piece of paper like your’s with information written on it however I do have several news articles that talks about Apple and how they harvested $39.6 million worth of gold from recycled phones last year.
Several news sources stated that Apple extracted 2,204 pounds of recycled gold in 2015 from old phones. Out of 63 million pounds of scrap material they also collected 23 million pounds of steel, 13 million pounds of plastic, and the rest made up of glass, aluminum, copper, cobalt, nickle, lead, zinc, tin and silver. Sure the ratio of scrap to gold is low BUT almost $40 million… hard to argue with that in just one year of scraping the phones.
I mean no offense by my comment but this time you’re wrong. Anyone who says scrap cell phones aren’t worth much has clearly missed that Apple and a number of other companies have made hundreds of millions over the past decade. If you don’t think it’s worth it then send me your scrap phones. 🙂
your equation is incorrect. value the amount of gold you get from everyone..at the price of gold today $1200.00 a troy ounce is worth it..
Hi Ben. there are some buyers of phones, who want them to send to Asia, they don’t care the damage the recycling does to the countries and the people living there. many governments have signed up to the 1994 Basel Convention to stop e-Waste getting into Asia. but are losing the battle to corruption, just Google recycling e-Waste in Asia and see the destruction recycling e-Waste is doing
what is thah gold processing??
good stuff Ben. as you said they make good filler when doing the final processing from computer boards.
hi ben ….Dont forget there are other precious metals in phones…..one for example is iridium in touch phone screens….check it out…..we are running out of iridium at a rapid rate . Happy scrapping!
After having worked with a lot of refiners: Refiners do not and will not share accurate information on their precious metal recycling. The numbers they publish are not the TRUE numbers, they make a lot more in the extracting process than they let on. The numbers in how much they extract are closely guarded, and you can take that to the bank.