Does anyone know of an honest reputable Gold Refinery that has much expertise/proficiency in processing Electronic Integrated Circuits (IC) chips/components for Gold Recovery/Reclamation? Or does anyone know how to find such information.
Why would you expect to find gold in ICs ?
Graham
The tiny little wires that conned the circuits ons the chips to the pins are made of pure gold. They are extremely small. You'd need to open up a heck of a lot of chips to get just one gram of gold. OMU
Aluminium.
Graham
Most of the old ICs have gold bond wires in addition to the Au/Si die attach material. Many of them used a Gold/Tin solder to attach the metal lid. There are tons of these old ICs out there that are heading for land fills.
It has been a few years s> Does anyone know of an honest reputable Gold Refinery that has much
For a lot of plastic packaged ICs they are gold bondwires. I was surprised to find that this is especially true for a lot of high pin-count ICs used in consumer products.
Chris
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