What precious metals can be recovered from circuit boards?

Waste circuit boards refers to the main board removed from household appliances such as waste television, refrigerators and computers. Waste circuit boards have a great value on the market because precious metals can be recovered from circuit boards.

Scrap circuit boards is a mixture of precious metals and resin fiber. According the statistics, the metal content is high as 40 % in scrap PCB circuit boards, the largest is copper, and next is gold, nickel, lead, silicon and other rare metals. Take recycling scrap computer motherboards as an example, every one ton waste computer motherboards can recycle 130kg copper, 40kg tin, 36kg nickle, 10kg iron and 0.5kg gold, etc.

The metals content of one ton scrap PCB boards

Copper, which is a precious metal recovered from circuit boards, widely used in electric industry, light industry, building industry, and machine manufacturing, etc. Not to mention gold, not only can gold be used in industry and technology, it can also be processed and used as jewelry decoration. And precious metals recovered from circuit boards be sold directly on the market , from which you also can get a good price.

Recovered precious metals and non-metals

So many kinds of precious metals can be recovered from circuit boards, where can we get scrap circuit boards? There are hundreds of millions of tons of scrap circuit boards in the world every day. Such as all kinds of computer motherboards, TV boards, and all kinds of waste electrical motherboards. So scrap circuit boards could be collected everywhere in the recycling station.

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