Guides
Circuit boards, CPUs, connectors, and contacts contain real gold, silver, and palladium — in tiny amounts that add up if you know where to look. These guides cover component harvesting and selling to refiners. We do not cover DIY chemical recovery: it is dangerous, usually illegal, and almost never pays.
A hard drive's loose metal is modest — aluminum and a neodymium magnet — but its controller board is a sought-after, premium board grade. Here is the real breakdown, how to take one apart, and why you destroy the data first.
Six ways to check whether silver is real — from the hallmark and the magnet test to the ice test and a silver acid test — ranked by how much you can trust each one.
Until 1964, US dimes, quarters, and halves were 90% silver — and millions are still sitting in jars and inherited coffee cans. Here's how to spot them in seconds, what they're worth, and where to sell.
The gold-buying business runs on sellers who don't know what they're holding. Weigh it, know the karat, compute the melt value, and get two quotes — an hour of prep that's often worth hundreds of dollars.
The gold, silver, and palladium in e-waste is real — but the money is in harvesting and selling smart, not dangerous backyard chemistry. Here's the honest introduction.
Run the numbers before you pay — weight, composition, asking price.