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To: Casaubon who wrote (6469)	2/3/2001 9:56:10 PM
From: Square_Dealings	Respond to of 19219

"Isn't it cheaper to recycle the gold from old circuit boards then to mine new gold?" The amounts used are small so its not the quantity that's important. The purity is more important its usually most cost effective especially with the cost of gold now, to just start over on a new plating bath/fresh metal or replenish with fresh gold. But gold is the best conductor and has high corrosion resistance so its very important in the process of manufacturing microcircuits and printed circuit boards. It is applied by vacuum deposition or wet plating methods. Recycling means you have to tear apart a bunch of mechanical stuff to get at a small amount of gold. At $268/oz its not worth it to recycle. Compare that to the energy crisis in CA where its cheaper to just cap the price and let someone else pay the difference -g- On the natural gas stocks - I own LD XTO BR EOG APA WGR DNR RRC EPEX TMR and I will post on a few more once I pick em up Monday morning :) good luck M.