“There’s 100x more gold in a ton of smartphones that a ton of gold ore” I’m gonna need that factchecked 🤔

@peytonsmith8139

7 ай бұрын

Yea that makes no sense😂😂

@BerryMcCockiner

7 ай бұрын

I'm glad im not the only one who caught that.

@watata1t

7 ай бұрын

"If the survey is done correctly, then, a good gold mine can easily yield around 6.5 g of gold for every 1,000 kg of ore. Keep in mind that gold ore is not pure and is intertwined with aa lot of other metals including silver. When the ore is taken to the mill, huge chunks of gold ore are crushed and then broken" The video might be correct, but damn how frustrating must gold minig be with those yields 😅

@SakuraVyn

7 ай бұрын

​@@watata1tand probably get the same yield from a ton of smartphones 6.5g 😂

@notsure4128

7 ай бұрын

Gold ore isn't gold

Im in the states an we call that scraping. Iv done to survive

@adammonahan687

7 ай бұрын

Right. I take a load in every other week.

@koDaffi

7 ай бұрын

I call it junking. Nothing wrong with it at all. It pays and technically helping keep stuff cleaned up.

@Iburn247

7 ай бұрын

I've done it too for years

@matthewmartinez5907

7 ай бұрын

Theres a big difference. Similar but differnt

@Grimreaper45705

7 ай бұрын

I could take all that plastic melt it down and make shingles for roofs, take the scrap metal and make into sheets for cheap housing, and screws and nails

I use to do this with my grandpa we lived in philly and went to new Jersey at night and drive around the nice neighborhoods on trash day and pick up all electronics and metal, miss those days

@amh9494

7 ай бұрын

Back when China was growing super fast scrap metal was a great earner

@noelramirez1551

7 ай бұрын

​@@yupyup2347 I mean the way he explained it he wasn't dumpster diving people just leave old electronics on the end of the driveway so the garbage man can take it or like old washers

@luisbeltran937

7 ай бұрын

​@@yupyup2347at least he wasn't talking about going out at night and breaking into houses to get it.

@noelramirez1551

7 ай бұрын

@@yupyup2347 a garbage digger is someone that actually jumps in a dumpster how are you digging for anything when you it's already just sitting out in the open like a TV or washer

@luisbeltran937

7 ай бұрын

@@yupyup2347 ja ja .

become an electrician we take home pounds of copper every day, i get two paychecks every week from hitting the scrap yard

@timd46

7 ай бұрын

It always baffled me watching electricians clip hundreds of dollars worth of wire a week and never pick any of it up😂.

@user-cs2yg4vz3v

7 ай бұрын

Soon it's not worth it 100 lbs for 60 bucks that took longer to strip then ur average work week

@noaht5191

7 ай бұрын

That's called "stealing" 🤣

@thomaswilliamson625

7 ай бұрын

@@user-cs2yg4vz3v, copper is damn near $4 a pound… your math isn’t mathing.

@brandensherrer

7 ай бұрын

I have to strongly disagree with that statement. I can an have/ do strip literally hundreds of feet of copper (150lbs) in less than 3 hours with a wire stripper I adapted to use a cordless drill to run will strip 4/0 - 28ga no problems 50ft in literally seconds

We call that "Scrapping" in the US. You can't live off it but you can make some decent side money.

@tnc7399

6 ай бұрын

My family were scrappers, this is much different

@capps2015

6 ай бұрын

Around here scrapping pays good enough to purchase a rock from local rock dealers. There's quite a few dedicated collectors in the area.

@UFC96

6 ай бұрын

Decent drug money lol

@exposenetworklimited4497

5 ай бұрын

Yes you can live off it… and well to we do… so your statement at face value is moronic

@exposenetworklimited4497

5 ай бұрын

@@tnc7399no it isn’t different… if this isn’t what ur family did then your family wasn’t scrappers period 🤡

Looks better than the cobalt miner conditions for green energy electric car's.

@Radim9x

7 ай бұрын

yes, and your smartphone and all electronics that have batteries run on unicorn energy

@CLxJames

7 ай бұрын

Tesla switched to LFP batteries for the last three years. And no matter which battery type the car has, if it reaches end of life (which the chassis or the rest of the car will be gone long before that) it can either be recycled or used in a battery pack for other applications

@benmiller9854

7 ай бұрын

@@CLxJames Very informative response. I appreciate the feedback

@jackmeyers7805

7 ай бұрын

That it does

@CarlosAM1

7 ай бұрын

Bruh and you think making gas-powered cars, electronic and the batteries on this device you are reading this in is not bad for the environment or what? Lmao

Where I'm from we call this scrapping.

I never knew what me and my late father-in-law were doing back in the day was called "urban mining". Good to know....

@ChrisSauer-oe5ve

7 ай бұрын

It’s called scraping, hope aren’t having to do this for a living 🙏

That sure looked like they were collecting copper not gold 😂

@steveoTHEGREAT

7 ай бұрын

They collect any metal worth money

@Eduardo_Espinoza

7 ай бұрын

gold is smoll

@Mrdestiny17

7 ай бұрын

Gold in phones can be pretty hard to extract depending on the phone. It's used cause it has the best conductivity and wont degrade over time. It's mainly used in very precise or delicate parts

@spaceengineeringempire4086

7 ай бұрын

@@Mrdestiny17 acid. That’s a good way to remove any silicon and polymer. But refining would be needed to separate the copper, silver, and gold.

@happyjohn354

7 ай бұрын

@@spaceengineeringempire4086 I was going to say mercury.

Reporter discovers what recycling looks like.

@Orianasama

6 ай бұрын

This is not recycling this is scrapping

@mm-rj3vo

6 ай бұрын

White person discovers the relationship between white labor and black labor hasn't changed in hundreds of years, on a global scale.

If we would just return to fixing things, this would almost completely go away.

@user-xp3gz2sf4f

7 ай бұрын

Ya think?

@rockyGonnaHurtYou

7 ай бұрын

I think so too. But lawmakers and lobbyists are dismantling the right to repair laws and other things that would never make that possible again. Capitalism

I wish all those hard workers all the wealth in the world, especially those kids.

@p6v665

6 ай бұрын

@@yupyup2347least evil capitalist

Most motherboards have gold components so yeah there’s definitely treasure in discarded electronics!

At least they have a job and they’re not out on a boat robbing ships

@DavidVanHelden1

7 ай бұрын

They do this to buy the gun to rob the ship ...

@dustin9035

7 ай бұрын

@@DavidVanHelden1 Yeah, you’re right. Baby steps.

@snake08880

7 ай бұрын

They rob ships because other countries illegally dumped toxic waste in their fishing waters and killed everything. They were peaceful fishermen before that

@w210black

7 ай бұрын

They stuck like this because European rule

@tylerwestover234

7 ай бұрын

​@@w210blackBlaming others for their over breeding and lack of education.

Man I work for waste management, I went to a BBQ of one of the drivers that's been working for them for 30 years... he actually been doing this... He ended up with atleast 200k worth of copper

This is what my brother and I did every summer, and cut/split wood in the winter. It's part of being poor, whether it's there or here in America.

I do this for fun with plenty of power tools I cant imagine doing most of it manually

@jonathanaugustine1310

7 ай бұрын

I know it's hard with power sometimes

@Eduardo_Espinoza

7 ай бұрын

maybe they scraped their power tools too lol

This is the part of the green initiative people ignore. End of life sometimes has more effects than during use

I hate it that these guys try to make it feel like this is evil or something, this cycling is probably the difference in whether those kids all look like they’re eating pretty good and they can speak English so this job must be working out okay for them

I know guys in my hood collect wires & stuff that has copper in it. On the weekends they strip wires & turn it in. The places these kids work are TOXIC AF

It's called recycling ♻️

Love the safety flip flops they really protect the toes.

In America we call it meth addiction and stripping copper wire.

@scotthill1600

7 ай бұрын

Don’t forget Catalytic converters

@jacobjones966

7 ай бұрын

Bro I just tore down two trailers in a residential and turned it in I don’t struggle from week to week and also never done drugs some people just aren’t wasteful had 400 from the scrap plus what I was making for working needles to say my check last week was awesome so use your brain stop judging

@Yophillips3272

7 ай бұрын

it's not just drug addicts, it's literally free money, like if you saw dollars laying on the ground why not pick it it up? I think the copper wire thing is all mixed up in urban forklore because crackheads use to cut up copper wire to use for crackpipes and has nothing to do with scrapping.

@Philadelphia_Jamal

7 ай бұрын

That's just your cousin. But there are millions of dollars and millionaires in that business. It's called "scraping" for precious metals. Aluminum, copper, gold, and plenty more. All races in America are in the business also.

@noaht5191

7 ай бұрын

​@@jacobjones966working needles?

That homie chiseling away with the slides on.. 😂😅

I do that for fun. Don't plan on selling but melting down to make stuff.

Used to strip copper all the time as a kid , it was fun breaking stuff, makes $ , and instills work ethic

Dude… people in the US been at this for ages. Scrapping. How strange that this is news today.

Look at all those hard working employed individuals. Good for the m providing for their families

And they can't clean drinking water or grow food...???? Crazy world man

@talesfromtheleashexpatdogl1426

7 ай бұрын

Exactly.....just like the US

@cateatfood6634

7 ай бұрын

Now now.

@matthewheinze1231

7 ай бұрын

The leaders don't want them too.

@vladimirmomperousse

7 ай бұрын

Who is they

@meshuggahlad7

7 ай бұрын

​@@talesfromtheleashexpatdogl1426that was a stupid comment. I have a water filter and live on a farm. Wanna try again?

I have lost so much equipment from copper thieves.one day I came home and the copper was stripped from my workshop and home.

@pipsapossu1699

7 ай бұрын

There is copper inside street lights and the like. Go get your copper back.😈

@stefthorman8548

7 ай бұрын

​@@pipsapossu1699he doesn't have the race qualifications for that activity

Love how they are breaking open refrigerant compressors. It's illegal if they still have refrigerant in them as it is a EPA violation and a big fine in the USA because it's bad for the ozone layer and they get to do it without any environmental agency around.

Brothers gettin straight paid yo

DANGEROUS! Says a person who’s never been out of their basement

@lucre113

7 ай бұрын

??? 😂 they’re not wrong goofy

@Iburn247

7 ай бұрын

​@@lucre113yeah but he makes it seem like it's not something people do here too 😂

@LunaticTheCat

7 ай бұрын

It's literally dangerous.

@WorkHardOr

7 ай бұрын

what doesn't get scrapped gets burned. the danger is in the smoke that travels the globe

@ghostoftheUchiha3250

7 ай бұрын

​@Iburn247 people do something similar to that here. but you don't see 200 people in a scrap yard tearing stuff apart by hand out there in their bare feet with their kids burning it in the same spot that they're tearing it apart....... over here if you want to scrap all you got to do is haul it to the place and drop it off. Yeah I know you can take it apart and separate the copper, aluminum, blah blah blah to make a little more money. hell I've done it! But it's not even close to the same

Maybe worth what???? You could have cut something else out to get the answer.

@MarkProjectShark

8 ай бұрын

3 dollars

@ExcavationNation

8 ай бұрын

Can you not read?

Respect - i know theyre only doing it to make a living, but this is recycling and it's great to see It means useful materials that woild otherwise sit there and rot are actually being used Sad this is the state we're in though

They wuz kangs!

Kudos to these guys for working for it and not just stealing from people 👏 I have zero respect for theives and all the respect for hard work!

@w8what575

7 ай бұрын

Again..who do u think the stolen crap gets sold to? U can’t sell it to scrapyards or online if it’s stolen! God damn! People are so easily fooled into turning on their fellow Americans and side with the enemies just like a narcissist would do…Christ almighty people! Get a clue!

@jonathanq6881

7 ай бұрын

But you respect people being horribly exploited and only given pocket change?

@ikeniewo2943

7 ай бұрын

@@jonathanq6881 they aren't exploited. No one is forcing them to do that. They could develop and invent but it seems that whole africa prefers easy low quality job

@strideytidey8665

7 ай бұрын

​@@ikeniewo2943Please stay in school bro. You need it.

@ikeniewo2943

7 ай бұрын

@@strideytidey8665nice argument, arsewipe. Didn't expect higher level of discourse from youtube dwellers

You know it's good when they've got the safety sandles on

Yeah we have people in the USA that do the same thing at their house to make ends meet ..

Props to them, the kids especially. That's hard work.

Just proves they will work if we stop giving them everything and/or them stealing it

Ive been City Mining for years it is my passion. Real commodities are recovered real money. Unfortunately these folks are not properly equipped to do this type of mining.

It's called scrapping and it's really normal in the USA

I literally used to do this after middle school , I don't feel bad for them and you shouldn't either. They should use ppe and clean up their work area.

That "ton of smart phones to a ton of gold ore" sentence sounded like "what's heavier, a ton of feathers or a ton of gold?"

@Eduardo_Espinoza

7 ай бұрын

gold ore is like a solid block of gold like in Minecraft

@pipsapossu1699

7 ай бұрын

​@@Eduardo_Espinoza Ore just means that there is an element present in the soil in such quantities that it is worth mining.

It's all fun and games until somebody gets a abandoned radiotherapy machine

@Bonnietylerfan34

6 ай бұрын

i was thinking the same thing

I love how tough guys here are trying to actually compare selling copper in like Idaho to being forced to survive by scrounging through garbage dumps filled with chemicals and trash.

Thanks, CBS, for poverty tourism that does absolutely nothing to help these people

It's no more toxic than a construction site and I do it every day. Be thankful you have a job.

I live in the Appalachian mountains of Eastern Ky and people do scrapping all the time here. U see people with their trucks piled high with scrape heading to the nearest recycling company. Copper brings the most money.

Good to see he has socks on with flip flops in case he crushes his toes.😂

Wait did you just say there's more gold in a smartphone than gold ore... tf

@dylanrogers6343

7 ай бұрын

He said "There is 100 times more gold in a ton of smartphones than a tone of gold ore" not exactly sure how that math maths out but I'm right there with ya

@watata1t

7 ай бұрын

"If the survey is done correctly, then, a good gold mine can easily yield around 6.5 g of gold for every 1,000 kg of ore. Keep in mind that gold ore is not pure and is intertwined with aa lot of other metals including silver. When the ore is taken to the mill, huge chunks of gold ore are crushed and then broken" So the video might be correct, but damn gold mining seems incredibly uneconomic

@Cory_Springer

7 ай бұрын

The gold in phones is also very pure, which cannot be said about gold found in ore.

Thank you for what you do. I walk the roads and pick up cans. I have people saving for me too. Cars can get close. But I'm disabled already and who cares about me

@jon-michael9239

7 ай бұрын

People care about you. ❤

@nathanrobinson7715

7 ай бұрын

@@jon-michael9239 I want a female my age to care about me. All the walking makes my legs hurt. If I had a woman I would go out and do other things

3$ for what? A pound? Total? The real crime is the people they sell it to that rips them off

We are so spoiled. Miserable work for almost nothing.

So when a black guy stole my co-workers catalytic converter it was just urban mining?

@wysonlegion5398

7 ай бұрын

Casual racism is so funny

@ikeniewo2943

7 ай бұрын

@@wysonlegion5398 it stops being funny with realization that it's reality

@wysonlegion5398

7 ай бұрын

@@ikeniewo2943 reality that black people face systamtic hartdship that leads to desperate measures for durvival? yeah that is still racist.

@pipsapossu1699

7 ай бұрын

​@@ikeniewo2943 If he was really black then its just a fact and not racist.

@ikeniewo2943

7 ай бұрын

@@pipsapossu1699 it doesn't matter if he is black or not. Facts don't change depending on who is stating them

These people are "scavengers." Rey is a Jakku scavenger, a survivor toughened by life on a harsh desert planet.

If i was an alien obeseving Earth i would assume these humans are important.

As am immigrant to the US, it shocks me that people dont realize that our economy allows water to be cheaper than soda. Our water isnt yellow with sulfer and its a blessing

While this is heartbreaking, dont let it distract you from more important issues, such as gender identity and pronoun usage

@joekerr168

7 ай бұрын

He didn't even ask anyone thier pronouns. This reporter needs canceled!

@djsupahfly

7 ай бұрын

Or have the mental Capacity to engage in more than one issue appropriately? Lol

@wysonlegion5398

7 ай бұрын

Ah yes because we can’t have several problems that we look to solve at the same time?..

@Cory_Springer

7 ай бұрын

It's really not hard to settle the gender identity/pronoun "issue" you have. It literally takes one question and for you to not be a bigot.

@joekerr168

7 ай бұрын

@Cory_Springer lol maybe they don't agree with the gender identity. Just because a small group of people say something does not mean the rest of the human race has to accept it. You must think pedophiles are just misunderstood.....

That was worth much more than $3, at least in the USA… looked like about $30 to $40 at my scrap yard

Throw out your electronics to support these people. Job security must continue.

"Endures the sweltering heat" That's his climate. He's used to it. Also its copper they are stripping. You are trying to find a shocking story where there isn't one.

this is honestly so depressing, idk how some mfers in the comments see this as “hard work”, its people literally scrapping the bottom of a barrel to make ends meet, all because of us.

This is where the "properly disposed of" electronis go to. Shipping containers full of PCs, cell phones, and televisions go. To third world countries for "processing".

Crazy work ethic fair play to them

The lack of compassion in these comments is disheartening.

I used to scrap parts of old ac systems as part of my job as a warehouse manager I’d send new equipment out and old equipment would come in and I’d scrap it not only to consolidate it in a smaller area but also to make more off the scrap as the various metals rather than just dumping it all for the steel price.

I don’t know why but “urban mining” in this context sounds so dystopian.

I used to do this in Tampa. We hammered off mercury switches, which often made the mercury spray onto our arms. We cut lead wrapped cabling with a circular saw, blasting dust everywhere. Then we put it all on trucks for China.

I know this is a real world problem, but I can’t help but be reminded of every RPG I’ve played where that Lvl 1-10 stage is grinding mass amounts of common, scrap items to put enough money together to get a mediocre weapon. Worth it.

Its not called urban mining. Thats a jrwish slant. Its the scrap metal business and weve been doing for centuries.

Easier than mining lithium, lead, etc.

It's not really that dangerous, difficult, or toxic. I work for a mechanical company and we work with this all the time. I love scrapping at the end of every job, it makes quite a bit of money.

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure …. - circle ⭕️ of life-

lethal company in real life

Fallout prospectors be like

Good thing those “discarded electronics” are worth a lot of money and definitely not stolen.

props to these men for recycling the worlds trash. saw lots of hvac parts

Another example how is Middle/poor class are gonna be if we don't do something about financial inequality. There should definitely be a universal income that can only be spent on bills or food.

Where every electric car is going to end up

There are companies in the United States that do this. I worked at one, there were inmates from a local prison that were on work release, and a 15 yr old kid worked there too.

May humanity forever serve the corporation

Unlike other places, these workers are wearing gloves and shoes. 👍👍

“They do it because there’s TREASURE here”😩

Safety issues?? No way those safety sandals will stop a 50bmg

It's good to see that someone is still putting these things to use. It's not like they'd be put to use very well over here in America where they just sit on a street all day and instead of their smartphones while picking fights with each other over here

You know things like starter motors and alternators aren't electronics. They're electric. There's a difference

@wysonlegion5398

7 ай бұрын

Oh please

@jptravers

7 ай бұрын

They are also electronic though

Regardless of their hardships, they all have smiles on their faces...

My cousin and her husband do such recycling; it's beneficial to the climate and not horrible- at least here in the US. But, YES, recycling discharged CRTs can very hazardous.

My dad gave work one day told me to remove the cooper out the alternator . I love my dad . I buy cars now and got plenty of scrap

I grew up doing this with my great grandfather in his warehouse, we called ourselves Scrapdogs

What else would you have them do, go back to their grass huts and twiddle their thumbs while holding their empty bellies?

That's how I made money when I was a kid. $0.68 for a pound of copper. We put the wire in a fire to remove the insulation.

and then the same people will aay to you that a fully electric car would be more enviromentaly friendly

Didn’t know scrapping was called something sophisticated like “urban mining”

Urban mining. The rest of the planet calls it scrapping. It’s a world wide gig.

My dude got a fresh af haircut in there, this has to be higher paying than most jobs lmfao

Thats definatly more than 3$ worth of copper

Over here on the poor streets of America, we homeless call that SCRAPPING.