Back in the day I used to process that type of scrap by the drum full in dissolves as big as 400 gallons. We used a simple technique to save on labor, filtering, and chemicals.
The scrap was first digested in aqua regia 4:1 and we fed in material until the acid was spent. What was happening was the base metals (a lot of copper) essentially forced all of the dissolved precious metals out of solution. We would feed scrap until the stannous went from showing gold to not showing gold and then stop.
It now settled overnight.
In the morning test with stannous to make sure there was no gold in solution. Then we would siphon off the acid which was waste treated, and filter the solids. This was all sorts of crap, ceramics, glass plastic and of course gold, platinum, and palladium. All of this was put back up in aqua regia.
This time most of the base metals were gone and the acid stayed a nice red color but we only needed about 10% of the acid we needed originally. This reaction we were always careful to only add enough nitric to do the job. The savings of not having to drop or filter the large digestion was a big deal, both in time and chemicals.
The solution from the second digestion was filtered and the PM's were dropped normally. The solids that remained on the filter did have some values, primarily silver, so it was dried crushed and sifted to make a low grade sweep. Silver was 3 bucks an ounce then and it was viewed as more of a nuisance than it was worth.
On that second drop the gold was always saleable at .999+
That was when the circuits really had some values in them. In my opinion, they should shoot the guy who invented flash plating! (unless of course if it was GSP!)