Chinese scientists have developed a rapid e-waste mining method that extracts gold in under 20 minutes at around one-third of ...

London - The U.K.'s Royal Mint, the country's official coinmaker, has opened a factory that will extract gold from e-waste to reduce its reliance on traditional mining and encourage more sustainable ...

Scientists have figured out a way to recycle important metals trapped inside electrical waste. Using textiles, researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have improved the ...

“The Royal Mint is transforming for the future, and the opening of our Precious Metals Recovery factory marks a pivotal step in our journey,” Anne Jessopp, Chief Executive at the Royal Mint, said in a ...

Inside all TVs, computers, mobile phones, gaming consoles, and other electronic devices lies a circuit board of some sort, and inside that circuit board lies gold. Though it only exists in tiny ...

Aug 7 (Reuters) - Britain's Royal Mint on Wednesday announced it will extract gold from electronic waste such as televisions, laptops and mobiles at a new factory in south Wales, providing a more ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. Located at a site in south Wales, the 3,700 square metre ...

(Nanowerk News) A Cornell University-led research team has developed a method for extracting gold from electronics waste, then using the recovered precious metal as a catalyst for converting carbon ...

In context: The Royal Mint, which has been producing British coins since the Middle Ages, is now adapting to a world where physical money is becoming less essential. In an effort to reinvent itself, ...