Ah, the glitter of gold… or fake gold, we’re not really sure. But [Mike Hogan] and [PJ Santoro] have been working with faux gold leaf as a conductor on circuit boards. The device you see above is ...

Using a proprietary chemical process pioneered by Canadian firm Excir, England's The Royal Mint has begun mining old circuit boards from electronic devices for gold and converting what's harvested ...

Screw the stock market, screw cash monies, I’m putting everything I have in gold. And you know where you can pan for gold these days? Your old computer. There’s always been tiny traces of gold (some ...

The Royal Mint, maker of the UK's coins, has begun processing electronic waste to extract gold from it. The company has built a large industrial plant on its site in Llantrisant in Wales to remove the ...

If you drop off an old cell phone for recycling, the circuit board inside it will probably be taken out, packed in a crate, and shipped off to a smelter in Europe or Asia who heats it up to more than ...

The Royal Mint - the UK's official maker of British coins - has unveiled a new factory where it plans to reclaim gold from electronic waste. Every year, millions of tonnes of electronic waste like ...