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 ...

ITRI Innovation Ltd. (a subsidiary of ITRI, based in Hertfordshire, U.K.) has launched a joint venture with its partner Ultromex Ltd. to recover tin and other metals from scrap circuit boards. The ...

Gold has properties that make it useful in electronic devices, but mining old cell phones and computers for the metal isn't ...

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An curved arrow pointing right. One ton of circuit boards from old e-waste can contain 100 times more gold than a ton of ore mined from the ground. Now, scrappers like Wade Crawley in Sydney, ...

Britain’s Royal Mint plans to start recycling at scale discarded cellphones and laptops to extract precious metals, including gold and silver, embedded within. Small quantities of precious metals are ...

In the dark corners of your attic shelves or the depths of your desk drawers likely sits a collection of defunct laptops, cameras, and gaming consoles. The phone you may be reading this on will ...

Auto dismantlers and auto shredding plant operators face an ongoing series of decisions when it comes to determining which components are worth harvesting from end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) and whether ...

RENO, Nev., Jan. 15, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Itronics Inc. (OTC:ITRO), a “Creative Green Technology Company” that produces GOLD’n GRO fertilizers and silver products, today announced that it has ...

A new type of self-healing and reconfigurable circuit board can withstand heavy damage and still work effectively, scientists say. It can even be completely recycled once it reaches the end of its ...