For more than a thousand years, the primary purpose of Britain’s Royal Mint has been to make coins. It has forged into metal the likeness of England’s kings and queens from Alfred the Great, the ninth ...

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 ...

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, ...

At Flinders University, scientists have cracked a cleaner and greener way to extract gold—not just from ore, but also from our mounting piles of e-waste. By using a compound normally found in pool ...