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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

Original maker of UK coins to extract sustainable gold from up to 4,000 tonnes of e-waste a year at new factory The Royal Mint has today unveiled plans to convert high quality sustainable gold ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s oldest business has become the latest to embrace the circular economy — and in a big way. The UK ...