The Royal Mint has started extracting gold embedded in old phones and TVs to make commemorative coins and jewellery in what has been hailed as a "world first".

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Britain's Royal Mint to extract gold from e-waste

The UK’s coin-maker opens a new industrial plant to extract gold from old circuit boards.

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Royal Mint starts turning e-waste into gold

Up to 4,000 tonnes of Printed Circuit Boards from items like laptops and TVs will be processed by The Royal Mint per year.

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Evgeny Lebedev

London

Greater London

England

Royal Mint opens new factory to recover gold from e-waste

Britain's Royal Mint today said it will extract gold from electronic waste such as televisions, laptops and mobiles at a new factory in south Wales, providing a more sustainable source of gold and reducing reliance on mining.

Government of Ireland

The Royal Mint has opened a new factory to remove gold from old computers and phones and turn it into jewellery and collectables.

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The UK's coinmaker has opened a new factory in South Wales which will be processing up to 4,000 tonnes of printed circuit boards from e-waste every year.

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Royal Mint opens factory to extract gold from electronic waste

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Royal Mint opens factory to turn e-waste into gold jewellery and collectables

The Royal Mint, the public body responsible for minting coins in the United Kingdom, has opened a factory to recycle the precious metals of electronic... Read more...

Το Βασιλικό Νομισματοκοπείο (Royal Mint), ο δημόσιος οργανισμός που είναι αρμόδιος για να κόβει τα νομίσματα στο Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο, άνοιξε ένα εργοστάσιο για να ανακυκλώνει τα πολύτιμα μέταλλα των ηλεκτρονικών…Περισσότερα...

Το Λονδίνο ανακυκλώνει το χρυσό από ηλεκτρονικά απορρίμματα για να κόψει συλλεκτικά νομίσματα

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Greece

London recycles gold from e-waste to mint collectible coins

Photo The Royal Mint/PA Wire The Royal Mint has opened a new factory to remove gold from old computers and phones and turn it into jewellery and collectables. The facility in Llantrisant provides a sustainable source of precious metals and reduces reliance on mining. Up to 4,000 tonnes of printed circuit boards (PCBs) from e-waste like old laptops and TVs will be processed by The Royal Mint per year. It takes around 600 mobile phones to create o…

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Wales

Around $60 billion worth of precious metals could be sitting in landfill sites and scrapyards.

Royal Mint opens factory to extract gold from electronic waste

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