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 ...

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 ...

Currently, only a small percentage of discarded circuit boards, like gold electrodes or select other precious minerals and metals, are recovered during the recycling process, which involves chemical ...

Metals recyclers are joining electronics recyclers in trying to determine how much gold and silver the circuit boards that enter their facilities will contain.

Subject some circuit boards to an acid treatment to release its materials and this stuff will gather up all the dissolved gold. And after it lets go of that gold, it’s ready to be used again.

This image shows a silicone rubber with a gold layer and an additional silicone layer to protect the electrode. The image is about 3x3mm, and was created at Cambridge’s Nanoscience Center.

BBC science show Bang Goes the Theory goes all out to extract gold from old circuit boards. Host Jem Stansfield uses acid and high heat to extract the precious metal. One of gold’s technological ...

Your old computer. There’s always been tiny traces of gold (some as thinner than human hair) on the circuit boards. Just rip ’em and melt ’em for a gold nugget.

In a previous incarnation, the gold used to make a new line of fine jewelry may have been part of a circuit board in your last phone or laptop. The gold is mined from e-waste collected in a ...

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The total value of all the gadget gold is more than £10 billion. Yet around 15% of it is ever recovered from electronic waste, a meeting was told.

Mobile phone, computers and other electrical equipment contain circuit boards. These boards use different metals, including small amounts of gold and copper to create electronic connections.