UK Royal Mint's 'urban mining' extracts more gold from old motherboards and other junk than you might think
The UK's Royal Mint, best known for cranking out the country's coinage, has a new gig. It's now extracting gold from e-waste. The company has built a new industrial site to «mine» gold from discarded electronics. The Royal Mint says the gold will initially be used to make jewellery and eventually will go into commemorative coins (via the BBC).