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 ...

Gold has properties that make it useful in electronic devices, but mining old cell phones and computers for the metal isn't ...

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 ...

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Consumer electronics firm says a program created with Mitsubishi Materials has yielded more than 8,000 tons of recycled metal. Panasonic says through the PMP, “urban mine resources” produced currently ...

Auto dismantlers and auto shredding plant operators face an ongoing series of decisions when it comes to determining which components are worth harvesting from end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) and whether ...