The British Royal Mint is working with a Canadian startup to extract gold and other precious metals from discarded laptops and phones.
According to the BBC, the British Royal Mint made such a decision due to the growing volume of discarded electronics in the world, the total weight of which amounted to 57 million tons. According to the mint, if this trend is not stopped, the total weight of e-waste will reach 74 million tons by 2030.
But they proposed to fight this by extracting precious metals from electronics: gold, silver, copper and palladium. The technology of the Canadian startup Excir, with which the mint has signed a corresponding agreement, allows them to be “obtained” from electronics.
As noted, the technology has already been tested and brought the result: pure gold was obtained – 999.9.
It was also noted that the technology allows the extraction of precious metals at room temperature, which will allow them to be processed on the territory of the mint, and not in smelters. That, according to the source, will significantly reduce the cost of this process.
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