There's treasure in trash — literally. Discarded computers, circuit boards, and other electronic waste contain valuable metals like gold. Now, breakthrough research could make extracting gold easier ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese researchers have discovered a fast, low-cost and environmentally cleaner method for extracting gold from electronic waste, ...

Inside all TVs, computers, mobile phones, gaming consoles, and other electronic devices lies a circuit board of some sort, and inside that circuit board lies gold. Though it only exists in tiny ...

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 ...

ITRI Innovation Ltd. (a subsidiary of ITRI, based in Hertfordshire, U.K.) has launched a joint venture with its partner Ultromex Ltd. to recover tin and other metals from scrap circuit boards. The ...