Royal Mint extracts gold from e-waste
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Traditional gold recovery processesBBC
•Royal Mint: UK’s coin maker turning e-waste into gold
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Royal Mint has built a large industrial plant on its site in Llantrisant , Wales .
The company is processing electronic waste to extract gold from old circuit boards.
The UN says 62m tonnes of e-waste was thrown away in 2022 - a third of it is a growing problem.
Gold is initially being used to craft jewellery and later will be made into commemorative coins.
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