The U.K.'s Royal Mint has started extracting pure gold from the printed circuit boards (PCBs) found in everyday tech items for jewelry and coins.

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 ...

It's a non-toxic method of extracting gold from e-waste through the use of covalent organic materials (COFs). These can selectively capture 99.9% of the gold from things like circuit boards and ...

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 ...

LONDON (CBS NEWS) – Old is gold. And those old laptops and smartphones hanging around in your home are hiding treasure. The oldest company in the U.K. is extracting gold from the circuit boards ...

Britain's Royal Mint on Wednesday announced it will extract gold from electronic waste such as televisions, laptops and mobiles at a new factory in south Wales, providing a more sustainable source ...

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 ...

If you take a look inside any gaming PC, especially a fully kitted out desktop, you'll see lots of large electronic circuit boards and many of the interconnects within it contain gold and other ...

Many techniques have previously been reported for extracting gold from ore or e-waste, including mercury- and cyanide-free methods.

Chemists find a new way to extract gold from your old iPhone - E-waste, including old laptops and phones, often contains precious materials such as gold ...