The UK's Royal Mint, best known for cranking out the country's coinage, has a new gig. It's now extracting gold from e-waste. The company has built a new industrial site to "mine" gold from discarded electronics. The Royal Mint says the gold will initially be used to make jewellery and eventually will go into commemorative coins (via the BBC).
Of course, the big question is exactly how much gold there is in your old motherboards, toaster circuits and TVs. The Royal Mint reckons it can salvage 450kg from 4,000 tons of e-waste.
