Screw the stock market, screw cash monies, I'm putting everything I have in gold. And you know where you can pan for gold these days? Your old computer.

Modern iPhones have gold in their cameras, circuit boards and USB-C connectors. Pound for pound, there is more of the substance in cell phones than in ore from a typical gold mine.

An curved arrow pointing right. One ton of circuit boards from old e-waste can contain 100 times more gold than a ton of ore mined from the ground. Now, scrappers like Wade Crawley in Sydney ...

This breakthrough turns old tech into pure gold — No mercury, no cyanide, just light and salt New method published in Nature Sustainability Date: June 27, 2025 Source: Flinders University ...

The Royal Mint has been using special technology to extract metals, including gold. It plans to process up to 4,000 tonnes of printed circuit boards from e-waste a year in its Precious Metals ...

The gold - a good thermal and electrical conductor - is extracted from circuit boards and passed down the line to a worker who accumulates the micrograms in a tin basin while another applies acid ...

The Royal Mint has today unveiled plans to convert high quality sustainable gold extracted from TV, laptop, and mobile phone circuit boards into luxury jewellery at a new factory in South Wales.