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 drop off an old cell phone for recycling, the circuit board inside it will probably be taken out, packed in a crate, and shipped off to a smelter in Europe or Asia who heats it up to more than ...

Consumer electronics firm says a program created with Mitsubishi Materials has yielded more than 8,000 tons of recycled metal. Panasonic says through the PMP, “urban mine resources” produced currently ...