E-waste: Royal Mint wants to turn your old phone into gold 0

[RWB]

From the BBC. The Royal Mint is busy:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-60796417

[Coinbuf]

Mining in the new age?  I have a vision of a guy at a desk in a suit and tie with a box of old phones next to him. 

Edited March 23, 2022 by Coinbuf

[Conder101]

There are plenty of videos on Youtube about how to recover gold from PC boards.

[Fenntucky Mike]

How much over spot are coins made of leached gold from e-waste going to cost? 100% over? More? I wonder what the plan to do with the more noxious elements such as mercury, hydrochlorofluorocarbons, chlorofluorocarbons and brominated flame retardants? Dump them back into the landfill. 

[zadok]

On 3/24/2022 at 6:49 PM, Fenntucky Mike said:

How much over spot are coins made of leached gold from e-waste going to cost? 100% over? More? I wonder what the plan to do with the more noxious elements such as mercury, hydrochlorofluorocarbons, chlorofluorocarbons and brominated flame retardants? Dump them back into the landfill. 

...rumor has it that they r being loaded on the argonaut as we speak n enroute to a dumpster behind a bakery in kentucky, but that is unsubstantiated for now...

[RWB]

Most of the recyclers want to recover all the metals. The other materials go in landfills.