UK's Royal Mint partners with Canadian startup Excir to extract and recycle gold and precious metals from old smartphones and laptops BBC : Source: The Royal Mint . BBC 2021-10-20 BBC, Excir, Royal Mint, The Royal Mint, Canadian Related Coverage View article Washington Post Talk about a gold rush! Royal Mint reveals plans to recycle discarded smartphones and laptops to recover gold, silver and precious metals Daily Mail · Sam Tonkin View article TechSpot Britain's Royal Mint to extract gold from discarded electronics Reuters · Peter Hobson Royal Mint to recycle gold found in mobiles and laptops to reduce e-waste ITV News We can finally reuse billions worth of gold from discarded smartphones - here's how TechRadar · Hamish Hector Smartphones could fuel the next gold rush era thanks to this new technology phonearena.com · Aleksandar Anastasov Turning electronic waste into gold: The Royal Mint brings world first sustainable precious metal technology to the UK The Royal Mint