Digging for Gold May No Longer Be Necessary
Wednesday,
Jul 02
Jul 02

Enter urban miners. They would be the tenacious and often curmudgeonly fellows displaced in your suburb who are harvesting gold, silver, and copper from discarded computers, tablets, phones and televisions known as e-waste instead of letting them sit in a landfill. The practice is growing in popularity as hipsters and other activists acknowledge its efficiency.
According to a recent article by Clean Techies on the Environmental News Network, “E-waste often contains more rare metals than mined ores. Studies show e-waste has 10 to 50 times the copper content than copper ore, and a phone contains 5 to 10 times the gold content than gold ore.”
Source: http://www.enn.com/environmental_policy/article/47540
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