Mine Your Cellphone for Gold and Silver Before Throwing It Away
Retired consumer electronics appliances could bring you a fortune, even before recycling, if you decided to mine them for precious metals. The new trend is as scientific as possible, and even got a name: "Urban mining". The idea behind it is the fact that scrap parts hold significant amounts of gold, silver, copper, or precious gems such as iridium.
We have previously reported about a man who ended up poisoned to death with mercury in an attempt at mining his PC hardware, and one aspect shou...
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