How Much Gold is in One Cell Phone? (And What's it Worth?)
· Numerically, the gold in the average mobile phone is worth up to two US Dollars, but it has much more potential than that. Gold can be "mined" from smartphones and motherboards more efficiently than it can from the earth, at a fraction of the fiscal and environmental cost. Similarly, other metals, plastics, and various materials can be recovered from old electronic devices like gold. These ...