Its new purpose: recovering precious metals, like gold, from electronic waste. And turning that metal into jewelry. Here’s how. In the late 1960s, the Royal Mint moved from its home in the Tower ...

Price increases so far haven’t kept buyers from the jewelry they love. “The clientele is a little more affluent, and they ...

But in a new initiative, the Royal Mint is saving gold from landfills and transforming it into jewelry. Like other elements and precious metals, gold is formed from the death of stars (supernovas).

This year, The Royal Mint is set to open a new Precious ... The X-ray silver and e-waste gold are used in The Royal Mint’s 886 jewelry collection, and perform exactly the same as metals that ...

and recovered gold is already being used in a luxury jewelry collection produced by the mint. "What we're doing here is urban mining," Inga Doak, the Royal Mint's head of sustainability ...

With gold prices at record highs ... Olivia Kazanjian, owner of Jewelry by Olivia K, examined each with a loupe: rings set with blue and red gemstones, an inscribed cigarette case, a chunky ...

The Royal Mint ... almost half a ton of gold worth about £27 million ($34 million) at current prices. The recovered gold is already being used in the Mint’s luxury jewelry collection.