ALBAWABA - Amid the huge attention towards gold and other precious metals, a video has gone viral and gained millions of views after showing people that they can extract gold from SIM cards. Although ...

In 2022, humans produced an estimated 62 million tonnes of electronic waste – enough to fill more than 1.5 million garbage trucks. This was up 82 per cent from 2010 and is expected to rise to 82 ...

Do you know that your old phones, laptops contain gold? Yes, gold is used in the internal components of a phone, including the CPU, where it's used in bonding wires and plating for contacts. In a ...

Mining PCBs wouldn't be my cup of tea. But depending on whose assay numbers you believe, there's something like a quadrillion dollars worth of gold dissolved in the world's oceans (at parts per ...

On January 20 2026, a southern Chinese man's video surfaced online, who reportedly managed to extract 191 grams of gold from discarded SIMs. This triggered a further surge in demand for used SIM cards ...