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Engineering360: "Urban Mining to Help Create New Source for Raw Materials"

02/22/2018 8:38 AM

Read Engineering360 article: Urban Mining to Help Create New Source for Raw Materials.
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tonyhemet
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Re: Urban Mining to Help Create New Source for Raw Materials

02/23/2018 2:32 AM

Open up 2 mobile phones in 1 minute ? I'd like to see that.

It takes me 2 minutes just to open the back of my phone and pull out the battery.
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02/23/2018 11:34 AM

If simply crushed and pulverized, a phone is still a very rich ore for some rare metals.
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02/24/2018 12:08 AM

I agree.

By the way, do you happen to know how many phones would need to be crushed and pulverized to pay for a crushing, pulverizing and ore extracting machine ?
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02/26/2018 12:58 PM

Not a clue, but I do know that there is a cottage industry going for the purpose of extracting gold from old computers.
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