LONDON (Reuters) – Britain's Royal Mint said on Wednesday it planned to build a plant in Wales that could reclaim hundreds of kilograms of gold and other precious metals from electronic waste such as mobile phones and laptops.Gold and silver are highly conductive and small quantities are embedded in circuit boards and other hardware, along with other precious metals.Most of this material is never recovered, with discarded electronics often dumped in landfill or incinerated.The more than 1,100-year old mint said it had partnered with a Canadian start-up called Excir which has developed chemical solutions to extract the metals from the circuit boards.

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