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US lab mines gold from discarded SIM cards

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | April 16, 2018 | 4:55 pm Precious Metals Gold 

Researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque are using ultrasonic waves to strip gold from SIM cards. In a report by ABC, materials chemist Dale Huber said that even though many different research groups are trying to recover the...

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