'Urban Mining' of precious metals refers to searching for precious metals in our urban environment. These precious metals, such as gold and silver have been used in manufactured products like mobile phones, MP3's, sat navs,and computers, and the subsequent recovery and recycling of these valuable metals.

THE NEW TREND FOR URBAN MINING

A recent Reuters wire story ( see news on this website) describes the new trend of "urban mining" - of recovering gold, silver, copper, iridium and other precious metals from discarded mobile phones and other consumer electronics.

According to the article, a ton of used mobile phones contains far more gold than an equal amount of ore from a gold mine. Ditto for silver and copper. Estimates vary, but there are tens (or possibly even hundreds) of millions of mobile phones taken out of service every year as users upgrade to newer models. These end up in landfill, or at the bottom of the sock drawer.

URBANMINER.co.uk WILL BE THE UK'S LEADING RECYCLING CENTRE FOR PRECIOUS METALS, MOBILE PHONES AND ELECTRICAL DEVICES

Our new website www.urbanminer.co.uk - currently under construction - will offer a new and educational way for these unwanted mobile phones and other electrical goods to be collected and recycled by our newly recruited junior 'urban miners' - and in the process benefit schools, charities and organisations of any size.