Is sure that you know that within the smart phones went out, right? In fact a lot of electronic devices have a certain amount of metal used in many of the components inside the devices ..We touched earlier this subject in the field of computers, you can see this article here, but do you imagine the amount of gold that can be extracted in all devices, which are disposed them in the landfill, there is a lot of gold is not understood by most people.
Of course the value of gold is usually high, sometimes up to a very important figures exceed 50 to $ 60 per gram, you can imagine how much money is to get rid of it in these old discarded appliances in a landfill or incinerated. Therefore, today we brought some information useful that lets you know the amount of gold that can be extracted from cell phones, and how many of these devices, which need to be disassembled to extract 1 kg of gold?
According to a study conducted by the European Union, it is now possible to extract approximately 1 gram of gold recycling 41 smart phones. Another study conducted by the company Umicore show that only 35 phone is what you need to extract one gram of the precious metal. Of course, in order to error between the sidelines of the two studies we are using and adopting the average value of the two studies will, which means I'm going to need 38 phone Zkj to extract the value mentioned above on the assumption that there are no losses during the disassembly and recycling process. Thus, we can make a quick calculation to arrive at the amount of gold inside and Ahd.aa device 1 gram divided by 38 which is equal to 0.026 g (ie, 26 mg of gold in each phone).
What is the number of smart phones that you need to extract 1 kg? To find out the amount of smartphones that you need to extract 1 kg of gold, simple arithmetic, you will need about 38 461 device, we are talking about more than 38,000 mobile phone in order to get 1 kg of gold.
Of course it is difficult to dismantle more than 38,000 phone which is hard work n but for companies specializing in e-waste recycling process can be profitable too her, especially as we know that these companies do not extract the gold only, but here other metals will be recycled Kalnichael silver and copper, arsenic and lead (and others). There are other things that are not as important as the previous one, a "silicon", there is a strong investment in silicon recycled to manufacture solar panels, for example. Also, metals used in technology and become a rare day after day, which means that the price will rise slowly.
