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We have been here for years. I knew a guy in Canada in the 90s who was getting gold out of electronics, and my facotry in Tucson AZ had a big operation down the street that exclusively employed ex cons to remove precious metals from discarded electronics.

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Now I think there are probably way many more rare earths. Like neodymium from headphones and the odd USB device tossed directly into the garbage.

Gold is an obvious target, but there are probably larger quantities of other valuable metals to be had from recently accumulated trash.

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