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1,500 kg gold from discarded phones?
Thursday March 29, 2012 05:48:43 PM,
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Beijing: Believe it
or not, 1,500 kg of gold, one million kg of copper and 30,000 kg
of silver can be extracted from the 100 million discarded mobile
phones in China.
People's Daily reported Thursday that about 400 million mobile
phones were discarded each year, China accounting for nearly 100
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According to the daily, a mobile phone has various precious
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A study shows that 150 grams of gold, 100 kg of copper and 3 kg of
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Under current situation, 100 million discarded cell phones in
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