I think the "world first" here is that a national Mint is going to use the process to recover precious metals. AFICT, Britain's Royal Mint is the only first wor

I think the "world first" here is that a national Mint is going to use the process to recover precious metals. AFICT, Britain's Royal Mint is the only first world Mint actively pursuing e-waste and precious metal recovery. The process is not exactly novel as it's done all around the world, but the key point here may be the "chemistry" that it will use. That makes me think of some type of dissolving solution that frees the metal to then be collected electromechanically.