Its new purpose: recovering precious metals like gold from electronic waste and turning that metal into jewelry. Here’s how. In the late 1960s, the Royal Mint moved from its home in the Tower of ...

The Royal Mint doesn’t need gold for people’s change anymore, of course, but it is using the gold first to make a line of jewelry, and then could also use it for products like commemorative coins.

The Royal Mint has adapted many times ... Every part of the jewellery, down to the hooks that attach pendants to necklace chains, is handmade at the mint. The result is a sleek line of jewellery ...