After 1,000 years of making coins, Britain’s Royal Mint has a new focus: turning electronic waste into jewelry.

Britons are buying up gold bullion coins instead of gold bars, the Royal Mint says, as prices spike and customers look to avoid rumoured rises to capital gains tax. The gold price today breached ...

The Royal Mint, which sells and buys back gold bullion bars and coins, say they had a "record year".

Gold has glistered for young investors with The Royal Mint recording a fivefold rise in young adults taking a stake in the precious metal. The Mint, which is wholly owned by the Treasury ...

Fewer than one fifth of the world's electronic waste is recycled, estimates show Gold and precious metals are to be extracted from old phones and laptops by Britain's coin-maker. The Royal Mint ...

By contrast, sales of bullion bars, which are subject to Capital ... Stuart O’Reilly, market insights manager at The Royal Mint said: “Gold prices have had multiple tailwinds in recent months.