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Mint Innovation

Gold, grown from e-waste.

Auckland, New Zealand · climate · deep tech · founded 2016mint.bio

Mission

Pioneering circular metals — recovering gold, copper, lithium and cobalt from e-waste with low-carbon hydrometallurgy.

Beginnings

Founded in Auckland in 2016 by scientists who saw microbes could mine the world's dead electronics.

Why people join

Commercialised, patented metal-recovery tech in modular city-scale facilities, now expanding into the US under a new Global CEO.

The bigger picture

With only 22.3% of e-waste recycled and copper shortages looming, Mint turns waste into closed-loop supplies of critical metals.

Open roles

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