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- Qiao, a man in Huizhou, Guangdong, extracted 191 grams of gold from discarded SIM cards, sparking a sales frenzy.
- He refines scrap metal from telecommunications electronics, using nearly two tonnes to produce gold valued at 200,000 yuan (US$29,000).
- A January 20 video by Qiao shows the extraction and has over five million views.
- He warns of safety risks, noting the process uses extreme heating and yields gold mud.
