EXCLUDING mechanical, smelting, and amalgamation processes, the methods of extracting gold from its ores may conveniently be grouped together under the heading of wet or chemical methods. In these, ...

Studies published in Nature and the Journal of the American Chemical Society (2018) have suggested methods of gold extraction ...

There's treasure in trash — literally. Discarded computers, circuit boards, and other electronic waste contain valuable metals like gold. Now, breakthrough research could make extracting gold easier ...

Researchers from the University of Flinders in Australia have developed a safer method of gold extraction and recovery from ore and electronic waste. It is noted that the new technology is designed to ...

CANBERRA: Australian scientists have developed a more sustainable method to extract gold from both ore and electronic waste, potentially transforming gold recovery while reducing environmental harm.

Over 50 million tons of electronic waste are generated around the world every year and 80 percent of that ends up in landfills. Researchers from the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) have come up ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Pyrite is an iron-sulfide mineral, but thanks to its glittering ...

In 2022, humans produced an estimated 62 million tonnes of electronic waste – enough to fill more than 1.5 million garbage trucks. This was up 82 per cent from 2010 and is expected to rise to 82 ...