The novel technique, that can extract gold from discarded electronics in under 20 minutes at room temperature was developed ...

A Cornell University-led research team has created a new process to extract 99.9% of the gold from electronic waste to help turn carbon dioxide into useful organic materials. Discarded electronics are ...

Unlike alluvial gold, which is found as very small flakes on riverbanks, gold-bearing rocks have to be dug out of the ground. We're after pure gold, but rock that contains gold also includes lots of ...

While you won't get rich off your old electronics, cleaner methods for extracting materials like gold is a win for the environment. In 2025, it’s not uncommon for a typical household to have a drawer ...

An interdisciplinary team of experts in green chemistry, engineering and physics at Flinders University in Australia has developed a safer and more sustainable approach to extract and recover gold ...

Refractory gold ores present significant challenges to conventional extraction methods. In these ores, gold is tightly encapsulated within sulphide minerals or locked by carbonaceous matter, thereby ...