Chinese researchers have discovered a fast, low-cost and environmentally cleaner method for extracting gold ...

Researchers in China have introduced a room-temperature process that extracts over 98% of gold from discarded electronics, ...

Chinese researchers say they can now strip almost all the gold out of discarded phones and circuit boards in the time it ...

Beneath a mountain of discarded electronics, a team of Australian scientists has unearthed a new way to extract gold — without the environmental toll. In a breakthrough published in Nature ...

New method can extract precious metals from old mobile phones, computers and home appliances in less than 20 minutes.

Scientists have figured out a way to recycle important metals trapped inside electrical waste. Using textiles, researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have improved the ...

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 ...

ETH Zurich researchers have developed a sustainable method to recover gold from electronic waste. The method uses a sponge made from denatured whey proteins that selectively adsorb gold ions. The ...

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 ...

A team led by Cornell researchers has devised an innovative method to recover gold from electronic waste and repurpose it as a catalyst for converting carbon dioxide (CO 2) into organic compounds.