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 ...

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Let's be real here. Most of us toss old phones and computers into a drawer and forget they exist. Some go straight to the landfill. Here's the thing: you're literally throwing away gold mines. Not ...

A research team has developed a method for extracting gold from electronics waste, then using the recovered precious metal as a catalyst for converting carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, to ...

If all 62 million metric tons of electronic waste the world produces in a year were loaded into garbage trucks, they’d encircle the planet bumper to bumper, according to a recent United Nations report ...

If you have old electronics sitting around your home, you may be able to recycle them for cash for the precious metals they contain. However, the quantities are small, so it usually makes sense if you ...

If you open almost any modern gadget you'll almost definitely strike a tiny bit of gold. Thanks to the precious metal's high conductivity and resistance to corrosion it's used on printed circuit board ...

U.S. GoldMining (NASDAQ:USGO) +27.9% to a seven-month high in Monday's trading after revealing significant improvements in gold recovery rates for its Whistler gold-copper project in Alaska, achieving ...