Scientists at Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, have developed a new process designed to improve gold recovery and recycle toxic cyanide used in mining. The method, called ‘Sustainable Gold ...

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 ...

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 ...

Discarded electronics can be a gold mine – literally. Researchers have developed an efficient new way to use graphene to recover gold from electronic waste, without needing any other chemicals or ...

Tackling the issues: Electronic waste is a growing problem. Each year, consumers produce millions of tons of used and broken electronics. Only a portion of the metals they contain are recycled because ...

When you get rid of an old phone or tablet, you're likely to remove your valuable information from it, but what about the valuable materials – like gold – that it contains? Naturally, such substances ...