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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese researchers have discovered a fast, low-cost and environmentally cleaner method for extracting gold from electronic waste, ...

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The Precious Metals E-Waste Recovery market offers promising opportunities driven by rising e-waste volumes, eco-friendly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.