The new technique eliminates toxic chemicals by using a common disinfectant and a recyclable polymer to recover gold from electronic waste. Researchers at Flinders University revealed a method to ...

Extracting gold from ore is a poisonous business. The most common method is cyanide leaching, where cyanide salts in solution are used to suck the gold out from its ore. You get gold, but you also get ...

There's treasure in trash — literally. Discarded computers, circuit boards, and other electronic waste contain valuable metals like gold. Now, breakthrough research could make extracting gold easier ...

Over the previous decades, applications of acid digestions for the determination of gold have reported low or variable gold recoveries from geological samples on a consistent basis. 1,2 Poor gold ...

Gold miner Gold Fields would pilot two new mining methods at its South Deep mine, in Gauteng, over the next 12 months, with the potential to enable the mine to reach its envis-aged steady-state output ...