In 2022, humans produced an estimated 62 million tonnes of electronic waste – enough to fill more than 1.5 million garbage trucks. This was up 82 per cent from 2010 and is expected to rise to 82 ...

Researchers in Switzerland have developed an innovative method to extract pure gold from electronic waste using whey, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While you won't get rich off your old electronics, cleaner methods for extracting materials like gold is a win for the environment ...

A video of a Chinese man extracting gold worth approximately 42 million Korean won from discarded mobile phone SIM cards has gone viral online. According to a report by the South China Morning Post, ...

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 ...

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 ...