Researchers have developed a new type of material that's 10 times more efficient at extracting gold from e-waste than previous adsorbents. Developed by chemists and materials scientists at the ...

EXCLUDING mechanical, smelting, and amalgamation processes, the methods of extracting gold from its ores may conveniently be grouped together under the heading of wet or chemical methods. In these, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A novel method developed by a Cornell-led research team offers a dual solution to two pressing environmental problems: e-waste ...

Chemours is selling its mining solutions business to the Czech cyanide maker Draslovka Holding for $520 million. The Chemours unit makes sodium cyanide, used to separate gold and silver from ore. The ...

The circuit boards inside your old phone may seem worthless, destined for the trash heap. But to a team of researchers at Cornell University, they are a treasure trove—literally. Led by postdoctoral ...

When you hear that there’s gold to be found in old cellphones, it’s normally a sketchy advert online asking you to sell your old mobile devices for less than they’re worth to someone else. Not so with ...

Swirling together immiscible liquids in a separatory funnel or seeing crystals materialize in a beaker might be some of the more entertaining activities in undergraduate chemistry labs. But these ...

For at least 16 million people worldwide, artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is a pillar of stability and opportunity, particularly in rural, impoverished communities. But the industry is ...

Paramount Gold announced Tuesday that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has deemed the company’s operations plan for the proposed Grassy Mountain mine complete. That means Paramount can soon begin ...