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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Vast quantities of gold could be salvaged from old mobile phones using a simple chemical method, a study shows. Vast quantities of gold could be salvaged from old mobile phones using a simple chemical ...

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 ...

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 ...