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Chinese scientists recover 98% of gold from old phones in 20 minutes at low cost
Chinese scientists have developed a rapid e-waste mining method that extracts gold in under 20 minutes at around one-third of ...
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Researchers discover method for extracting valuable metal from electronic waste — here's how it works
A Cornell University-led research team has created a new process to extract 99.9% of the gold from electronic waste to help turn carbon dioxide into useful organic materials. Discarded electronics are ...
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 ...
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Swedish firm’s massive 50-ton electric vehicles to help extract gold from Canadian mine
Canada's Eldorado Gold has announced it will up its electric mining vehicle fleet by another ten from 2026 to 2027.
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There’s Gold Trapped in Your iPhone – And Chemists Have Found a Safe New Way to Extract It
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% from 2010 and is expected to rise to 82 million ...
(Nanowerk News) A Cornell University-led research team has developed a method for extracting gold from electronics waste, then using the recovered precious metal as a catalyst for converting carbon ...
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 ...
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