Scientists at Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, have developed a new process designed to improve gold recovery and recycle toxic cyanide used in mining. The method, called ‘Sustainable Gold ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since the modern gold rushes of the 1970s and 1980s, gold has been one of Australia's major exports. Australia is the second-largest gold producer globally behind China and holds the second largest ...

(Nanowerk News) Throughout history, alchemists believed in the existence of the philosopher’s stone: a substance that could turn cheap substances into precious gold. Now scientists from The University ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A company that wants to extract gold from piles of decades-old mining waste outside Leadville no longer plans to use cyanide in its processes after hearing ...

Gold prices are at an all-time high, and we are very worried. As disease ecologists, it's not the economic instability that ...

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 ...

In 2029, ALROSA will launch a gold extraction plant at the Degdekan deposit. The average annual production will be 3.3 tons of gold per year. This was announced by Almazy Anabara CEO Alexey Okorokov, ...