New method can extract precious metals from old mobile phones, computers and home appliances in less than 20 minutes.
The wildcat gold mining boom that swept across the Amazon beginning in the 1970s left behind an environmental catastrophe of ...
New method can extract precious metals from old mobile phones, computers and home appliances in less than 20 minutes.
After the discovery of a 17-pound nugget in Little Meadow Creek, North Carolina, the state became a major hotbed of gold mining as a part of the first American gold rush in 1799. Early discoveries ...
Chinese scientists have developed a rapid e-waste mining method that extracts gold in under 20 minutes at around one-third of ...
In the Philippines, as in many places across the globe, mercury has long been central to how small-scale gold miners earn their living. Used as an easy way to separate gold from other minerals they ...
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Brazil’s Tapajós River Basin emits 16 metric tons of CO2 per kilo of gold produced, and 2.5 metric tons of mercury annually, a study has found. Researchers ...
Chinese researchers say they can now strip almost all the gold out of discarded phones and circuit boards in the time it ...
Nilambur gold mining is a complex issue involving traditional practices, environmental concerns, and legal restrictions.