An interdisciplinary team of experts in green chemistry, engineering and physics at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, says it has developed a safer and more sustainable approach to extract ...

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There's treasure in trash — literally. Discarded computers, circuit boards, and other electronic waste contain valuable metals like gold. Now, breakthrough research could make extracting gold easier ...

Forward-looking: A team of Australian researchers has unveiled a breakthrough method for extracting gold that could dramatically reduce the environmental and health hazards long associated with mining ...

The technique offers a cleaner alternative to current practices. As the digital age accelerates, the world is facing a mounting challenge: electronic waste. Driven by rapid advancements in AI and ...

Researchers have developed a new type of material that’s 10 times more efficient at extracting gold from e-waste than ...

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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, ...

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 ...

Researchers from the University of Flinders in Australia have developed a safer method of gold extraction and recovery from ore and electronic waste. It is noted that the new technology is designed to ...