Beneath a mountain of discarded electronics, a team of Australian scientists has unearthed a new way to extract gold — without the environmental toll. In a breakthrough published in Nature ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, a bacterium called Cupriavidus metallidurans is transforming toxic metals into gold, offering a greener alternative to traditional mining. This microbe neutralizes ...

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