Chinese researchers have discovered a fast, low-cost and environmentally cleaner method for extracting gold ...

Researchers in China have introduced a room-temperature process that extracts over 98% of gold from discarded electronics, including old phones, in less than 20 minutes, at a cost of about US$1,455 ...

Evotus plans to start a plant in Raleigh, North Carolina, to recover investment-grade gold from e-scrap. The company raised about $1.2 million to build a 15,000-square-foot facility. The center will ...

Discarded electronics can be a gold mine – literally. Researchers have developed an efficient new way to use graphene to recover gold from electronic waste, without needing any other chemicals or ...

ETH Zurich researchers have developed a sustainable method to recover gold from electronic waste. The method uses a sponge made from denatured whey proteins that selectively adsorb gold ions. The ...

Let's be real here. Most of us toss old phones and computers into a drawer and forget they exist. Some go straight to the landfill. Here's the thing: you're literally throwing away gold mines. Not ...

Scientists have figured out a way to recycle important metals trapped inside electrical waste. Using textiles, researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have improved the ...

The Precious Metals E-Waste Recovery market offers promising opportunities driven by rising e-waste volumes, eco-friendly ...

In a recent paper published in the Journal of Chemical Engineering Journal, researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology announced that they have created a technology that uses ...

It’s fair to say that interest in gold is longstanding. This includes recovering the gold used as a conductor in electronics — especially cell phones, which use more than laptops. Gold is considered a ...