“Overall, this work provides a viable approach to achieve greener gold production from both primary and secondary resources, ...

New recyclable electronics could be critical to curbing e-waste, scientists argue, especially because these circuit boards ...

Using a proprietary chemical process pioneered by Canadian firm Excir, England's The Royal Mint has begun mining old circuit boards from electronic devices for gold and converting what's harvested ...

Gold extraction has relied on highly toxic chemicals such as cyanide and mercury, which are infamous for causing severe environmental damage.

A worker at start-up Mint Innovation’s new commercial e-waste recycling facility in Sydney monitors the reactor carrying bacteria that extract gold from ground printed circuit boards.

The simple leaching and recovery methods were demonstrated on ore, circuit boards from obsolete computers and scientific ...

A new gold extraction method turns old electronics into treasure using pool disinfectant and sunlight — no poisons required.

A new process separates pure gold from electronic waste, such as circuit boards, old phones and old computers using chemicals ...

An interdisciplinary team of experts in green chemistry, engineering and physics at Flinders University in Australia has ...

Engineers also demonstrated that the material remains highly conductive and can recover its electrical function after being ...

Easier and cheaper extraction of gold from old tech could boost the financial incentive to safely recycle, and keep toxic metals out of landfills.

With the volume of electronics waste produced globally, at more than 62 million tons in 2022, the potential for recovering gold is enormous.