Extracting gold from ore is a poisonous business. The most common method is cyanide leaching, where cyanide salts in solution are used to suck the gold out from its ore. You get gold, but you also get ...

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DIY gold recovery from sand is often misunderstood, but real techniques rely on proven methods like panning, sluicing, and ...

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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 ...

University of Edinburgh researchers have developed a novel method for extracting precious metals, including gold, from mobile devices and other electronic gadgets. The process is novel not only in its ...

Aguia Resources has cut costs and boosted grades at its Colombian gold project, which is now feeding gold to its recently improved plant at more than 10g/t.

An aerogel made from old milk can extract highly pure gold nuggets from discarded computer motherboards and other electonics.