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

Chinese researchers say they can now strip almost all the gold out of discarded phones and circuit boards in the time it ...

Researchers in China have introduced a room-temperature process that extracts over 98% of gold from discarded electronics, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New method can extract precious metals from old mobile phones, computers and home appliances in less than 20 minutes.

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 ...