The circuit boards inside your old phone may seem worthless, destined for the trash heap. But to a team of researchers at Cornell University, they are a treasure trove—literally. Led by postdoctoral ...

When you hear that there’s gold to be found in old cellphones, it’s normally a sketchy advert online asking you to sell your old mobile devices for less than they’re worth to someone else. Not so with ...

Chemours is selling its mining solutions business to the Czech cyanide maker Draslovka Holding for $520 million. The Chemours unit makes sodium cyanide, used to separate gold and silver from ore. The ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A company that wants to extract gold from piles of decades-old mining waste outside Leadville no longer plans to use cyanide in its processes after hearing ...

For at least 16 million people worldwide, artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is a pillar of stability and opportunity, particularly in rural, impoverished communities. But the industry is ...