If you have old electronics sitting around your home, you may be able to recycle them for cash for the precious metals they contain. However, the quantities are small, so it usually makes sense if you ...

Chinese scientists have developed a rapid e-waste mining method that extracts gold in under 20 minutes at around one-third of ...

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

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

Urban mining offers a sustainable solution for resource recovery, transforming e-waste into valuable materials and supporting ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Electronic waste poses one of the fastest growing waste challenges worldwide, with over 50 million tons generated annually. Yet hidden in obsolete devices lies substantial amounts ...

Researchers have developed an environmentally friendly method for recycling and purifying metals. Using gold earrings from a pawnshop in Gothenburg and biodiesel from the nearest filling station, the ...

The study has been undertaken at the University of Adelaide and it has been running for ten years. The focus is with how gold can be dissolved, dispersed and re-concentrated into nuggets by the ...

If you open almost any modern gadget you'll almost definitely strike a tiny bit of gold. Thanks to the precious metal's high conductivity and resistance to corrosion it's used on printed circuit board ...