Gold miners in western Kenya have been asked not to use mercury in extracting the mineral. Instead, the national government wants the miners in Western and Nyanza, most of who are small-scale drillers ...

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 ...

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 ...