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

Researchers have developed a new type of material that's 10 times more efficient at extracting gold from e-waste than previous adsorbents. Developed by chemists and materials scientists at the ...

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

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

A big part of the recycling of electronic equipment is the recovery of metals such as gold. Usually the printed circuit boards and other components are shredded, sorted, and then separated. But ...

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

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

ZURICH, Switzerland, March 6, 2024 (ENS) – Transforming base materials into gold was one of the unachieved aims of ancient alchemists. But now Professor Raffaele Mezzenga from the Department of Health ...

Using the Company's proprietary Flash Joule Heating (FJH) technology, gold and silver concentrations of 551g/t and 2,804g/t respectively, copper at 42% were recovered. This exceeds traditional mining ...

A team led by Cornell researchers has devised an innovative method to recover gold from electronic waste and repurpose it as a catalyst for converting carbon dioxide (CO 2) into organic compounds.

In a recent paper published in the Journal of Chemical Engineering Journal, researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology announced that they have created a technology that uses ...