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At Flinders University, scientists have cracked a cleaner and greener way to extract gold—not just from ore, but also from our mounting piles of e-waste. By using a compound normally found in pool ...

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 ...

Did you know that your old laptop computer probably has a small amount of gold hiding inside it? Here's why it's there and how much you might expect to find.

Researchers in Switzerland have developed an innovative method to extract pure gold from electronic waste using whey, a ...

Swiss scientists at ETH Zurich have developed a method to extract 450 milligrams of 22-carat gold from discarded computer motherboards using a protein derived from whey.

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