A compound commonly used to disinfect water can strip gold off devices without using highly toxic substances.

This e-waste includes old laptops and phones, which contain precious materials such as gold. Less than one quarter of it is ...

Gold extraction has relied on highly toxic chemicals such as cyanide and mercury, which are infamous for causing severe environmental damage.

When phones or computers are recycled, small amounts of important materials get discarded. Those minute amounts of cobalt, ...

A shortage of rare earth elements can't be solved by just opening more mines. That's why these companies are figuring out ...

China by next year will overtake Australia as the world's top miner of the battery metal lithium, according to a forecast ...

In an increasingly connected world, rare earth metals with odd names such as lanthanum, cerium and yttrium have become ...

An interdisciplinary team of experts in green chemistry, engineering and physics at Flinders University in Australia has ...

You can't please everyone all the time, and that's the case with the royalty rate for lithium extraction in south Arkansas. However, it does open up the door to commercial production of the mineral ...

Growing demand for technology in Latin America has made the region a major importer of electronic devices, but it still lacks ...

The project is funded by the Critical Materials Innovation Hub, U.S. DOE Energy Innovation Hub, led by Ames National ...

Move beyond lithium and its dominance in semiconductors. There exists a group of 17 other metals with mostly ...