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

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Explore the thriving gallium industry in Vietnam, backed by significant bauxite reserves. Despite current low production, ...

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

MTM Critical Metals, an ASX-listed metal extraction business, was asking fund managers for $50 million in fresh equity on ...

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

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 ...

Critical mineral producers in Missouri are exploring extraction methods as international trade policies fluctuate, and the ...

In small-scale and artisanal mining, mercury is used extensively to extract gold. In this practice, the gold reacts with ...

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

Recent disturbances to the oil price—this time prompted by war—will be familiar to weary oilmen. For although oil has long ...

In single-metal experiments, they found that 1 was capable of extracting >90% gold from 2 M HCl into toluene. Compared to ∼55% extraction of antimony(V) and <5% extraction of iron(III), palladium(II), ...