New research shows that magnesium and other metals in mine waste can be solubilized and recovered thanks to acid-producing bacteria. Researcher Nathan van Wyk believes that the method has great ...

Chinese researchers have a new method to extract uranium from seawater twice as cheaply as previous technologies. Their ...

Freeport, New York — At eWorks in Freeport ... So, Abbaspourrad and his team at Cornell developed a method they say is more efficient, and which carries less environmental risk.

A new technique enables the use of fatty acids—for example, those found in cooking oil from fast-food restaurants—to dissolve ...

A research team has developed a method for extracting gold from electronics ... Electronics waste is a literal gold mine: It's estimated that a ton of e-waste contains at least 10 times more ...

A group of engineers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) has developed a cost-effective and environmentally friendly way to remove heavy metals, including copper and zinc, from ...

Zhang Nannan from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography (XIEG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has introduced an innovative geological knowledge-constrained method for extracting ...

Engineers at the University of Toronto are proposing a new, more sustainable method to mine lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese from lithium-ion batteries that have reached the end of their lives.