Since the modern gold rushes of the 1970s and 1980s, gold has been one of Australia's major exports. Australia is the ...

Australian scientists have a new solution for gold: a process that recycles toxic cyanide and boosts gold recovery.

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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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In a groundbreaking scientific development, a strain of bacteria that can produce pure gold has been discovered. This finding opens up new and exciting possibilities for gold extraction techniques ...

EXCLUDING mechanical, smelting, and amalgamation processes, the methods of extracting gold from its ores may conveniently be grouped together under the heading of wet or chemical methods. In these, ...

In 2019, Australian researchers made a discovery that would push the boundaries of both biology and mining. They found that certain strains of the Fusarium oxysporum fungus were capable of ...

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According to research released yesterday, small-scale gold mining has led to the destruction of more than 170,000 acres of primary rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon over the past five years.