A man in southern China has drawn attention after demonstrating how he extracted 191.73 grams of gold worth over 210,000 yuan (US$30,222) from discarded SIM cards and other electronic waste.

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WITH the price of gold soaring to new highs, a man went viral on Chinese cyberspace for supposedly extracting more than ...

The link she wound up clicking on led her to an official-looking website with a phone number. She called, and the alleged ...

Researchers at IIT Madras said they have developed a green and sustainable method to recover valuable metals, including ...

Chinese researchers have discovered a fast, low-cost and environmentally cleaner method for extracting gold from electronic waste, that could significantly reshape e-waste recycling worldwide and ...

Let's be real here. Most of us toss old phones and computers into a drawer and forget they exist. Some go straight to the landfill. Here's the thing: you're literally throwing away gold mines. Not ...

Chennai: Researchers at IIT Madras developed a sustainable method to recover valuable metals from electronic waste using environment-friendly solvents.

India now has a domestic facility for refining high-purity tin. Yash Gupta's Rikayaa Enterprises is reducing the country's dependence on imported tin. This venture is crucial for India's electronics ...

Chinese researchers say they can now strip almost all the gold out of discarded phones and circuit boards in the time it takes to make a cup of coffee, and at a fraction of current costs. The new ...

Mercury is still used in small-scale mining to extract gold from ore in more than 70 countries, despite it contaminating rivers and soils, and being toxic to humans. At the sixth Conference of the ...

BEIJING -- China has achieved a major industrial breakthrough in extracting lithium, a critical metal for electric vehicle ...