Tablet recycling not only prevents pollution but also allows precious metals and components to be reused, which helps ...

Utah’s desert is suddenly looking less like empty space on the map and more like the front line of a new resource race. A discovery of critical minerals and rare earth elements at a site called ...

Researchers have uncovered a method to purify a photon stream that is central to quantum circuitry. University of Iowa ...

Some items carry a price so steep that gold barely registers beside them. These materials come from unusual places: deep ...

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 ...

Since 2017, Paramount Gold has been planning to use cyanide to extract gold and silver out of hundreds of acres of Eastern ...

The global electronics industry is critically dependent on gallium, indium, and germanium, three metals that are mined only as byproducts of zinc and aluminum, with China dominating the world's supply ...

Garlic extract is emerging as a surprisingly powerful contender to chlorhexidine, the long-standing “gold standard” in antimicrobial mouthwashes. A systematic review of clinical studies shows that ...

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Recently, archaeologists unearthed a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mining camp in the Sukari Mountains. Crews found evidence of ancient gold mining, processing, and purification. The archaeological ...

In the heart of Egypt’s Sukari Mountains, archaeologists have unearthed an extraordinary discovery: a 3,000-year-old gold mining operation that reveals a rich glimpse into ancient Egyptian life. This ...

Communities along Cambodia’s O’Ta Bouk River are experiencing severe water contamination, skin ailments and the collapse of fish stocks, which they blame on an unregulated gold mine operating upstream ...