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

(Nanowerk News) Throughout history, alchemists believed in the existence of the philosopher’s stone: a substance that could turn cheap substances into precious gold. Now scientists from The University ...

Unlike alluvial gold, which is found as very small flakes on riverbanks, gold-bearing rocks have to be dug out of the ground. We're after pure gold, but rock that contains gold also includes lots of ...

A company that wants to extract gold from piles of decades-old mining waste outside Leadville no longer plans to use cyanide in its processes after hearing concerns from locals about the toxic ...

A team of scientists have penned a new study that details an interesting way to collect valuable minerals from electronic waste, and the method includes creating a sponge from dairy waste. The sponge ...

Scientists at Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have identified trace amounts ...

Gold has properties that make it useful in electronic devices, but mining old cell phones and computers for the metal isn't ...

University of Edinburgh researchers have developed a novel method for extracting precious metals, including gold, from mobile devices and other electronic gadgets. The process is novel not only in its ...

NEW DELHI, Dec 15 (Reuters) - India plans to invite bids to extract gold from 50 million tonnes of processed ore in a cluster of colonial-era mines in the southern state of Karnataka, a senior ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LEADVILLE, Colo. (AP) — Rust-colored piles ...

Singrauli Gold Mines: Known for its diamond reserves, Madhya Pradesh will soon be mining gold. Singrauli district which is popular for its coal reserves, will also witness gold mining in Chakariya ...