A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign shows how electrochemistry can be used to extract precious metals from discarded electronics in an efficient and environmentally friendly ...

As demand grows for critical minerals with lower environmental impact, Thunderstone CEO Eric Wasson-Burns discusses electrically stimulated metal recovery and whether next-generation in-situ ...

A small molecule that naturally serves as a binding site for metals in enzymes also proves useful for separating certain rare earth metals from each other. In a proof of concept, the process extracts ...

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Every year, the world consumes around 50 billion tonnes of sand, gravel and crushed stone. The astonishing scale of this demand is hard to comprehend – 12.5 million Olympic sized swimming pools per ...

The race to electrify transport has triggered a global hunt for the metals that make modern batteries and motors work. Now a cluster of discoveries, from a vast lithium trove in the American West to ...