Extracting gold from ore is a poisonous business. The most common method is cyanide leaching, where cyanide salts in solution are used to suck the gold out from its ore. You get gold, but you also get ...

Scientists at Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, have developed a new process designed to improve gold recovery and recycle toxic cyanide used in mining. The method, called ‘Sustainable Gold ...

An interdisciplinary team of experts in green chemistry, engineering and physics at Flinders University in Australia has developed a safer and more sustainable approach to extract and recover gold ...

Refractory gold ores present significant challenges to conventional extraction methods. In these ores, gold is tightly encapsulated within sulphide minerals or locked by carbonaceous matter, thereby ...

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 ...

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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.

Research co-ordinator Dr RE (Robbie) Robinson tells Mining Weekly Online’s Martin Creamer that selected mine blasting (SMB) could boost gold and platinum mining. Photographs: Christo Greyling. Video ...