Platinum group metals (PGMs) – which are hosted and mined overwhelmingly in South Africa – have recycling rates approaching ...

The expanded collaboration between BRAIN Biotech and PX Group is a key part of the PX Urban Mining Initiative, an industry and academic network focused on developing and implementing disruptive, ...

Gold mining can be a dirty business ... The trick, according to Bioscope Technologies, an urban-mining company building a bioleaching plant in Cambridge, England, is to keep the bacteria in ...

At the Royal Mint in the U.K., near a building where billions of British coins are made each year, gold is now being harvested from electronic waste. “It’s essentially urban mining,” says ...

By Fernanda Wenzel In 2021,an army of dredges equipped to churn up the riverbed in search of gold invaded the largest ...

Such metal resources have conventionally been discarded. However, if the resources hidden in these so-called "urban mining" could be recycled, they would provide valuable resources for Japan. AIST is ...

Gold mining and urban sprawl are two of the most pervasive threats to biodiversity in Nevada. The state is the fourth-largest gold mining jurisdiction in the world, and mining consumes billions of ...

and iridium has given rise to what is best described as an ‘urban mining’ plus. Johnson Matthey, a company founded in 1917 which has a long-standing South African presence in nearby Germiston ...