A man in southern China has drawn attention after demonstrating how he extracted 191.73 grams of gold worth over 210,000 yuan (US$30,222) from discarded SIM cards and other electronic waste.

A new method for recovering high-purity gold from discarded electronics is paying back US$50 for every dollar spent, according to researchers – who found the key gold-filtering substance in ...

Chinese researchers say they can now strip almost all the gold out of discarded phones and circuit boards in the time it takes to make a cup of coffee, and at a fraction of current costs. The new ...

Researchers have used gold extracted from electronic waste as catalysts for reactions that could be applied to making medicines. Re-using gold from electronic waste prevents it from being lost to ...