As global shortages loom, the mining industry is turning to innovative technology to find ways to extract more copper more ...

Semiconductor industry waste is typically seen as a costly disposal problem and an environmental hazard. But what if this ...

Bioleaching is the product of a much more regulated and environmentally-aware mining industry which for decades left behind destruction and mountains of dangerous waste.

Academics combine bioleaching with electro-chemical methods that can fish out these metals and make them useful for supply chains.

E-waste specialist Bioscope Technologies has signed up Techbuyer, which refurbishes and resells servers and other data center equipment, as an early adopter of its novel bioleaching solution.

Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans combined with oxalic acid pretreatment significantly improves praseodymium, cerium, and europium extraction from mine tailings.

EV batteries can now be recycled by mining the metals' components. A process called bioleaching - its main component is bacteria.

Tested under simulated field conditions, Endolith’s bioleaching process outperformed conventional heap-leaching methods, unlocking potential in mineralized waste once considered too low-grade to ...

Bioleaching relies on the metabolism of certain naturally occurring bacteria, such as Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, which produce oxidising agents that dissolve metals into solution.

Bioscope is now accelerating the bioleaching development to an industrial level, ensuring precious metals such as copper, gold, silver and palladium and other materials – including those in finite or ...

Techbuyer has been supplying printed circuit boards (PCBs) to Bioscope’s bio-refinery in Cambridge, UK, to enable the recovery of precious and base metals using the bioleaching processes.