All metal recovery articles
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Business
Military demand strains metal supply chains
Conflict and trade disputes have disrupted global supplies of specialist metals like hafnium, antimony and rare earths
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Business
Congo’s cobalt conundrum
DRC government is intervening to revive prices and stabilise supply chains
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Research
Photocatalytic process picks out precious metals from waste electronics
Silver, gold, platinum and palladium can be retrieved sequentially from circuit boards and catalytic convertors
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Research
Antimony recovery lights up lamp waste recycling
Green method produces fertiliser as a byproduct
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Research
Sewage offers attractive source of precious metals
US Geological Survey team finds valuable metals in treated sewage and is working on the difficult problem of extraction
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Research
Engineered bacteria synthesise palladium biosorbent
Biomolecule to help decontaminate water by recovering palladium that has escaped from catalytic converters
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Research
Fish sperm spawns rare earth metal recycling idea
Technique could provide a cheap, green way of recovering scarce metals from electronic waste
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News
Chemistry goes into the field to battle metal theft
New DNA and metal nanoparticle technologies are helping to catch thieves that target railways, telecommunications and churches