New technologies, international partnerships and luxury buyers are driving a global shift toward sustainable, mercury-free gold. Courtesy Pure Earth Gold has captivated humanity for millennia, ...

KEDOUGOU, Senegal (AP) — The quickest way to separate gold from rock, Sadio Camara says, is with a drop of mercury. She empties a dime-sized packet of the silvery liquid into a plastic bucket of muddy ...

The dream of the ancient alchemists may come true as Marathon Fusion announces that its tokamak fusion reactor technology can turn common mercury into gold as a byproduct of fusion operations in ...

At Flinders University, scientists have cracked a cleaner and greener way to extract gold—not just from ore, but also from our mounting piles of e-waste. By using a compound normally found in pool ...

Queen Mary University of London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The alchemist’s dream is to make gold from common metals, but can this be done? The physics needed to explain how ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A global mercury conference in Geneva faced sharp criticism Friday from environmental and Indigenous groups for failing to take stronger steps against mercury use in ...

Gold-mining equipment operates in water near a river bank with trees in the background. Illegal gold mining along the Madre de Dios River near Puerto Maldonado in the Amazon River basin of Peru.

A small, leafy, green peanut plant grows out of a patch of dirt. When David McLagan’s team sampled mercury isotopes in cassava, maize, and peanut crops (like the one shown here) grown downwind of a ...