Electronic waste — including discarded televisions, computers and mobile phones — is one of the fastest-growing waste categories worldwide. For years, recyclers have gleaned usable parts, in... Read more
Arizona long has been a leader in the copper mining industry, but traditional processes for extracting the metal from the ore release toxins into the environment through seepage, air polluti... Read more
Cleaning up the water left over from mining operations can literally take generations – 25 to 50 years on average – leaving billions of gallons of the precious resource locked up and useless... Read more
The mining process, from the first exploration to the establishment of a mine, is both time demanding and expensive. Cecilia Lund, PhD at Luleå University of Technology has in her thesis ... Read more