You might not know every platinum-group metal by name, but they're in use all around you. This group of metals — which includes platinum and five other related elements — is used in everything from ...

PRAGUE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Draslovka a.s (‘Draslovka’), a leading specialty chemicals company, has agreed with Barrick Gold Corporation (‘Barrick’), to roll out a global testing and implementation ...

Extracting gold from ore is a poisonous business. The most common method is cyanide leaching, where cyanide salts in solution are used to suck the gold out from its ore. You get gold, but you also get ...

Tesla has applied for a new patent that is revealing the lithium extraction process that Elon Musk vaguely described as “using table salt to basically extract lithium from ore” during Tesla’s Battery ...