New technology for recovering valuable minerals from waste rock

Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 18:20 in Physics & Chemistry

Researchers report discovery of a completely new technology for more efficiently separating gold, silver, copper, and other valuable materials from rock and ore. The process uses nanoparticles to latch onto those materials and attach them to air bubbles in a flotation machine.

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