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Addressing challenges for safer and more sustainable gold extraction. A: Gold mining relies on the use of toxic substances such as cyanide in formal mining and mercury in artisanal and small-scale gold mining. Recycling gold from electronic waste (‘urban mining’) is complicated by the complex composition of printed circuit boards and other components of obsolete electronic devices. Credit: a. (left), US Consulate General b, An integrated approach to mercury- and cyanide-free gold recovery from both primary and secondary gold sources reported in this study.

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