INFOGRAPHIC: Mining your iPhone
"There's more gold in a pound of electronics than a pound of ore."
Latest Stories
Seven million lives could be saved choosing nuclear instead of coal: researchers
Only 4,900 deaths caused by nuclear.
Two-thirds of graphene patents held by just three countries
A "scatter gun approach" to patent filing.
Alberta company prevents environmental fracking disasters
An Alberta company has pioneered a new process that has major implications to making hydraulic fracking, safer, less environmentally intrusive, and more efficient.
VIDEO: White-hot nickel ball burning a hole through a chocolate Easter bunny
It takes surprisingly long to burn a hole through the chocolate bunny.
ABB to supply gearless conveyor drive system for world’s largest underground copper mine in Chile
ABB’s new gearless conveyor drive system to provide process efficiency and equipment reliability for Codelco’s El Teniente copper mine at 2,300 meters above sea level
The end of the gold era: SocGen report
More bearish gold calls.
Australia grants environmental permit to first uranium mine in the country’s west
It will be the country’s sixth uranium producer, but the first in Western Australia.
Fresh delays hit Glencore-Xstrata $76 billion mega merger
New deadline for completion is May 2.
