Demand for lithium is soaring as automakers ramp up electric vehicle production and energy companies build larger battery systems to support wind and ...

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 ...

Activists are worried about using technology that uses water to remove uranium from waste material at abandoned mines.

Hemp (Cannabis sativa) seed oil is instrumental in the oil, food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics and fibers industries. Extraction of oil is varied, and the processes are limited in their efficiencies. A ...

During the Vietnam War, US commandos developed an insertion and extraction method that is still used today. Now, with conflict in Southeast or East Asia a growing prospect, its an increasingly ...