HONJO, Japan (Reuters) - Thinking of throwing out your old cell phone? Think again. Maybe you should mine it first for gold, silver, copper and a host of other metals embedded in the electronics -- ...

Gold has properties that make it useful in electronic devices, but mining old cell phones and computers for the metal isn't ...

Gold and certain other precious metals are key ingredients in computer chips, including those used in consumer electronics such as smart phones. But it can be difficult to recover and recycle those ...

Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) and the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered a rich source of precious metals inside a rare type of extinct volcano. As ...