{"id":130211,"date":"2021-11-08T04:22:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T12:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/non-toxic-technology-extracts-more-gold-from-ore"},"modified":"2021-11-08T04:22:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T12:22:27","slug":"non-toxic-technology-extracts-more-gold-from-ore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/non-toxic-technology-extracts-more-gold-from-ore","title":{"rendered":"Non-toxic technology extracts more gold from ore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/non-toxic-technology-extracts-more-gold-from-ore3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gold is one of the world\u2019s most popular metals. Malleable, conductive and non-corrosive, it\u2019s used in jewelry, electronics, and even space exploration. But traditional gold production typically involves a famous toxin, cyanide, which has been banned for industrial use in several countries.<\/p>\n<p>The wait for a scalable non-toxic alternative may now be over as a research team from Aalto University in Finland has successfully replaced cyanide in a key part of gold extraction from ore. The results are published in Chemical Engineering.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Study shows new chloride-based process recovers 84% of gold compared to the 64% recovered with traditional methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold is one of the world\u2019s most popular metals. Malleable, conductive and non-corrosive, it\u2019s used in jewelry, electronics, and even space exploration. But traditional gold production typically involves a famous toxin, cyanide, which has been banned for industrial use in several countries. The wait for a scalable non-toxic alternative may now be over as a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}