Since the modern gold rushes of the 1970s and 1980s, gold has been one of Australia's major exports. Australia is the second-largest gold producer globally behind China and holds the second largest ...

Scientists at Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, have developed a new process designed to improve gold recovery and recycle toxic cyanide used in mining. The method, called ‘Sustainable Gold ...

"The biggest change in our field isn't a single molecule or machine," Antoine Gueguen said. "It's the realization that biology, when engineered and automated properly, can outperform chemistry at ...