A British Nobel Prize winner is hoping to revolutionise the mining industry with a new technique for extracting gold that does away with poisonous cyanide.
Sir Fraser Stoddart, the Scottish-born scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2016, is behind a new start-up that is testing a starch-based method of separating gold from ore.
The "serendipitous discovery" by Sir Fraser's research team at Northwestern University in Chicago is being developed by his company Cycladex in Nevada. ...
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