The soaring price of gold is fueling a "mercury boom" in central Mexico. A surge in the demand for the toxic metal, which is ...

The dream of the ancient alchemists may come true as Marathon Fusion announces that its tokamak fusion reactor technology can turn common mercury into gold as a byproduct of fusion operations in ...

Energy startup Marathon Fusion claims to have found a scalable way to turn mercury into gold, but they still have much to prove. reading time 2 minutes Keep checking those gold prices—scientists have ...

A government-backed study has revealed that artisanal gold mining in Ghana leads to severe mercury contamination in host communities. The report highlights mercury levels in soil greatly exceeding ...

KEDOUGOU, Senegal (AP) — The quickest way to separate gold from rock, Sadio Camara says, is with a drop of mercury. She empties a dime-sized packet of the silvery liquid into a plastic bucket of muddy ...

A startup energy company, called Marathon Fusion, may soon be living out the dream of alchemists from the Middle Ages. In a recently released paper posted to the arXiv preprint server, the company ...