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Gold and silver mining from Brussels urban sewage

  • August 23, 2021

Researchers from the VUB and ULB have succeeded in extracting gold, silver and other precious materials from the Brussels sewage water. With the SUBLIMUS project they are looking for a way to do this on a large scale.

The project is coordinated by Dr. Natacha Brion of VUB research group Analytical and Environmental Geochemistry and it is financed by Innoviris.

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