Business | CNN News
1 October 2005
A Massey University graduate may soon be striking agricultural pay-dirt after founding the world’s first gold-farming company, Tiaki International. Chris Anderson spent 8 years at Massey developing a chemical process which causes plants to “hyperaccumulate” gold particles…
Science/Tech | Ananova
24 May 2001
New Zealand scientist Dr Chris Anderson grows gold on trees through phyto-mining.
Science/Tech | Wired
18 May 2000
Extracting gold from plants sounds like modern day alchemy, but 26 yr-old Massey University of New Zealand scientist Chris Anderson has managed to do it in the laboratory – extracting gold from cabbages.
Science/Tech | Star (The)
13 May 2000
26 yr-old PHD student Chris Anderson has developed a way of extracting gold from cabbages grown on old mine tailings – and he is confident that the method will be commercially viable.