Iron and its alloys, such as steel and cast iron, dominate the modern world, and there's growing demand for iron-derived products. Traditionally, blast furnaces transform iron ore into purified ...

Steel is the backbone of modern civilization—used in everything from buildings and bridges to cars and appliances. On the other hand, steelmaking is one of the world’s largest sources of carbon ...

China's state iron ore buyer is using increasingly hardball tactics against mining giants such as BHP to tighten its grip on ...

Clean energy company Masdar and steelmaker Emsteel, both headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, have announced the successful completion of a pilot project using green hydrogen to produce green ...

Chinas state-backed iron ore buyer, China Mineral Resources Group (CMRG), is intensifying its negotiating tactics against ...

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich rocks by copper smelters may have sparked the ...

The re-investigation of a 3,000-year-old site of Kvemo Bolnisi in Georgia has provided new insights about the Iron Age. These insights are associated with a remote furnace dated back to around 1,200 ...

THE civil war in Spain has bared the relentless struggle being waged by the Great Powers for essential raw materials. Not oil but iron ore is now the chief issue. As part of the hugest armaments race ...

From the stainless steel in wind turbines to electric vehicle batteries, nickel is playing a key role in the clean energy transition. Yet the industrial processes that make this important metal are ...

It’s the shape and porosity, not the size, of metal oxide particles that matter for efficiency in electrochemical ironmaking. Iron and its alloys, such as steel and cast iron, dominate the modern ...