Western metal smelters are in crisis. China’s rapid expansion of processing capacity is crushing margins across the metallic ...

Many modern devices—from cellphones and computers to electric vehicles and wind turbines—rely on strong magnets made from ...

Rare earth metals power modern tech and clean energy, driving global trade shifts and geopolitical tension as new materials ...

The ingenious minds at Primitive Technology extract iron from natural bacteria to create raw iron prills in a primitive ...

Copper smelting is an intricate high‐temperature process that converts copper concentrates into purer metallic copper through a series of chemical and thermal reactions.

A n innovative Swedish smelting process that's nearly a decade in the making promises to take the air pollution out of steel ...

A new breakthrough from MIT makes the aluminum smelting process more efficient by capturing discarded aluminum ions in waste streams. On December 6, ...

The process of concentrating and smelting copper produces a toxic mineral slurry called tailings, and a cocktail of air pollutants including lead and arsenic. In the United States, ...

Since smelting involves heating metals to the point of liquidation, ... With the right equipment and planning, it's possible to process copper, ...

Global supply chains are already reeling from the impact of China's rare earth export controls, but an even bigger critical ...