The process of ironmaking has relied for centuries on iron ore, an impure form of iron oxide, slowly being reduced to iron by carbon monoxide in a furnace. Whether that furnace is the charcoal fire of ...

The COREX smelting reduction process represents a prominent alternative in modern ironmaking by eliminating the reliance on traditional blast furnaces. This method integrates a melter–gasifier and a ...

Copper smelters from 3,000 years ago may have experimented with materials just enough to launch the Iron Age. The Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age as the refining process of iron was discovered.

The Iron Age was one of the most significant epochs in human history, and researchers may have uncovered the secrets of how we left the Bronze Age behind – via a 3,000-year-old smelting workshop ...

Buried deep in the south Georgia rolling hills, a tiny archaeological site has been rewriting history. Uncovered in the late 1950s, the Kvemo Bolnisi workshop was considered to be one of the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Slide included in the Christopher DeCorse Collection. The slide was taken in the Guinea Coast region. A photographic print resides in the ...

Xingguo Precision Components Co., Ltd. (shortened as Xingguo Casting) in Changli County successfully operated the "300,000 m³/d green electricity electrolysis water hydrogen production - hydrogen ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Perth, Australia, July 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The NeoSmelt consortium has selected Hatch as a major technology ...