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 world’s largest steelmaking nation has just switched on a new kind of blast furnace, one that trades coal for hydrogen ...

China has officially put into full operation its first million-tonne near-zero-carbon steel production line in Zhanjiang City ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have demonstrated a more eco-friendly way to make iron. The method eliminates greenhouse gases typical of conventional iron production methods says team ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"This is the sort of thing I geek out about," said Lisa Carnell, coordinator of the Medieval Congress. "This is the first time I've seen smelting from this period." Smelting, as demonstration ...

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