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 ...

WABUSH, Canada--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Government of Canada awarded C$18.1 million from its Low Carbon Economy Fund to Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC) to support the decarbonization of ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hertha Metals today announced it has validated a significant technology breakthrough in modern steelmaking: a single-step process that is cheaper, more energy efficient, and ...

Aug 29 (Reuters) - South Africa's Kumba Iron Ore (KIOJ.J), opens new tab will invest an additional 7.6 billion rand ($428 million) in processing technology that will treble premium quality production ...

Bill Gates-backed startup Electra says it can now make emissions-free iron without melting ore on commercial-sized prototypes. That’s a major milestone for a technology that’s only a few years old and ...

CONAKRY (Reuters) -Guinea will fast-track the development of alumina refineries and iron ore pellet plants to end decades of raw ore exports, its mines minister told reporters, as the country prepares ...