New research suggests ancient copper smelters accidentally discovered iron, sparking the technological shift that transformed ...
Steel has underpinned modern life for centuries, but it comes at an expensive cost. The industry is responsible for nearly 7 ...
Treasurer Jim Chalmers is watching the BHP-China iron ore pricing dispute, which is a wake-up call that the huge windfalls of ...
Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how ...
The dig site was originally analyzed in the 1950s, when archeologists found an iron oxide mineral called hematite and a waste ...
Copper smelters once used iron oxide to refine copper, unintentionally advancing the path toward iron metallurgy. Research conducted at Cranfield University provides new insight into the shift from ...
The rise of the Iron Age —and the complete shift in the way the world worked that it caused—was likely an accident. And ...
Of 24 auctioned mines since 2024, only four were acquired by large steelmakers. Key factors influencing bids include ...
The story begins at Kvemo Bolnisi, a smelting workshop perched on a hillside in the Caucasus. Soviet archaeologists first dug ...
“Microbes are the world’s oldest miners,” says Liz Dennett, founder and CEO of the start-up Endolith Mining, based near ...
CHENNAI – A groundbreaking archaeological excavation in Tamil Nadu is challenging existing global timelines for the Iron Age. Researchers have uncovered evidence suggesting that iron-making in the ...
Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich ...