Treasurer Jim Chalmers is watching the BHP-China iron ore pricing dispute, which is a wake-up call that the huge windfalls of ...
An Afghan government ministry is flatly denying a news report that a Chinese firm apparently got a contract for a big copper extraction project in Afghanistan after the agency took millions of dollars ...
The rise of the Iron Age —and the complete shift in the way the world worked that it caused—was likely an accident. And ...
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 ...
Steel has underpinned modern life for centuries, but it comes at an expensive cost. The industry is responsible for nearly 7 ...
“Microbes are the world’s oldest miners,” says Liz Dennett, founder and CEO of the start-up Endolith Mining, based near ...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called on China to import Australian iron ore without ...
The story begins at Kvemo Bolnisi, a smelting workshop perched on a hillside in the Caucasus. Soviet archaeologists first dug ...
New research suggests ancient copper smelters accidentally discovered iron, sparking the technological shift that transformed ...
President Trump's missile defense project, called the "Golden Dome for America," aims to protect the U.S. from foreign threats. But it has a steep price and has been criticized by China as threatening ...
Ancient copper smelters in Georgia may have accidentally paved the way for the Iron Age, providing new insights into human ...