New research suggests ancient copper smelters accidentally discovered iron, sparking the technological shift that transformed ...

Panaji: Goa began the export of freshly extracted iron ore with the first consignment reaching China. The director of mines ...

Steel has underpinned modern life for centuries, but it comes at an expensive cost. The industry is responsible for nearly 7 ...

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how ...

The rise of the Iron Age —and the complete shift in the way the world worked that it caused—was likely an accident. And ...

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 ...

Ancient copper smelters may have accidentally set the stage for the Iron Age. At a 3,000-year-old workshop in Georgia, researchers discovered that metalworkers were using iron oxide not to smelt iron ...

Of 24 auctioned mines since 2024, only four were acquired by large steelmakers. Key factors influencing bids include ...

Madhya Pradesh’s Singrauli district, known for its coal reserves, will now also be mining for gold. The yellow metal will be ...

The story begins at Kvemo Bolnisi, a smelting workshop perched on a hillside in the Caucasus. Soviet archaeologists first dug ...