About 5,000 years ago, people living in what is now Iran began extracting copper from rock by processing ore, an activity ...

Further evidence concerning the (ruined) structures of metal smelting workshops has come to light in an excavation, which is currently underway near Masouleh, the provincial tourism chief Vali Jahani ...

MIT researchers were conducting experiments with the aim of building better batteries when they discovered something different instead: a new and better way to smelt metal. Study researcher Donald ...

When and where did humans invent metal smelting? Scientists have found the answer to this long-debated question in the history of technology. Metallurgy does not have a single origin but probably ...

MELBOURNE, Australia, Sept. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Low-emission steel platform Metal Logic has secured a strategic location in Western Australia's iron ore–rich Pilbara region to deploy its ...

Copper smelting dust, a by‐product of the copper refining industry, contains not only hazardous arsenic but also valuable metals such as copper, zinc, lead, bismuth and others. The effective treatment ...