Low-carbon steel platform Metal Logic has executed an agreement to acquire approximately 1,000 hectares of tenements strategically located in Western Australia's iron ore-rich Pilbara region, within ...

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 ...

This is the moment the series leaves the Bronze Age behind. He explains why iron replaced bronze—iron ore is everywhere while tin trade can collapse—then traces where iron ore deposits came from (the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The site, shown here, was originally excavated during the Soviet period and was relocated using hand draw maps from a 1964 book.

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich rocks by copper smelters may have sparked the ...

Turning rock into metal is one of the oldest crafts in human history. Watch the process of smelting iron ore and forging a ...

Social worker in Fruita turns iron ore into iron as an act of self-care After some years in mental health crisis management, Iain Cooley takes a break to avoid burnout. They do this by creating iron ...

Sparkly hematite mineral was used as a flux by copper smelters. Its distinctive appearance may have helped to attract attention from ancient miners and prospectors. However, instead of iron, the ...

Buried deep in the south Georgia rolling hills, a tiny archaeological site has been rewriting history. Uncovered in the late 1950s, the Kvemo Bolnisi workshop was considered to be one of the ...