UNSW expert Professor Yansong Shen explains why it is so important to find a way to produce iron and steel in a more environmentally friendly and feasible way. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

At HYBRIT's fossil-free steel plant in Luleå, Sweden, hydrogen made with renewable electricity turns reddish iron ore pellets, left, into grey pellets of sponge iron, which are ready to be melted down ...

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Electra, a green iron company, has raised $85 million to produce Low-Temperature Iron (LTI) from commercial and low-grade ores using zero-carbon intermittent ...

Iron and its alloys, such as steel and cast iron, dominate the modern world, and there's growing demand for iron-derived products. Traditionally, blast furnaces transform iron ore into purified ...

Cleveland Works currently relies on two blast furnaces, which use coal to refine iron ore that is later processed into steel. Credit: (The Center For Land Use Interpretation; CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) ...

For decades, Western Australia has been keen to transcend its reputation as the world's quarry, and the government hopes a new project will help it do exactly that. Called NeoSmelt, the initiative ...

MagIron LLC ("MagIron" or the "Company") today announced that it has completed five new state iron ore mining leases with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources following the approval by the ...

MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto has proven the effectiveness of its low-carbon iron-making process using ores from its mines in Australia in a small-scale pilot plant in Germany, and ...

Iron ore sintering plays a pivotal role in steel production by agglomerating fine iron ore particles into a porous mass suitable for blast furnace use. The optimisation of this process is critical not ...

It’s the shape and porosity, not the size, of metal oxide particles that matter for efficiency in electrochemical ironmaking. Iron and its alloys, such as steel and cast iron, dominate the modern ...