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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 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 ...

Global iron ore futures have fallen to multi-week lows due to significant concerns over China's faltering economy and decreased demand from its steel and property sectors. China's slowdown in ...

The term gamechanger is often over used enough to be rendered meaningless, but the huge Simandou mine in the West African country of Guinea is going to be just that as its start up is set to rock the ...

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 ...