Glasgow has made a global impact through the outstanding work of its inventors, scientists and explorers. Robert Stevenson (1772-1850) was born in Glasgow. He entered the service of the Northern ...

The price of iron ore, a key ingredient for steelmaking, has been strangely stable this year. There are plenty of reasons to think that may not last. Since the start of 2025, prices of iron ore, one ...

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 ...

In recent days, China's state-backed China Mineral Resources Group instructed domestic steelmakers and traders to suspend purchases of all new dollar-denominated seaborne iron ore cargoes from BHP, ...

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 ...

Investing.com -- A deepening pricing dispute between BHP and China’s state-backed iron ore buying group has raised questions over how vulnerable the miner is to even a temporary disruption in its ...

Steel has underpinned modern life for centuries, but it comes at an expensive cost. The industry is responsible for nearly 7 percent of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions, driven by blast ...

Oct 7 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto (RIO.AX), opens new tab said on Tuesday it along with its joint venture partners Mitsui Iron Ore and Nippon Steel (5401.T), opens new tab will invest $733 million to ...

Copper smelters from 3,000 years ago may have experimented with materials just enough to launch the Iron Age. The Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age as the refining process of iron was discovered.