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

BEIJING (Reuters) -China, the world's biggest copper smelter, is studying ways to strengthen regulation on the expansion of smelting capacity, a state news outlet said on Thursday, as record low ...

DODOMA: TANZANIA continues to make significant progress in its programme to establish mineral value-addition industries, with ...

Queensland is emerging as a critical minerals hub, with the state’s largest copper mine to be built in the northwest, adding ...

At a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, a gray liquid swirls vigorously inside a reactor the size of a small watermelon. Here, ...

The oldest and most intact copper smelting site in the world is now open for tours. Perched on the shores of the Keweenaw Waterway, the Quincy Smelter is the last of its kind. Opened in 1890s, 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 ...

The US’ copper production is expected to remain largely stable in 2025 at 1,077 kilotonnes, equivalent to annual growth of ...

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 ...

Copper smelting is an intricate high‐temperature process that converts copper concentrates into purer metallic copper through a series of chemical and thermal reactions. Central to modern smelting ...

Domestic production has crashed to barely 3–5% of demand, creating a dangerous over-reliance on foreign suppliers at a time ...