Sometimes, science can take an unexpected turn. While trying to develop a new kind of high temperature storage battery, MIT researchers accidentally stumbled upon a new, more efficient process for ...

The lead smelting process is getting greener thanks to new technology unveiled recently by The Doe Run Company. As one of the world’s largest lead producers, Missouri-based Doe Run has introduced a ...

Qu Shengli, President, Shandong Humon Smelting Co., Ltd., China, considers the century-long dilemma of gold smelting and ...

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 ...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa Corporation (NYSE: AA) and Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO) today announced a revolutionary process to make aluminum that produces oxygen and eliminates all direct greenhouse ...

In 2025, the fluctuation range of lead prices narrowed YoY, with the SMM average price of secondary refined lead decreasing by 219.3 yuan/mt compared to 2024, a decline of approximately 1.28%. At the ...

MIT researchers were conducting experiments with the aim of building better batteries when they discovered something different instead: a new and better way to smelt metal. Study researcher Donald ...

Smelting is an essential part of Minecraft. It is used for players to craft many different items by melting down raw components into usable materials. A common example of this would be players using ...

Aluminum is abundant in more things than just soda cans; the metal is used in everything from transportation to power lines. It’s also a component of things like smartphones, tablets, laptops, and TVs ...

Some of our best discoveries are made by accident and, in the most recent case, a team of MIT researchers stumbled upon a method of smelting metals that could drastically reduce the carbon emissions ...