Iron ore futures prices dropped more than 1% on Thursday, pressured by escalating tariff measures against Chinese steel and ...

For over 20 years, archaeologists in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu have been unearthing clues to the region's ancient past. Their digs have uncovered early scripts that rewrite literacy ...

A host of problems with existing projects make matters worse. Ore quality—the amount of valuable metal in a sample of rock—is declining, forcing miners to dig deeper; mining permits can take years, if ...

Every year, the world consumes around 50 billion tonnes of sand, gravel and crushed stone. The astonishing scale of this ...

Iron ore futures prices climbed on Friday to their highest levels in more than four months and headed for a weekly gain, as ...

Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co. will buy a stake in an Australian iron ore project for $5.3 billion, in a bet that the ...

Brazilian miner Vale said on Friday it expects to raise iron ore production in its main complex Carajas, in northern Brazil, ...

Decarbonizing the steel industry is essential due to its substantial contribution to climate change. This study explores pathways to achieve net-zero CO2eq emissions in the iron and steelmaking ...

In February last Or. M. Schlenker, Syndic of the Saarbriicken Chamber of Commerce, showed that the extraction of iron ore in the Briey basin amounted (calculated by iron contents) to 28 per cent ...

Commodity markets are poised to break out of a two-year slump as a rally in precious metal and agriculture prices drives the sector to a 26-month high, closing in on the range it traded at during ...

Traditional Pareto charts, while useful, often overlook key reliability insights. Enter the Jack-Knife diagram (JKD), a tool developed by Professor Peter Knights over 25 years ago to prioritise ...

AI technology can support ore sorting in the mining industry. Credit: Gusmary Adriana Briceno via Shutterstock. Environmental concerns, operational risks and plummeting metal prices have led to a ...