Iron is almost always found in the form of iron ore, which needs to be treated to extract the iron. Without the invention of this process, called smelting, Bronze Age peoples couldn’t use the ...

Was the Iberian Peninsula’s Bronze Age more advanced technologically than history has given it credit for? New study of the ...

To answer these questions, it is easiest to start with the amount of gold that humans have mined to date. The U.S. Geological ...

Tucked into the mountains of southern Arizona, Bisbee was once the richest mining town in the state. The museum sits in a ...

The legendary Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine story is told through fascinating exhibits and artifacts. The grounds feature historic buildings rescued from old Western movie sets that once filmed nearby.

The fiery ball that streaked across the South Carolina sky Thursday could have been a meteorite, according to the National Weather Service.

Unusual shape: iron-nickel meteorites are rarely rounded. Instead, they have an irregular shape with unusual pits like finger prints in their surface called “regmaglypts.” Fusion crust: stony ...

They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

LAUNCESTON, Australia, June 19 (Reuters) - China's iron ore imports are on track in June for their strongest month this year, showing a resilience that isn't being mirrored in the sluggish steel ...

The iron ore industry’s key pricing benchmark for seaborne cargoes could be lowered as the quality of supplies from biggest exporter Australia worsens. Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity ...

China, which buys about 75% of global seaborne iron ore, is expected to import almost 110 million metric tons of the key steel raw material, according to commodity analysts LSEG and Kpler ...

The concentrator plant will process 18 million tonnes of low-grade iron ore annually, yielding 12.6 million tonnes of high-grade concentrate. Vale has committed $227 million to connect the new plant ...