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.

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 ...

Iron ore fell for a second day, as traders watched for any progress from US-China trade talks and potential stimulus from Beijing that could reignite demand for the steelmaking staple.

The MinRes barges are propelled by a tug via an articouple to form an articulated tug and barge (ATB). Image courtesy of MinRes. The MinRes transhippers can unload at 6,000 tonnes of iron ore per ...