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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MONTREAL, May 10 2018 /CNW Telbec/ - Rio Tinto and Alcoa Corporation today announced a revolutionary process to make aluminium that produces oxygen and eliminates all direct greenhouse gas emissions ...

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 ...

Apple has made significant investments in its goal of significantly reducing its carbon footprint in manufacturing its various products. Apple’s Green Bonds project has gulped about $4.7 billion since ...

The Energy Department’s arm for radical innovation is taking aim at the difficult-to-decarbonize process of turning ores into metals. “We need to be able to provide those metals, but we have to do so ...

The proposed PacWest/HiTest silicon smelter in Newport, Washington, was touted as a “green” facility since some of its product, metallurgical grade silicon, would be further refined for use in silicon ...

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 ...