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 ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China, the world's biggest copper smelter, is studying ways to strengthen regulation on the expansion of smelting capacity, a state news outlet said on Thursday, as record low ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Global copper smelting edged up in September, but remained below the two-year average as negotiations ramped up between smelters and miners for treatment charges, data from ...

Copper smelting - a critical process in metal production - often generates slag, which contains valuable metals. This slag has historically been thrown away, causing harm to the environment and ...

Buried deep in the south Georgia rolling hills, a tiny archaeological site has been rewriting history. Uncovered in the late 1950s, the Kvemo Bolnisi workshop was considered to be one of the ...

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich rocks by copper smelters may have sparked the ...

Around 5,000 years ago, people in what is now Iran began turning dull stone into shining metal. By heating copper ore until ...

Construction of a new copper-smelting and metals recycling plant not far from North Augusta is supposed to begin later this year, but its potential to emit a large number of pollutants in an area ...