Sometimes along comes a hack with a personal angle, and in a video showing Irish bog ore smelting, we find an appropriate follow up to a Hackaday expedition back in 2019. [Alec Steele] joined ...

Fortescue's green metal project in Western Australia's Pilbara region has produced its first hot metal using a DRI-EAF process, but challenges remain with Pilbara ore, which typically doesn't ...

Chinese companies are rushing to build smelters in Southeast Sulawesi, one of the world’s most abundant sources of nickel. Mining in the Indonesian province has wreaked havoc on the environment and ...

The process of ironmaking has relied for centuries on iron ore, an impure form of iron oxide, slowly being reduced to iron by carbon monoxide in a furnace. Whether that furnace is the charcoal fire of ...

Metso supplied the project’s electric DRI smelting furnace, with installation beginning in September 2025.

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 ...