Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how ...

Copper smelters once used iron oxide to refine copper, unintentionally advancing the path toward iron metallurgy. Research ...

The Iron Age was one of the most significant epochs in human history, and researchers may have uncovered the secrets of how ...

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 rise of the Iron Age —and the complete shift in the way the world worked that it caused—was likely an accident. And ...

New research suggests ancient copper smelters accidentally discovered iron, sparking the technological shift that transformed ...

The discovery of an early copper smelting hub dating back to the Xia and Shang dynasties (c.2070BC-1046BC) at the Xiwubi site was announced by the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology on Monday.

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 processing fees have ...