This investment, accelerated by a partnership with Nippon Steel, will eliminate the need to ship direct reduced iron to U.S.

The blast furnace remains the cornerstone of high‐volume ironmaking, utilising complex thermal and chemical reactions to reduce iron oxides into molten iron. Contemporary operations place increasing ...

A new approach to iron ore processing could reshape how Australia taps into the growing green steel market, with fresh ...

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 ...

Brazilian miner Vale will begin building this year a processing plant in southeastern Minas Gerais state for tailings and waste rock, the company said on Friday. The plant, which will have capacity to ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hertha Metals today announced it has validated a significant technology breakthrough in modern steelmaking: a single-step process that is cheaper, more energy efficient, and ...

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / April 16, 2026 / The Carajás Mining Complex is Brazil's largest mine and the world's ...

Brazilian mining company Vale has announced plans to stop using water in iron ore processing at its Carajas complex in northern Brazil by 2027, according to a report by Reuters. This initiative is ...

WABUSH, Canada--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Government of Canada awarded C$18.1 million from its Low Carbon Economy Fund to Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC) to support the decarbonization of ...

Aug 29 (Reuters) - South Africa's Kumba Iron Ore (KIOJ.J), opens new tab will invest an additional 7.6 billion rand ($428 million) in processing technology that will treble premium quality production ...