KABUL, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- An iron-smelting plant worth 200 million U.S. dollars will be opened in Maidan Shar city, the capital of eastern Afghanistan's Wardak province, the state-owned Bakhtar ...

Coking Coal LLC, which provides coal for use in iron smelting and steel fabrication, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last month. Industry leaders speculated decreased demand and supply chain ...

It's not clear how the Bantu gained their skills in iron working. The great smelting tradition of the Kushite Kingdom of Meroe (around 500 BC) did not spread either further west or towards the ...

Over three days and three nights, smelters using ancient techniques shovel roughly 25 tons of iron-bearing river sand and charcoal into the mouth of a tatara, a rectangular clay furnace built ...

A model of a wind-powered furnace newly set up in the Martin Wickramasinghe museum in Koggala brings to life an ancient iron smelting industry. By Renuka Sadanandan, Pix by M.A. Pushpa Kumara ...

Small wonder it's the second-most used metal in the world after iron and demand is set to soar. But aluminum comes at a cost—energy. The four aluminum smelters in Australia consume 10% of the ...