Fortescue’s balance sheet is strong, thanks to the elevated iron ore price and accelerated debt repayments. Net debt peaked near USD 10 billion in mid-2013, roughly coinciding with the start of ...

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… ...

Iron ore is bought and sold in different ways: on the spot market for individual, up-front shipments, or via longer-term term contracts linked to daily reference prices. After a halting start ...

Until November 2019, pumping process water to be reused in the processing of iron-ore at iron-ore miner Shougang Hierro Perú’s operation in the country was made difficult by the fact that the ...

This article was originally published with the title “Manufacture of Iron— New Process for Making Wrought-Iron Direct from the Ore” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 8 No. 17 (January ...