At the northern edge of Chile’s Atacama Desert sits a pile of rocks that’s so big that you can see it from space—and it’s teeming with invisible activity. Billions of microbes are hard at work ...

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In a high-powered announcement, BHP executives were flanked by Premier Peter Malinauskas and three federal cabinet ministers as they unveiled the $840m plans, which include a huge new underground ...

The International Copper Study Group says copper production increased in the first half of 2025, and London-based Earth-i says the trend continues. Earth-i, in a late September press release, says ...

Copper smelters at the site used copper ores that lacked iron. Adding the iron oxide hematite to the furnace helped the copper metal to separate more easily from the impurities in the ore. Credit: Dr.

The story of human progress is often told through the materials we have shaped and mastered. Stone gave way to bronze, bronze to iron, and iron to steel. Each shift brought not just stronger tools but ...

Buried deep in the south Georgia rolling hills, a tiny archaeological site has been rewriting history. Uncovered in the late 1950s, the Kvemo Bolnisi workshop was considered to be one of the ...

Anglo American and Codelco have finalized an agreement to merge operations at their Los Bronces and Andina copper mines, aiming to unlock up to $5 billion in value and increase copper production by ...

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Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich rocks by copper smelters may have sparked the ...