President Donald Trump directed the Secretary of Commerce this week to investigate the "national security risks" posed by our increasing dependence on imported copper and consider possible ways to ...

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At a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, a gray liquid swirls vigorously inside a reactor the size of a small watermelon. Here, scientists with the mining technology startup Still Bright are using a ...

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No matter how many syllables you use to say it, aluminum is one of the most useful industrial metals we have. Lightweight, strong, easily alloyed, highly conductive, and easy to machine, cast, and ...

ELECTRIC steel melting and refining is now an established industry, but the electric smelting of pig-iron from the ore has recently entered on a new phase, namely, the commercially successful. The ...