LONDON, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Global copper smelting activity was largely flat in August, with a rebound in top refined producer China offset by weak readings elsewhere, data from satellite surveillance ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -JX Advanced Metals will likely cut copper production by tens of thousands of metric tons in fiscal 2025 from earlier plans and unveil a roadmap to scale down smelting capacity by ...

The Energy Department’s arm for radical innovation is taking aim at the difficult-to-decarbonize process of turning ores into metals. “We need to be able to provide those metals, but we have to do so ...

BARCELONA, Sept 13 (Reuters) - China Hongqiao Group (1378.HK), opens new tab has fired up 1.5 million metric tons of aluminium smelting capacity in the country's southwest where it aims to move 4 ...

BEIJING, Sept 25 (Reuters) - China, the world's biggest copper smelter, is studying ways to strengthen regulation on the expansion of smelting capacity, a state news outlet said on Thursday, as record ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The copper smelting industry is under growing pressure as plants around the world struggle to compete with the ...