Sometimes, science can take an unexpected turn. While trying to develop a new kind of high temperature storage battery, MIT researchers accidentally stumbled upon a new, more efficient process for ...

MIT researchers were conducting experiments with the aim of building better batteries when they discovered something different instead: a new and better way to smelt metal. Study researcher Donald ...

The lead smelting process is getting greener thanks to new technology unveiled recently by The Doe Run Company. As one of the world’s largest lead producers, Missouri-based Doe Run has introduced a ...

Copper smelting is an intricate high‐temperature process that converts copper concentrates into purer metallic copper through a series of chemical and thermal reactions. Central to modern smelting ...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa Corporation (NYSE: AA) and Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO) today announced a revolutionary process to make aluminum that produces oxygen and eliminates all direct greenhouse ...

The aluminum used in Apple products ranging from iPhones to MacBooks could be more sustainably manufactured in as early as six years. The first aluminum manufactured with the new process Apple today ...

A new process creates the metal without its usual emissions and Apple—which uses lots of it in their phones and computers—is investing to help create more. Aluminum is abundant in more things than ...

Some of our best discoveries are made by accident and, in the most recent case, a team of MIT researchers stumbled upon a method of smelting metals that could drastically reduce the carbon emissions ...

MONTREAL, May 10 2018 /CNW Telbec/ - Rio Tinto and Alcoa Corporation today announced a revolutionary process to make aluminium that produces oxygen and eliminates all direct greenhouse gas emissions ...