Algeria’s largest iron ore mine started production this week amidst hopes it would turn the North African OPEC member into an iron exporter. Gâra Djebilet mine in the western Tindouf province contains ...

Rhys Morris, from the School of Physics' Astrophysics group, is part of an international collaboration that have made an unexpected discovery of a massive bar of Iron crossing the Ring Nebula. The bar ...

A version of this story first appeared on Minnesota Public Radio. Hundreds of people stood in a long line that snaked outside the offices of Mesabi Metallics in Nashwauk, Minnesota, last month, ...

Underneath a ridge in the southern highlands of Guinea, a west African country of 14m people, lies one of the world’s biggest deposits of iron ore. Mining of the 3bn-tonne deposit, which would be ...

China’s state-run iron ore buyer told the nation’s major steel producers and traders to stop purchasing a second type of ore from BHP Group, as contract talks with the world’s top miners drag on. The ...

Welcome to our guide to the commodities driving the global economy. Today, reporter Thomas Biesheuvel looks at the long-awaited startup of a major mine in Africa. Just a few years ago, Morebaya was ...

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The ammonia-powered Green Pioneer is an emblem of Fortescue's climate ambitions - Copyright AFP Issam AHMED The ammonia-powered Green Pioneer is an emblem of ...

Rio Tinto has suspended all activities at its Simandou iron-ore project in Guinea following the death of a worker there, the mining giant said. An employee of a contracting company died at the SimFer ...

As much as we’d like to pretend otherwise, not all films are family-friendly. What’s worse is that many movies merely masquerade as being fun for children of all ages, when in reality, they’re trauma ...

NOW IT’S AT PITTSBURGH’S SOUTH SIDE FLATS NEIGHBORHOOD, WHERE YOU NOTICE A NEW SIGN OVERLOOKING THE NEIGHBORHOOD. TAKE A LOOK. THIS IS THE OLD CLOCK AT THE OLD DUQUESNE BREWERY. YOU CAN SEE IT NOW ...

CASCADIA, Ore. — This week, we escape the hustle and bustle of the daily grind on a gas tank getaway to a wildflower bonanza along the trail to Oregon’s “Iron Giant.” On a dreamy summer morning, the ...