PERTH, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Australia’s two largest iron ore miners and its biggest steelmaker have selected the Kwinana Industrial Area, south of Perth, as the location to develop Australia’s ...

NeoSmelt, a collaboration between steelmaker BlueScope, and iron-ore producers BHP and Rio Tinto. NeoSmelt welcomed two new equity participants – Woodside Energy and Mitsui Iron Ore Development – to ...

RIO, BHP and Bluescope, Australia's largest steelmaker, formed the NeoSmelt collaboration in February. This combined BHP and Rio Tinto’s knowledge of Pilbara iron ore with BlueScope’s unique operating ...

Australia's two largest iron ore miners and its biggest steelmaker have decided to develop Australia's largest ironmaking electric smelting furnace pilot plant in the Kwinana Industrial Area, south of ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Perth, Australia, July 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The NeoSmelt consortium has selected Hatch as a major technology ...

The world’s largest steelmaking nation has just switched on a new kind of blast furnace, one that trades coal for hydrogen ...

Iron-ore miners Rio Tinto and BHP Group said they would join with steelmaker BlueScope Steel to consider the development of Australia’s first electric-smelting furnace pilot plant that would make ...

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 ...

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 ...