Attorney General Gentner Drummond moved to block the construction of a Trump-backed aluminum smelter in Inola, Oklahoma.

Start your own smelting business to make money from scrap metal. Since smelting involves heating metals to the point of liquidation, special permits and safety precautions are required. With the right ...

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 ...

Diversified miner South32’s Hillside Aluminium smelter in Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, could continue operating for another 20 to 30 years if a competitive long-term electricity agreement ...

Traditional metal production is inherently polluting. According to data from Wood Mackenzie’s Emissions Benchmarking Tool, it is currently responsible for 9% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Many ...

Smelt camps line ice along the shore of the Kennebec River in Randolph. Smelting at night is usually more productive. Credit: Courtesy of Christi Holmes It doesn’t get more Maine than smelting.