Ranchi: There was a time when the smelting of iron was the primary source of livelihood of the Asuras, a primitive tribe of Jharkhand. But now, state apathy, introduction of modern technology and ...

U.S. Steel’s notoriously outdated Edgar Thomson Works handles the molten substance left behind by smelting iron ore the same way it did 150 years ago: by dumping it into slag pits. They’re as low-tech ...

The ingenious minds at Primitive Technology extract iron from natural bacteria to create raw iron prills in a primitive smelting process. Iran's president issues open letter to the American public ...