Iron released from coal combustion and steel production is altering the ecosystem in a critical part of the North Pacific, a ...

Along with nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus, iron is essential for the growth of microscopic phytoplankton in the ocean ...

“Earlier I used a coal iron box which at times led to trouble. The ember would fall on expensive clothes and create holes in them, and the customer would be infuriated. There have been instances ...

The coal mines of the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company were some of the largest employers of convict laborers. Coal mines were dangerous for all workers. Collapsing mines, suffocation ...

The most climate-polluting part, however, is turning this iron ore into steel. Globally, most steel is produced using blast furnaces heated to very high temperatures by burning coal. Iron ore is ...

While most evidence that the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. operated in town is gone, there is a place where visitors can see what this part of Alabama was like in its mining heyday.

In addition to iron ore, the other key steel raw material is metallurgical coal, and it has also shown a somewhat subdued reaction to the escalating tariff war. Singapore Exchange contracts ...

Unlike iron ore, which is dominated by China gobbling up more than 70% of global seaborne volumes, coking coal is a more evenly-spread market with demand centres in both the developed countries of ...

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Coal is poised to replace iron ore as the market’s next source of super profits, according to economists and investors, helped by an ESG-led lack of new supply globally. Already this earnings ...