If you look at the copper market chart over the past 10 years, it might seem like a perfectly balanced system. Market “bears” ...

Japan’s Mitsubishi Materials Corporation is considering “scaling down” copper concentrate processing at its Onahama Smelting and Refining facility in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture. This initiative ...

Electrochemical copper refining harnesses controlled redox reactions to convert impure blister copper into high-purity metal, chiefly through electrorefining and electrowinning techniques. In ...

At a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, a gray liquid swirls vigorously inside a reactor the size of a small watermelon. Here, scientists with the mining technology startup Still Bright are using a ...

The companies that convert mined concentrate into refined metal are now relying on what comes with the copper for their ...

Still Bright hopes its chemical process could help replace polluting copper smelters. Demand for copper is surging, as is pollution from its dirty production processes. The founders of one startup, ...

Chipmakers are relying on machine learning for electroplating and wafer cleaning at leading-edge process nodes, augmenting traditional fault detection/classification and statistical process control in ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan, Spain and South Korea issued a rare joint statement on Wednesday expressing deep concerns over tumbling copper treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs), warning both smelters ...

Copper is all around us. The metal is both ever-present and invisible in our world. Copper makes reading the words on this screen possible. And the global spread of artificial light, electric power ...