Earlier in this series, we made the case for copper being “the metal that built technology.” Some readers took issue with that statement, noting correctly that meteoric iron and gold were worked long ...

Although progress is often gradual and incremental, on occasion it is both rapid and transformational. More than 250 years ago, a new method for producing an expensive and niche material was developed ...

Titanium is the ninth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, yet products based on pure titanium are uncommon because it's expensive to remove the oxygen from titanium ore. Reducing costs would ...

MOSCOW, Jan 10 (Reuters) - London-listed Aricom Plc plans to launch a $300 million titanium sponge plant in northern China in 2010 and to supply it with ore from its new mine in the Russian Far East, ...