Platinum is often used as a catalyst to speed up industrial electrochemical reactions, such as those involved in wastewater ...

Worries about the Iran war have rocked financial markets, raising concerns that higher oil prices will lead to a global economic slowdown. Copper, one of the more highly cyclical metals, has pulled ...

Uber founder Travis Kalanick has a new company called Atoms focused on robotics that, according to its website, will operate in the food, mining, and transportation industries. Kalanick is rolling his ...

Chinese smelters continue to churn out record quantities of copper, swelling stockpiles and threatening to slow the metal’s powerful gains. Refined copper output is expected to rise to almost 1.2 ...

How do you keep a copper catalyst from losing its oomph? Just add a dusting of platinum, says a new study published in Nature Materials. A team of researchers, including scientists at the Department ...

Almost half a century ago, a remarkable molecule called metallocene took center stage in chemistry, earning Geoffrey Wilkinson and Ernst Otto Fischer the Nobel Prize. These organic compounds, made of ...

Copper prices surged this week to fresh records above $14,000, only to retreat on Friday. Goldman Sachs warns copper could see a reversal in the second quarter, triggered by US trade policy. Others on ...

LONDON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Copper prices spiked to a record high of more than $14,000 a metric ton on Thursday, as speculators extended their buying spree, encouraged by expectations of strong demand ...

Glencore’s GLEN2.39%increase; green up pointing triangle full-year copper production slumped on lower ore grades and recoveries despite a second-half recovery in output. The Anglo-Swiss commodity ...

In context: Forever chemicals are a group of synthetic compounds which don't gets easily broken down in the environment. They persist and accumulate in soil, wildlife, and water, causing some serious ...

CHONGQING, CHINA - JANUARY 19: In this photo illustration, a smartphone displays the logo of Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (NYSE: FCX), an American mining company producing copper, gold and molybdenum, in ...

Jan 15 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto (RIO.L), opens new tab said on Thursday it would supply copper that it leaches from an Arizona mine to Amazon.com (AMZN.O), opens new tab for use in the tech giant's ...