This story is part of The Montana Gap project, produced in partnership with the Solutions Journalism Network. It’s hard to imagine Anaconda without slag heaps. Driving into town, they’re the first ...

The asphalt paving industry in the United States has matured and improved due to the foresight of agencies, road builders/contractors, academic researchers, material suppliers, and consultants in our ...

Heidelberg Materials North America has moved towards sustainability by turning one of its cement plants into a slag grinding facility. Slag is often disregarded as a waste product from metals during ...

The behaviour of slag viscosity is critical to optimising metallurgical processes, with composition emerging as a key parameter in designing and controlling operational efficiency. Slags, complex ...

Scientists are exploring whether a legacy of the UK’s polluting industrial past, the dozens of slag heaps that dot the country, could chart the way to a cleaner future by slowing climate change. Since ...

Australian scientists are trying to close the loop on steel waste and sewage wastewater. When they made new concrete using these waste materials, the results were 17 percent stronger than concrete ...

Around 5,000 years ago, people in what is now Iran began turning dull stone into shining metal. By heating copper ore until ...

Specialized heavy vehicles always amazes me. There are countless highly specific vehicles, designed to do incredibly difficult jobs, that most of us have never heard of. Before today, I didn’t even ...