In this video, we focus on recycling copper from old broken electric motors into usable materials. The process includes extracting copper wires, melting the copper, casting ingots, forging them to ...

Global consulting firm says recovering copper from discarded consumer electronics can help narrow a predicted global copper supply gap. McKinsey & Co. cites as one of its “three main challenges” the ...

About 5,000 years ago, people living in what is now Iran began extracting copper from rock by processing ore, an activity known as smelting. This monumental shift gave them a powerful new technology ...