Grassy Mountain Breakdown
Now we know why China suddenly halted building blast furnaces for steelmaking. Crowsnest council's long march into the past cut off by rain of iron.
Uh, oh. Maybe mayor Bliar Painter and his stone-age council should make arrowheads instead.
China screeched the brakes on new coal-fired blast furnaces at the start of 2024. The country said it would permit only electric-arc furnaces for the recycling of ferrous scrap. How, wondered the steel world, would China create new steel from its low-grade but plentiful iron ore. Now we know.
China, today, revealed that an entirely new process for converting iron ore to pure iron has entered commercial production. Powdered iron ore is injected into a hot furnace and in microseconds pure iron liquid precipitates like rain into a barrel.
No blast furnace. No coal. No Grassy Mountain.
South China Morning Post story text . . .
Also: China halts all new coal-fuelled steelmaking
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