BHP News: Rio Tinto (RIO) Invests in R&D Facility for BioIron Testing - 5th Jun 2024, 3:37am

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Rio Tinto RIO announced that it will invest $143 million to develop a research and development facility in Western Australia to test the effectiveness of its breakthrough low-carbon ironmaking process, BioIron.

BioIron uses raw biomass material produced from agricultural by-products instead of metallurgical coal and is heated using a combination of gas released by the biomass and high-efficiency microwaves powered by renewable energy, which turns the iron ore into metallic iron. This process us...

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