Lifting magnets can be one of the more durable pieces of equipment used by scrap metal recyclers, but these ferrous scrap yard workhorses do not last forever. Among the many operations aspects yard ...

Pandemic boredom led people to seek thrills by tossing powerful magnets into lakes and rivers. They found buckets of scrap metal, and the occasional grenade. By Amanda Holpuch Guns, shopping carts and ...

While magnet fishing, I pulled up more than scrap metal. An iPhone X, an iPhone 7 Plus, and a wallet came out of the river. Everything was clearly someone’s personal property. This video documents the ...

Person wearing lab coat, safety goggles, and gloves holds a piece of black paper held by metal clamps Postdoctoral researcher Shichen Xu examines the carbon paper platform that holds powdered magnet ...

THE HUMBLE magnet may not seem to belong alongside steel, microchips and oil as a chess piece in the great diplomatic game. But on April 4th, as part of its retaliation against America’s tariffs, ...

Magnetic equipment maker Eriez says its Recycling Test Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, is providing customers with “a full-scale testing opportunity to separate ferrous and nonferrous materials on the ...