Finding iron ore near your locality - Bladesmith's Forum Board
Jul 3, 2009 · East of the Mississippi in the USA, iron ores tend to be residual rocks in sedimentary clay, and except for the occasional igneous intrusion of magnetite such as the Cranberry ore of western North Carolina (and various other highly localized magnetite intrusions in Arkansas, Missouri, New Jersey, and a few other places), you are far more likely ...
Iron ore in "Gold Ore"? - Bladesmith's Forum Board
Jul 1, 2009 · This much I can tell you - Iron Hill has iron alright ( if reports are correct about 10% concentration ), but it's in complexed form mixed with a variety of other minerals including phosphorous, thorium, vanadium, niobium, cerium, and enough titanium to cause problems, with some reports putting samples averaging around 11.5% and other reports ...
Wood Fueled iron ore smelt. - Bladesmith's Forum Board
Feb 2, 2013 · Wood Fueled iron ore smelt. By Mark Green February 2, 2013 in Bloomers and Buttons. Share
iron ore in florida? - Bloomers and Buttons - Bladesmith's Forum …
Mar 19, 2009 · Now then, as far as I know there's no iron ore in Florida, as geologically speaking most of the state dates to about last tuesday. It's limestone and coral rock that's been around just long enough to develop a nice layer of phosphate in the middle. You'd think there could be bog ore in the swamps, but they're the wrong kind of swamp.
African Ore Smelting Video: "From Iron Ore to Iron Hoe"
Nov 7, 2013 · Everything from the gathering of raw materials for the clay, ore and flux, making the charcoal, mixing of the clay, construction of the furnace, drum bellows, and tuyere, to the final smelt and forging of the iron into hoes is done just as it would have been done in the past.
The best iron bearing sand in Japan, (for tamahagane).
Jul 3, 2007 · Sanin district, including the northern part of Yamaguti, Simane and Tottori prefectures, is one of districts noted for iron sand deposits in Japan. The sands may be classified as follows : (1) Mount iron sand, originated in biotite granites and diorites. (2) Beach iron sand in the quaternary period. (3) Terrace iron sand in the tertiary period.
ORIGIN OF IRON - Bloomers and Buttons - Bladesmith's Forum …
Jun 27, 2011 · ORIGIN OF IRON "Iron ore had left the marshes, From the water-beds had risen, Had been carried to the furnace, In the fire the smith had laid it, Laid it in his smelting furnace." My journey to origin of iron, o have I new thoughts and hint of …
Amazing new documentary - Bladesmith's Forum Board
Nov 27, 2017 · There is no evidence, unfortunately, that this source of iron ore ever was used in ancient times to produce crucible steel. The documentary showed that it "was possible" to have made crucible steel from this location, however the high sulphur content in the ore would have required the addition of manganese or repeated roasting of ore and ingots ...
London hammer. - History - Bladesmith's Forum Board
Dec 25, 2018 · They poop Fe2O3. Siderite (aka clay ironstone, blackband, etc.) is produced by fluid transport, where iron-rich water flowing through a carbonate rock environment deposits by evaporation. If the carbonate rock is coal, it's blackband ore, which often is too high in sulfur to be usable. More on fast petrification of modern artifacts:
How to make tamahagane - Bladesmith's Forum Board
Jan 31, 2014 · hey, I just remembered I read somewhere that you can use crushed iron slag insted of iron ore. So you can just find a place that uses iron, and see if you can buy there slag. So now all I need to do is find a way to crush the slag into powder.