2009年11月30日 · Hello! I live in a region that is rich in bog iron. During the 18-19 century a lot of this ore was mined here for the various high furnaces in operation. From what I could gather in various books as soon as the 17 century it was considered an exellent ore with a low phosphorus and high iron conte...

2009年7月3日 · Siderite is an iron carbonate that can be smelted (it was the chief ore used in the Noricum region, what we now call Styria, in the Germany/Austria/Slovenia area) The ancient Styrian furnace is the same thing as the tall-stack bloomeries we are now using to …

2009年7月1日 · This stuff is called "Gold Ore" in Colorado, and is supposed to have iron in it ( thus the reason it turns dark upon weathering ). Does anyone know if it really is iron, and if so, what form might it be in and if recovery for smelting is a viable option? A closer view: How it stains cement when a...

2020年2月24日 · The only iron ore within 5 hours of me is just plain black sand, not too many impurities but no phosphorus. Which means it's literally good for everything except for high phosphorus iron.

2013年11月7日 · I highly recommend this video to anyone interested in traditional ore smelting processes, or smelting history. The video follows an African smith tribe whose elders used to smelt ore on a regular basis but had not done so in over 60 years. As my blacksmithing instructor would say, "They didn't just start from scratch, they started from itch!"

2014年1月31日 · I'v been thinking about making tamahagane for awile, but I dont know too much about it. I know the main concept of how to make it, what materials to use, and how to make the furnace. but I don'd know where to get the materials, the ratio if coal to iron-sand, or how to tell when the steel is done...

2024年2月14日 · Members 17 Gender:Male Location:Former Royal powder mill of Louis XIV in Saint-Chamas in the South of France Interests:I like forged, used materials that have a story. Create my own steel from iron ore, and so much in the blacksmithing world

2007年7月3日 · And, above all, the mount iron sand, so called "Masa" is the most useful in metallurgical usages. And in this investigation, the author studied those iron sands for pre-treatment including magnetic separation and pelletizing, and proved the effect of titanium and vanadium on smelting and properties of iron.

2024年4月18日 · Members 17 Gender:Male Location:Former Royal powder mill of Louis XIV in Saint-Chamas in the South of France Interests:I like forged, used materials that have a story. Create my own steel from iron ore, and so much in the blacksmithing world

2018年12月25日 · I should also mention this is how some types of iron ore are produced in a relatively short time. Bog ore, for instance. You can clean out an iron bog and it will replenish itself in a couple of years. Siderite (iron carbonate) forms as sheet deposits over a few years where the geology is right. Anywhere there are hot springs there is the ability to produce a "petrified" …