[Rockhounds] Bog Iron in the Northeast

[Paul]

Ron asked:

 >Would anyone know if there are any localities
 >of bog iron that would be open to collectors in
 >the northeast United States? Hoping that
 >there would be enough ore available on site
 >to be able to smelt a generous amount of
 >bloom iron.

You might contact the coauthors of the below poster

Bog iron formation in the Nassawango Watershed,
Maryland by OP Bricker, NS Simon, WL Newell, I
Clark - 2003
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.400.3766&rep=rep1&type=pdf
https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-346/of03-346.pdf

Their email addresses are at the end of:

https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-346/

Also, two references from the above posters
that might have some useful formation are:

Singewald, J.T., Jr. (1911). Report on the
iron ores of Maryland. Maryland Geological
Survey Special Publication, Volume IX, Part
III. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore,
337 p.

Starkey, J.A., Jr. (1962). The bog ore and
bog iron industry of south New Jersey.
New Jersey Acad. Sci. 7, p. 5-8.

Yours,

Paul H.