[Rockhounds] Bog Iron in the Northeast

[pmodreski at aol.com]

Well, good luck to them!  I'll bet there's a difficulty with scale in making iron--a bigger furnace, keeps heat in better, allows the furnace and its charge to get hot enough to really react and smelt the iron.  A small-scale furnace would probably be harder to achieve the really high temperature needed, losing heat faster.  But I'm sure they are checking all this out!


Pete



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I'm not doing it myself.  A group that I am involved with has used material simulating bog iron.  The thought was it might be interested to find and use the real thing.  It's small scale.


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Wow, Ron, you're really going to try to build & operate a working iron furnace? That's quite a job, isn't it?  (Even for small scale & just one batch.)They had a lot of family-run iron furnaces in China during the Mao era, I understand (never worked out very practically).Pete


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-------- Original message --------From: THE HAMMER <hammerron at hotmail.com> Date: 7/15/18  11:14 AM  (GMT-07:00) To: Rockhound List <rockhounds at rockhounds.drizzle.com> Subject: [Rockhounds] Bog Iron in the Northeast
Hello,


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.


Ron