More job site gravel finds.
It’s a composite ore containing iron, copper, and probably some zinc. Possibly other metals. It would have to be tested to verify. Most likely the iron content is well below useful grades.
Grind it to a powder, separate with a magnet, mix with aluminum powder and ignite.
I’m assuming you have at least a few hundred pounds of raw ore to be processed. I’d probably go after the copper rather than the iron, but I have no idea the chemistry needed to do so.
Does a magnet stick to it?
Haven’t tried that yet.
No. Not with that lighter.
Not with that attitude!
You’d need to smelt it first…
And gain a tiny amount of crappy iron, if that even is iron ore
Who smelt it, dealt it.
You can potentially extract the iron, though before you toss it in a diy furnace look into how to pre-process the ore - just putting the stones in a furnace will likely cause them to explode most entertainingly (provided you don’t catch any shrapnel). Chemically refining them is probably a little more feasible than directly smelting them, as it’s far less lossy that way.
If you really want to go down this road, you won’t get much usable metal. This YouTube channel has done it multiple times and shows the full process in several of his videos.
First time I see someone sharing a YouTube channel through its wikipedia page.
Thanks for sharing.Anything to avoid my fellow lemmings from being tracked ;)
PT is also using a method that doesn’t really get high yields of iron by collecting iron bacteria from a nearby river. You’ll probably find a higher concentration of iron in an ore, but this much will still not yield too much if it is iron bearing. It looks kinda like limonite which is iron bearing but I’m no geologist so I can’t be the one to verify.
TIL iron bacteria can be collected for iron
real life stromatolite farming
Maybe you can cast Iron Flesh.
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