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Primitive technology has put out several videos about smelting iron, it's very interesting! It shows how labour and energy intensive it is. The quantity of charcoal he uses to obtain few grams of iron !
The fact that he's not even working with ore is wild too. The guy just gathers some orange slime from a river and then turns it into a working knife
Slime instead of ore and charcoal instead of coal, he is making iron on the hardest difficulty setting
He literally only works with what he can gather and make himself from the area he works in, which is a forest in the north of Queensland, Australia. So the charcoal is made from the local trees in a furnace made from clay from the banks of the nearby river, and the slime is iron bacteria that grow in the river
I know that, I watch all his videos
Well I didn't know that
Oh my bad, I misinterpreted your comment
I'm here for that. He's the G all the lil blacksmiths wanna be...
It is probably the first source of iron used by humans. These sludge/mud sources are pretty clean concentrated sources of iron oxides because of how they form.
It is just easiest way to make iron, they aren't used now because there's not much iron in them.
I love that channel!! I only recently learned you can turn on Closed Captioning and he talks about what he's doing by text.
Yes, that's very cool. It's a great way to make the video more informative without disturbing the peaceful atmosphere.