All of these processes start with mineral ores containing iron. Early ones were rare fragments of meteors. “Bog iron,” nodules from iron-rich groundwater in wetlands, became medieval British ...

A method of purification by the use of brown hematite (bog iron ore), to absorb the sulphur compounds, has been employed with success in Europe, and although it is said not to remove the ...

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and tombs using iron probes normally employed for finding ancient trees under areas of deep bog. The farmland is believed to date back almost 6,000 years, the oldest of its kind in the world ...

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