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
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.
Edit: I mean they are small
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.
Ha, me'tal gymnastics.
Beautiful!
Cave man. Pssh. Gimme a nice, old-fashioned fertility goddess any day. If it was good enough for gramps, it's good enough for me.
Pic for reference.
now do titanium
Sorry but you have to ask fellow cave scientists in CASA
Forgot where you need super rare tin ore.
