[TheForge] refining of hematite and.od black sand

[Paul N]

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**Paul

GRAF wrote:
> Sand could be the flux.
> 
> Mike Graf
> 
> David Childress wrote:
>> Got a call from the pres. of the prospecting group.  Said he saw
>> something on the history channel this week about a swordmaker, Paul
>> Champaign?, making swords and starting with magnetite sand.  The pres.
>> hought he just used sand and charcoal, no flux.  I will have to do
>> some research.
>>
>> David Childress
>>
>> On 11/9/08, Andy Gladish <gladish at cablerocket.com> wrote:
>>  
>>> There was something on one of the History channel things about a smith
>>> in...Maine or elsewhere in New England who did this- fairly sure I 
>>> saw the
>>> note about it on this list, perhaps two years ago. Swordsmith, 
>>> collected the
>>> "ore" and made swords the Japanese way, carbonizing some of it and using
>>> some as plain iron.
>>> Anyone remember any particulars? A google search didn't turn up 
>>> anything...
>>>
>>>
>>>    
>>>>> I have been contacted by a prospecting group that wants to make
>>>>> something useful out of the blacksand and hematite that they get
>>>>> trying to find gold.  I am going to present to them what I know, but I
>>>>> have never dealt with this form of "ore".  I would think that you
>>>>> could make wrought or pure iron with a bloomery.  Is there anything
>>>>> special that you would have to do because of the particle size?  This
>>>>> soulds like a fun project but I do not need too many failed attempts.
>>>>> Anybody know about this?
>>>>>
>>>>> David Childress
>>>>> Rocky Forge Blacksmith Guild
>>>>>
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