IRON from SAND - Oldest form of iron smelting

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Bloomery forges are the oldest form of smelting iron first used thousands of years ago. In early to mid 2019 a group of volunteers at The Crucible in Oakland, California did a series of smelts to make their own iron from iron-rich sand. This smelted iron was used for an art piece which will be the subject of the next video