We Struck it Rich! (Iron Ore)
In which JB and JF find gobs of magnetite near Old Irontown in southern Utah and basically lose their minds from the awesomeness.
More seriously, the history of the old Iron Mission is incredible. The Latter-day Saints who settled Utah did so several decades before the transcontinental railroad connected what is now Utah with the civilized world. The Pioneers had two choices: import raw iron by wagon from Saint Louis across hostile territory and at huge expense, or make their own. And for 6 years, they managed to run a self-sufficient iron refinery and foundry in this corner of Utah.
Texas has some interesting clay material – in Dallas you have normal clay and shale all over but when you go to Tyler the iron in the soil spikes and you start finding little pebbles that are drawn even to weak permanent magnets and the soil has so much iron that clay from where trees are breaking down (assuming perfect decomposition) is anywhere from dark red to having a rusty tinge – unfortunately unlike these people I cannot do much due to 1 lack of available materials as a result of my young age and 2 restrictions on fires during dry weather not to mention while the clay is good for making iron it is not useful for building a foundry or bloomery due to moisture and heat shrinking causing cracks though that could be solved with a slightly different type of bloomery schematic I have come up with – the most efficient method to remove bit’s of silica from the iron would be to melt some sand with it but I am not yet very knowledgeable about what materials work best for bloomeries and foundries I think adding a layer of firebrick or insulation at the bottom of the pit in the schematic I came up with would be useful though Im more interested in the possibility of a foundary than a bloomary – also charcoal mixes with iron to make steel and cast iron correct? if so how come graphite crucibles don’t do the same? — it seems this comment is poorly formatted so I will stop now but I will soon make a well formatted list of agustments to make to create a efficient foundary with somewhat pure iron (depending on if the ore is contaminated with other metals) one source of somewhat pure iron are pyrite crystals though beware when pyrite decomposes it can release toxic sulfur oxide fumes – end of comment
You’re just 2 grown up kids. Love it!
So were those tailings, or was it just like that naturally on the side of the road?
Excited and looking forward to the primitive tool making content.
Load up the Mustang until the suspension bottoms out.
I would like to see and all encompassing video of making iron in multiple ways
Thanks again that was awesome to see keep up the good work we love you guys,,,
Cant wait for the smelting video!
How come the iron ore is black? Why wouldn’t it have absorbed oxygen and turned red with rust?
looking forward to your future success
Lmao I love your jokes
You should go out there with a wheel barrow and some of those big magnets they sell for Magnet Fishing rather than bending down to pick the small stuff up by hand.
Would that be the "mother lode"?
You guys should try roasting the iron ore before smelting. Check out The Fires of Guedelon ep. 7 on youtube.
ompa ompa ompa omp
The white coating looks like a lichen. That area probably has some fairly well adapted and specific species (s)…
Yeah sick
dude raising the roof at the beginning made me lol
The simple joys of picking up rocks 🙂
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Gunna hafta make yourself a smithy now! ~( ‘w’)/
So what if you go there with one of those giant electromagnets used to move cars in junkyards?
There is a giant untapped vein of iron over where my old family farm was.
Dam claim jumpers
You still have subscribers because of the authentic passion.
This may seem stupid but, I wonder how much ore ya can get, in cash-terms, in one go ? I stink at math, so i figured “What’s the harm in asking ?”.
What the What?!? That’s great!
How
Awesome!
you could buy a new car
In the future? As in not June?
So when u gonna collect diamonds with Ur iron pickaxe??
If I got one I would make a machete
Looking forward to the smelt video. Should be pretty interesting. I’d be interested in seeing a bit more of the process if you are willing to film it. Even as a montage or something.
The joy in your eyes is simply magnetising.
Hehehehe, that Julian Smith reference at the end.
I have one…
I’m from Bhutan asia county
The stone which attack magnet
It’s smooth and more mass
I want to know suggestions
About the price of the stone..
My only question is why it took you so long to go there. I mean it’s called Iron County after all.
Low fuel…. ?
This is epic.
"I don’t know why we still have subscribers" because you are *so excited* about finding black rocks on the ground it temporarily turned both of you into idiots… we’re here for the enthusiasm, the terrible puns are just a side product of that. I’m looking forward to the smelting videos and more giddiness.
Get a yard salvage magnet and a dump truck [HOP HOP HOP!]
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"It’s a Christmas miracle"…. funny considering I’m watching this, not in June but at Christmas.
Oh… are Euro Cents steel too… I thought only England was cheap enough to make it’s "copper" money out of steel.
I subscribe for the comedy
I can hear the iron ore detector in the Mustang beeping 😁
What did you mean by prefluxed???
Where do you get that iron????????
Try a bellows like the inflation bags on those new camping air mattresses
What will be your first furnace design?
I found dark rocks of about a kilogram each that has a kind of magnetic properties,
its doesn’t really attract of repels but you bring it close you feel a kind of two forces acting simultaneously
when i use my digital multimeter on it i got a resistance reading
I dont have any tools to analyze it more
can someone give more insight on it please