Iron Smelting

MEDIEVAL IRON PRODUCTION IN MONTFERLAND
JAN DEN OUDEN

So this is how the ancient smelted iron. (◠o◠) ما شاء الله

And so now I know what they were talking about [PDF | REF] ha ha. And see the clay oven, it is called bloomery [WIKI | REF] - isn't it like the tanoor ... And can you get the iron ore from digging laterite? Does this mean, if there's tons of laterite on some hill, there's tons of iron? Is the redness of the ore, the rust?

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

ولقد آتينا داود منا فضلا ياجبال أوبي معه والطير وألنا له الحديد
أن اعمل سابغات وقدر في السرد واعملوا صالحا إني بما تعملون بصير
... ولسليمان الريح غدوها شهر ورواحها شهر وأسلنا له عين القطر

And We certainly gave David from Us bounty. "O mountains, repeat (Our) praises with him and the birds." And We made pliable for him iron. "Make full coats of mail and calculate (precisely) the links, and work righteousness. Indeed I, of what you do, am Seeing. And to Solomon the wind - its morning a month - and its afternoon a month, and We made flow for him a spring of (liquid) copper..." [Partial Holy Quran 34:10-12]

آتوني زبر الحديد حتى إذا ساوى بين الصدفين قال انفخوا
حتى إذا جعله نارا قال آتوني أفرغ عليه قطرا

"Bring me sheets of iron." Until when he had leveled (them) between the two mountain walls he said, "Blow (with bellows)". Until when he had made it (like) fire he said, "Bring me, that I may pour over it molten copper." [Holy Quran 18:96]

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Rocks, Gems

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Millenium BC

Ben David