In fact, the oldest known iron artifacts, a set of 5,000-year-old beads from northern Egypt, also came from meteoric iron.

Unusual shape: iron-nickel meteorites are rarely rounded. Instead, they have an irregular shape with unusual pits like finger prints in their surface called “regmaglypts.” Fusion crust: stony ...

A year later, he did just that (OK, not the horse part). He gathered iron ore from surface deposits near his England home, smelted and hammered it into bars with a handmade clay forge, and ...

Many scholars would say the Iron Age began about 3,300 years ago in Anatolia, where the Hittites invented a method for extracting metallic iron from earthly ore minerals such as hematite.

Amidst a cache of glittering golden treasures from the Iberian Bronze Age, a pair of corroded objects might be the most precious of all.

Iron ore could fall further, but a floor price of $80/t is likely to underwrite the profits of the world’s biggest miners, which might mean that they will reclaim some of their recent share ...

The findings suggested that iron meteorites were the only source of that metal until the discovery of smelting iron from terrestrial iron ore, probably in Anatolia and the Caucasus around 3,200 ...

They found that the objects used iron from both smelted ore as well as a meteorite. The smelted iron, scientists suspect was obtained by trade, possibly from the south-west ores likely from either ...

Iron ore fell for a second day, as traders watched for any progress from US-China trade talks and potential stimulus from Beijing that could reignite demand for the steelmaking staple.

Iron meteorites are 3.5 times as heavy as a typical Earth rock. ... Slag is probably the most common meteor-wrong, but there’s also basalt, iron ore, coal, chunks of asphalt, ...

Because iron ore with such a high nickel content does not exist on Earth, it was suggested that the iron used in these pieces of jewelry may have been an ' iron meteorite,' a meteorite composed of ...