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Ores Sources, Smelters and Archaeometallurgy: Exploring Iron Age Metal Production in the Southern Waterberg, South Africa
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Ores Sources, Smelters and Archaeometallurgy: Exploring Iron Age Metal Production in the Southern Waterberg, South Africa
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From the Mine to the Smelting of Iron Ore. All operations to obtain the bloom include prospecting, collecting where ore extraction, iron ore preparation, furnace construction and reduction of ore in furnaces. Ore Prospecting or Prospecting. In Africa, prospecting methods are varied and very diverse depending on the time, space, and …
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The following are the five largest iron ore mines by production in South Africa in 2023, according to GlobalData's mining database, which tracks more than 33,000 mines and projects from early exploration to closure across more than 150 countries and over 100 commodities.
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MILLER ET AL:IRON SMELTING IN SOUTH AFRICA HM 36(2) 2002 The traded ore was taken to the smelting furnace (nando). The iron smelters were specific people from the community who practised smelting as their craft and made a living from it. They enjoyed particular wealth because they always retained a certain amount of iron for themselves …
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17. IRON-SMELTING IN NIGERIA The region in and around today's Nigeria contains some of the highest concentrations of ancient iron-smelting in Africa (Gaucher, 1981; Darling, 1986; Okafor, 1993; Quéchon, 2000; Eze-Uzomaka, 2009; Clist 2013; de Barros, 1913). This chapter
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African iron smelting technology focuses on melting impurities, which leaves spongy iron metal called a bloom.This solid reduction technology, also known as bloomery technology, achieved temperatures high enough to melt impurities but still below the melting point of iron (1538 °C).Furnace temperature partly depended on the flow of …
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China has a number of iron ore projects in the works in Africa as part of its 'foundation plan' to de-risk its supply of the mineral; For now, the country relies heavily on Australia and ...
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The northern Lowveld (Fig. 1) is in the north-east corner of South Africa, where erosion has exposed the Precambrian basement of the Kaapvaal craton. The Lowveld has a rich archaeological record of settlement during the Late Iron Age (LIA - ca. 1000 cal CE to 1880 CE) linked to exploitation of the salt (Evers, 1974, Antonites, 2013), …
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Haematite mining in Swaziland can be traced back more than 40,000 years, iron smelting dates from 400 AD or earlier, and copper from 900 AD. ... South Africa is also the world's third largest iron ore supplier and the sixth largest coal exporter, both by value. ... Beaumont P (1969) Evidence of iron ore mining in Southern Africa in the …
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Metalworkers had to smelt ore at precise temperatures and then repeatedly hammer and reheat the spongy metal, known as a bloom, that first emerged from their furnaces. The traditional view is that metallurgists in Anatolia, the Asian part of Turkey, were the first to smelt iron ore deliberately, beginning around 1800 B.C.E.
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Find out the names, owners, locations and production estimates of the top five iron ore mines in South Africa, based on GlobalData's mining database. The …
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Exporters will increasingly use road transport to Maputo to avoid using Transnet's rail and port services. The rate of iron ore demand growth is expected to slow, and iron ore supply is forecast to grow at a faster rate than demand, leading to lower iron ore prices. South African iron ore production was expected to decrease marginally in 2023.
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The Bantu Migration from their origins in southern West Africa saw a gradual population movement sweep through the central, eastern, and southern parts of the continent starting in the mid-2nd millennium BCE and finally ending before 1500 CE. With them, the Bantu brought new technologies and skills such as cultivating high-yield crops …
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In 1930 Mrs E.D. Giesekke published, in an obscure missionary journal, an account of indigenous charcoal manufacture, and of the mining, smelting and smithing of iron in the Lowveld region of ...
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ately, not many iron artefacts and only a few iron-smelting sites from the Early Iron Age, lasting from the 4th century A.D. to the 11th century A.D., have been found in South Africa. The Early Iron Age smelting sites discovered are generally characterized by the presence of smelting slag and sometimes ::tlso of tuyere remains and pieces of ...
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Smelting Reduction. Figure 2: The smelt reduction vessel (SRV) is the core technology component of the Hismelt process. Source: RioTinto While years of ironmaking technology innovations have optimized blast furnace productivity, two alternative processes—smelting reduction and direct iron reduction— are growing in adoption. …
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About 80% of the worlds' reserves for platinum group metals (PGMs) are in South Africa's Bushveld Igneous Complex. Processing of PGM involves comminution, flotation, smelting, converting, base metals refinery and precious metals refinery. Due to increasing chrome content in the feed and the challenges associated with operating high …
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The Beeshoek Iron Ore Mine, owned by African Rainbow Minerals, is a surface mine located in Northern Cape. The mine produced an estimated 2.99 MTPA of iron ore in 2020. The mine will operate until 2027. 5. Tshipi Borwa Mine. Owned by Jupiter Mines, the Tshipi Borwa Mine is a surface mine located in Northern Cape. It produced …
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The Origins of iron metallurgy in Africa: new light on its antiquity; West and Central Africa. book. Person as author. Bocoum, Hamady; Series title and vol / issues. Memory of peoples; Mémoire des peuples; Memoria de los pueblos; ISBN. 978-92-3-103807-5; 92-3-103807-9; Collation. 240 p., illus., maps; Language. English;
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Africa south of the Sahara, it now seems, was home to a separate and independent invention of iron metallurgy . . . ... smelting furnace seems sufficient to account for the long time taken for experienced copper smelters to learn how to smelt iron from iron ore. 164. ... (Cambridge, 1975), 9, 48-49, 60-63 (as we have seen, Oliver later changed ...
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The northern Lowveld (Fig. 1) forms the extreme northeast corner of South Africa. It is a low plain bounded to the west by the north-south escarpment, above which lies the Highveld, and to the east by the low Lebombo Hills in modern Mozambique. ... The lower slopes were covered with a blanket of magnetite scree, used as ore for smelting …
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The ore is loaded into a blast furnace along with measured quantities of coke and limestone. Hot combustion air is supplied to the furnace and some form of fuel used to raise the temperature. The iron is reduced from the ore by carbon in the coke, the limestone aiding slag separation from the molten iron. The slag and molten iron are tapped off …
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ArcelorMittal South Africa uses lump iron ore (-25 mm + 8 mm) in their blast furnaces, and fine iron ore (-8 mm + 0.2 mm) is agglomerated in sinter plants before feeding to the …
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Producers of titanium dioxide slag in Canada, South Africa, and Norway smelt ilmenite, a weakly magnetic ore of titanium dioxide and iron oxide (FeTiO 3) in electric furnaces at temperatures ranging from 1650 -1700° C, using either coal or another carbonaceous material as reductant.Titanium dioxide slag is the principal product, with pig iron being a …
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The main factors involved in the primitive smelting of iron (ore, charcoal, temperature, air supply, process control) were evaluated in an experimental furnace that was …
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, " More Evidence for an Advanced Prehistoric Iron Technology in Africa," Journal of Field Archaeology 10 (1983), 428, 432 –34Google Scholar; Goucher, Candice L., " Iron Is Iron 'Til It Is Rust: Trade and Ecology in the Decline of West African Iron-Smelting," JAH 22 (1981), 180 CrossRef Google Scholar; Rustad, John A.
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Manganese is considered a relatively rare metal as concentrations of it in ore of commercial importance are geographically limited. In nature, manganese is found in the form of oxides, carbonates, and silicates. Manganese ores are complex in the sense that they not only consist of a complex oxide mineral assemblage but these minerals are …
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South African steelmakers have minimised the amount of carbon used as far as it is possible. Coal is used as the main carbon-bearing material for steel making. It also serves to generate the high temperatures necessary to smelt the iron ore. Liquid iron is about 1,500 degrees hot when it leaves the furnace.
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The following are the five largest iron ore mines by production in South Africa in 2023, according to GlobalData's mining database, which tracks more than …
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Potential for increasing the role of metallurgy in South Africa. Iron ore. Iron ore produced in South Africa includes haematite-based lump (-25 mm +8 mm) and fine (-8 mm +0.2 mm) products. These products can be utilized by the local iron and steel industry. ... Globally there are many technology developments around the smelting of iron ore ...
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Iron smelting and forging technologies may have existed in West Africa among the Nok culture of Nigeria as early as the sixth century B.C. In the period from 1400 to 1600, iron technology appears to have been one of a series of fundamental social assets that facilitated the growth of significant centralized kingdoms in the western Sudan and along …
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The bloomery iron smelting technologies of this region show several unusual features: (1) all known smelting sites used almost pure oxide ores, requiring the addition of silicate flux to produce slag; (2) some used magnetite-ilmenite ores that produced slags containing up to 25 mass % TiO 2; and (3) iron ore was carried substantial distances to ...
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