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Processing Minerals into
Metals-History & Present

This month we met at
Greenbank Mill

At Our Meeting: Monday, January 8, 2007

Location: Greenbank Mill, Prices Corner, Wilmington, DE

Program:   "Processing Minerals into Metals-History and Present", presented by Brownell Ferry

Here's a brief summary:

We started the presentation at the end of the Stone Age with a fascinating  history when humans first learned how to make metals from minerals.   We then reviewed the Eastern Pennsylvania Colonial iron making at the end of the 1700's when a housing boom resulted in a high demand for wrought iron nails and other iron products.  From there we proceeded to the making of liquid steel.  Finally we reviewed the atomic chemistry on the amazing phenomenon of blacksmith hot forging bonding of wrought iron parts and the cold forming of sheet steel into complex automotive parts.

Brownell also brought some display items including a 1700's trading ax.

Glad you could make it for an entertaining and informative evening.

Refreshments:  Sophie Homesy

Program ReviewMembers, here's your chance to write for the club webpages!  If you enjoyed Brownie's presentation, we invite you to write a brief review.  Thanks, Ken.

 

Thanks again to Brownell Ferry for a most interesting presentation on iron and steel making, and it's history. It's something I've long wondered about but never bothered to find out.

I've now got a crucible, copper ore and charcoal, and if I can find some iron oxide for flux, I'll give it a try. I wonder if good-old Chesapeake goethite would work.    --Tom

 

 

 

    

[Ken Casey]

 

 

 

Past Programs

"Annual Holiday Party & Silent Auction"

"The Colors of Fluorite" by Ken Casey

"Preserving the Past: How to Manage Fossil Collections" by Jenn Anné

"Alaska" by Alex Kane and Tom Pankratz

"Mazon Creek Fossils" by Gene Hartstein

"Pearls" by Nancy Marks

"Mines & Minerals of Rush, Arkansas" by Eric Meier

"Faceting" by Tom Pankratz

Eric Meier's North American Collecting Locales

Holiday Party & Silent Auction

Joey Hatcher's "Maastrichtian Dinosaur Ecology of the Hell Creek Formation of Eastern Montana"

The Geology of Turkey

How to Buy & Sell on E-Bay

Ed Rowse's Trips to Peru, Ukraine & CA

Irenee du Pont Mineral Museum, U. of D.

Larry Krause's Collection

"Rhodochrosite: Red Treasure of the Rockies"

Don Miller's "Fossilpalooza!"

Eric Meier's "Tool Time at the Rock Club"

 

This page last updated:  December 24, 2007 04:41:22 PM

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