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Yet again I find myself on a hunting trip. Somewhere in my apartment I have a large chunk of Magnatite ore - a really high quality iron ore that was mined in New Jersey until the Mesabi Iron Range was discovered and was easier to extract. So high in iron content is this ore that a magnet actually sticks to the rock. This particular chunk I found in Chester, New Jersey at the foot of an abandoned 19th century blast furnace. But I can't find it now. In the picture to the left is a piece of limestone that I found at the same time. You can see on one side of the limestone a glassy deposit of slag. The point of finding the iron was to illustrate a long blog entry on the making of iron. Which will have to wait until I find the iron. I also have a chunk of coal too which I can't find.
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I sympathize 100% -- I'm also losing things here due to hastily moving them out
of range of "the boy." I can't wait to build him his own workbench, though.
-Andy