As the name suggests, these are made of rock. Only about 6 per cent of meteorites in collections around the world are iron-rich – these are rare and rather special beasts. They are thought to ...

“Maybe the first people were working with slags, but to go from slag ... the iron, but none have been preserved or identified. This field is home to some of the world’s largest meteorite ...

Archaeologists in Poland uncovered 26 iron objects made from a single meteorite. The artifacts, discovered during excavations at two early Iron Age cemeteries—Częstochowa-Raków and ...

Iron meteorites may be large (hundreds of kg ... While it was known that the meteoric iron had been mixed with slag iron, the analysis revealed faint banding patterns on the metal.