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Bog iron

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bog ore; limonite. See Bog ore, under Bog.

See also: Iron



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Bog iron forms when iron-rich waters" seeping from a bog are exposed to oxygenated air.
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At around this time, this culture discovered how to extract bog iron from the ore in peat bogs.
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The chief attraction is the cluster of old-time stores and buildings that demonstrate what life was like back in the 1840s, when Allaire was a viable bog iron town.
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