Iron in Ancient India c8.s1.13

c8.s1.13

Heyne in his "Tracts" gives an account of iron manufacture as he saw in the Northern Circars which he visited in 1794, also at Yeragutty near Satgur and at Ramanakapetta near Nuzid.¹ At the first place the ores employed were a kind of iron-stone having the appearance of yellow and brown ochre. At the second place the ores were a kind of "fine black sand found in small rivulets or nullahs that derive their source from the neighbouring mountains"—a "sub-species of micaceous iron ore" very rich in iron and attracted powerfully by the magnet. In the third place the ores used were hæmatites.