Iron ore

Iron ore Manufactured Resource Resources hematite, magnetite or taconite Tools stone, bronze or regular hammer, or sledgehammer or bronze sledgehammer Machinery stone table or work bench Skill Mining Methods of  manufacturing Method Amount stone table or work bench 750g hematite, stone, bronze or regular hammer 525 stone table or work bench 1000g taconite, stone, bronze or regular hammer 650 stone table or work bench 1500g magnetite, stone, bronze or regular hammer 1080 stone table or work bench 1500g hematite, sledgehammer or bronze sledgehammer 1050 stone table or work bench 2000g taconite, sledgehammer or bronze sledgehammer 1300 stone table or work bench 3000g magnetite, sledgehammer or bronze sledgehammer 2160

Made by crushing either hematite, magnetite or taconite on either a stone table or work bench using either a hammer (stone, bronze or regular hammer) or sledgehammer (sledgehammer or bronze sledgehammer).

Hammers and sledgehammmers are not interchangeable in crushing projects. A project with a sledgehammer will process twice as much material per day.

Used for making iron in a smelting furnace or primitive smelting furnace.

Comparison of iron ore from different minerals

Material	Amount needed for 1kg of iron ore	Yield for 1 day of mining	Amount of iron ore from 1 day of mining	Processing time (with sledgehammer)
hematite	1428.5g	750g (manual) 6000g (fastest)	525g (manual mining) 4200g (fastest mining)	.5 days 4 days
magnetite	1388.9g	750g (manual) 6000g (fastest)	540g (manual mining) 4320g (fastest mining)	.25 days 2 days
taconite	1538.5g	1500 (manual) 12,000g (fastest)	975g (manual mining) 7800g (fastest mining)	.75 days 6 days

Note: Processing time with regular hammer is double the number of days.