[Artemisia] plague, post-eventuality redux...

[Cat Clark]

1. I own my granddad's ice box!
2. I own my granddad's kerosene stove (does wood too)!
3. I collect my own rocks
4. and smelt them too...

SO, come and play with us next uprising and learn to make your own iron!!!
There may be a bloomery or two between now and then too...

sorry, couldn't resist the opportunity for a little more advertizing...

;-)

if you don't grow it, it has to come out of the ground as a rock and
then processed into something usable

you want scary?  read the medieval and renaissance directions for
making alum, an essential ancient, medieval and modern material,
fundemental to many industrial processes to fix color and control pH,
used as an astringent, deoderant, cosmetic base, antiseptic, medicine
ingredient, flocculent, essential food science substance...   alum is
one of the most important "stuffs" in the world, and most people don't
even know what it is or where it comes from.

in the middle ages, one of most important financial underpinnings of
the Papacy was its monopoly on all Italian alum deposits

so after it all unravels, do you know where you are going to get your
clay for containers, silica for glass, talc and sericite for household
use, magnesite, epsomite, halite and sylvite for medicine,
preservation and food preparation???  hmmm?

and where will you find your copper ores and your smithsonite and
calamine for making brass?  and you cassiterite for making bronze?
did you know that North American is one of the most tin-poor places on
earth?  and than most all of the known american time deposits are all
in nevada???

chemistry...there's a reason you should have paid attention to it in
high school...
geology - something you might want to consider taking sometime soon...

ttfn
Therasia
who doesn't even live in these parts
(but will come and visit to make iron at uprising)