I have found lots of information on ancient smelting and forging of metal, but precious little on how these ancient people actually found the metal to work with. Most information points to meteor iron and bog/swamp iron, which yielded very small amounts. How did they (or did they even) prospect for iron veins in the earth, well before the invention of things like metal detectors.
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The first part of [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H-NCgWZZfw&list=PLu5jI_OEKlo-deJv0tlKmZ7ISGg_YHdCY&index=69) by Primitive Skills shows how to find promising rocks to extract iron from.
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