On the issue of the formation of telluric iron from bog ores

Abstract

n 1891, 20 versts northeast of Vologda, near the Church of St. Nicholas of Vozimsky (near Lake Kubinskoe), a piece of iron was found under a peat mass in the thickness of bog ore, shallow from the surface. It was originally coated with a loose coating of ocher and immersed in bog ore; its weight together with ocher was 1100 grams. In some places it was permeated with rust to a certain depth. Freed from the ocher shell, it had the shape of a spherical sector measuring about 10 centimeters wide and about 5 centimeters thick; it was veined and in places contained fine granular inclusions of ocher magnetic ironstone.