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Historic arastra at Old Iron Town highlights early iron-processing technology
Summary
At Old Iron Town in Iron County, Utah State Historic Preservation Officer Chris Merritt described an arastra — a 19th-century European ore-grinding device used in the Intermountain West — and its role in early iron production tied to the settlement of Cedar City and surrounding communities.
Chris Merritt, Utah State Historic Preservation Officer, described an arastra on-site at Old Iron Town in Iron County as an early ore-processing device brought from Spain and used across the Intermountain West.
“This is an arastra,” Merritt said, explaining that the shallow basin would have been filled with powdered sand, limestone and iron…
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