Geology of iron.
What a true geologist would know:


https://geology.com/rocks/iron-ore.shtml#


What is Iron Ore?

Earth's most important iron ore deposits are found in sedimentary rocks. They formed from chemical reactions that combined iron and oxygen in marine and fresh waters. The two most important minerals in these deposits are iron oxides: hematite (Fe2O3) and magnetite (Fe3O4). These iron ores have been mined to produce almost every iron and steel object that we use today - from paper clips to automobiles to the steel beams in skyscrapers.


How Does Iron Ore Form?
Nearly all of Earth's major iron ore deposits are in rocks that formed over 1.8 billion years ago. At that time Earth's oceans contained abundant dissolved iron and almost no dissolved oxygen.

The iron ore deposits began forming when the first organisms capable of photosynthesis began releasing oxygen into the waters. This oxygen immediately combined with the abundant dissolved iron to produce hematite or magnetite.

Jovial Monk wrote on Jan 4^th, 2025 at 7:56pm:


Knobs? Is that the rock you crawled out from under?

https://www.britannica.com/place/Iron-Knob

Iron Knob, town, northeastern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia,
247 miles (397 km) northwest of Adelaide by rail.
It is the centre for one of the richest deposits of iron ore in the Southern Hemisphere.
Mining rights were acquired in 1897, and in 1901 the Broken Hill Proprietary Company, Ltd.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Knob

Mine closure and re-opening

Quarrying for iron at Iron Knob and Iron Monarch ended in 1998.[28] When the quarrying stopped, the town population declined to 200[29] and Iron Knob was under threat of becoming a ghost town. However, due to rising prices of housing elsewhere, the town has attracted new residents seeking low cost residences. A home could be purchased for approximately A$35,000–70,000 and vacant land could be purchased for less than A$15,000.

In 2010, Onesteel (later Arrium) announced that it would return to Iron Knob to reopen the Iron Monarch mine.[28] The Iron Monarch mine was prepared for reopening by Arrium in 2013.[30] As of 2015, both Iron Monarch and Iron Duke continue to produce iron ore for export and for smelting at the Whyalla Steelworks.

Hi Monk,
here are some multiple choice zoology questions to get you started:

The basic unit of biological classification is      

A.GENUS
B.SPECIES
C.PHYLUM
D.ORDER

STUDY OF INSECTS IS CALLED:

A.POMOLOGY
B.MALACOLOGY
C.ENTOMOLOGY
D.Ornithology


Phenetic classification is based on:

A. the ancestral lineage of existing organisms      
B. observable characteristics of existing organisms      
C.Dendrograms based on DNA characteristics      
D.SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS


Study of evolutionary history of an organism

A.Phenetics
B.Phenology
C.Phylogeny
D.Systematics

Monk can't answer 4 little multiple choice questions.   

Cat got your tongue?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mitty#External_links


Mitty is a meek, mild-mannered man with a vivid fantasy life. In a few dozen paragraphs, he imagines himself a wartime pilot, an emergency-room surgeon, and a devil-may-care killer. Although the story has humorous elements, there is a darker and more significant message underlying the text, leading to a more tragic interpretation of the Mitty character. Even in his heroic daydreams, Mitty does not triumph, several fantasies being interrupted before the final one sees Mitty dying bravely in front of a firing squad. In the brief snatches of reality that punctuate Mitty's fantasies, the reader meets well-meaning but insensitive strangers who inadvertently rob Mitty of some of his remaining dignity.

The character's name has come into more general use to refer to an ineffectual dreamer and appears in several dictionaries.[2] The American Heritage Dictionary defines a Walter Mitty as "an ordinary, often ineffectual person who indulges in fantastic daydreams of personal triumphs"