What is iron ore?

Does anyone know what the proportion of Iron Ore, Limestone and Coke would have been in a 19th century furnace

• I am trying to work out the relative costs of transport of the raw materials for an Iron works furnace in the 19th century .For this I need to know the relative proportions of Iron Ore to Limestone to coke / coal

• Answer:

  check these sites- may help... http://brocross.com/iwps/pages/lime.htm#Iron http://www.greencastlemuseum.org/Local_History/iron_works.htm http://www.p2pays.org/ref/10/09896.pdf