Iron meteorites are meteorites that consist overwhelmingly of an iron–nickel alloy known as meteoric iron that usually consists of two mineral phases, kamacite and taenite. Iron meteorites originate from planetary cores of planetesimals.
Iron meteorites, or their meteoric iron was one of the earliest sources of usable iron available to humans, before the development of smelting which signaled the beginning of the iron age.
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