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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ZanathKariashi" data-source="post: 5963212" data-attributes="member: 6696455">Cold Iron IS Meteorite Iron. It's stronger then normal iron due to carbon being naturally fused into it during descent, impact and tectonic pressure, and the nickel in the alloy gives it resistance to corrosion, this is why weapons and tools made of meteor iron continued to seem magical even smelting progressed enough to process iron ore, but was still insufficient to make true steel. It's weaker then modern steel, but potentially as strong as early Medieval steel.In order to be considered Cold Iron, something has to be iron extracted from a meteorite, and then cold forged into whatever shape you're looking for. Smelting it or even heat forging it can potentially ruin it's molecular structure and it becomes either normal iron, or possibly steel if more carbon is added.Cold Iron is THOUGHT to be extracted from deep within the earth due to the fact that large meteorites would burying themselves up further into the earth, then smaller meteorites would and would appear to be large veins of cold iron.</blockquote>