katana steel is made up of varying sources of fine iron ores like his bacteria slime ore. Hakagane is made from red sands or black sands that are iron rich on coasts of japan and were harvested for swordsmithing or other tools. his low temperature iron production produces a similar starting product that japanese swordsmiths then applied ridiculously advanced materials science to (such as: folding the iron to reduce impurities, differential hardening with the use of clay paint on the quench, different layers of hardness to form an inner and outer structure). I sense that next he is going to be refining (blacksmithing) his metal products. I look forward to the iron bacteria katana.