Iron bar

Iron is a type of metal formed through the smelting of iron ore. If you smith the resulting iron bar on an anvil, you can create certain weapons and armor depending on how many iron bars you have and what your smithing level is.

Iron has a 50% chance of failing to smelt the ore into a bar, and is reccommended to use Rings of Smithing (enchanted ruby rings) to pbtain an 100% success rate.