Can you forge iron from oxide dust?

I've been looking over the internet and on here to find some kind of evidence for this, but nothing conclusive, so I was hoping for people with a better understanding of smelting, chemistry and physics to help me.

Could an early people with relatively little access to iron mines use iron oxide dust (such as ochre/ocre or"¦Â well"¦Â whatever you would call the red dust on Mars) to smelt/forge iron objects, including weapons.

If I understand correctly iron ore is technically oxidised so that should be a possibility, right?

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