The use of cupellation, a process developed before the rise of Rome, would extract copper from gold and silver, or an alloy called electrum.
42.
Silver is found in native form, as an alloy with gold ( electrum ), and in ores containing sulfur, arsenic, antimony or chlorine.
43.
The oldest known expedition to the Land of Punt was organized by Sahure, which apparently yielded a quantity of myrrh, along with malachite and electrum.
44.
After electrum was determined to be a combination of silver and gold, the relations Tin : Jupiter and Mercury : Mercury were substituted into the previous sequence.
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Silver is found in native form, as an alloy with gold ( electrum ), and in ores containing sulfur, arsenic, antimony, or chlorine.
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Its exploration arm, Electrum Ltd ., which he co-founded with Dr . Larry Buchanan, owns a diversified international portfolio of gold exploration assets.
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Alexios reformed the whole Byzantine coinage in 1092 and eliminated the gold / electrum " tetarteron " and gold / electrum " histamenon ".
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Alexios reformed the whole Byzantine coinage in 1092 and eliminated the gold / electrum " tetarteron " and gold / electrum " histamenon ".
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The bell is of a different, thinner material : an electrum-like alloy of gold, between 0.1 and 0.13 mm thick.
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And there was certainly trade in amber ( " electrum " ) so yes-the trade appears to have been through modern Germany thence into northern Italy.
