Gold Nuggets
The literature on the mineral geochemistry of placer gold in the
mineralogical literature is vaste with significant contributions
published over the last few years in the Transactions of the
Institution of Mining and Metallurgy Section B Applied Earth
Sciences. Leake et al especially.
Some words of caution on the use of placer gold material as
sources of gold work are given in Ixer . Ore geology. ores and
Archaeological provenance in 'Metals in Antiquity' 1999Young et al
eds. The gold refs in that paper will lead you to the key (only
British Isles material mineralogical refs.
R.A.Ixer
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Dr R. A. Ixer
School of Earth Sciences Email: [log in to unmask]
University of Birmingham Tel: 0121 414 4179
Edgbaston Fax : 0121 414 3971
Birmingham B15 2TT
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