Doug:
The pre-Columbian copper of NA was primarily Native copper. So, are you not
wanting to sort NA Native copper from European-made copper?
Ron Hancock
Doug Weller wrote:
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> On 23/08/1999 at 09:37 Kerstin Eckstein wrote:
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> >Doug
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> >Perhaps you specify what you mean by "distinguish one source of copper
> from
> >the other". Do you want to tell native from smelted copper, or do you want
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> >to find out from which copper deposit the ore originates?
>
> Thanks. The latter. The argument is over whether you can tell if copper in
> Europe comes from North America!
>
> Doug
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