Laurium and the hindered-settling model of ore-concentration: comment
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Nov 12, 2021
Abstract
The proposition by Kepper in 2004 (Historical Metallurgy 38(2)) that concentration of silver/lead ores at Laurium (Greece) in the 4th century BC was achieved by a mechanical hindered-settling system is questioned. An alternative arrangement is proposed, of sloping-floor buddles, as used into the late post-medieval period in western Europe; this is seen as compatible with the features recorded on the ground at Laurium.
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Mulcaster, J 1795 ‘An account of the smelting of lead ore as it is practised in the northern part of England’ (Transcribed by Elizabeth Tylecote) In Bulletin Hist Met Soc 5(2) (1971) 45–62.
Morin D 2005, ‘Les Mines Antiques du Laurion’, Magazine Documentaire BT 1164, 2–29.
Papadimitriou G 2000, ‘Mining and Metallurgical Activities in Ancient Laurium and its impact on the Golden Era of Athens’, in Fell J E, Nicolaou P D and Xydous G D (eds) Book of Proceedings, 5th International Mining History Congress: 12–15 September 2000, Milos Island, Greece (Mylos Conference Centre, Greece), 33–44.
Willies L 1975, ‘The washing of lead ore in Derbyshire during the 19th Century’, Bulletin Peak District Mines Historical Society, 6(2), 53–60 Figs 1–4.
Willies L 1991, ‘Ancient Copper Mining at Wadi Amram, Israel’, Bulletin Peak District Mines Historical Society 11(3), 109–138.
Willies L 1998, ‘Washing fl oors at Winster Pitts, Derbyshire’, Mining History 13(6), 49–57.
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Laurium and the hindered-settling model of ore-concentration: comment. (2021). Historical Metallurgy, 41(2), 87-90. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/211
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Laurium and the hindered-settling model of ore-concentration: comment. (2021). Historical Metallurgy, 41(2), 87-90. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/211