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Archaeological Chronology of Gold Mining in Ancient Egypt and Nubian Sudan

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In the basement of the Eastern Deserts of Ancient Egypt and Nubian Sudan primary gold was usually mined in mineralised quartz veins and recovered from a previously ground ore meal through washing it out as a finely visible flitter (Fig. 1.1).

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    Rosemarie Klemm

  2. Dept. of Earth- and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

    Dietrich Klemm

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Klemm, R., Klemm, D. (2013). Archaeological Chronology of Gold Mining in Ancient Egypt and Nubian Sudan. In: Gold and Gold Mining in Ancient Egypt and Nubia. Natural Science in Archaeology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22508-6_1

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