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Gold has been a store of value for major part of human civilization. Gold was known to Egyptians as early as 3100 BCE, and the code of Menes, the founder of the first Egyptian dynasty, describes the value of gold to be two and half times the value of silver. Egyptians also made maps showing the location of gold mines. The Turin Papyrus Map of 1320 BCE shows the plan of a gold mine in Nubia in Egypt. Gold was extracted on a large scale by Romans, who made long aqueducts that enabled them to sluice large alluvial deposits for gold recovery. Now most of the gold is recovered from hard rock ores.
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Lakshmanan, V.I., Roy, R., Gorain, B. (2019). Recycling of Gold and Silver. In: Lakshmanan, V., Gorain, B. (eds) Innovations and Breakthroughs in the Gold and Silver Industries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32549-7_9
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