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The here discussed gold had been almost exclusively extracted from quartz vein mineralisations. It is not pure gold but always contains some silver as well as traces of other elements.
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Klemm, R., Klemm, D. (2013). Analyses of Gold and Observations on Ancient Egyptian Gold Metallurgy. 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_4
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