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Geological Society of America

Mining and Metallurgy in Ancient PerU

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New GSA Special Paper 467, "Mining and Metallurgy in Ancient Peru," is a translation of a 1970 publication by Georg Petersen. Translator William E. Brooks notes that many of the ancient Andean mining and metallurgical techniques described in this book precede those known in Europe.

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