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P.904 - §1 Gold was the first metal to be sought
by man; it was easy to work and, at first, was used only as an ornament.
Copper was next employed but not extensively until it was admixed with tin
to make the harder bronze. The discovery of mixing copper and tin to make
bronze was made by one of the Adamsonites of Turkestan whose highland copper
mine happened to be located alongside a tin deposit. |