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WITH regard to the British Association Research Committee's interim report on the sources of Early Sumerian copper (and bronze), referred to in NATURE of Dec. 8, p. 886, I should like to direct particular attention to the ancient workings for tin about Rooiberg and Blaubank in the Transvaal. The quantities of bronze now known to have been employed in early times would have involved very considerable ancient workings of copper nickel deposits if the nickel found in such bronzes had been mixed with the copper.
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HOLMAN, B. Copper in Antiquity. Nature 122, 998 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122998c0
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