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[ In a fragment of similar chalcedony, from the same site (Aba'l-Maru), Dr. Moser found specks of "free gold.">[
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[ This was the "splendid button" smelted at Makna.]
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[ The "button" was pronounced to be almost pure antimony in the Government Establishment of Mines, Trieste.]
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[ In "box No. 4" Messrs. Jackson found rough crystals of corundum; and a qualitative analysis of this sample and "box No. 7" yielded quartz, carbonate of lime, alumina, and oxide of iron.]
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[ The italics are mine. Mr. Mathey remarks of the specimen containing 48 grains of gold per ton, "It would be worthless in its present condition; if however, it could be enriched by proper washing and dressing, and the cost in labour, etc., be not too great, it might be made to give fair returns.">[