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  2. Global silver trade from the 16th to 19th centuries - Wikipedia

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    Silver Peso of Philip V. A major drive of the Spanish colonization of the Americas during the late 15th and 16th centuries was the discovery, production, and trading of precious metals at a time when there was a severe shortage of them.

  3. Silver - Wikipedia

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    Silver is a relatively soft and extremely ductile and malleable transition metal, though it is slightly less malleable than gold. Silver crystallises in a face-centred cubic lattice with bulk coordination number 12, where only the single 5s electron is delocalised, similarly to copper and gold. [17]

  4. Metals of antiquity - Wikipedia

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    The earliest gold artifacts were discovered at the site of Wadi Qana in the Levant. [13] Silver is estimated to have been discovered in Asia Minor shortly after copper and gold. [14] There is evidence that iron was known from before 5000 BC. [15] The oldest known iron objects used by humans are some beads of meteoric iron, made in Egypt in ...

  5. Age of Discovery - Wikipedia

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    They presented gifts of gold, silver, porcelain and silk; in return, received such novelties as ostriches, zebras, camels, ivory and giraffes. [64] [65] After the emperor's death, Zheng He led a final expedition departing from Nanking in 1431 and returning to Beijing in 1433. It is likely this last expedition reached as far as Madagascar.

  6. Fred La Rose - Wikipedia

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    Alfred "Fred" La Rose, also known as "Fred Rose" and "Frederick LaRose" [1] (c. 1870 - September 1940), [2] was a blacksmith from Quebec who discovered silver on September 15, 1903 at the future site of Cobalt, Ontario.

  7. Archaeologists Thought They Found Wires Buried on a Farm. It ...

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    The farm and the discovered silver were likely from the 9 th century, archaeologists believe. “If people who lived on this farm had to flee from an attack,” Demuth said, “it would be natural ...

  8. Silver mining in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Annual US mined silver production. Silver mining in the United States began on a major scale with the discovery of the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1858. The industry suffered greatly from the demonetization of silver in 1873 by the Coinage Act of 1873, known pejoratively as the "Crime of 73", but silver mining continues today.

  9. Timeline of the discovery and classification of minerals

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    Note: René Haüy discovered that emeralds and beryls crystals are geometrically identical. He asked Vauquelin for a chemical analysis, and so Vauquelin found a new "earth" (beryllium oxide). Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742 –1786), discovery of oxygen with Priestley; identification of molybdenum, tungsten, barium, hydrogen, and chlorine.