Ancient silver extraction in the Montevecchio mine basin (Sardinia, Italy): Micro-chemical study of pyrometallurgical materials

Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 945-957

  De Caro, Tilde ^a   Riccucci, Cristina ^a   Parisi, Erica I ^a   Faraldi, Federica ^b   Caschera, D ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDINGS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCESS; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; SILVER RECOVERY; TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETENCE; TECHNOLOGICAL LEVEL;

CHARACTERIZATION; LEAD SMELTING; ORE DEPOSITS; ORES; PHOTOELECTRONS; PYROMETALLURGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILVER; SLAGS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

METAL RECOVERY;

EID: 84889089099     PISSN: 09478396     EISSN: 14320630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-013-7722-3     Document Type: Article

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