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Excerpt from The Copper Handbook, Vol. 4: A Manual of the Copper Industry of the World; For the Year 1903 From the earliest dawn Of history, copper and gold seem to have been in common use among the more civilized nations, the yellow metal for own ments and as a medium of exchange, and the ruddier one for weapons and implements, usually in the form Of an allov as brass or bronze. The ancient world of Grecian and Roman days possessed considerable stores of copper, and mines were regularlv worked. There are apparently good reasons for believing that the l'liu-meums knew of the tin and copper deposits of Britain at a period as remote as B. C. Spain was the source of the principal copper supplies of the Roman empire, although other fields were also worked to some extent. Spain has been furnishing copper to the world for nearly three thousand years, and remains one of the principal sources of the world's copper supply. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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