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The Other Missing Mass
by Patrick Huyghe

We know that thousands of years ago the northern shore of Lake Superior and adjacent Isle Royale was mined for its copper. What we don't know is where all the copper from those mines went. Although thousands of copper implements and ornaments have been recovered over the years and they are displayed in museums and private collections, the artifacts don't begin to explain the enormity of the copper mining that took place long ago in Upper Michigan. Retired industrial chemist James Guthrie doesn't know where it all went either, but he's come up with the best estimates yet of just how much copper is missing... In the process he found that popular writers on the subject have exaggerated the total volume of the excavations by about six fold and the richness of the deposits eight fold. What's missing is not a billion pounds of copper, as they claim, but more on the order of 20 million pounds, says Guthrie. The problem is that only about 10,000 pounds of copper have been accounted for... One possibility is that all the copper simply hasn't been found yet by archeologists. If so, comments Guthrie, then "archeology must be a very blunt instrument capable of finding, in this case, only 0.1 percent of the evidence." Another possibility is that the mines yielded little or no copper. But this also is unlikely. You would have to assume that the Indians were very poor miners, and that after taking some copper near the surface they continued to enlarge the holes in fruitless attempts to find more. The third possibility is that much of the copper actually was removed from North America and taken elsewhere, perhaps feeding the demands of Bronze Age Europe and raising the specter of contacts with the New World thousands of years before Columbus.

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New Discoveries in Jiroft May Change History of Civilization
Persian Journal | Jan 26, 2006
Posted on 01/26/2006 2:19:36 PM EST by robowombat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1565596/posts

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