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Published Online: Mar 30, 2024
Page range: 48 - 57
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/minrv-2024-0005
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© 2024 Ioan-Lucian Bolunduț, published by Sciendo
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The work presents a history of the exploitation and processing of alluvial gold in Antiquity by the first civilizations of mankind. But those who developed and perfected this technology were the Romans, in Hispania and Britannia, where they mined gold both outcrops and underground. The technology they used was so advanced that it remained unchanged for more than a millennium.