Although gold is scarce, it has been used before due to its spread all over the world. In addition, the fact that silver is scarce in its natural state and it is found at very deep depths can be shown as another factor.
Silver, BC. Egyptians around 3000 BC. It was used by the Chinese and Persians around 2500 BC. In Greek history, it is possible to come across silver mines in Athens.
Silver, BC. Around 800 BC, it started to be used as money around the Nile river.
The knowledge that the Romans first began to process silver is accepted as a strong claim.
Of course, as the industry progressed, more complex and impure silver ores began to be studied. natural silver; it was found pure or mostly in alloys with gold, copper, mercury, and other metals. Large ingots have been found in various excavations in Norway, Southern Peru, Colorado.
An eight-ton ingot was also mined in Spain in 1860. Silver is mostly found in the form of compounds dispersed in the earth’s crust.
The most common silver shoots; argentite (Ag2S) and silver chloride (AgCl). There are also sprouts of sulfur mixed with arsenic or antimony. Although in the past, silver was obtained from natural silver resources, which are scarce in many parts of the world, today silver is also obtained from the by-products of the production of copper, lead and zinc to a large extent.
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