ZINC SULFIDE FOR DUMMIES

The Berne zinc tablet is usually a votive plaque courting to Roman Gaul product of an alloy that is mostly zinc.[75]Mining was unmechanized and labor-intense, with pickmen releasing the ore from the rock, and mine-boys or carusi carrying baskets of ore to the surface, usually by way of a mile or more of tunnels. When the ore was within the area, it