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MARC recordA tale of fraud and Frobisher's gold / Heather Pringle.
| Title: | A tale of fraud and Frobisher's gold / Heather Pringle. |
| Author(s): | Pringle, Heather. |
| Date: | 1994. |
| In: | New Scientist. (1994.), Vol. 140(1905/1906) (1994) |
| Abstract: | Brief article putting forth possibility that Elizabethian assayers might have deliberately spiked, with gold, samples of ore brought back by 16th century explorer Martin Frobisher in order to entice investment. |
| Notes: | New Scientist. Vol. 140(1905/1906) :4 (1994). |
| Keywords: | 91(08) -- Expeditions: 1576 Frobisher. 91(08) -- Expeditions: 1577 Frobisher. 93"15" -- Sixteenth century. 553.411 -- Gold deposits, minerals. 622.342.1 -- Gold mining. V -- History. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*41) -- Canada. (*440) -- Northwest Territories. (*462) -- Baffin Island. |
| SPRI record no.: | 128319 |
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