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USEFUL MINERALS AND METALLURGY
OF THE JAPANESE.
COPPER.
By Dr. Geerts, of Nagasaki.
Read before the Asiatic Society of Japan on the
18th November, 1874.
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- LITERATURE: Kaempfer’s.—History of Japan I Book.
- Meylan.—Geschiedkundig overzicht van den handel der Europezen of Japan. (Transactions of the Batavian Society, Vol. XIV., 1833, p. 140.)
- Siebold.—Nippon Archiv. vom Japanischen Handel, page 67.
- Burger.—Beschryving der Japansche Kopermynen in the Transactions of the Batavian Society, Vol. XVI., 1836, page 3, 28.
- Stan. Julien et Champion.—Industries, &c., Paris, 1869, page 49.
- Geerts.—Japan in 1871, in the “Gids” 1872, No. 8.
- Martin.—Transactions of the “Gesellschaft für Natur und Volkerkünde Ost-Asiens;” No. 4, 1874, page 5.
- Gowland.—Third Annual Report of the Director of the Imperial Mint in Japan, in the Japan Weekly Mail, November 7th, 1874.
- Japanese Technology.—San-kaï meï-butsu Dzu-kuwai, 1st Vol.
- Japanese Mineralogy.—Seki-hin-san-sho-ko.
According to the Japanese naturalist Ono Ranzan, copper was melted in Japan for the first time in the year 698 A.D. at Inaba in the province Suwo, whilst ten years
