Where was Silver First Discovered?

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No one knows who or when silver was first discovered, however, records of slag dumps in Asia Minor have lead historians to believe that man has had the ability to separate silver from lead for as far back as 4000 B.C. Wow, we're they resourceful! As for the first location that silver was mined, that would be Anatolia (modern Turkey).

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No one knows who or when silver was first discovered, however, records of slag dumps in Asia Minor have lead historians to believe that man has had the ability to separate silver

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Where was Silver Discovered?

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Silver is a metallic chemical element with the chemical symbol Ag (Greek language: άργυρος , , both from the Indo-European root *arg- for "grey" or "shining") and atomic number...