History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c17.s4.t2.10

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There are huge slag dumps in the Rampura-Agucha area. The petrographic thin sections of slag sample indicate the presence of quartz and feldspar grains which have not undergone much change. Evidently, low-temperature smelting was done which could have yielded argentiferous metallic lead; the main target was possibly silver.