"Cyprus analyses": letters from Léon Brun with analysis results, a metal fragment from Erimi and sketchesLéon Brun and Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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I have just received your letter of 27 November. One can say, on analysis, whether the object was obtained with a carbonate ore or a sulphide ore. In objects obtained from a carbonate ore, one finds neither iron nor sulphur, whereas if one uses a sulphide ore one finds iron and sulphur in greater or lesser abundance, depending on the skill of the metallurgist. At Cyprus, I believe that the ores are sulphide; one must therefore expect to find sulphur and iron in all the samples examined. [handwritten: Unless on the outcrop of the lode the tons of]

Handwritten: 3rd and 4th millennia have taken carbonates resulting from the transformation

Handwritten: of sulphides of air

I do not think there is any doubt that the samples that you previously submitted to me: 7.514 - 7.396 - 7.297 - 7.351 - 4.506, come from objects whose metal was obtained by treating chalcopyrite, consequently probably the ores of Cyprus or of the Anti-Lebanon.

I remain at your disposal for all information that could be useful to you. I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you soon in Paris, and in the meantime, in asking you to convey here to Madame SCHAEFFER my most respectful homage, please accept, my Dear Friend, the expression of my very warm sympathy.-

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