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I found the following passage in Salvatore M. Trento:
Furthermore, metallurgical engineers estimate that more than a billion pounds of copper were mined in this region: to date, this amount of mined copper has not been found in the United States! Author Henriette Mertz, who has extensively studied this mystery, once wrote: "This incredible amount of copper has not been accounted for by American archeologists -- the sum total according to archeological findings here in the states amounts to a mere handful of copper beads and trinkets -- float copper. Five thousand tons of pure copper does not just disintegrate into thin air -- it cannot be sneezed away -- it must be somewhere..."
(Quotation taken from his Field Guide to Mysterious Place of the West, p. 16; ISBN 0-87108-851-7) Trento goes on to suggest that this copper ore was exported by ancient European seafarers -- such as inhabitants of the proto-historic Hispanic peninsula. Now for reasons I won't go into here I'm skeptical about much of what he writes in this book, but his work is clearly not on the level of the writings of cranks like Erich von Däniken, & this puzzle seems to be something that should be included in Wikipedia -- maybe not in this article -- in order to present all sides of the issue. -- llywrch ( talk) 19:09, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
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