Posted by John Lambert on October 12, 2012 at 17:47:58 user John.
In Reply to: Re: why bother with the ingot? posted by Tom Napier on October 12, 2012 at 12:39:34:
Peter,
Dick probably had had no experience with either gold or pyrites, so the relative lightness wouldn't have made him wonder. Maybe he thought the sulphur smell was due to impurities in the ore, rather than the sulphur in the pyrites being driven off. Just a thought or two.
John Lambert