The gold aureus seems to have been a " currency of account ," a denomination not commonly seen in daily transactions due to its high value.

Georges Dumézil linked Saxo's account of Frigg's infidelity and the stolen gold with the burning of Gullveig.

Mongolia also has extensive mineral deposits: copper, coal, molybdenum, tin, tungsten, and gold account for a large part of industrial production.

The gold standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of gold.

The money could be in the form of gold bullion, gold dust, money in a bank account, blood diamonds, a series of checks or bank drafts, and so forth.

The second chapter of Daniel relates an account attributed to the second year of his reign, in which Nebuchadnezzar dreams of a huge image made of various materials ( gold, silver, bronze, iron and clay ).

Mineral deposits, including oil, copper, and gold, account for 72 % of export earnings.

His account of the Ichthyophagi and of the mode of working the gold mines, has been copied by Diodorus ( iii. 12-18 ).

* The Mary McCaslin song The Ballad of Weaverville gives a fictional account of the town's name as being that of a gambler, Jim Weaver, who had the town named after him as his final bet, after winning all of the town's gold.

He was sent to Moscow for interrogation at Lubyanka Prison where, according to his own account, three gold teeth were yanked from his mouth upon arrival.

Taking this into account, only copper, silver and gold are noble metals, as all d-like bands are filled and do not cross the Fermi level.

During the specie suspension from 1862 to 1878 western states used the gold dollar as a unit of account whenever possible and accepted greenbacks at a discount wherever they could.

While in the past Norman's role in the transferring of Czech gold to the Nazi regime in March of 1939 was uncertain, careful investigation by historian David Blaazer into the Bank of England's internal memos has established that Norman knowingly authorized the transfer of Czech gold from Czechoslovakia's No. 2 account with the Bank of International Settlement to the No. 17 account, which Norman was aware was managed by the German Reichsbank.

A highly fictionalized account of Fisk's life, culminating in a dramatic presentation of the gold corner, was shown in the 1937 film The Toast of New York.

He describes as untruthful an account that the crane carries a touchstone inside it that can be used to test for gold when vomited up.

Bots are also commonly used in commercial operations in order to powerlevel a character, either to increase the sale value of the account, or to allow the character to be used for commercial gold farming.

eCache is a bank currently operating in the Tor network, and Pecunix is an anonymous ( submitting personal information when opening an account is optional ) gold bank operating on the Internet.

At any one time there might be two or three units of account in one region based on the local base, silver and sometimes gold coins, and each often expressed in L. S. D units in ratio 240: 12: 1.

The Florentine gold florin, the French franc and the electoral rheingulden all became pounds ( 240 denari ) of account.

The earliest account of Cornish tin mining was written by Pytheas of Massilia late in the 4th century BC after his circumnavigation of the British Isles.

Underground mining was described in this account, although it cannot be determined when it had started.

Taxes and royalties from mining account for 25 % of its revenue.

* ( Personal account of mine countermeasures operations in Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War 1991, including the mining of USS Tripoli.

Many mining companies have offices in Yakutsk including ALROSA, whose diamond mines in Yakutia account for about 20 % of the world's rough diamond output.

The Greek historian Polybius, in his Histories, gives a graphic account of mining and counter mining at the Roman siege of Ambracia:

His military report was a detailed account of modernization in the late Qing Dynasty, covering education, military reforms, Han colonization of ethnic borderlands, mining and industry, railway construction, the influence of Japan, and opium smoking.

It adopts the phrase " clean coal " to emphasise that the environmental impact of mining must be taken into account.

The mining and petroleum industries account for the greatest economic activity in the Lake Eyre Basin.

They shall be admitted under the same conditions of equality to the exercise and practice of all maritime, industrial, mining or commercial enterprises both on land and in the territorial waters, and no monopoly shall be established on any account or for any enterprise whatever.

However, even when taking such rehabilitation efforts into account, mining activity devastates the local biodiversity.

* mining – private iron mining railways alone now account for most Australian rail freight by tonnage, but private coal railways have been important since the early years of coal mining in the mid 19th century

Although much of the work was compiled by judicious use of written sources, Pliny gives an eye witness account of gold mining in Spain where he was stationed as an officer.

The official account of the Aparecida apparition took place in October 1717, when Dom Pedro de Almeida, Count of Assumar and Governor of the Province of São Paulo and Minas Gerais, was passing through the area of Guaratinguetá, a small city in the Paraíba river valley, during a trip to Vila Rica, an important gold mining site.

This account, housed in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, is the first known European mention, since ancient Greek and Roman writers, about a whole range of monuments in Upper Egypt and Nubia, including Karnak, Luxor temple, Colossi of Memnon, Esna, Edfu, Kom Ombo, Philae, and others.

On account of his relative youth at the time, Thutmose II dispatched an army into Nubia rather than leading it himself, but he seems to have easily crushed this revolt with the aid of his father's military generals.

In 1819 he returned to England and published an account of his travels and discoveries entitled Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia, & c the following year.

The most thorough account of the spiritual approach may be Ken Wilber's book The Spectrum of Consciousness, a comparison of western and eastern ways of thinking about the mind.

However, post-war resettlements from Poland's ethnically and religiously more diverse former eastern territories ( known in Polish as Kresy ) and the eastern parts of post-1945 Poland ( see Operation Vistula ) account for a comparatively large portion of Greek Catholics and Orthodox Christians of mostly Ukrainian and Lemko descent.

On account of their relationship to the pirates on Nosy Boraha, the Betsimisaraka in eastern Madagascar had more firearms than anyone else.

Comparing it to similar pottery elsewhere in the eastern Mediterranean, Evans established a wider chronology, which, on that account, is difficult to question successfully.

* 24. 8 % of its former territory lies in the Midi-Pyrénées région, capital city Toulouse, covering the département of Tarn, as well as the eastern half of Haute-Garonne, the southeast of Tarn-et-Garonne, and the northwest and northeast of Ariège, which account for 23. 4 % of the territory of Midi-Pyrénées.

* 6. 7 % lies in the Auvergne région, covering the central and eastern part of the département of Haute-Loire, which account for 11 % of the territory of modern-day Auvergne région

Despite the scholarly consensus that ancient Dilmun encompasses three modern locations: ( 1 ) the eastern littoral of Arabia from the vicinity of modern Kuwait to Bahrain ; ( 2 ) the island of Bahrain ; ( 3 ) the island of Failaka east of Kuwait, few have taken into account the radically different geography of the basin represented by the Persian Gulf before its reflooding as sea levels rose about 6000 BCE ; the earliest known site is Qal ' at al-Bahrain which is dated no earlier than c. 2200 BC according to Flemming Hojlund.

However, modern historiography considers this account mythical, and the fruit of a late tradition, derived from 9th-century Byzantine legends about the travels of St. Andrew in eastern Christendom.

According to his account the fortress was under siege by Muslims led by Suleiman the Magnificent, who was determined to overthrow the Portuguese rule in India and to maintain the Muslim monopoly on eastern trade.

Upon this revision, the gray mouse lemur was thought to account for all mouse lemurs that lived in the drier parts of the north, west, and south, while the brown mouse lemur represented the eastern rainforest mouse lemurs.

Joseph Roth, born Moses Joseph Roth ( September 2, 1894 – May 27, 1939 ), was an Austrian-Jewish journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March ( 1932 ) about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and for his novel of Jewish life, Job ( 1930 ) as well as the seminal essay ' Juden auf Wanderschaft ' ( 1927 ; translated into English as The Wandering Jews ), a fragmented account about the Jewish migrations from eastern to western Europe in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution.

" The paper included a series of diagrams of temperatures in central England over the period, simplified in a 1982 version adjusted to account for " probable under-reporting of mild winters in Medieval times " and " certain botanical considerations " including historical records of vineyards in southern and eastern England.

He had been waging armed rebellion in eastern Zaire for more than three decades, though, according to Che Guevara's account of the early years of the conflict, he was an uncommitted and uninspiring leader.

Other literary productions of Dufrénoy are an account of the iron mines of the eastern Pyrenees ( 1834 ), and a treatise on mineralogy ( 3 vols.

The Catholic supremacy inside the Kingdom of Hungary ( to which the Banat region belonged at the time ) may account for their distinctiveness from the rest of the Torlakian-speaking population in present-day eastern Serbia.

Most of his names here survive ; Cook, visiting the shore-line on his third voyage, confirmed Furneaux's account and delineation of it, with certain minor criticisms and emendations, and named after him the Furneaux Group at the eastern entrance to Bass Strait, and the group now known as the Low Archipelago.

The ancient Greek historian Herodotus ( 484 – 425 BC ) also gave an account of the eastern " end of the Earth ," in his descriptions of India.

An alternative explanation, that the province was named after Galerius Maximianus, emperor of the east, would have to account for an eastern emperor's being honoured, while the two Augusti of the Tetrachy were not.

His excavation targeted the internal rectangular enclosure at the eastern side of the circle and his account of his excavation is brief and hidden within details of a day trip to the circle on 5 October 1882, by members of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, which was published in 1883:

The account was widely published, and turned the anti-slavery elements in the state against him, demonstrating by him on receiving 28 votes from the Quaker dominated eastern counties of the state.

Submarine surveys indicate that the rock is at the eastern end of a valley stretching into the Atlantic, which may “ account for the seemingly abnormal seas to which the tower is subjected ".