Talk:Lead

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The page is vandalized

Why is it vandalized? I’m gonna revert it 70.44.83.80 (talk) 17:58, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

You missed a bit, but I got that for you. Thanks for your help! 81.187.192.168 (talk) 18:01, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Classical Era Lead Production

The section Classical Era begins with the statement "Because silver" is if the connection between lead production was obvious, which it isn't. I therefore investigated the reference 130 provided, which conflicts with a statement later in the section. In the reference it states that despite the existence of silver with lead, they believe that leads main connection with silver is using lead in the silver extraction process, which they did regardless of the silver ore. That conflicts with the statement that most lead was extracted just because they were looking for silver.

  I don't know anything about this, so can somebody please have a look at it ?

IceDragon64 (talk) 23:55, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

I'm not seeing a contradiction. "Lead came into use as an exchange medium" is in the sentence that uses reference 130, which describes the extraction of silver from Galena using the properties of lead. Also, the connection between lead and silver is described under the previous heading at reference 124. Reconrabbit 13:24, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Resources?

In the occurrence section, it says "World lead resources exceed two billion tons". Resources?? I have no idea what that means, if anything. Last I heard, mineral quantities were most commonly talked about as "reserves" - at least in a mining and usage context. Upon encountering this statement, I checked the reference. The citation contains NO MENTION of either reserves or 'resources'. I was able to find a USGS page, here: https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2024/mcs2024-lead.pdf that was likely the intended citation. Since the wiki citation is cited at least 3 other times, I wasn't inclined to wade thru which should and shouldn't be linked to the old vs my new cite. Maybe someone can fix this?98.19.179.27 (talk) 06:12, 28 April 2025 (UTC)