Tertiary and Quaternary alluvial gold deposits of ...
1. Introduction. Gold in the NW part of the Iberian Peninsula has been known since antiquity. Following the Cantabrian War (19 BC) at the beginning of the Roman Period, gold mining developed in this area with the reorganization of the Roman monetary system carried out by Augustus, who established the gold standard known as the "Aureus" (Perea and Sánchez …