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Jáchymov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (589 words) |
 | Jáchymov (in German originally Thal, later Sankt Joachimsthal or Joachimsthal, as it is best known in English) is a spa town in north-west Bohemia in the Czech Republic belonging to the Karlovy Vary Region, formerly Karlsbad. |
| At the beginning of the 16th century silver was found in the area of Joachimsthal. |
| The fame of Joachimsthal for its ore mining and smelting works attracted the scientific attention of the doctor Georg Bauer (better known by the Latin form of his name, Georgius Agricola) in the late 1520s, who based his pioneering metallurgical studies on his observations made here. |
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