In the summer of 2003, a farmer in Cornwall, UK, found a weighty tungsten ingot in his field. In the February 2004 issue of Materials World (pps. 12-13), Colin Bristow and Bryan Earl report on a mineralogical mystery tour that led them through the history and science of smelting to mounting a challenge to metallurgy textbooks, via Baron Munchausen.

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