1. There is no evidence of large-scale liquation before Nuremberg. 2. Also, efficient liquation requires an extremely skilled practitioner. 3. Some suggest liquation existed even earlier. 4. Liquation triggered an increase in mining operations, and a new class of wealthy merchants clamoured to participate.5. Liquation -based wealth helped build roads between mining and processing regions, and financed improvements to mining technology.6. Waste products can be reused to produce new liquation cakes to try and minimise loss of metals, especially silver. 7. The sophisticated nature of the 15th century liquation plants with custom-made furnaces would be surprising for a new technology. 8. In December 2016, the High Court in Ireland asked for the company to be wound up following a period of liquation . 9. The copper-lead alloy created can be tapped off and cast into large plano-convex ingots known as liquation cakes. 10. This consistency is not without reason as the size of the cakes is very important to the smooth running of the liquation process.