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Thera has been disproven or at least determined to be highly unlikely as the location of Atlantis. This statement here is the clencher " The mountains contain a natural alloy of copper and gold (orichalcum)." " Some people believe Orichalcum to be a mix between gold and copper that you can find as a natural alloy only in South America. There is a reason for this. The Latin aurichalcum ( gold copper/metal ) has often been mixed up with Orichalcum. The Greek word Plato used was oreichalkos. In other words Plato meant mountain copper and not gold-copper/metal. ( aurichalcum ) Both these copper alloys are written as words containing chalko in most ancient texts. The Greeks probably didnt have any words for brass and bronze but instead one single word for alloys containing a lot of copper. ( copper alloys ) ( or did they? ) If someone is going to translate Platos Critias in a correct way then the first sentence mentioning orichalcum would look a bit like this >> In the first place, they dug out of the earth whatever was to be found there, solid as well as fusile, and that which is now only a name and was then something more than a name, mountain copper, was dug out of the earth in many parts of the island, being more precious in those days than anything except gold. Orichalcum is replaced by mountain copper Another possible word instead of orichalcum could be: copper ore The question is now: what does Plato mean with mountain copper? Did he mean that copper / brass / bronze was very popular and used in the time of Atlantis but not anymore? ( maybe because of the iron-age ) Or did he mean that the substance was totally unknown to him but the Atlanteans called it mountain copper? Maybe the priests in Egypt saw that the meaning of the name was mountain+copper and translated it as mountain copper for Solon. Or did the priests know that orichalcum was brass or bronze and translated it as that? In Egypt it was common with names such as mountain copper, mountain gold, water gold and so on. What it meant was in this case different types of the same metal. Brass is one type of copper and bronze is another one. ( for example ) Orichalcum probably was some kind of copper alloy. " If Orichalcum was translated correctly as the metal alloy then South America is the only place it occurs naturally. Otherwise if it was mis-interpreted then it could very well be anywhere copper is abundant.