The Arab traveller Ibn Battuta, returning to Morocco in 1352, passed by a city called Takedda, famous for its copper mine. The only source of copper in the region that can be identified with Ibn Battuta's Takedda is Azelik. Copper ore was sent to the British Museum Research Department Laboratory, where a spectrographic examination revealed the presence of Cu, Ag, Zn, Al, Mg, Si, Na, K, Ca, Ba, Ti, Va, Mn. Of these elements, Al, Mg, Si, Na, K, Ca, Ba, Ti and Va were absent or only occasionally noted in the B.M. spectrographic examinations of Ife brasses. However, these elements are the ones most likely to be eliminated in the process of smelting and refining. It is therefore not possible on the present spectrographic evidence to prove or disprove the theory that Azelik ore was used for Ife Bronzes. H. Barker states that it might help to examine a sample of copper known to have been prepared by native methods from Azelik ore. Azelik ore is radioactive. The author has not yet received information on testing of radioactivity on Ife bronzes in the British Museum.