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Man discovered how fashion gold into jewellery.
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Man first started using native metals like gold silver and copper. Native metals are metals that aren't very reactive and are more likely to be found in their natural state.
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Man first started to smelt copper into various tools.
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Man started to fashion silver into jewellery and coins.
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Man first began smelting lead.
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Bronze first alloy created (Copper 88% and Tin 12%), it was the replacement of copper. It lead to the development of culture as more metal tools were used in everyday life. These tools were often weapons and played a large role in warfare at the time.
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Man began smelting tin with copper to create bronze.
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Man first began smelting iron, lead to the iron age around 1200-1000 BC.
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Iron and its alloys replaced Bronze as the most used metal from about 1000 BC to 1 BC. It was harder and more durable than Bronze when alloyed with carbon (steel) so it spread throughout society relativity quickly.
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The period of time when large scale production of metals and their alloys took off. Closer to present times many revolutionary technologies were produced which allowed for wide spread use of various metals.
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Massive outbreak in technology. Lead to factory production and new uses for metals. Metals manufactured in the factory'a were more common than those handcrafted and become more common in society.
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First thought to have existed in 1787, there was no way to extract it until 1825.
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Froth Floatation was used for the first time in Australia to extract zinc.
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Conflict lead to industrial development.
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Conflict lead to many industrial development. An example being the aluminum alloys used in aircrafts.