Metallurgy

Characters with this skill can recognise the ores of the more important metal (principally iron, copper, tin, lead, and silver) and can extract the metal from the ore, given the right equipment. They can also calculate the correct mixture of metals required to produce alloys of varying quality, such as mild steel, high and low grade bronze, pewter, and electrum. Note that this skill confers no ability to work the prepared metal - Smithing skill is required for that.