Gold is the most well known of the native metals.

This project has allowed the members to explore music outside their native metal genre.

It is not found in nature as a native metal, reflecting its intrinsic instability with respect to water.

As a native metal, gold required no extraction by smelting.

There are mineral deposits where large masses of native metal (usually copper) are present in the ground.

All other native metals occur only in small quantities or are found in geologically special regions.

All iron meteorites are made of a native metal called meteoric iron.

This last was mottled like fine blue marble and starred through its centre with a thick wedge of gleaming native metal.

Agricola next describes that gold, silver, copper and mercury can be found as native metals, the others very rarely.

Kamacite - a native metal (mineral) found in meteorites.

Meteoric iron - a native metal found in meteorites and a mixture of different mineral phases.

After a while, the crazy-quilt passage gave way to the dull purple-black of the planetoid's own native metal.

Gravity concentration has been historically the most important way of extracting the native metal using pans or washing tables.

Naturally occurring alloys are a type of mineral and called native elements or native metals.

Tetrataenite is a native metal found in meteorites with the composition FeNi.

The Udachnaya Pipe in Russia produces samples of the native metal.

Sulfides, oxides, silicates, native metals, you name it.

A native metal is any metal that is found in its metallic form, either pure or as an alloy, in nature.

It occurs when metals are torn, and so is often en countered in native metals such as copper and silver.

Some of these basic shaping methods were used to manufacture artefacts in metal from the very beginnings of metallurgy, when only native metals were available.

This mineral group includes native metals, semi-metals, and non-metals, and various alloys and solid solutions.

Cobalt is not found as a native metal, but it is mainly obtained as a by-product of nickel and copper mining activities.

It wouldn't do to have any, since in Salvor Hardin's day there was no native metal to speak of and hardly any imported metal.

Native metals of copper and gold were reshaped without the use of fire for tools and weapons starting around 5500 BCE.

Continuing improvements led to the furnace and bellows and provided the ability to smelt and forge native metals (naturally occurring in relatively pure form).