Metals in Western Australia
  

Metals are used in our daily lives so much that we don't even think about it?  Iron, copper tin and gold all have metal elements in them.  In the earth the metals exist joined to other elements.  Before we can use metal ore we must get it out of the rock.  Then the metal ore must be heated with various other substances added by the refinery, this is known as smelting.  

-Gold is a metal all by itself and does not have to go through changes to make it gold once it has been separated from the rock materials. 
 -From iron ore we get steal.

Iron Ore

-From aluminum ore we get aluminum. 
-Copper and tin make bronze.  People have been making bronze for the last 6,000 years.

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