Precious Metals

Precious Metals are a group of minerals you can extract together with a Surface Mine and mould them into High Grade Steel with a Steelworks. Although Precious Metals comes out in 1900, High Grade Steel comes out four years later along with Cuttelry, the Household Industry and the Household Store. Cuttelry is High Grade Steel's and the Household Store's first product but later most Household items are made with Plastics.
Precious Metals can befound anywhere in the map even along coastlines and is commonly in clusters with Iron Ore, Copper Ore and Bauxite.
==History==
The ancient Egyptians mined for gold in Nubia (ancient Egyptian 'nub' = gold). They also knew of other ores such as silver, copper, etc. Slaves used pickaxes to dig into the veins of gold embedded in blocks of quartz. It was then extracted from silver by a process of grinding, whiting and smelting. Around 2810 BC Egyptian goldsmiths made wire and handles of pure gold. By around 2708 BC, people had mastered a method of beating gold and sliver leafing. Gold was first worked in Central America around 850 BC. Around 685 BC, the Lydians were the first to produce a metal money made of electron (leaf gold). The method of separating gold and silver was invented by the French chemical scientist D'Arcet.
==Did You Know That?==
The need for precious metals, such as gold, silver and platinum, is created by the continuous development of new industries. On the one hand, people wear more valuable jewellery, as they earn more money and can afford more luxury goods than previous generations. On the other hand, solid and stainless metals with conductive qualities are desperately needed by the electric and electronic industries.
==Products That Require Precious Metals==
Name: 	Year	Produced In:	Can Be Sold In:	Requires:
High-grade Steel	1900	Steelworks 	None 	1 Precious Metals
Category:Surface Mining
Category:1900
Category:Steelworks
Category:1st Degree Material