native metal

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They can, indeed, observe the steel pen emerge from its native metal, see it pressed and stamped, and again pressed and stamped, slitted, annealed, coloured, and finally boxed and packed.

From A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald" by Anderton, Thomas

The Copper Indians set a great value on this native metal even at the present day, and prefer it to iron for almost every use except that of a hatchet, a knife, and an awl.

From Pioneers in Canada by Wallcousins, E.

The native metal and the sulphide are believed to be formed mainly as primary minerals of igneous origin.

From The Economic Aspect of Geology by Leith, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)

Platinum, like gold, occurs chiefly as the native metal.

From The Economic Aspect of Geology by Leith, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)

Iron pyrites, however, is of greater practical importance, being in some districts exceedingly rich, and, next to the native metal, is the most prolific source of gold.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various