Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-12481512-20130717104617/@comment-4057437-20130927052318

Greenerseyes wrote: Dwarven Metal is most likely some mix of Brass and Bronze, both alloys being made up of mostly copper. The Other races struggle to understand it because the Bronze age has not yet hit Tamriel

No, the bronze age (which always starts shortly after the discovery of copper), precedes the iron age. This must be true in Tamriel as well, otherwise, there wouldn't be copper circlets.

Without the Dwemer's command of electricity (as seen in some of their automatons), which is necessary to produce aluminum, the other races in Tamriel cannot produce aluminum-bronze, which is the alloy on Earth most like Dwemer metal.