Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-3539474-20130910213054/@comment-10207438-20130916221731

Draevan13 wrote: Yes, Malachite is a mineral. Just like iron is a mineral, and steel is made from iron and corundum minerals. But they're forged into metals for armor. That's what I meant. Malachite is most definitely not a metal. Steel in this game is a metal alloy made from two metals, in real life it's a metal alloy made from a metal and a non-metal. IRL Malachite is a crystaline mineral made from many elements, some of which are metallic, but that does not make this a mineral.

and being able to be fashioned into armor does not make it a metal, Armor can be made from almost anything, hell in-game it can be made from Chitin, and that's not even slightly metal.