Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-12481512-20130717104617/@comment-4057437-20130912033000

Anonymous Kontributor wrote: maybe its just an alloy of Gold, Iron and Bronze

That would be gold, iron, copper and tin...bronze is an alloy already. Such an alloy would be quite heavy as well as soft, due to the gold, so that is not likely since Dwarven metal makes good armor and swords (something that takes a hard metal).