Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-12481512-20130717104617/@comment-4057437-20140625015002

Dwemer metal is not the strongest metal on Nirn, nor is it the hardest to forge, according to the Smithing skills tree. It does not appear to us to be any better than some the high quality aluminum bronzes we are familiar with and it resembles them. The only difference is that no one alive on Nirn knows how to produce it from ore (or a combination of ores).