Metallurgy derives from the Ancient Greek μεταλλουργός, metallourgós, "worker in metal", from μέταλλον, métallon, "mine, metal" + ἔργον, érgon, "work" The word was originally an alchemist's term for the extraction of metals from

Extractive metallurgy is the practice of removing valuable metals from an ore and refining the extracted raw metals into a purer form. In order to

Common engineering metals include aluminium, chromium, copper, iron, magnesium, nickel, titanium, zinc, and silicon. These metals are most often used as alloys with the noted

Metallurgists study the microscopic and macroscopic structure of metals using metallography, a technique invented by Henry Clifton Sorby.
In metallography, an alloy

The earliest recorded metal employed by humans appears to be gold, which can be found free or "native". Small amounts of natural gold have been

In production engineering, metallurgy is concerned with the production of metallic components for use in consumer or engineering products. This involves production of alloys,

• Adrien Chenot
• Archaeometallurgy
• CALPHAD
• Carbonyl metallurgy