Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
Now Zillah also gave birth to Tubal-Cain, the forger of every kind of bronze and iron tools; Tubal-Cain’s sister was Naamah.
“Now behold, with great pain I have provided for the House of Adonai 100,000 talents of gold, a million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing for there is so much of it. I have also prepared wood and stone, and you must add to them.
“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined.
Man puts an end to darkness; he searches to the farthest reaches for ore in gloom and blackest darkness.
The gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, lead,
a land where you will eat bread with no poverty, where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.