The purpose of copper ingots, etc

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When I'm looting treasure chests in tombs I pick up a lot of random metals. What are they for? What can I do with them?

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Metals Metal ores your Sims collect in the Sims 3 can be smelted for $40. Because of this cost, and the fact that ingots seem to return at 175% of original value, you shouldn't smelt anything under $54. However, once you have completed the Metal Collector challenge (finding all five types of metal) you will sometimes get extra ingots in the mail. This means you could smelt items in the $40 range because you'll often get extra ingots back. Ingots can be stacked. If you want to make an impressive display, make a table with stacks of ingots!

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here are precious metals, well, they are found in their ore form, and you then need to send it off to a smelter, who will smelt it down, for a fixed fee of §40, regardless of the ore. This will turn the relatively valueless ore into something that is a bit more valuable, an ingot that will get a 75% increase in value after it is smelted.

Again, rarity means that you will need to constantly look hard to find the ore that you want, the plutonium ore, which is somehow, safe to pick up.

Like gems, the metals are determined by weight, the heavier it is, the more it is valued. Mercury and Platinum are found in China, Copper and Mummitomium are found in Egypt, Titanium and Iridium are found in France, whilst Supernovium and Compendium are special, again, a seperate section for them. 

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|    Metal    | Min. Weight | Value At Min. | Max Weight | Value At Max |
|-------------+-------------+---------------+------------+--------------|
| Mercury     |      1      |      100      |     52     |     400      |
| Platinum    |      1      |      250      |     52     |     336      |
| Copper      |      1      |       15      |     52     |      31      |
| Mummitomium |     150     |      750      |    450     |    1200      |
| Titanium    |     75      |      450      |    105     |     700      |
| Iridium     |      1      |       75      |     11     |     115      |
| Supernovium |    35000    |      3500     |   55000    |    5500      |
| Compendium  |     1100    |      N/A      |    5500    |     N/A      |
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Note that Mercury will come in Vials, seeing that it is always a liquid when it is at room temperature, so you will not be able to stack it as if it were an ingot bar.

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