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Continued from the previous post regarding the presence of metallurgy in South America, where archaeologists claim metallurgy began, and from there traveled northward into Central, Meso-, and North America, and how metallurgy began in South America and traveled northward Central America, then Mesoamerica, then North America.     Since artifacts and evidence found shows that ancient North Americans did not alloy any metals and their ore was native copper, with only hammering and shaping being used, many theorists have believed that such shaping and making of copper artifacts satisfied the metallurgy of the scriptural record. Yet, the opposite is the case, for as Nephi stated around 570 BC, “And I did teach my people to build buildings, and to work in all manner of wood, and of iron, and of copper, and of bras*, and of steel, and of gold, and of silver, and of precious ores, which were in great abundance (2 Nephi 5:15,     His great nephew, stated two generations later, “And we multiplied exceedingly, and spread upon the face of the land, and became exceedingly rich in gold, and in silver, and in precious things, and in fine workmanship of wood, in buildings, and in machinery, and also in iron and copper, and bras* and steel, making all manner of tools of every kind to till the ground, and weapons of As has been shown, bras* and steel are alloyed metals, as well as tools of every kind and weapons, which all need a different knowledge and working of metal ores than working with native copper which simply requires heating, shaping and hammering. The problem is further compounded by the fact that to alloy the copper from vast Great Lakes area deposits, one of two metals would be required: 1) mix copper with tin, or 2) mix copper with arsenic, neither of these other metals were available to the early inhabitants of North America. Mexico, alloying tin with copper was unavailable. Thus, that method of making bronze was not possible to the Great Lakes or Heartland model