Orichalcum

Orichalcum is a metal considered second only to gold in value.

Description
Orichalcum is a borwn noble metal, it has many of the same capabilities as copper.

Applications
Orichalcum is one of the few metals that can occur in nature in a directly usable metallic form. This led to very early use in several regions.

Orichalcum is used in buildings, usually for roofing. Orichalcum is sometimes used in decorative art, both in its elemental metal form and in compounds as pigments. For centuries, Orichalcum has been used on boat hulls to control the growth of plants and shellfish.

Trivia

 * Orichalcum is originally a mythical metal from the fictional island of Atlantis in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias.