How did people figure out the extraction of metal from ore/rock via mining and refining?

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One hears about the iron age and the bronze age—eras in which people discovered metallurgy. But how did that happen? Was it like:

1. Look at rock
2. See shiny
3. Try to melt the shiny out of the rock
4. Profit?

Explain it to me!

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native copper

there are many places where copper desposts were found just sitting on rocks. common throught egypt.actaully. people gathered rocks to circle.fires. fire ended up making little pools of molten copper on rocks. people are very attuned to.useable.shit in the enivrronmemt. hundreds of thousands of years. people figure shit out becauae even without.formal education.human beings smart af

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