Aluminum separation from its ore, bauxite, was very difficult and inefficient, so aluminum was rare and considered a valuable precious metal. Before 1886, aluminum was a semiprecious metal comparable in price to silver. read more
Aluminium does not occur naturally in its purest form so it was not discovered until the 19th century with developments in chemistry and the advent of electricity. Aluminium has gone on an incredibly interesting journey from a precious metal to the material used virtually in every sphere of human life in just one and a half centuries. read more