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[Neonivek]

So as you know Toady eventually plans on having randomised materials such as metals. My suggestion however is for the game to create metals a lot more organically then just taking values within an array.

Basically when a new metal is being creature the game will select "Qualifiers" for each metal and those qualifiers themselves will set the values.

For example is it a "Strong, unweilding, and Heavy" Metal? Strong means it has high yeild values, unweilding means it has low elasticity, and heavy means its weight is high.

This also provides information to the player. As these templates could be added to the description of the metal itself. So...
"This Green metal is known for being strong though it is rather brittle. This metal is as heavy as lead" You get the idea.

Or when magic or alchemy is added these templates could also be used as the way to pick and chose the metals you are creating either partially or as a whole.

[NW_Kohaku]

You might want to look over the Alchemical Material Property Tokens thread, which I only did a couple weeks ago...

What you are talking about is basically an aspect of what I was talking about, except that the point of mine was to apply it globally in the place of an alchemy system, and add such material-modifying tokens to things like stone and animal body parts.

[Neonivek]

It is mostly as a way for Toady to avoid making all the values uniform or purely random when he actually adds randomated materials

[NW_Kohaku]

It is mostly as a way for Toady to avoid making all the values uniform or purely random when he actually adds randomated materials

And Alchemical Material Property Tokens apply to all procedurally generated materials, not just metals, and accomplish the task of the magic/alchemy you can use them with.

It takes only marginally more effort, and produces a far more thorough result, as it paves the way for fully procedural worlds where the stone is procedurally created, and the reactions you can use them for are procedurally generated, as well. 

It is merely the logical conclusion of applying this same sort of idea to the whole system DF is based upon, and produces far more powerful and flexible results.