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[Saladman]

2010:  I've just recently gotten bronze production going, I had to dig deep for tin.  And my only copper ore is tetrahedrite - that's the one you can smelt for copper with a 20% chance of silver.  Does making bronze bars from ore pass up the 20% chance for silver?  Also, is making bronze from ore a better use of fuel than making bronze from bars?  I'm guessing the answers are yes and yes, meaning there's a trade-off either way, but I want to be sure.

[G-Flex]

Making bronze from ore is more fuel-economic because you aren't also spending the fuel to smelt the ore into bars. However, as you asked, you give up on the probability to get a secondary metal (in this case, silver) from the ore if you use the ore to create an alloy (in this case, bronze) directly.

So yeah, yes and yes.