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[petersohn]

Is it only me or there are really much more minerals in a mountain than in previous versions? I can't dig an inch in a claystone layer without striking some kind of coal or iron ore, and there are several star rubies/sapphires in each bauxite cluster.

[cyks]

It's not you.  This has been discussed before and many people agree.  You can download older versions to confirm too.

[Psieye]

In principle it's possible to mod the frequency of veins and stuff, but current anecdotal evidence is that it's not working as intended.

[Moddan]

Would be cool if there was a world-gen option for the mineral abundance. Together with the upcoming world economy it might then actually be exciting again to hit a gold vein.
In a world with extrem mineral scarcity such a find could trigger king, goblins and even unprovoked human sieges, because all of them are greedy bastards.

[Psieye]

To dwarves, gold just isn't exciting compared to adamantine. Platinum and Aluminium are valued higher than gold.

[monkeyfetus]

Well, Aluminum WAS more valuable than gold until 100 years ago or so. The Washington Monument was capped with aluminum because it was a precious metal. With electricity came a new method to refine aluminum, and now it's used in everything, but before that it was rare indeed.

[thijser]

actually electricity was already used (it was the only way to make aluminum.) This was done by effectifly making batteries. 

[kaijyuu]

From what I can tell from wikipedia, pure aluminum doesn't occur naturally, so DF might actually be inaccurate in this regard. It certainly was expensive when the first forms of smelting it from ores were discovered, though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#History

It was discovered in 1827, and the electrolysis method to extract it from bauxite was discovered in 1886. So it was only really known about and expensive for ~60 years.

[Sizik]

Native aluminium metal can be found as a minor phase in low oxygen fugacity environments, such as the interiors of certain volcanoes.

So it can be found in a pure state, but it's pretty rare.

[petersohn]

Back to the topic, I also find it strange that while iron became less useful for weapons and armour, it still has a value of 10. It is extremely common now, while bronze is considerabbly more difficult to obtain, which still has a puny value of 5. Strange, huh?