Aluminum (Civ6)

Aluminum
Strategic resource
Introduced in Civilization VI
Revealed by	Radio
Resource value	+1
Frequency	7 ( 10)
Primary Improvement
Improvement	Mine
Available with	Mining
Mine value	+1 Production +1 Production (Req. Apprenticeship) +1 Production (Req. Industrialization) +2 Aluminum per turn
Required for
Units	Fighter  Bomber  Jet Fighter  Jet Bomber
Units	Fighter  Bomber  Jet Fighter  Jet Bomber  P-51 Mustang  Helicopter
Found on
Terrain	Desert  Desert (Hills)  Plains  Rainforest

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Aluminum is an Atomic Era Strategic Resource in Civilization VI. It is revealed with Radio.

Aluminum is found in Deserts, Desert Hills, Plains, and Rainforests.

• +1 Science

Strategy

Aluminum is required for most air units in the game, with the exception of the most basic one (the Biplane). It is rarer than Oil, but not as rare as Uranium. Its Mine improvement provides a nice boost to Production, but is bested by the Oil Well. Aluminum's bonus yield is Science.

In the Gathering Storm expansion, Aluminum - besides being used to build and maintain aircraft - is also indispensable for the reworked Science Victory, as it is used to build the Lagrange Laser Station.

The Future Era policy card Aerospace Contractors grants Aluminum for free! Sadly, it is unlocked very late, with Exodus Imperative, and it also requires an expensive Spaceport. Consider it a backup option in all cases - if you need Aluminum for building airplanes (or Helicopters in Gathering Storm), chances are your military is strong enough to "liberate" some.

Civilopedia entry

The Greeks and Romans used aluminum salts as astringents and bath powders. For centuries, that’s all aluminum was good for, until in 1825 AD the Danish chemist Hans Orsted managed to create a lump of aluminum metal. In the 1850s, pure aluminum was so difficult to produce that bars of it were more valuable than gold and even exhibited as a curiosity at the Exposition Universelle in 1855. Scientists, of course, just had to find uses for it, and now aluminum is found in everything from spacecraft to skillets.

See also

• Aluminum in other games