Relique du Madde
Adventurer
"Mithril" could be like "Ghost Rock" from deadlands (minus being made from the souls of the damned)... so it's not a metal, but instead is a mineral that could be added to metal while it's being smelted. Imagine what could happen if one company got the rights for the majority of the mithril mines? It would be like Blood Diamond, but instead of poor Africans working themselves to death while being stuck in a war zone it would be poor dwarves.