Yes, I can replicate it. I actually deleted my first cast of the copper pickaxe head, since I tried to break the mold to get it. as for the mods, None that expressly state the change metallurgy. My best guess is a mod that adds new metal types like titanium... other than that, theonly thing related to actual metallurgy is that helve hammer extentenion mod, and I highly doubt its that. I also have a couple out of date mods, which just didn't have an updated version, but all the comments on those say it still works for the current version.