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Mountain of metal and wood (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

alpine

'mountain' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'metal and wood' is the wordplay.
'metal' becomes 'al' (chemical symbol for aluminium).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'wood' becomes 'pine' (pine is a kind of wood).
'al'+'pine'='ALPINE'

'of' is the link.

(Other definitions for alpine that I've seen before include "Native growing up in mountainous area" , "Relating to high mountains" , "from Germany, Austria etc" , "Plant of high mountains" , "To do with great European mountains" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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