What happened to all the copper and other ores?

So I started a new world with the 1.2 update, and spent several hours mining minerals. From all my mining, not once did I come across any copper, which is supposed to be the most common mineral found in the game. What happened to it?

1 Answer

From the patch notes:

• Your world has a chance to get alternative ore as a replacement for copper, iron, silver, and gold

There's no indication on what it's replaced with in the notes.

Gigazelle has found the following:

• copper = tin
• iron = lead
• silver = tungsten
• gold = platinum

Hardmode ores:

• cobalt = palladium
• mithril = orichalcum
• adamantite = titanium

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