Since it's been removed from research since it was felt it was penalizing the player to have to research a blast furnace to be able to use alien materials , then why can't we have it for free, the scientist could say that's a no brainer sir, there's our answer to that problem of working their metals yada yada... It's already in the after-action report after you capture a scout, even says it's sent to research, so sounds like an easy fix right?