One of the answers to What are the factors that caused the new world civilizations to be less technologically advanced than the old world? made an interesting statement:

in terms of metalworking, the lack of easily exploited tin deposits in the Americas means that a bronze age never took off. There was a copper-working culture surrounding the Great Lakes, and it pre-dated the chalcolithic in the old world by a few thousand years, but this lasted only as long as the accessible copper ore did.

Which New World civilizations had knowledge of combining tin and copper to make bronze? How much tin would have been readily available to pre-columbian civilizations? Did the Copper Age really start in the New World before it started in the Old World?