Chapter 1192 Visiting the mine, infrasound detection
Under Xia Duo's active guidance and practical information output, Lord Leisen and Stern gradually entered a state of open communication.
It was not until near noon that a waiter came to report the list of meals and drinks for the noon banquet, and the exchange between the three of them came to an end.
"Lord Chateau, let's go have a meal first, and let Stern take you to the mithril mine in the afternoon."
"good."
Shado also took the initiative to mention the mithril mine. The reason was that the Sevington Council had just announced the mithril refining technology, and he was planning to purchase a batch of mithril ore and try to refine it.
In addition, he also said that he wanted to visit the mithril mine, just to try to find the mithril mine on his own after returning to the territory.
Of these two reasons, the former seems very reasonable to ordinary people and is also in line with the normal behavior of a Nese lord.
But the latter is a bit ridiculous. How can the prospecting experience of Mithril Mine be learned in just a few visits?
But Xia Duo's real purpose is the latter. He has special skills in prospecting!
Lord Leisen did not refuse Shado to visit the mithril mine in his territory, but only asked Stern to accompany him there to avoid unnecessary trouble.
Sha Duo readily accepted this.
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After lunch.
Shado, led by Stern, the son of Lord Leisen, and a mine manager named "Pete", passed through the teleportation circle of the mage tower and arrived at the mithril mine located in the northwest of Leisen Territory.
There are three mage towers in Leisen Territory, one of which is located here.
When Xia Duo walked out of the mine mage tower, he was shocked by the scene in front of him. This was a huge open-pit mine. Judging from the circular area currently being mined, it was hundreds of meters in diameter.
As for the depth, the circular mining area goes from outside to inside, and gets deeper toward the center, resembling a wide funnel that spirals downward.
At the deepest point, if you throw in the mine mage tower behind Xia Duo, you won't see a single sharp point on the surface!
In this mine, thousands of dwarf slaves are working diligently under the supervision of human overseers.
Some are digging ore bodies, some are beneficiating and classifying, some are refining and crushing, and some are collecting and transporting, just to name a few. All processes are carried out in an orderly manner.
Xia Duo had never seen how a real mine operated on Earth, and he didn't even know about a purely manual ancient mine. The scene in front of him really opened his eyes.
Not far from the periphery of the mine, there were more than twenty gray-black smoke pillars that shot straight into the sky. Seeing Xia Duo's eyes turning to that direction, the mine manager Pete introduced him in time:
"Lord Shada, over there is the rough smelting workshop for silver ore and copper ore!"
According to Pete's introduction, this huge open-pit mine, although it is called a mithril mine, does not only produce mithril ore, but only a small number of mithril ores!
Most of them are silver ore and copper ore. Of course, there are also a few rough gemstones produced.
But in the past, mithril ore and rough gemstones would all be packaged and shipped to Askel for distribution by Erlan and Danzo after several rounds of rough selection.
Now, Leisenling has stopped the external sale of mithril ore. As for the future, it will depend on the development of the specific situation.
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Under the leadership of Peter, Chateau and Stern gradually moved downward along the winding mine tunnels at the edge of the mine.
When we go down to about forty or fifty meters, perhaps because the rich ore is limited, or perhaps because the difficulty of mining has increased, when we get here, all the ores are no longer mined like above.
Instead, there are "mining tunnels" in the true sense. According to the direction of the veins, they go deep into the rock mass, with seven or eight turns, which is very complicated.
Without the guidance of Peter, the "veteran driver" of the mine, even a senior arcanist like Sha Duo would easily get lost in it.
It's just that if the caster gets lost, he can take the initiative to teleport out, instead of passively waiting to die like ordinary people.
"Lord Shada, Mine No. 16 currently produces the highest proportion of mithril ore, and the proportion of coarse ore accounts for about 30 to 40% of the total ore."
"so tall?!"
Xia Duolai had done some research before coming. Generally speaking, most mithril mines are symbiotic with silver and copper mines. Pure mithril mines probably only exist in legends.
In the No. 16 mine introduced by Pete, the proportion of coarse mithril ore can reach 30% to 40%, so it is undoubtedly a rich mithril mine.
It is not an exaggeration to even say that it is pure mithril ore.
Under normal circumstances, the crude mithril ore can only account for about two thousandths of the total amount, which is two thousandths of the total useful ore after rough selection.
Rather than two thousandths of the total mining project!
If you count the total amount of mining projects, it is even lower!
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Shado absolutely had to record a rich mithril mine like Mine No. 16. After greeting Stern, he began to cast spells to detect the characteristics of the veins.
The spell that Sha Duo is currently using is called [Infrasound Detection]. The prototype of this spell is the [Earthline Detector] from Drow, and he also learned the official mage version in [Projection Plane·Dark Territory].
However, when Shado was an apprentice, he created a similar spell called [Imaging], except that he did not use low-frequency infrasound waves, but ordinary sound waves that can be heard by ordinary human ears.
The penetrating power, especially in rock formations, earth and rocks, is far inferior to Zhuoer's [Infrasound Detection], but Xia Duo's [Infrasound Detection] is also unique in its processing of echo feedback.
The combination of the two is the improved version of [infrasound detection] he is using now.
Soon, Shado received feedback on the spell, but in front of Stern, he did not take out a piece of paper to write it down, but planned to retrace his memory after he returned.
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Then, Xia Duo conducted infrasound detection from multiple angles based on the direction of the vein, and collected echo feedback. This was considered a relatively complete characteristic data of the vein.
After Mine No. 16, under the leadership of Peter, he went to Mine No. 19, No. 28, No. 4, No. 25 and other mines with a higher proportion of coarse mithril ore.
As for the other mines, Xia Duo did not detect them one by one. On the one hand, there were too many mines, and even if you walked for a day, you might not be able to detect them, and you also had to take into account the casting status.
He cannot devote all his energy here.
On the other hand, the data he has collected now is almost enough.
Nowadays, the population of Savile Territory and Daxia Territory is limited, and mithril mines below a certain limit are not worth mining at all. Even if the population increases in the future, it is impossible to mine them as long as there are mines.
After all, there is no free dwarf labor anymore. Unless more efficient mining equipment appears in the future, and resources are relatively scarce, it will be necessary to continue mining those poor ores.
Now, just mine rich ores.
He has almost collected the echo feedback data of the rich mithril mine in Leisenling Mine. If he wants more, he can only go to other mines.
As for the poor ore data, it may be useful in establishing a complete mithril vein echo feedback model in the future, but it is not that useful.
After weighing the matter, Xia Duo only collected a few symbolically and then gave up.