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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grogtar" data-source="post: 2621676" data-attributes="member: 28076">If realism in mining is what you are going for the out and out of it is that dense veins of metal do not occur near the surface.Barring any insanly abnormal tectonic activity very little ore will be available on the surface. When you say you have "Invested" heavily into mining equipment what do you mean ? How much infastructure do you have on site ? Do you have a on site blacksmith expert to smelt and refine it ? If not you are going to have 100 pounds of of raw ore to 5 pounds of useable ore. An expert miner is going to have about a 20 in mining, what does your character have ?  Was he raised by miners, or did he live in a mining community all his life ? Chances are your character as a fighter has NO IDEA how to get all this ore out, whats required or the process involved.Also dont count on using a burrowing speed to help. Burrowing does NOT equal mining. Mining has to be slow, methodical and carefull. Burrowing is like a dog digging a hole. Moving earth and Mining are totally different. Just digging a hole is easy - to mine you are going to need tools, infrastructure and labor.I hate to rain on your parade but if you want to make a fortune on mining become a mining magnate and reture your adventurers boots. To mine this is going to take time, lots and lots of time. Mining is a slow going process, you can easily ruin the better ore deposites by hasty action and bad digging. You need to carefully excavate delicate ore deposits and mithril veins. Mining even a rich vein that is on the surface will collapse over and over again if you do not build a proper mining latice. You need to take time and dig away the garbage rock and move it away from the site. Once you have exposed the vein you begin the slow process of extracting the ore. Then, once you are done with that spot, you can move on to the next area.I do have a hard time beliving that you can have a rich mithril vein so close to the surface. Mineral deposits just dont happen that way. What is it, a 5 mile long cliff face ? Its really stretching the believeability.Even if the Giant is old now, he wasnt allways. This is like finding a gigantic diamond mine in the middle of the california wild lands and nobody has ever seen it, and those that did dont want it.If you do this realise you will destroy the economy for Mithril for a very long time. Dumping that much "Rare" metal into the economy even on a global scale its going to annihilate it. You will probably make many enemies and drive the price of Mithril down for decades, if not permanently. With what you have described its MILLIONS of GP worth of rare and valuable materials.I'd just comment on how nifty it is and pass on by. Maybe sell the information to an actual Mining Mogul.But really, if you want to be a miner, roll up a level 10 expert and be done with it. If you want to RPG a campaign about bieng economic giants, go wild. But if you want to be an adventurer, then this is really too far out. Just beyond the scope of adventuring.</blockquote>

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