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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azgarod" data-source="post: 5418863" data-attributes="member: 6667533">I was in another campaign and was given land and a title with one of the stipulations to such being to head all mining operations in the region. I was hoping to find something useful as to the logistics of mining and I stumbled across this particular thread.First I would like to help a few people here realize a few things.1. Mithril is a magical metal. Depending on your DM it comes in one of 2 forms. Silver which is heavily refined and enchanted making it mithril or it comes in mithril (already purified hence the magical properties) Refining beyond breaking the loose rock out of whatever it is wrapped around is unnecessary.2. a significant investment is not 100 gold, that's actually an extremely small investment in just about anything. besides which for your purposes, it's a waste of an investment which I will explain in number 3.3. This is a magical world, key word there is magical. It seems everyone here is forgetting that in these fantasy worlds we have access to this magical thing known as magic. This years of proper mining, building lattice work, surveying is all fine and dandy in a non magical world, but lets be honest, if you can't figure a way around this being rich pc's then you shouldn't be gaming in the first place due to a lack of imagination.Here's what you do. Firstly, forget any mining equipment, all you need is an elementalist/summoner/conjurer(/mage/sorcerer) the last 2 are last resort.Next, pay whomever you hire to summon an earth elemental (extra points if you have access to para elementals and can get a metal elemental because that makes things so much easier.) if hiring the caster outright costs too much offer a barter of 10% of all the findings. Next have the elemental depending on the type either extract all stone that contains metal and depositing it in a nice heap outside of the stone or if you have a metal elemental simply extract all the metal.step 3/4 refine whatever metals you need to to separate the metals or if pulled out by an earth elemental have your nifty summoner/mage/whatever cast earth to mud and wash your prize clean then refine.Congratulations! your multi year project has turned into a weekend of magical shenanigans, you don't even have to be near (and some people will argue the collapse danger so you shouldn't be near) the mining operations. Now you owe a caster some payment and maybe a small favor to an elemental who did some ridiculously easy task anyway.</blockquote>

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