Soon, Xia Duo took a general tour of Leisen's mithril mines, especially some typical mines, and collected echo feedback data from the mines.
After leaving the mine, he visited the ore roughing workshop under the guidance of Peter and Stern. In fact, this was an experience he had never experienced on earth, and everything made him feel very novel.
Of course, this does not mean that Xia Duo has no understanding of ore smelting, but that understanding exists more in the form of words.
After visiting the ore roughing workshop, the mine manager Pete left first, and Stern then led Shado to continue the tour:
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"Lord Shado, next we will go to the newly built mithril smelting workshop in the territory!"
"Oh? The Leisen Territory built a mithril smelting workshop just like that?"
When Stern said that the next stop was the mithril smelting workshop, Shado immediately became interested. This was different from ordinary rough ore smelting workshops, which were available in Leisen Territory and Savile Territory.
The mithril smelting workshop mentioned by Stern is very likely to be the first mithril smelting workshop in Netheril!
How could you miss this!
Shado did obtain mithril refining technology in [Projection Plane·Arcane Empire], and even the ritual spell [Element Extraction] used to refine high-grade mithril.
But at that time, he had indeed never seen the mithril refining workshop when he was in the projection plane. All of them were written materials.
From the written information to the implementation, if it is a spell, it doesn't matter. As long as the details of the spell are not lost, there will be no deviation.
But for the refining method without the involvement of magic, there are at least two hurdles to overcome in terms of engineering and craftsmanship from technology to physical object.
Now such a mithril smelting workshop is placed in front of Shado, even if it does not involve purification, just rough refining of ore, even if this is only a technology provided by the Sevington Council, it is different from the Arcane Empire version.
It’s also well worth a look!
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Perhaps because the Sevington Council has unlocked and opened the mithril refining technology to the outside world, the mithril smelting workshop in Leisen Territory is not placed in a secret place.
Such as in the mage tower, or using some special protective magic to pick it up.
Instead, it was not far from the mine, just within the support range of the mage tower, without any additional protective measures.
Even the density of ordinary soldiers is not higher than that at the mine, or even lower.
Because there are not a large number of dwarf slaves like the mines and rough smelting workshops we visited before. Most of the people working here are humans and individual dwarves.
Outside the workshop, far away, Xia Duo saw an air column with blue flames at the bottom rising straight into the sky, and the scene behind the air column was fragmented.
As we got closer, we felt waves of heat coming. It was early spring, but it felt even hotter than midsummer!
The weak elemental balance field that comes with the [Crimson Protection Robe] on Xia Duo cannot withstand such an "extreme" environment.
At this moment, Stern began to introduce again:
"Lord Xia Duo, this was originally a workshop used to refine pure silver. It was just transformed into a mithril smelting workshop the day before yesterday. Because pure silver is used in the mithril smelting process, it was changed here."
"Pure silver?" Xia Duo thought thoughtfully.
If the mithril refining technology released by the Severnton Council requires pure silver, then it is likely to be the same as the Arcane Empire's version.
"Yes, it's pure silver."
Stern replied, but did not explain any more. Then he extended his hand inward and said, "Lord Shado, please come this way."
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Following Stern's footsteps, Shado quickly visited this mithril smelting workshop that was transformed from a pure silver refining workshop.
The workshop area is not large, about the size of half a football field, and most of it is occupied by pure silver refining facilities.
The only thing related to mithril smelting is a gray-black cylindrical smelting furnace in the corner of the workshop.
The structure of this smelting furnace is not complicated, but the design is quite exquisite. It is not like the smelting furnace that Sha Duo just visited for crude copper and silver.
There are three floors above and below -
The bottom layer is the combustion layer, and the fuel is coal mixed with ruby powder; the next layer is the reaction layer, and the inside of this layer is made entirely of fine gold, similar to a large fine gold cup.
Above the reaction layer is the energy-gathering layer, whose openings gradually shrink to collect heat.
Of course, there are openings on the sides of these three-layer structures for adding fuel, mithril ore, and collecting rough mithril agglomerates.
Xia Duo stopped in front of the smelting furnace for a long time and saw with his own eyes shovelfuls of mithril ore being fed into the interior of the furnace through the openings on the side of the energy-gathering layer.
I also saw pieces of mithril being roughly refined and agglomerated, being picked up by craftsmen from the molten metal in the fine gold cup of the reaction layer.
After these rough smelting agglomerates are cooled, the mithril ores that have not yet completely reacted are picked out and thrown in again through the opening of the energy-gathering layer of the smelting furnace. The remaining ones must continue to be sorted to remove impurities, and only the real mithril agglomerates are left. Only then will the chunks be collected for further refinement.
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Just seeing these processes, Xia Duo felt that he had gained a lot. The council version of mithril refining technology was indeed very similar to the Arcane Empire version.
It is done by melting pure silver in a boiling state to infiltrate the mithril ore, melting the mithril out of it, and forming [Silver Mithril] agglomerates.
One of the more critical steps is to keep pure silver in a molten and boiling state for a long time, which requires extremely high temperatures.
The mithril refining technology that Sha Duo obtained from the projection plane did not mention a specific plan on how to obtain this state, but only mentioned the need for this state.
After all, the mithril refining technology he obtained was only a "popular science" version shown to students in the magic academy, and was not a real engineering process solution for industrial production.
Although Shado has not yet purchased the parliamentary version of mithril refining technology from the Sevington Parliament, it is conceivable that it is impossible to have a complete production process.
It should be just a simple introductory manual!
For the specific implementation, the lord who purchased the technology will have to figure it out himself.
The so-called "industrial strength" of Savile Territory is not enough to build a mithril smelting workshop. Apart from anything else, it is difficult to get the fuel alone.
Ruby powder can indeed be converted into fire elements at high temperatures, which can be used to continue to increase the temperature, but the ratio is the secret of each company.
Even if you know the fuel ratio, it is not easy to open the furnace once. You must first get more ore, otherwise it will not be worthwhile at all.
As for ruby powder, that was the next best thing. The smaller the gem, the lower the price. Netheril did not lack all kinds of gem powder. After all, many inks originally needed to add gem powder.
Nowadays, even if there is an additional use, the price may not increase much.
