Heart of Empire Chapter 310: Copper Vein

After the exploration station was established, it was handed over by Dane to Li Huoke to take charge of it.

As for Li Huoke's work during this period, although Dane didn't have much energy to pay attention to it after he got busy, he actually did a pretty good job.

While doing personnel training, hoping to train more and more sufficient exploration personnel, at the same time, they did not stop the exploration work around the White Wolf Castle.

And soon, he came up with the results.

About a week ago, Dane heard Li Huoke's report, saying that he had found a chalcopper vein that was suspected to exist more than 40 kilometers east of White Wolf Fort.

The commercial value of copper ore is not low. Many magic industries need copper ore, such as Dane's enchanting workshop. Then, some industrial products also require copper.

The metal copper itself is a very basic mineral resource product, and its value is actually higher than some ordinary mineral resources: after all, after the copper ore is smelted, it can be taken out and directly made into copper coins of.

Although the value of copper coins is incomparable with silver coins and gold coins, there is a big exchange difference. But at least this is a metal that can be used as currency, and the output of copper mines is much more than that of silver mines and gold mines.

And a very important point is that this copper mine, although the quality and resource reserves have not yet been explored, but in any case, this is an undeveloped mineral resource. This is very different from the mine that Dane established through the abandoned mine lode.

Resource buildings, or resource points, can be upgraded. But the upgrade of resource points is very different from other buildings. On the one hand, of course, it depends on the level of the system base itself, but on the other hand, they are also subject to the quality level of the resources themselves.

Although the three mineral resources under Dane's current control look pretty good, and the output is not bad, in fact, they have reached the bottleneck of development.

White Wolf Fort's iron ore factory and sulfur mine have a lot of output, but after upgrading to the second level, there is no way to continue to upgrade. This is because the two mines themselves were established on abandoned mine veins. No matter how powerful the system is, it can only reintegrate some mineral resources that have no mining value, become able to be developed again, and It is not a mineral resource born out of thin air.

As for the black crystal veins on Comilla. Although it is also a primitive mineral resource point, due to the difficulty of mining it, even after the establishment of the system mine, there are many constraints. After the black crystal vein was upgraded to level three, it couldn't continue to improve.

However, the current copper resource point is different.

This is an undeveloped place, and according to what Li Haoke said, although the copper resources in this place are buried relatively deep, the quality should still be good.

Dane is quite looking forward to the potential of this chalcopper mine plant after it is actually developed.

So he put down what he was doing and rushed here, just to wait, after Li Huoke and his exploration work were completed, they would get the results and news as soon as possible.

At the exploration site, Dane stayed with Hulk's exploration team for almost three days, and the entire exploration work was finally over.

Li Huoke handed Dane a stack of straw paper with a lot of scribbles on it. Here's his prospecting report.

Although this report looks sloppy, it is quite professional. It is precisely because of this that Dane can't understand it at all.

But it doesn't matter, if you don't understand it, you don't understand it, and he doesn't care, anyway, he doesn't rely on this report to get the final result.

Encouraging Hulk, Dane sent him away, and immediately opened the system interface impatiently, and saw this new copper mine resource point on the map module.

Then, the surprise came!

This is a seven-level resource point, which means that as long as the system base level is raised to a high enough level, then this resource point can eventually be raised to seven levels.

What is even more surprising is that this is not just an ordinary copper ore resource point, it is accompanied by another mineral of higher quality: red copper!

Compared with ordinary copper mines, red copper, an extremely rare associated mine, is not known to be much higher in terms of single value.

After smelting, copper can barely be regarded as a precious metal. However, red copper is an out-and-out magic mineral.

Moreover, it is a more precious resource than basic magic minerals like black crystals.

Red copper is a very good carrier for constructing items with fire attributes. When carrying highly active magic power, red copper performs very well.

Of course, as an excellent magic metal, the effect of red copper is not only capable of carrying flame magic. It is also a great ingredient for golem cores and other magical components that require a very strong and excellent heat transfer system.

According to Li Huoke's professional knowledge and the specific attributes of this new resource point seen by Dane in the system interface, they made a pre-estimate of the output of this vein~IndoMTL.com~ After the establishment of this copper mine, the income that Dane can bring to Dane every month is probably more than 3,000 gold coins. At the same time, the value of the trace amount of red copper extracted from the associated mining will also reach more than 1,000 gold coins.

This figure does not seem very high, but it is an estimate based on the fact that the established copper mines are only one level. You know, this is a high-quality resource point that can be upgraded to level seven. After the level of resource points is raised, both the mining of copper mines and the production of associated red copper will have a very substantial increase.

As for the development of this mine vein, for Dane, the value is not limited to the simple income of gold coins. Minerals, a strategic resource, sometimes cannot be measured by pure gold coins. To put it simply, adding a few thousand gold coins a month is certainly a good thing for Dane, but can the increased money be used to impress the Shire Chamber of Commerce? That's impossible. The Shire Continent, which is rich in products, has never lacked these golden splendors.

However, providing an extra batch of copper ore and smelted copper ingots every month, what can be exchanged from the Shire United Chamber of Commerce is not just these simple gold coins. Both political and economic support cannot be easily bought with money. (To be continued.)