Volume 2 Chapter 165 - Advantage of beastmen workers (1/2)

After over two months of preparation, the preparations for the non-ferrous mine near the Voller Tribe was pretty much finished.

After Xu Yi and chairman Renersa brought the goods that chief Voller needed, they had fulfilled the agreement between them and now they could officially start mining the non-ferrous metal vein.

After meeting with chief Voller, the two sent the last batch of magic machines required to the mine. Then they held a small ceremony to announce that the non-ferrous mine jointly operated by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Renekton Chamber of Commerce, and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was officially open.

Since the non-ferrous metal smelting plant wasn’t open yet, the non-ferrous metal mined would be temporarily stored in the Voller Tribe. Once the smelting plant was open, they would begin smelting the ores.

They didn’t achieve much on the first day, they didn’t even mine one ton of non-ferrous metal ores.

But Xu Yi and chairman Renersa weren’t surprised by this, since the real part of the mineral deposit was hidden underground and they wouldn’t be able to mine it in the beginning.

Being able to mine ores on the first day was already enough to show how rich the mineral deposit was and that the vein was easy to open.

According to the investigations by the dwarves, this non-ferrous mine was rich in aluminum and copper. Of the less than one ton mined on the first day, most of it was copper ores.

Based on the copper ores that were mined, there was a large amount of copper ores in this mine.

According to the data from an Angola Tribe dwarf from the copper mines under the Falcao Chamber of Commerce, the percentage of copper in these ores were much greater than the Falcao Chamber of Commerce mines.

This was a result that Xu Yi was very satisfied with.

Right now, because there was a breakthrough with the Wind Generator, where the teams led by Bella and Camby had already stabilized a small Wind Generator, they needed a large amount of copper with stronger conductivity for the next part of their research.

Of course, since he was reminded by Still, Xu Yi wasn’t as rigid about developing electricity as he was before.

After thinking about it and comparing it, Xu Yi found that although electricity was widespread in the industrial system on earth and was very important, for the Sines Continent, because of the existence of magic, they could use magic to replace electricity in many things and it would even function better than electricity.

For example, the air conditioners. Air conditioners on earth ran on electricity, so to maintain a stable temperature, it ran at three or four kilowatts, which spent three or four kilowatts per hour.

With the most basic form of fossil fuel electricity, it meant that half a kilogram of coal was burned for an hour.

This was a very high energy consumption rate.

But when it came to the Frestech Brand Magic Air Conditioner, it would only cost a Magic Crystal that was smaller than their palm to keep it running for three days.

Averaging that, an hour of consumption was a Magic Crystal that wasn’t even the size of a fingernail.

With how there were Magic Crystal mines all over the Sines Continent and it contained rich magic energy, it could easily be seen that in this world, Magic Air Conditioners were more suited compared to electric air conditioners.

The most important thing was that Magic Crystals didn’t have any pollution, so it was much stronger than fossil fuels just based on this.

So although Xu Yi felt electricity being developed was important, it wasn’t that important.

For him, electric power was just a supplement for magic machines.

Because magic couldn’t solve all problems, so electric power could be used when it was needed.

Other than the copper ores, Xu Yi also felt that the aluminum in the mine was also very important.

Aluminum was also very widespread and important in the industrial system, all kinds of aluminum alloys were used on earth.

Although it didn’t have as many uses as iron, there were many places where iron couldn’t replace aluminum and aluminum alloys.

For example, in the important fields of aviation, buildings, and cars, the special characteristics of aluminum and aluminum alloys played an important role.

Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had developed many special steel alloys, they were limited to iron. No matter how they developed it, there were still some characteristics that they couldn’t develop.

Now that they had this non-ferrous metal mine, there was plenty of room to develop for chief Siluka and his dwarves.

In the future, there would be more and more magic machines with different uses from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.