The arrival of the appraisal masters made the atmosphere of the exploration team a little more tense.
Because several managers were not strict enough, the news that "that mithril mine may be innate mithril" has spread. The price difference between innate mithril and acquired mithril is really too big, and as an exploration team that can get a share from it, the difference between the two is the difference between eating a large piece of meat and being able to drink only a small sip of soup.
If any mithril mine is really innate mithril, then the total value is not 20,000, but may be more than 200,000. Of course, it will be more troublesome to realize it. It will take time to slowly hype it up, and it will have to be sold in batches. It will take ten or even twenty years to turn them all into money. But no matter what, they will get the share sooner or later. Even if they can't get it while they are alive, they can still leave it as a legacy to their descendants after they die. With the Northwest Republic backing them, no one can even think about giving away the money they deserve.
So everyone hopes that the mithril mine is innate mithril. When thinking about the possible benefits, even Hopps can't help but feel his heart beat faster and his breathing quicken. Only Dudu, a rich man who is not short of money, doesn't care. This guy even has time to make fun of everyone, "Don't take money too seriously" and so on.
But it’s not a question of whether it’s important or not, that’s a lot of money! If you put it in gold coins in front of you, it would be really heavy!
Hopps replied at the time, making everyone laugh.
Amid this intense anticipation, the two master appraisers finally arrived. But because of the fatigue of traveling, they rested for three days after arriving at the camp, and only set out for the cave on the fourth day.
There was nothing that could be done about it. The two master appraisers were already very young. Traveling for seven or eight days in this cold weather really made them very tired. If you don't take a good rest, let alone not being able to work, you might get seriously ill.
Fortunately, after adequate rest, the bodies of the two appraisal masters fully recovered. Then they went to the cave with the joint exploration team, of course, not on foot, but with people taking them along.
Of course, there was nothing we could do about it. The cave was in a relatively remote location, and the nearby mountains were steep. Even though the two master appraisers were still in good health, there was no way they could get in. In fact, there are only a few people in the entire joint exploration team who have the ability to crawl into the cave.
The one who took action this time was Klitto. The identities of the two appraisal masters qualified him, the legendary strongman, to help.
With his help, not only did the two master appraisers enter the cave smoothly, but even Hopps and the others easily entered the rather dangerous cave without any effort.
It's close to noon, when the sun is at its best. But it was dark inside the cave. There was only some light near the entrance of the cave, and further inside it was almost impossible to see.
When Hopps came here, the situation here was similar. However, he has dim vision and can roughly see his surroundings even in this environment, so he can explore smoothly.
Of course, the two appraisal masters did not have his dim vision ability, so Hopps quickly took out the sun stone he had prepared in advance and embedded this stone, which can emit soft white light like sunlight, in several places on the cave wall, like a torch or wall lamp. Generally, the dark cave will be illuminated brightly.
Under the illumination of the Sun Stone, everyone could clearly see a large area of bright silver light on the cave wall not far ahead.
That was a vein of silver ore mixed with mithril. Although it was only a small piece, it was extremely valuable.
The two master appraisers took a short rest and then stepped forward with their tools. They used small chisels to chip away several pieces of silver-gray ore from the wall, and then used special tools to identify them.
This appraisal took several hours, during which they didn't even eat lunch. It wasn't until the sun turned west that they completed all the identification work.
The two masters discussed it again and finally reached a consensus.
"It's innate mithril," they announced. "The reserves are not high, but the texture is good. If you use magic, it should be able to be extracted relatively smoothly - but the silver mine will be destroyed."
Compared with mithril, silver is like clay to gold, especially this mithril is the most precious innate mithril. Therefore, no one takes those ordinary pieces of silver seriously. If they are destroyed, they will be destroyed. No one will feel sorry for them.
The first step of the work of the two appraisal masters has been completed, but they cannot go back now and have to live in the camp for a while.
Because the exploration team has to temporarily switch jobs as miners to mine all of this precious innate mithril vein, and then let them identify it bit by bit and verify everything.
Innate mithril and acquired mithril are often found together. Even after they are collected, they must be carefully distinguished before refining can begin.
Only high-purity innate mithril will have slightly different properties from acquired mithril. Once impurities are mixed in, this difference is greatly reduced, and the value will of course plummet.
Therefore, the exploration team’s plan is to dig out the ore here little by little along the veins, making each piece as small as possible. Once the veins branch or other places that may affect the purity are found, they will take it to ask two The appraisal master will confirm it to ensure the purity of the ore.
This is also what it should be. A large part of the reason for the high value of innate mithril lies in this difficult mining and refining work.
Without a professional appraisal master, it would be impossible to extract high-purity innate mithril!
Sui Xiong floated above the camp, watching them busy every day, using those convenient small tools to dig out the rocks, dig out the silver ore containing mithril, and carry it back to the camp on people's shoulders, and then carefully screen it. It's really like a group of moving ants.
Of course, the screening work cannot be left to two master appraisers. Then even if they have only three heads and six arms, they will never be able to complete it. First, Hopps and other mineral processing experts conducted a preliminary screening to separate the silver ore and mithril ore. At the same time, the mithril ore following the veins was specially selected, and then the mithril ore was handed over to two appraisal masters for confirmation. .
This is a delicate job. By the time the ore vein has been completely mined, less than one-tenth of the identification work has been completed.
But what can be done? There is no easy money in the world. What's more, for this batch of innate mithril, not to mention the exploration team, even the caravan that controls this mining area said that there is no rush for exploration, and mineral processing is the most important thing.
Of course, Hopps and the others don't mind mineral processing all day long. Anyway, as long as it's valuable work, it doesn't matter what they do. Mineral processing is at least easier than exploration.
Don’t forget, they originally studied mineral processing, not exploration.
Just when it was so busy that many people felt like they were about to become cross-eyed, a shocking news came.
Fierce conflicts broke out on the boundary between the merchant faction and the aristocratic faction.