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As for the content of Li Hulk's work during this time, although Dane didn't have much energy to pay attention to after he got busy, he actually did a pretty good job.

While doing personnel training, in the hope of training more and more sufficient exploration personnel, he did not stop the exploration work around White Wolf Castle.

And soon, he came up with results.

About a week ago, Dane had heard a report from Lee Holk that he had found a suspected area of chalcopyrite more than forty kilometers east of White Wolf Castle.

Copper ore is a thing that has a lot of commercial value, and many magic industries need copper ore, such as Dane's Enchantment Workshop. Then, some industrial products also require copper.

Copper, a metal in itself, is a very basic mineral resource product, and its value is actually higher than some ordinary mineral resources: after all, copper ore can be smelted and directly used as copper coins.

Although the value of copper coins cannot be compared with silver coins and gold coins, there is a large exchange difference. But it's at least a metal that can be used as currency, and copper veins produce much more than silver or gold.

And it is important to note that this copper mine, although it has not yet been explored for its quality and resource reserves, is an untapped mineral resource in any case. This is very different from the mine that Dane had previously built from abandoned ore veins.

Resource-based buildings, or resource points, can be upgraded. However, the upgrade of resource points is very different from other buildings, on the one hand, of course, depending on the level of the system base itself, but on the other hand, they are also subject to the quality level of the resource itself.

The three mineral resources that Dane now controls, although they all seem to be good and the output is okay, in fact, they have reached the bottleneck of development.

The iron ore plant in White Wolf Fort also has a sulfur mine, although the output is quite large, but after being promoted to the second level, there is no way to continue to rise. This is due to the fact that the two mines themselves were built on abandoned ore veins, and no matter how powerful the system is, it can only reintegrate some mineral resources that have no mining value and become able to be redeveloped, and they are not born out of thin air.

As for the black crystal veins above Komya. Although it is also a primitive mineral resource site, due to the difficulty of mining, even after the establishment of a systematic mine, there are many constraints. After that black crystal vein was promoted to level three, it could not continue to improve.

At the moment, however, this copper resource is different.

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

Dane is looking forward to how much potential this cralss mine will have when it is actually developed.

So he put down what he was doing and rushed here, just to wait, and get the results and news as soon as Li Hulk and their exploration work was completed.

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

Lee Hulk handed over a stack of scribbling and writing a lot of turf paper into Dane's hands. Here's his exploration report.

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

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

After encouraging the Hulk, Dane sent him away, and then immediately opened the system interface and saw the new copper ore resource point on the map module.

Then, the surprise came!

This is a level 7 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 upgraded to level 7 as well.

What's even more surprising is that this is not just an ordinary copper ore resource, but also another mineral of higher quality that is associated with copper ore: red copper!

Compared with ordinary copper ore, red copper, a rare associated mine, does not know how high it is in terms of a single value.

After smelting, copper can barely be considered a precious metal. However, red copper is a magical mineral in its true form.

Moreover, it is a more precious resource than the basic magic mineral of Sombra.

Copper is a very good vehicle for constructing items that carry fire attributes, and when carrying highly active magical powers, Copper performs very well.

Of course, as a good magical metal, Copper doesn't just carry fire magic. It is also a very useful ingredient for making Golem cores and other magical components that require a very strong and excellent thermal conductivity system.

Based on Lee's expertise, and the specific properties of the new resource point that Dane saw in the system interface, they worked together to make a pre-production estimate of the vein.

After the establishment of this copper mine, the income that can bring to Dane is about more than 3,000 gold coins per month, and at the same time, the value of the trace copper mined by the accompanying mining will also reach more than 1,000 gold coins.

This may not seem like a high number, but it is an estimate based on the fact that the established copper mines are only level 1. You know, this is a high-quality resource point that can be upgraded to level seven. After the level of the resource point is raised, whether it is the mining of copper ore or the production of associated red copper, there will be a very large increase.

And the development of this vein, for Dane, is worth more than just gold coins. Minerals are such a strategic resource, and sometimes they really can't be measured in terms of pure gold coins. To put it simply, adding a few thousand gold coins a month is of course a good thing for Dane, but can the increased money be used to impress the Charr 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 can be exchanged for more than just these gold coins from the hands of the Shire United Chamber of Commerce. Political and economic support is not something that can be easily bought with money.

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There's another chapter to come. )