Chapter 97

The arrival of the appraisal masters made the atmosphere of the exploration team a little tense. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because the mouths of several managers are not strict enough, the news that "that Mithril mine may be an innate Mithril" has spread. The difference between the price of Innate Mithril and Acquired Mithril is too large, and as a prospecting team that can get a share from it, the difference between eating a large piece of meat and only being able to drink a small sip of soup is the difference.

If any of the Mithril Mines were really Innate Mithril, then the total value would not be 20,000, but 200,000 or more - of course, it would be more cumbersome to realize, and it would take time to slowly speculate, and it would take 10 or even 20 years to turn them all into money. But in any case, sooner or later, this share will be available, and even if they can't get it while they are alive, they can be left as an inheritance to their children and grandchildren after death. With the Northwest Republic backing them, no one should want to give them the money they deserve.

Therefore, everyone hoped that the Mithril Mine was Innate Mithril, and even Hopps couldn't help but feel a little fast and short of breath at the thought of the possible benefits. It's just that Du Du, a dead big man who is not short of money, doesn't care at all, and this guy even has time to make fun of everyone's "don't take money too seriously" and so on.

But it's not a question of whether you take it seriously or not, it's a lot of money!

Hoppus replied at the time, causing everyone to laugh.

In the midst of this tense anticipation, the two expert masters finally arrived. However, because of the fatigue of the journey, they arrived at the camp and rested for three days before leaving for the cave on the fourth day.

This is also something that can't be helped, the two appraisal masters are not young, and they are really tired from traveling for seven or eight days in a row on this cold day. If you don't take a good rest, let alone not being able to work, I'm afraid that you will get seriously ill.

Fortunately, after sufficient rest, the bodies of the two expert masters fully recovered. Then they followed the joint exploration team to the cave, not on foot, of course, but with people taking them.

Of course, there is no way to do this, the location of the cave is relatively remote, the nearby mountains are steep, and the two appraisal masters are still in good health, and there is no way to enter it. In fact, in the entire joint exploration team, there are only a few people who can climb into the cave.

This time it was Clito, the identity of the two appraisal masters, who were qualified to let him, a legendary powerhouse, help.

With his help, not only did the two master appraisers enter the cave smoothly, but even Hoppus and the others easily entered the rather precipitous cave without much effort.

It's close to noon, and it's the best time for the sun. But the inside of the cave was dark, except for some light near the entrance, and there were barely fingers visible from inside.

When Hopps first came here, it was much the same. However, he has dim vision, and even in this environment, he can see his surroundings clearly, so he can explore smoothly.

Of course, the two masters did not have his dim vision, so Hopps hurriedly took out the sun stone prepared in advance, and inlaid this stone that could emit a soft white light like sunlight in several places on the cave wall, like a torch or a wall lamp, illuminating the dim cave brightly.

Under the illumination of the sun stone, everyone clearly saw that there was a large bright silver light on the oncoming cave wall not far ahead.

It was a vein of silver ore mixed with Mithril, and although it was only a small piece, it was worth a fortune.

The two master appraisers took a short break and stepped forward with their tools. They used a very small chisel to chisel a few pieces of silver-gray ore from the wall and then used special tools to identify them.

The appraisal took several hours, during which time they didn't even eat lunch. It wasn't until the sun went west that they had completed all the identification.

The two masters discussed it again and finally came to an agreement.

"It's Innate Mithril. They declared, "The reserves are not high, but the quality is good." With magic, it should be possible to extract it relatively smoothly - but the silver mine will be destroyed. ”

Compared to Mithril, silver is like clay to gold, especially since this Mithril is the most precious innate Mithril. Therefore, no one cares about those ordinary silvers at all, and if they are destroyed, they are destroyed, and no one will feel sorry for them.

This is the first step of the two Appraisers, but they can't go back now, and they will have to stay in the camp for a while.

Because the exploration team has to temporarily transfer to miners, they will extract all the precious innate Mithril veins, and then let them identify and verify them little by little.

Innate Mithril and Acquired Mithril are often accompanied, and even after they are collected, they must be carefully distinguished before they can really begin to refine.

Only high-purity Innate Mithril will have slightly different properties from Acquired Mithril. Once impurities are mixed in, then this difference is greatly reduced and the value plummets.

Therefore, the plan of the exploration team is to dig out the ore here little by little along the veins, make them as small as possible piece by piece, and once they find that the veins are bifurcated or other places that may affect the purity, they will take them to the two masters of identification to confirm them to ensure the purity of the ore.

This is also a natural meaning, a large part of the high value of innate Mithril is also due to this difficult mining and refining work.

Without a professional appraisal master, it is simply impossible to refine high-purity innate Mithril!

Sui Xiong floated above the camp, watching them busy every day, digging up the rocks with those handy little tools, digging out the silver ore containing Mithril, carrying it back to the camp on the shoulders of people, and then carefully sifting through it, like a swarm of moving ants.

Of course, the screening work can't be handed over to the two expert masters, so they don't even want to finish it. First, Hopps and other beneficiation experts conducted a preliminary screening to separate the silver ore from the Mithril ore, and at the same time specially selected the Mithril ore that followed the vein, and then handed over the Mithril ore to the two expert masters to determine.

It's a delicate job, and by the time the vein has been completely mined, the identification is less than a tenth of the way through.

But what's the solution? There's 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 hurry in exploration, and beneficiation is the most important.

Hoppus, of course, they don't mind beneficiation all day, anyway, as long as it's a valuable job, it doesn't matter what they do, beneficiation is at least easier than exploration.

Don't forget, they were supposed to learn about beneficiation, not exploration.

Just when it was so busy that many people felt as if they were about to become cross-eyed, a shocking news came.

On the border between the merchant faction and the aristocratic faction, there was a fierce conflict. (To be continued.) )