Medieval Fantasy RPG -

Gathering Metals (Hard)
Power Level: Base ()
Efficiency: (5 to 1) Common / (2 to 1) Uncommon / (1 to 1) advanced / (.5 to 1) Master /
Type: Class Skill
Range: Long (100’)
Methods: Physical
Sacrifice: No
Tools: Yes (Mining)
Duration: One Hour (Active) / (One day) Passive (while traveling)
Time: One attack
Area of Effect:
Limits:

Effect: You are an expert in the recovery and exploration of hard minerals.

Common

Mining Lore : Identify a common underground mineral up to +4. If successful with a more difficult metal you recognize it as a higher level material. Mundane (+0) materials can be identified with this check as well.

Create Metal Blocks: You can create metal ingots and purify nearly any metal for which you can gain acees to a hot enough flame. Note: Forges must be of an equal bonus (ie. +1 or etc) as the metal being smelted. (1 unit per check)

Uncommon

Check Mineral Content: Check for the presence of trace minerals in an area. These can be collected with a sifter in areas with moving water or a tool such as a hammer and chisel, or a shovel depending on the terrain and analysed over a flame. They can then be identified with mining lore.

Discern Depth: By studying rock and earth formations you can guess your depth underground.

Mining Lore Advanced: Identify a quality underground mineral up to +9.

Advanced

Mining Lore Expert: Identify a underground mineral up to +14.

Construct Mining Tunnels: You can construct basic tunnels for mining purposes.

Master

Identify Forge: You can assess the quialty of a forge by testing several metals to see its melting temperatures and magical potential.

Advanced Mining Tunnels: You can construct basic tunnels for mining purposes.

Mining Glossary

Alloy: metallic properties having two or more chemical elements. At least one is an elemental metal. Any gold or silver less than .999 purity is an alloy.

Alluvial: unconsolidated sediments in river beds and streams.

Alluvium: deposits of gravel, sand and mud, resulting from erosion of higher ground.

Amalgamation: a process of extracting gold or silver from their ore, using mercury to attract the precious metal.

Anomaly: in geophysical usage, a portion of region surveyed different in appearance from the general area.

Apex: the top of a vein or its nearest point to the surface.

Avoirdupois: United State's weight system used for most everything except gems and precious metals.

Base Metal: any non-precious metal covered by a precious metal.

Bench Diggings: mining on narrow ledges along hillsides.

Blast Hole: drilled in rock for explosives.

Block Caving: undercut blocks of ore caving under its own weight.

By-product: a secondary mineral product from a mine or refinery.

Carat: a unit of weight used in gems but originating from the same source as "karat," used to describe the fineness of gold. The weight unit of carat: 200 milligrams.

Carbon In Pulp: a modern process utilizing the precipitatinge ffects of coarse activated carbon on gold and silver from a loaded cyanide solution. A popular Australian heap- leaching method.
Channel Sample: sample of a vein or mineral deposit.

Claim: portion of mining ground held by a miner.

Comminution: is the reduction of ore to the size required for mechanical or chemical separation.

Concentrate: portion of enriched ore left after separation from unwanted ores.

Core: long cylinder of rock recovered by a diamond drill.

Cross Cut: a horizontal tunnel across a mine's ore body.

Custom Smelter: an independent refinery that returns a percentage of the gold, silver or other metal refined.

Cut and Fill: filling excavated ore area with rock or other waste material known as backfill, and used to provide support.

Cyanidation: process of extracting gold or silver from powdered rock by dissolving the metals in a weak cyanide solution.

Decline: the main mine passageway that slopes downward.

Diamond Drill: drilling by cutting rather than percussion. Producing cylindrical rock core an inch or more in diameter.

Dilution: mining low grade ore along with high grade ore.

Dip: the angle between the downward course of a vein and the horizontal.

Disseminated Ore: small particles of valuable minerals spread through worthless waste material.

Dore' Bullion: an impure alloy of gold and silver usually produced at the mine.

Dredging: mass recovery of alluvium.

Drift: a mining tunnel parallel to a horizontal geological formation.

Electrolysis: electric process for refining precious metals.

Epithermal: mineral deposit found near earth's surface, mainly in veins.

Fault: a break in the earth's crust. The rock on one side has moved with respect to the rock on the other side.

Ferrous Metal: containing iron.

Fine: purity of a precious metal in relation to 1,000 parts.

Fine Gold: pure gold is 24 carats.

Fine Ounce: a Troy ounce of precious metal 999/1000ths pure.

Footwall: lower side of fault.

Fracture: opening in rock mass, allowing for entry of mineral bearing solutions.

Free Milling: gold or silver ore, precious metals can be removed from without complicated treatment.

Galena: lead sulphide mineral containing silver.

Gangue: ("gang"), the worthless segment of an ore deposit. t

Grab Sample: non-representative random sample taken to be assayed. Often the choice material is picked.

Grade: amount of gold, silver or other metal per metric ton.

Gross Value: hypothetical ore value before deduction for recovery losses and mining costs. Used with severe qualification.

Hanging Wall: the upper side of an ore body's fault.

High-grading: mining of just the richer ore. Stealing ore.

Host Rock: rock in which ore deposit occurs.

Hydrothermal Gold: gold deposited from hot fluids.

Incline Shaft: mining shaft that follows dip of ore body.

Karat: used in jewelry to denote the fineness of a gold alloy. Pure gold is 24-karat and too soft for jewelry use.

Lateritic Deposits: contain gold in weathered zones.

Leaching: a chemical solution process for dissolving and extracting gold and silver from ore.

Lode: vein or deposit of gold-bearing rock. Comes from the verb to lead. Miners followed the lode, or lead.

Metallurgy: the science and practice of extracting metals, production of alloys and the study of their physical relationships and properties.

Mill-head: the grade of ore entering the mill.

Milling Ore: ore of sufficient value to be treated by milling.

Mineral Deposit: may or may not be mined at a profit.

Mother Lode: a specific limited area in a gold-bearing district, often used to describe the whole district.

Native Gold: naturally occurring gold commonly found in alluvial deposits and quartz veins.

Ore Dressing: the concentrating of ore mineral by removing some of the waste material.

Ore Reserves: the measured tonnage and grade of ore minable at a profit.

Outcrop: the exterior expression of any mineral deposit.

Pinch-out: to decline in size or value as the vein is followed.

Placer: an alluvial mineral deposit.

Placer Mining: washing of surface deposits for gold.

Primary deposits: are veins or lodes occurring in the host rock.

Pure Gold or Silver: 999 fineness or with no alloy.

Raise: a vertical or inclined opening in a mine from lower to higher level.

Recovery: the percentage of valuable metal recovered from ore.

Refractory Ores: the gold is chemically bound in sulphide minerals.

Secondary Deposits: are formed by wind or water eroding a primary deposit. Such as alluvial deposits in streams and rivers.

Slag: waste matter from a smelter.

Smelting: extracting of crude metal from ore prior to refining.

Sorting: eliminating waste rock from mined ore.

Stockpile: accumulated ore awaiting shipment or treatment.

Stope: step-like removal of underground ore.

Strike: horizontal direction of a geological formation.

Strike: the mark left on a planchet.

Strip Mine: mining of surface deposits.

Tellurides: are minerals in which gold is found in correlation with tellurium an element similar to sulphur.

Ton: Short ton = 2,000 pounds
Metric ton = 2,204.6 pounds
Long tonne = 2,240 pounds
Chemical Elements and Symbols
Symbol Element:
Ag Silver - As Arsenic - Au Gold
C Carbon - Co Cobalt - Cr Chromium - Cu Copper
Fe Iron
Hg Mercury
Ni Nickel
Pb Lead - Pd Palladium - Pt Platinum - Pu Plutonium
S Sulfur - Sn Tin
Ti Titanium
U Uranium
W Tungsten
Zn Zinc

Abbreviations and Weights - Symbol Explanation:

cu m Cubic meter
cu yd Cubic yard
eqAg Equivalent silver
egAu Equivalent gold
ft Foot
g Gram
g/cu m Grams per cubic meter
g/t Grams per metric ton
kg Kilogram
kg/t Kilogram per metric ton
km Kilometer
lb Pound avoirdupois
m Meter
mi Mile
mm Millimeter
MM st Million short tons
MM tpy Million short tons per year
Mt Million metric tons

Symbol Explanation:
oz Troy ounce
oz/cu yd Troy ounce per cubic yard
oz/T Troy ounces per short ton
ppb Parts per billion
ppm Parts per million
sq km Square kilometer
sq mi Square mile
T Short ton
t Metric tonne
tpd Short tons per day
t/d Metric tonnes per day

Cave: You catch a gleam of something metalic out of the corner of your eye. You see a crack in the stone here which leads to a cave. Range from small to large. (1- 10x10 2- 25x25 3- 100x60 4- 200x160) They are found all over and range from tiny to huge. They are usually empty but sometimes they are occupied. They are full of 10-1000 pieces of copper. They may also contain other things. See below.

90% Impure copper (10%) 100-1000
80% Copper 100-1000
70% Water.
60% Iron (100-1000)
50% foliage
40% silver 10-1000
30% gold 10-1000
20% Silver diamonds 1-10
10% Obsidian 1-8 pieces.
05% Miners
05% Exotic gem.
03% encounter.
01% Adamantite. If find 10% Black Adamantite.