After more than two months of preparations, work was almost ready to begin on mining the nonferrous metals vein near the Worrel Werewolf Tribe.
Once Xu Yi and President Reilsa delivered the supplies the Worrel Chieftain needed, they would have fulfilled the agreement between the two sides and could officially begin mining the vein.
After meeting with the Worrel Chieftain, the two transported the final batch of supplies and the necessary mining magic machinery to the nearby vein. They then held a brief ceremony to announce the official opening of the Worrel Nonferrous Metals Mine, a joint investment by the Xinfei Merchant Guild, the Rexton Merchant Guild, and the Amli Merchant Guild.
Since the Xinfei Merchant Guild's Nonferrous Metals Smelting Factory was still under construction, all the nonferrous metals mined for now would be stored temporarily in the Worrel Tribe. Processing and smelting would begin only after the factory was completed.
The first day of mining yielded little, with less than a ton of nonferrous metal ore extracted.
Neither Xu Yi nor President Reilsa found this particularly surprising. After all, the main body of the vein lay beneath the surface, so large-scale extraction was impossible at the start.
Finding ore on the very first day was enough to prove that the vein held extremely rich deposits and lay close enough to the surface to be easily mined.
Further surveys by several dwarves revealed that the vein primarily contained large quantities of aluminum and copper ore. The ore extracted on the first day, totaling less than a ton, was entirely copper ore.
Judging by the copper ore they had extracted, its copper content was astonishingly high.
According to a dwarf from the Angola Tribe who had worked in many mines owned by the Falkor Merchant Guild, its copper content was much