Diary of Neblime Zangethad 2nd Hematite
Truly mothdast smiles upon us.
I have been unanimously reelected as overseer, and with the aquifer at last breached the earth provides, thanks to the exploratory mining of rigor gazcubor
Along with those metal ores we found many other types of gems including yellow jasper, garnierite, Cinnabar, tanzanite, red spinel, indigo tourmaline, and alamandine!
Kalkor gemstrike excavated himself some kind of cavern he calls his "throne room" which also encapsulates some sapphires and plume agate
I hope he doesn't get any ideas about what he's supposed to be ruling over
Cain spent most of spring furiously smelting, but is still hard at it with nothing produced as I write. Perhaps he could hire some peasants to do the wood burning or smelting for him, or at least haul the ore?
Some migrants arrived in late slate, among them were 3 rangers, 1 craftsdwarf, 1 peasant, 5
parasites children, 1 farmer, 1 jeweler (who may prove useful now!) and 1 fisherdwarf.
I can only imagine what wonders we shall construct from this mineral wealth
there isn't too much a dwarf can get done in one season. I recommend all of you consider hiring NPC especially for unskilled tasks like hauling goods to where they need to be or smelting/charcoal making or smoothing stone
cain I didn' get round to making a copper pick or any of the other stuff, it just takes too long to make your charcoal and smelt your ore (you did get some tetrahedrite and limonite ore smelted though)
hence there was no pick for raziel to do anything (sorry!)
I chose to do your exploratory mining instead of make a memorial hall sal, because the aquifer is causing problems and i wanted to know how deep it actually went, also having metal ores on hand is never bad!
Who owns what:
Cain:17 iron bars, 2 silver bars, 12 copper bars 2 charcoal 1 forge room with iron metalsmith's forge, woodfurnace and smelter
Teledwarf: Iron helm, 1 high boot 1 gauntlet
Elorf: 5 Bronze bars 5 coke 9 marble 32 bauxite blocks
Keroe:1 sandstone block, palm training axe
Rigor: 1 longland grass, 1 prickle berry, 4 wild strawberry seeds, several veins of unmined ores: gold, platinum, native copper, tetrahedrite, limonite, hematite and galena.
Kalkor Gemstrike:throne room, Copper pick , a bunch of bauxite and 6 (mined) sapphire
Raziel:nothing