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[DarthCloakedDwarf]

I embarked on volcano punching through an aquifer.

As I was digging out the water channels leading to my cistern, when all of a sudden-- gold! Huzzah! Native gold! ...well, more gold, anyway.

I mined out some of the gold, and then-- water! The gold nuggets, drowned in water! Oh, tragedy!

Oh well. I guess I'll just go back to smelting the rest of the aluminum, then.

[Altaree]

pumps and waterwheels, make lots of pumps and water wheels.  That or apply lots of magma and dig your gold out of the obsidian.

[Sulphuratum]

or just forget it. gold isnt very rare.just find a new vein

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

or just forget it. gold isnt very rare.just find a new vein

I know, it's mostly that I didn't expect water to pour out of a native gold tile...

[Ubiq]

That happened to me the other day though it was microcline that started leaking rather than gold. Lost one or two rock crystals that way.

[Sphalerite]

You shouldn't let mere nature and the laws of physics mock you this way.  Solve you problems with Magma like a true dwarf!

Dig out the layer above the aquifer.  Channel around the edges, making an isolated box around the gold vein.  It should fill with water if you're hitting an aquifer.  Pump magma over the channel, creating a sealing ring of obsidian.  Now channel out all the tiles inside the ring from above.  The channeled space will be full of water, but once you've channeled out the last non-obsidian space you will then be able to pump the water out and recover your gold nuggets.

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

You shouldn't let mere nature and the laws of physics mock you this way.  Solve you problems with Magma like a true dwarf!

Dig out the layer above the aquifer.  Channel around the edges, making an isolated box around the gold vein.  It should fill with water if you're hitting an aquifer.  Pump magma over the channel, creating a sealing ring of obsidian.  Now channel out all the tiles inside the ring from above.  The channeled space will be full of water, but once you've channeled out the last non-obsidian space you will then be able to pump the water out and recover your gold nuggets.

The weird thing about this map is the way it is made. It has random pillars of dirt going through the rock, and I can't for the life of me tell where I'm going to hit aquifer next.

[Altaree]

You shouldn't let mere nature and the laws of physics mock you this way.  Solve you problems with Magma like a true dwarf!

Dig out the layer above the aquifer.  Channel around the edges, making an isolated box around the gold vein.  It should fill with water if you're hitting an aquifer.  Pump magma over the channel, creating a sealing ring of obsidian.  Now channel out all the tiles inside the ring from above.  The channeled space will be full of water, but once you've channeled out the last non-obsidian space you will then be able to pump the water out and recover your gold nuggets.

A most dwarfy solution!

[Quatch]

Remember the magma water heater bugfeature when doing this though.