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It's everything you've been waiting for. Iron ore? Cringe, not real. Real minerals in real deposits, and the real road from rock to metal: bloomery, roasts, acid cracking, and a fullly-fledged rare earth solvent extraction pipeline. For Create.
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What's new
- Iron and steel: the blast furnace taps pig iron, which casts to cast iron, puddles to wrought iron (rusty ingots feed it) or blows to steel in a converter.
- New minerals: flake graphite, stibnite (antimony), pyrochlore (ferroniobium for HSLA steel), columbite-tantalite (tantalum capacitors), sylvite (potash) and native gold (placer and lode; mercury amalgamation).
- Batteries: TFMG's accumulator is built from real lead-acid, lithium-ion (NMC or LFP) and nickel-metal hydride cells.
- Silicon from quartz to Czochralski wafer; germanium, indium, cadmium and gallium from the zinc and Bayer circuits; ITO and LED chips.
- Heavy chemicals: contact-process sulfuric acid over vanadium pentoxide, Portland cement for TFMG's concrete, fertilisers (ammonium nitrate detonates in bulk).
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