(09-10-2020, 03:49 AM)Karlotta Wrote: Very poor response to a serious subject. Try using the thing between your ears before next try.
i did
i used my eyes
(09-10-2020, 04:03 AM)Unseelie Wrote: Regarding the Bauxite thing, and sedimentary minerals: thanks, that's a thing I had not considered.
Regarding the whole ice thing, and the argument that there's ice elsewhere, the whole mining economy is like that. Or did you expect that copper could only be found in marketable quantities in Kansas?
No, there's likely a mix of elements available in every system. Some will lean in one direction or another, based on differences between primordial systems, but for the most part, you can expect to find these minerals everywhere.
The mining spots and routes, just like the trade routes, are a simulation of an economy being operated by hundreds of billions of humans set up so that a few thousand people can log in at no more than 200 at a time and pantomime it.
Of course ice is being mined everywhere. But that's true of Platinum, or Silver, or gold. Optronics aren't only being produced on Honshu, and gin isn't only made on new london.
Otherwise, concerning this. You're basically saying that this ice is more water than the other ice that's mined and/or is better water than the other ice mined that produces the water commodity, which doesn't make much sense. Much of Liberty's fluff regarding its asteroid fields involves them being mined dry, and Liberty looking for external sources. For instance, the ones in Colorado (more specifically, Silverton). Therefore, the presence of a copper field in Kansas would make sense, because it could be used to display a resource that Liberty should be clambering for.
Also, geologically speaking, pristine ice is neither an ore or a mineral.
In order to be a mineral this "pristine ice" would have to fill two criteria:
They occur as solids. As minerals are defined in geology terms, they are a solid, naturally occurring chemical compound with a specific crystalline structure that can occur naturally in a pure, crystalline form.
And, according to Wikipedia, would have to be a naturally occuring rock or sediment that contains a valuable mineral or metal.
Pristine ice would either not be pristine, or not be ice in order to be an ore, because it would have to not melt at room temperature.
Like, say
Aktashite
Arquerite
Atheneite
Kleinite
Moschellandsbergite
Mosesite
Temagamite
Terlinguate
Wattersite
All of these are mercury-based minerals, by the way. Mercury does not remain solid at room temperature. So unless this ice can magically remain solid at room temperature, it's either not pristine, and arguably worse quality than ice that is typically mined (hence trashing the pristine moniker), or it isn't ice, and the infocard is lying.
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