Re: Dealing with Mermen : questions about aluminium

From: jeffkyer <jakyer_at_y0s3Badf1KqyE1Tw55ZlfyH5dj2AMERCpXH1z_1Z_rteXdqUHxTZ2QcWsElIK7-yheu9e>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:53:30 -0000

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> > were made from quicksilver. He was buried in 3rd century BCE.
> /// Very interesting. I thought aluminium was refined bauxite, but have no idea
> what bauxite looks like, or how it's refined into aluminium.
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Smelted bauxite, but this process requires immense amounts of electricity. Until WWII, most of the aluminum came from cryolite and other minerals. Heck, there was an occupation of Greenland during that war to secure the world's only major supply of the mineral.

Bauxite looks like mud because, it pretty much IS mud. Cryolite looks much cooler, as it were. However, this is Glorantha and mineralogy doesn't work the same way.