Terrain of the Borderlands V -

Meniri Mountains Pt.5

Aug 07, 2023

Welcome back, we’re continuing our series on the mineral deposits of the Meniri Mountains of the Auran Borderlands. Thanks to the people that pay for this and I hope the freeloaders enjoy it as well.

Here’s where we left off from part four …

So now we’re going to continue the sweep from west to east along the bottom of the Meniri range using the generation rules from Ore Never Changes.

Well the dice have determined that most of the central section of the range is empty of surface exploitable minerals except for a section to the south of the Salt Mine in the central range. There be 00 in those hills and in this case 00 on the chart means Gold and the homogenous result means that if we get multiple deposits in the area they’ll be all gold mines in this region. This is interesting, especially after multiple twenty four mile hexes of no results. Let’s see … we’ve got a result of eight deposits and all of them are gold but none of them are pure gold. We’ve got mixes of Iron, Lead, Silver and Copper in with the gold ore. Still a valuable piece of real estate that has the downside of being in Beastman territory on top of not being the easiest to access.

Iron-Gold-Copper deposit - Sustainable capacity of 300 work gangs and deposit reserves of 184,800 months.
Silver-Gold deposit - Sustainable capacity of 200 work gangs and deposit reserves of 1,377,800 months.
Copper-Gold deposit - Sustainable capacity of 250 work gangs and deposit reserves of 206,400 months.
Iron-Gold-Copper deposit - Sustainable capacity of 100 work gangs and deposit reserves of 1,528,800 months.
Silver Gold deposit - Sustainable capacity of 300 work gangs and deposit reserves of 888,000 months.
Iron-Lead-Gold deposit - Sustainable capacity of 250 work gangs and deposit reserves of 633,600 months.
Silver-Lead-Gold deposit - Sustainable capacity of 300 work gangs and deposit reserves of 1,228,800 months.
Silver-Copper-Gold deposit - Sustainable capacity of 400 work gangs and deposit reserves of 1,646,400 months.

This is hell of a pocket of resources in a twenty four mile area and the question is does anyone know about it? It’s a distance away and over the slope from the former Dwarven salt mine and it’s isolation might mean that no one is aware of it. That leaves the GM with a place to put wild prospector stories of ‘Gold in them there hills’ or stories of captured slaves being worked to death by Beastmen for rich ore. It’s also possible that this was a Dwarven deposit as well but I think not. The Dwarves aren’t infallible and likely they just hadn’t found this spot yet. This will be a lot of ‘Au’ symbols in one place so at the end of this little series I’ll come up with a numbered map to break down which mines are which, it’ll be helpful in this crowded area.

Here’s what the overall area looks like …