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[T 2] Minerals included gold, gems and iron ore. However the principal mineral was mithril, a fabulously precious and versatile metal found nowhere else in Middle-earth. It was the source of Khazad-dûm's huge wealth, but ultimately its mining was the cause of its downfall. Beginning under the Silvertine, the Dwarves mined ever deeper, and down ...
For example, mining an ore trains the mining skill, and when the player accumulates enough experience points in the skill, their character will "level up". [23] As a skill level rises, the ability to retrieve better raw materials and produce better products increases, as does the experience awarded if the player uses new abilities.
In World of Warcraft, mithril and truesilver both appear; truesilver is a rare spawn node in the same areas as mithril. Both can be mined as ore and smelted into a bar using the mining profession. Mithril also appears in the MMORPG Guild Wars 2 as a blueish-silver metal used in crafting.
Mithril is a fictional metal found in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings. It is described as resembling silver , but being stronger and lighter than steel . It was used to make armour, such as the helmets of the citadel guard of Minas Tirith , and ithildin alloy, used to decorate gateways with writing visible only by starlight or moonlight.
As an aside, Damascus steel might in fact have been Tolkien's inspiration for mithril in the first place -- although the physical properties don't entirely match up, because Damascus steel rusts rather rapidly and mithril doesn't!) 2601:646:8E01:7E0B:F88D:DE34:7772:8E5B 07:35, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
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