GregTech 5/Mining and Processing

GregTech 5 has dozens of ores with complex processing chains that produce hundreds of different materials. Almost every element on the Periodic Table and many kinds of real-life mineral and ore deposits are represented in mod. This guide lists all of the various ores and all of the ways they can be processed into elements.

Ores

GregTech disables all Vanilla ores (except Emerald Ore, because Mojang did weird things with it) and replaces them with its own ore generation patterns. These patterns are compatible either by default or through configuration with almost all ores from almost all other mods, so unless explicitly noted, ore generation from other mods can and should be disabled, as GregTech will compensate.

GregTech ore blocks do not work exactly like other ore blocks. Most mods treat their ores as single blocks, with nothing special to them except for the few that must be silktouched or can be fortune mined. All GregTech are non-ticking MetaTileEntities, defined not by block ID or metadata but by TileEntity data. Each of these TEs contains only two variables: the internal ID of the ore, and a True/False boolean denoting whether the ore block was placed by world generation or by other means. This is mainly used to determine whether or not a Small Ore's drops can be enhanced by a Fortune pick. Their being TEs though has some unfortunate consequences: not all mods are prepared to deal with TE ore blocks, and so GregTech ores are not always mined by other mods' automated mining systems. (For example, for several months, the IC2 Miner could not mine GregTech ores.) The most unusual consequence of the ores being MetaTileEntities is that GregTech MTE rendering is done by combining a base texture with an overlay. When viewed at steep angles, those overlays can exhibit some odd rendering behavior, either looking like black lines, white lines, or oddly transparent. It's hard to say exactly what the visual effect looks like, but once you've seen it once or twice you come to realize that it looks wrong, and that its looking wrong is a telltale sign of the presence of ore.

There are two types of ore generation: Small Ores and Mix Veins. Small Ores generate as semi-common single blocks. They are intended as a way to get started and acquire initial tools, but are not intended to be used as primary sources of metal for machinery. When broken, they drop either a Crushed Ore, an Impure Pile of Ore Dust, or, if applicable, a Gem. Additionally, they may drop a Dust or a Dirty Dust of the Stone they were found in. (This can be Stone, Netherrack, Red/Black Granite, or End Stone.) Small Ores cannot be picked up with a Silktouch Pickaxe, however a Fortune Pickaxe will slightly increase their yields. Importantly, Small Ores can be mined at 1 mining level lower than the ores they contain, allowing a miner with a Stone-level pickaxe to obtain enough Iron to craft an Iron Pickaxe. (GregTech Iron Ore(s) cannot be mined with a Stone pickaxe, you need Iron or Bronze to mine them.)

Mix Veins can generate only one vein per 3x3 chunk area, however Mix Veins can contain hundreds or even thousands of blocks of ore. Mix Veins can contain up to four different ores. Vein contents are dependent upon height and dimension, but are not dependent upon biome. Veins can range in size from 16x16x5 up to 80x80x8 blocks, with very few and small gaps between ore blocks. However, ore veins can only generate where they have Stone, Red/Black Granite, Netherrack, or End Stone that can be replaced by ore blocks.

Mix Veins come in four parts: Primary, Secondary, Inbetween, and Around. Each of them can be a different ore. Primary, Secondary, and Inbetween ores are generated as stack ranges. The upper 2-4 levels of a vein will be almost all 'Primary' ore, the lower 2-4 levels will be almost all 'Secondary' ore, and the middle 2-4 levels will be mostly 'Inbetween' ore. 'Around' ore appears randomly interspersed throughout the vein. In total, a vein will contain roughly equal portions of Primary and Secondary ore, slightly less Inbetween ore, and notably less Around ore. When viewed from a distance either via an X-Ray mod or after having removed all Stone in the area, ore Mix Veins look like large, somewhat oval-shaped clouds.

Ore vein generation takes place as a series of steps. First, at the center of every 3x3 chunk area a random ore mix is chosen. If that ore mix cannot generate within the current dimension, the generator tries again. If the ore vein is allowed, a random height will be chosen within the mix vein's Minimum and Maximum height values, and ore generation will propagate out from that point. However, as ores are placed by replacing Stone, Red/Black Granite, Netherrack, or End Stone, if the generation area contains none of those materials ore blocks will not generate. As such, it is possible to encounter areas that do not contain mix veins. In Forests, Plains, and similar biomes, this happens about a quarter of the time. In mountains or extreme hills, it happens fairly rarely, while deep oceans often will not have Mix Veins below them.

Note: If Custom Ore Generation or Per Fabrica Ad Astra: Geologica are installed, GregTech will disable its own ore generation and use COG or PFAA generation. COG contains default configurations for GregTech ores, and PFAA contains its own forms and generation patterns for even more ores than GregTech generates by default. This also means that any mod pack containing Custom Ore Generation, such as the upcoming FTB Resurrection, will not entirely follow these patterns.

Default Ore Mixes

The following is a list of all Ore Mix Veins that GregTech can generate by default. (Note: The Naquadah Ore Mix configuration is present, but its generation is disabled by default.)

Name	Primary Ore	Secondary Ore	Inbeween Ore	Sporadic Ore	Min Height	Max Height	Weight	Density	Size	Overworld	Nether	End
Naquadah	Naquadah	Naquadah	Naquadah	NaquadahEnriched	10	60	10	5	32	No	No	Yes
Lignite	Lignite	Lignite	Lignite	Coal	50	130	160	8	32	Yes	No	No
Coal	Coal	Coal	Coal	Lignite	50	80	80	6	32	Yes	No	No
Magnetite	Magnetite	Magnetite	Iron	VanadiumMagnetite	50	120	160	3	32	Yes	Yes	No
Gold	Magnetite	Magnetite	VanadiumMagnetite	Gold	60	80	160	3	32	Yes	No	No
Iron	BrownLimonite	YellowLimonite	BandedIron	Malachite	10	40	120	4	24	Yes	Yes	No
Cassiterite	Tin	Tin	Cassiterite	Tin	40	120	50	5	24	Yes	No	No
Tetrahedrite	Tetrahedrite	Tetrahedrite	Copper	Stibnite	80	120	70	4	24	Yes	Yes	No
Nether Quartz	NetherQuartz	NetherQuartz	NetherQuartz	NetherQuartz	40	80	80	5	24	No	Yes	No
Sulfur	Sulfur	Sulfur	Pyrite	Sphalerite	5	20	100	5	24	No	Yes	No
Copper	Chalcopyrite	Iron	Pyrite	Copper	10	30	80	4	24	Yes	Yes	No
Bauxite	Bauxite	Bauxite	Aluminium	Ilmenite	50	90	80	4	24	Yes	No	No
Salts	RockSalt	Salt	Lepidolite	Spodumene	50	60	50	3	24	Yes	No	No
Redstone	Redstone	Redstone	Ruby	Cinnabar	10	40	60	3	24	Yes	Yes	No
Soapstone	Soapstone	Talc	Glauconite	Pentlandite	10	40	40	3	16	Yes	No	No
Nickel	Garnierite	Nickel	Cobaltite	Pentlandite	10	40	40	3	16	Yes	Yes	Yes
Platinum	Sheldonite	Palladium	Platinum	Iridium	40	50	5	3	16	Yes	No	Yes
Pitchblende	Pitchblende	Pitchblende	Uranium	Uraninite	10	40	40	3	16	Yes	No	No
Plutonium	Uraninite	Uraninite	Plutonium	Uranium	20	30	10	3	16	Yes	No	No
Monazite	Bastnasite	Bastnasite	Monazite	Neodymium	20	40	30	3	16	Yes	No	No
Molybdenum	Wulfenite	Molybdenite	Molybdenum	Powellite	20	50	5	3	16	Yes	No	Yes
Tungstate	Scheelite	Scheelite	Tungstate	Lithium	20	50	10	3	16	Yes	No	Yes
Sapphire	Almandine	Pyrope	Sapphire	GreenSapphire	10	40	60	3	16	Yes	No	No
Manganese	Grossular	Spessartine	Pyrolusite	Tantalite	20	30	20	3	16	Yes	No	Yes
Quartz	Quartzite	Barite	CertusQuartz	CertusQuartz	40	80	60	3	16	Yes	No	No
Diamond	Graphite	Graphite	Diamond	Coal	5	20	40	2	16	Yes	No	No
Olivine	Bentonite	Magnesite	Olivine	Glauconite	10	40	60	3	16	Yes	No	Yes
Apatite	Apatite	Apatite	Phosphorus	Phosphate	40	60	60	3	16	Yes	No	No
Galena	Galena	Galena	Silver	Lead	30	60	40	5	16	Yes	No	No
Lapis	Lazurite	Sodalite	Lapis	Calcite	20	50	40	5	16	Yes	No	Yes
Beryllium	Beryllium	Beryllium	Emerald	Thorium	5	30	30	3	16	Yes	No	Yes
Oilsands	Oilsands	Oilsands	Oilsands	Oilsands	50	80	TBD	TBD	TBD	Yes	No	TBD

Name: The name given to the mix in configuration. This does not have an effect in-game.
Density: How tightly packed the ores are in a vein. Lower values can cause small gaps between ore blocks.
Max Height: The maximum height at which the vein can generate.
Min Height: The minimum height at which the vein can generate.
OrePrimaryLayer: Metadata value of the Primary ore in the vein
OreSecondaryLayer: Metadata value of the Secondray ore in the vein
OreSporadiclyInbeween: Metadata value of the Inbeween ore in the vein
OreSporadiclyAround: Metadata value of the Around ore in the vein
RandomWeight: How likely it is for this vein to spawn. The higher this value is, the better the chance. This value is relative to the total of the RandomWeight values of all the ore veins. The default configuration has a total weight of 1850, so for example,a vein with a RandomWeight of 160 has a 160/1850 (8,6%) chance to spawn per generation attempt.
Size: The maximum area an ore vein can occupy. A vein with a Size of 0 will always occupy a 16x16 block area, while a vein with a Size of 32 can occupy an area up to 80x80 blocks.
Overworld: Can this vein generate in the Overworld? (True/False)
Nether: Can this vein spawn in the Nether? (True/False)
End: Can this vein spawn in the End? (True/False)

Note: GregTech tries to generate its ores in all available dimensions. In dimensions added by other mods, like The Twilight Forest or Mystcraft, GregTech will by default use the Overworld's configurations, and so long as the dimension contains Stone, Netherrack, or End Stone, it will usually succeed. However, as Galacticraft's Moon and Mars dimensions do not contain conventional stone, the mod GalacticGreg was created to allow GregTech ore generation to function on Mars and the Moon.

All of these values are present in and were extracted from config/GregTech/WorldGeneration.cfg. WorldGeneration.cfg also includes empty slots for user-defined ore mixes. The ores listed here appear in the configuration file as their metadata values, which range from 1 to 1000, and can be found in two ways:

• Load into a world, then leave it, then go to [game directory]/logs/GregTech.log. That file will contain a list of every single material registered in GregTech. Any occupied number between 1 and 1000 can be an Ore.
• Load into a world and look up 'Ore' in NEI, with Block IDs and Damage Values/Metadata displayed. The Stone variant of every GregTech ore will bear that ore's metadata value. (The other variants will bear that value, offset by several thousand.)

If you do look, you will notice that GregTech contains many, many more ores than it generates by default. If you want the ores, you need only add custom Mixes for them. Ores can be told whether or not to generate on a dimension-by-dimension basis. By default, this only includes the Overworld, Nether, and End, but when other mods add dimensions, once those dimensions' ore generation has been triggered at least once, configuration lines for them will be created. For example, in a mod pack containing Twilight Forest and Extra Utilities, you may see this set of lines in an ore generation configuration entry:

gold {
B:Nether_false=false
B:Overworld_true=true
B:"The End_true"=true
B:"Twilight Forest_true"=true
B:Underdark_true=true
}

Probably the most important line in this chart initially is the Cassiterite Mix Vein. Cassiterite is a form of Tin Ore, and Tin is necessary to make Bronze for Steam machines. However, Cassiterite's generation range is between Y=40 and Y=120, slightly below the surface to above the tops of some Extreme Hills. This, combined with the fact that Tin assumes a color almost identical to that of regular Stone, means that a good Tin vein may be rather difficult to find in the early game. Don't give up though, just remember to look high.

Elements Contained in Ores

Many, many ores contain traces of Oxygen and Hydrogen. For simplicity, they have not been included in this list.

If an Ore contains more than one element or material as a primary output, that ore represents a compound which must separated at some point in its processing, usually with an Electrolyzer.

Ore	Contains Elements	1st Byproduct	2nd Byproduct	3rd Byproduct	Mercury Bath	Persulfate Bath
Naquadah	Naquadah	Enriched Naquadah
Enriched Naquadah	Enriched Naquadah	Naquadah	Naquadria
Lignite	Carbon	Coal
Coal	Carbon	Lignite	Thorium
Magnetite ††	Iron	Iron	Gold		Gold
Iron	Iron	Nickel	Tin			Nickel
Vanadium Magnetite ††	Vanadium, Iron	Magnetite	Vanadium
Gold	Gold	Copper	Nickel		Gold	Copper
Brown Limonite †	Iron	Malachite	Yellow Limonite
Yellow Limonite †	Iron	Nickel	Brown Limonite	Cobalt		Nickel
Banded Iron †	Iron
Tin †	Tin	Iron	Zinc			Zinc
Cassiterite	Tin	Tin
Tetrahedrite	Copper	Antimony	Zinc			Tetrahedrite
Copper	Copper	Cobalt	Gold	Nickel	Gold	Copper
Stibnite	Antimony	Antimony
Nether Quartz	Nether Quartz
Sulfur	Sulfur	Sulfur
Pyrite †	Iron, Sulfur	Sulfur	Phosphorus	Iron
Sphalerite	Zinc, Sulfur	Yellow Garnet	Cadmium	Gallium		Zinc
Chalcopyrite *	Copper, Iron, Sulfur	Pyrite	Cobalt	Cadmium	Gold	Cobalt
Malachite	Copper, Carbon	Copper	Brown Limonite	Calcite		Copper
Bauxite	Aluminium, Titanium	Grossular	Titanium	Gallium
Aluminium	Aluminium	Bauxite
Ilmenite †	Iron, Titanium	Iron	Titanium
Salt	Sodium, Chlorine	Rock Salt
Rock Salt	Potassium, Chlorine	Salt
Lepidolite	Potassium, Lithium, Aluminium	Lithium	Casium
Spodumene	Lithium, Aluminium, Silicon	Aluminium	Lithium
Redstone	Silicon, Pyrite, Ruby, Mercury	Cinnabar	Rare Earth	Glowstone
Ruby	Chrome, Aluminium	Chrome	Red Garnet
Cinnabar	Mercury, Sulfur	Redstone	Sulfur	Glowstone
Soapstone	Magnesium, Silicon
Talc	Magnesium, Silicon
Nickel †	Nickel	Cobalt	Platinum	Iron	Platinum	Nickel
Bastnasite †††	Cerium, Carbon, Flourine	Neodymium	Rare Earth
Monazite †††	Rare Earth, Phosphate	Thorium	Neodymium	Rare Earth
Neodymium	Neodymium	Monazite	Rare Earth
Garnierite	Nickel	Nickel				Nickel
Cobaltite	Cobalt, Arsenic, Sulfur	Cobalt				Cobaltite
Pentlandite *†	Nickel, Sulfur	Iron	Sulfur	Cobalt		Cobalt
Sheldonite	Platinum, Nickel, Sulfur	Palladium	Nickel	Iridium	Sheldonite	Nickel
Palladium	Palladium
Platinum	Platinum	Nickel	Iridium		Platinum	Nickel
Iridium	Iridium	Platinum	Osmium		Platinum
Pitchblende	Uranite, Thorium, Lead	Thorium	Uranium	Lead
Uranium	Uranium	Lead	Plutonium	Thorium
Uraninite	Uranium	Uranium	Thorium	Plutonium
Plutonium	Plutonium	Uranium	Lead
Wulfenite	Lead, Molybdenum
Molybdenum	Molybdenum
Molybdenite	Molybdenum, Sulfur	Molybdenum
Powellite	Calcium, Molybdenum
Scheelite	Tungsten, Calcium	Manganese	Molybdenum	Calcium
Tungstate	Tungsten, Lithium	Manganese	Silver	Lithium	Silver
Lithium	Lithium	Lithium
Sapphire	Aluminium	Aluminium	Green Sapphire
Almandine	Aluminium, Iron, Silicon	Red Garnet	Aluminium
Pyrope	Aluminium, Magnesium, Silicon	Red Garnet	Magnesium
Green Sapphire	Aluminium	Aluminium	Sapphire
Grossular	Calcium, Aluminium	Yellow Garnet	Calcium
Spessartine	Aluminium, Manganese, Silicon	Red Garnet	Manganese
Pyrolusite	Manganese	Manganese
Tantalite	Manganese, Tantalum	Manganese	Niobium	Tantalum
Quartzite	Quartzite	Certus Quartz	Barite
Certus Quartz	Certus Quartz	Quartzite	Barite
Barite	Barium
Graphite	Graphite	Carbon
Diamond	Carbon	Graphite
Bentonite	Sodium, Magnesium, Silicon	Aluminium	Calcium	Magnesium
Magnesite	Magnesium, Carbon	Magnesium
Olivine	Magnesium, Iron, Silicon	Olivine
Glauconite †	Magnesium, Aluminium	Sodium	Aluminium	Iron
Apatite	Calcium, Phosphate, Chlorine	Phosphorus
Phosphorus	Calcium, Phosphate	Apatite
Phosphate	Phosphate	Phosphate
Galena	Lead, Silver, Sulfur	Sulfur	Silver	Lead	Silver
Silver	Silver	Lead	Sulfur		Silver
Lead	Lead	Silver	Sulfur		Silver
Lazurite	Aluminium, Silicon, Calcium, Sodium	Sodalite	Lapis
Sodalite	Aluminium, Silicon, Sodium, Chlorine	Lazurite	Lapis
Lapis	Lazurite, Sodalite, Pyrite, Calcite	Lazurite	Sodalite	Pyrite
Calcite	Calcium, Carbon	Andradite	Malachite
Beryllium	Beryllium	Emerald
Emerald	Beryllium, Aluminium, Silicon	Beryllium	Aluminium
Thorium	Thorium	Uranium	Lead

Bolded Ores allow Direct Smelting to the ore's primary metal. Impure Dust and Purified Dust forms will smelt directly to an ingot. If the ore shares the same name as its primary metal, then Crushed and Purified Crushed forms will smelt into ten nuggets; otherwise they will smelt into three nuggets.
* Chalcopyrite and Pentlandite may be refined into Platinum Group Sludge using a Chemical Reactor; see Late Game Processing.
† Yields Iron in Electromagnetic Separator
†† Yields Gold in Electromagnetic Separator
††† Yields Neodymium in Electromagnetic Separator

Second Level Processing

These are compounds that need further processing.

Compound	Elements
Rare Earth	Neodynium, Yttrium, Lanthanum, Cerium, Cadmium, Caesium
Red Garnet	Pyrope, Almandine, Spessartine
Yellow Garnet	Andradite, Grossular, Uvarovite
Andradite	Calcium, Iron, Silicon
Uvarovite	Calcium, Chrome, Silicon
Platinum Group Sludge	Gold, Platinum, Palladium, Osmium, Iridium

Other Materials

Certain other materials can be Centrifuged or Electrolyzed to produce other materials.

Material	Elements
Obsidian Dust	Magnesium, Iron, Silicon
Clay Dust	Sodium, Lithium, Aluminium, Silicon
Glowstone Dust	Redstone, Gold
Redstone Dust	Silicon, Pyrite, Ruby, Mercury
End Stone	Helium, Tungsten, Platinum
Sand, Flint Dust, Glass Dust	Silicon
Lava	Copper, Tin, Gold, Silver, Tantalum, Tungsten
Soul Sand	Saltpeter, Coal Dust, Oil
Ender Pearl Dust	Beryllium, Potassium, Nitrogen
Blaze Powder	Carbon, Sulfur
Foods	Methane
Abyssal Stone Dust	Olivine, Calcite, Flint, Carbon
Quarried Stone Dust, Marble Dust	Magnesium, Calcite

Tools

In addition to inventing a new ore generation system, GregTech creates its own tool system, commonly called the Meta-Tool system. While other mods add individual tools for each of their materials, each tool an individual item, GregTech creates a set of tool templates, and fills in their material, properties, and durability as NBT data. See Meta-Tools for details about the Meta-Tool system and available tools and materials.

Early game processing

Manual Processing

The most basic form of ore processing is the old classic "just throw it into a Furnace" method we all learned back in Vanilla. However, even just at this level, more can be done. Ore blocks can be broken with a Hammer rather than a Pickaxe to drop Crushed Ore, and Crushed Ores of basic metals like Copper, Tin, and Iron can be smelted into 10 metal Nuggets, slightly more than one full Ingot. Should you need Dusts, such as Redstone Dust, Crushed Ore can be crafted with a Hammer to produce Dirty Dusts, and Dirty Dusts can be thrown into a Cauldron full of Water to produce Dusts. This is the basic source of Redstone Dust.

Steam Processing

Once you have enough Bronze to start making steam machines, you can make a Steam Macerator to produce 2 Crushed Ores per ore block. This is your basic source of ore doubling. The Steam Macerator does require 2 Diamonds to craft though, so you may want to bypass it at first and just make a Steam Alloy Smelter to at least get your Bronze supply rolling. Additionally, the Steam Forge Hammer functions as a Hammer for Ore and Crushed Ore smashing, and if used can reduce the number of Hammers you need to craft.

Late game processing

Once you have electric machines, and in particular once you have a Universal Macerator (HV-tier Macerator) maximum output ore processing becomes extremely complex. This flowchart shows all the possible routes. For byproducts, see the "Elements Contained in Ores" chart earlier in this page. Note: Maximum complexity ore processing chains may not always give you the most materials at the end of the day, but they will give you the widest range of different materials. It can often be useful to stop processing at a point and just smelt the resulting Crushed Ore or Dust, if you need that specific metal and not its by-products.

Macerator: The basis of all ore processing; doubles hammering or smelting output from Ores. The HV, EV, and IV Versions, the three with 'Universal' in their names, also produce Stone Dust and have a 10% chance to produce dusts of the ores' 1st Byproduct. Additionally, Macerators can be used on Purified Crushed Ores to produce Purified Ore Dusts, and on Centrifuged Ores to produce Ore Dusts. If a Universal Macerator is used, both of these processes have a 10% chance to produce 2nd (Purified Crushed) or 3rd (Centrifuged) Byproduct dusts.

Hammer, Forge Hammer: The simpler form of the Macerator, it smashes ores but does not double them. It can turn Crushed Ores and Purified Crushed Ores into Impure Dusts and Purified Dusts much more quickly than the Macerator, but gives no byproducts when doing so. It's effectively useless for ore processing after you have the Universal Macerator.

Ore Washing Plant: The second stage of processing for most ores, the Ore Washing Plant consumes Water and Crushed Ore to produce Purified Crushed Ores, Stone Dust, and tiny piles of 1st Byproducts.

Chemical Bath: A situational alternative to the Ore Washing Plant, the Chemical Bath uses Mercury or Sodium Persulfate in stead of water, and can produce certain specific metals from specific ores, in stead of the 1st Byproducts.

Centrifuge: Used to further clean Purified Dusts into Dusts and Byproducts. Also used to separate certain compounds into either simpler compounds or their base elements. Note that depending on what metals you want most, centrifuging is not always the best option. Most Purified Dusts can be smelted into 1 Ingot, but some Dusts cannot be smelted, and must be Electrolyzed down to their component elements. For example: Purified Tetrahedrite Dust when smelted produces 1 Copper ingot, but when centrifuged produces 6/9 copper and 1/9 zinc, and when electrolyzed in stead produces 3/8 Copper, 1/8 antimony, 3/8 sulfur, 1/8 iron and 1/9 zinc. (End game separations get complicated.)

Thermal Centrifuge: The Thermal Centrifuge is an extremely energy-intensive machine, and produces Centrifuged Ore from Purified Crushed Ore. However, Universal Maceration of Centrifuged Ore is the only way to obtain an ore's 3rd Byproduct. Additionally, certain basic Centrifuged Ores can be smelted into 10 metal Nuggets in stead of 1 metal Ingot.

Sifting Machine: The Sifting Machine is a special-purpose machine used to potentially obtain Gems instead of gem dusts from purified crushed ores. Overall, the Sifting Machine produces about the same amount of gems+dusts as straight processing to dusts would, but if you need gems then this is the easy way to get some. Additionally, the Sifting Machine is GregTech's best way of obtaining Quartz, Lapis, and Coal. (In GregTech 5 Unofficial, the Sifter's output is increased for many gems, including Diamond, Sapphire, Ruby, and other materials that are normally thought of as gemstones. The Sifter's yield for these is up to 130%, with 80% being normal gems or better, and 50% being dusts and flawed/chipped gems. This makes the Sifter optimal for almost every ore it can process.)

Electromagnetic Separator: Another alternative to the Thermal Centrifuge/Sifter, the Electromagnetic Separator can only be used on Purified Crushed Ores that have Iron, Gold, or Neodymium as byproducts. It is energy intensive, but it is a good way of getting those specific metals.

Electrolyzer: The Electrolyzer is the end of the line for most compounds, as it is used to separate compounds into their component elements. However, most Electrolyzer recipes require an Advanced Electrolyzer (MV); an LV one isn't powerful enough.

Electric Blast Furnace: A small set of compounds can be directly smelted in the Electric Blast Furnace in stead of being electrolyzed. This is the most energy-intensive process of all, requiring the EBF to be fed High Voltage, but yields more primary outputs than the Electrolyzer. This is most commonly used on Galena (Silver+Lead) and Ilmenite (Titanium+Iron) dusts.

Chemical Reactor: Few purified crushed ores (just Chalcopyrite and Pentlandite) can be processed in a Chemical Reactor with 8000mb of Nitric Acid to yield a tiny pile of Platinum Group Sludge and 9000mb of Vitriol. The Sludge can be centrifuged into rare metals including Osmium, Platinum and Palladium, and the Vitriol can be Electrolyzed into the ore's base metal (Copper or Nickel) plus 8000mb of Sulfuric Acid. This is the most complicated process of all, since it involves at least eight different machines, including macerating, washing, the manufacture of Nitric Acid, and the Vitriol reprocessing.