Aluminium

Aluminium
	Also known as "aluminum"
Properties
Type	Element
Made With/By	Mining
Default Ore Veins per Chunk	7 (3 for clusters)
Ore Vein Size	6 (6 for clusters)
Minimum Ore Height	5 (15 for clusters)
Maximum Ore Height	45 (50 for clusters)
Difficulty of Production	Easy
Exists in Reality	Yes
Atomic Number	13

Aluminium (or "aluminum" in North America) is a common and soft white-colored metal with applications in rocketry, missile manufacturing, mirrored surface finishes, and in its powdered form for thermite and various other useful products. Occurs naturally in the world in the form of native ore and in vast deposits in the form of bauxite which requires minor processing to extract aluminium from.

Production

Can be produced by smelting aluminium crystals in a furnace, or by processing bauxite.

Furnace

2

Electrolysis Machine

100mB

2 Ingot

4

3

200mB

100mB

7

2

450mB

150mB

50mB

3

2

Shredder

3

Crucible or Electric Arc Furnace

Aluminium Arc Furnace/Crucible Smelting
Input	Molten Output 1	Molten Output 2	Molten Output 3
Aluminium-Bearing Ore	Molten Aluminium, 2 Ingot	Molten sodium, 3 Nugget	Molten Stone, 2 Ingot 2 nugget 2 quanta
Cryolite	Molten Aluminium, 1 Ingot	Molten sodium, 1 Ingot	N/A

Rotary Furnace

150mB

2 Ingot

150mB

2

3 Ingot

Combination Oven

150mB

Cyclotron

Uses

Heliostat mirrors for the solar boiler.
Lightweight yet durable bodies for rockets and missiles.
Nuclear explosive housing and detonation equipment.
Fluid ducts and various fluid transportation devices.

Trivia

In reality, aluminium is rarely if ever found in its native form with the vast majority of worldwide aluminium production coming from of refinement of bauxite.
Bauxite refining takes complicated electrical machinery in order to process into aluminium, making the simple combination furnace recipe quite inaccurate, but convenient.

Gallery

Overworld ore
Meteorite ore
Block
Crystals
Powder
Plate
Wire

External Links

Aluminium at Wikipedia