Aluminium

Aluminium
	Also known as "aluminum"
Properties
Type	Element
Made With/By	Mining/Processing
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-Medium
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 processing to extract aluminium from.

Production

Mineral Deposits

Aluminium ore generates commonly underground. Aluminium ore clusters are a more rare version of the ore, which drop aluminium crystals when mined.

Processing

Furnaces
2

Shredder
3

Electrolysis Machine
100mB 2 Ingot 2 Ingot 4 3

200mB 100mB 7 2
450mB 150mB 50mB 3 3 2

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

Aluminum is commonly used through the game. It's mostly used for:

Arc Welder
4 4

General liquid storage.

Crafting Table
2
2

Infinite water tank.
Gunmetal.

Rotary Furnace
3 4 Ingots

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 to fully refine into aluminium.
As of 1.0.27_X5229, bauxite now has a much more realistic and complicated refining process.

Gallery

Overworld ore
Meteorite ore
Block
Crystals
Powder
Plate
Wire

External Links

Aluminium at Wikipedia