Ayoongas Mining Ltd.

Ayoongas Mining Ltd. is a powerful mining company which mines minerals and natural resources like Phosphorus. They are known for their occult mining techniques, and in the urbex community for formerly having a haunted HQ.

   It was started in 1943 and began rising up ever since that year, currently it is one of the biggest companies in floppakind. The founder of the company was Ayoongas N. with his son currently in ownership of the company after his father's death.

## Relationships with other companies

Ayoongas Mining Ltd. is a good ally of The Progressive Floppa Science Group, they supply P.F.S.G with minerals for them to study on.

Flops Mining Co. however is a different story. Despite Flops Mining Co. being a smaller company they are in a huge rivalry with each other. Ever since Ayoongas' excavation of phosphorus deposits Flops Mining Co. has done the same which ended horribly wrong for both of them. The 2 companies are currently now trying to mine different locations to win a mine war with each other.

## Products

Ayoongas Mining Ltd. is able to provide an array of raw materials to buyers, most importantly phosphorus, and on a smaller scale nitrates. These two prducts are generally sold to fertilizer companies, farmers, and chemical industries. Other important materials include boron, iron, bauxite, gold, various rare earth minerals, zinc, silver, platinum and palladium. Minor include copper, tin, lead, sulphur, indium, gallium, selenium, arsenic, mercury, and silicon.

Metallic boron, gallium arsenide (produced in the company's factories), gallium nitride, metallic silicon and gold are sold to tech companies for the manufacture of electronic components. Boron and the aluminum produced are sold to the glassware industry to create borosilicate glass.

They are slowly opening up to unconventional and anomalous minerals, such as obamium and floppium. In particular, Ayoongas Mining Ltd. has formed a trust with the Corke Cola company; Ayoongas produces large quantities of floppium compounds, mostly floppium octasulfide, FuS8, and floppium oxide, FuO, which are sold solely to the Corke Cola company. Corke Cola uses these compounds to "carbonate" the famous Fanter drink.

The mining practices for floppium are not advanced enough to reduce impurities to safe levels, mostly due to the recent discovery of this element and its minerals. This is the main cause of the several side effects that Fanter and other Corke Cola drinks can cause.

## Methods of production

### Mining

The main method through which about 70% of the raw materials are produces is, well, mining.

Ayoongas Mining Ltd. has established mines all over the world, concentrating mostly in Morocco for phosphorus, Italy for Sulphur, and the Urals for metals. A modest amount of mines are located in Europe and the US, especially gold and silver mines in the latter case. Subsaharan Zablafrica is mostly untouched by the company for some reason, while several isolated islands in the pacific and indian oceans host mines.

Mining is not completely automated, and miners are still vastly used by the company, as they are usually cheaper than mining equipment. The company has developed and patented several complex thaumaturgical rituals which offer great advantages such as: locating minerals, small scale trasmutation, purification, light magic, flight, klásmakinesis. These rituals are not usually performed directly by the miners but by underpaid mages.

Blessing magic is used to avoid that the demons from Deep Below attempt to eat the miners. Complex paramemetic entities are often used to keep them at bay.

### Evocation

Ayoongas Mining Ltd. employs summoning/evocation magic in order to generate elementals. These elementals are then killed in order to ectract the elements from their corpse. Such has been the case with boron floppas, for example. These rituals are however nowhere near optimized, and have "payoffs" or limitations. In the case of boron floppa, the boron decays into quarks and leptons after a set amount of years. As such, they are not always the best choice. Thaumaturgists have to be emplyed for these rituals.