Ore Processing

A tech mod is no tech mod without ore processing, right? ;)

Setting up your first basic ore-porcessing machines is quite expensive.
First, you have to make a grinder multiblock (Structure on multiblocks page), Once you have one set up, and you have a way to properly power it, you will see, that if you throw an ore in there, you will get some weird black items. This is 'Ground Mesh'.

You have no idea what in there, it could be iron, it could be stone dust, it could even be scrap. To find out what's in there, you will have to scan it first. To do this, just make a scanner, put the item you want to scan in the left slot, and the scanned item will come out on the right.

Hey, The output is still ground mesh, y u lying?

Yes, its still ground mesh, but just hover over it. The tooltip will show you whats in it. If you got lucky, its pure dust. In that case, you can simply go ahead and smelt it. But most likely the mesh is incomplete, or there are impurities in it.

Incomplete mesh, what?

Yes, a 'complete' mesh has 9 "units", you can simply see them as nuggets. A piece of ground mesh can contain EG 3 gold dust, 5 stone dust and 1 rubble. And 'incomplete' mesh doesn't have the full 9 units, but EG only 6. Even before you scanned your mesh, you can see the amount of units it contains. If you have a mesh that contains 4 units, ,one that contains 3 and one that contains 2, you can combine them in a crafting table. A mesh can NEVER contain more than 9 units!

But how do I get rid of those impurities then?

To get rid of the rubble in your Ground Mesh, you have to sieve it. To do this, just insert it into a sieve (machine), and you will get Ground Mesh without rubble as output. You will also get some rubble for every 9 rubble-units removed.
The sieve does not have a gui, you will have to use hoppers, or pipes from another mod.

And what about the stone dust?

To remove the stone dust from your Ground Mesh, you will have to "wash" it in a washer. The washer needs 0.2 buckets of water to remove 1 unit of stone dust.

##Am I done now? Yes, but by now your Ground Mesh probably doesn't contain the full 9 units required to make a dust, to do this, just combine them in the crafting table until you have a dust. You will get an average of 1,7 ingots per ore.

Hold on a second, how do I actually get the ground mesh out of the grinder?

The grinder has a block called a "Dust Storage" block. If you put something with an inventory under it, and you give it a redstone pulse, it will eject one ground mesh. Just remember that grinding results are combined. So if you are processing EG Iron and gold at the same time, you might get a little bit of both in your Ground Mesh.
Make sure that you do not overfill the dust storage, otherwise the machine will break!