Ore Purifier

Commander, you may be looking for Purifier

"Why don't build a Ore Purifier to get more than what we get?"

- EVA at Black Forest

The Ore Purifier was an Allied financial structure that improved the amount of ore that came into a Commander's base. A Chrono Miner would drop off Ore to the Ore Refinery and this Ore could be further refined, or "purified", when there was an Ore Purifier present within the base. An Chrono Miner can only carry so much ore, and ordinarily, some of it is lost in the refinement process. Although this isn't much, the Ore Purifier can further refine the ore, and extract more than if it was simply put through the refining process at the Ore Refinery. This gave more profits to the Allied commanders to build up their armies and defeat the opposing force.

Thus they were priority targets for reverse engineering, when given the construction capability Soviet or Yuri commanders, would use this to bolster their mining abilities, and as War Miners could carry 1000 ore credits worth of plain ore or 2000 credits worth of gems, they received twice the benefit compared to Chrono Miners. Additionally they affected all other forms of income, be it from crates, oil derrick stores, oil derrick mining, grinding and whatnot.

It does not appear in RA3 but an ability named Free Trade Upgrade was similar to it because it makes Prospectors get more cash.