Boschrod's Conjuring Trick

Alchemy does describe a means to make gold, but the procedure is so arduous that by comparison, digging beneath a mountain is as easy as plucking peaches from a tree. Boschrod looked at me and considered, I have recently built something that may change, your opinion. Would you care to see it? It would be a big plan. Please follow me. The next room was a workshop, a raid with devices whose functions I could not guess. Bars of metal wrapped with enough copper thread to reach the horizon. Mirrors mounted on a circular slab of granite floating in quick silver.