Other than the huge material demand, Alexander had to also include the cost of cement.
Alexander found that it took around five hundred kilograms of firewood to make just one ton of cement.
With firewood being ten kilograms a ropal, that came to fifty ropals per ton.
Then there was the cost of raw materials.
Those were very cheap.
Sand was everywhere so Alexander just needed to pay for the cost of collecting it.
Limestone and gypsum both came from the same place and being soft rocks they were easy to mine.
And clay was well clay, just dirt that needed to be washed and cleaned.
In total, their cost was about ten ropals a ton.
But the most expensive part of his production was the milling process, which cost him one hundred and fifty (150) ropals per ton in total.
But that would soon be cut by ten times as Alexander planned to introduce some new types of machinery to do all the heavy lifting.
So, in short, one ton of cement would cost Alexander seventy-five (75) ropals.
