Although the Dungeon Raiders company had the smallest mining crew of the three factions involved in the operation, they were taking the lead in the mining process because of all the unintentional preparation work Uriel made by creating the quadrants and locating the vein which gave them the upper hand in spite of the small setback caused by the late delivery of their mining equipment.
By the time even the Mapple corporation had located their first vein, Uriel was already striking the vein with a pickaxe. At first he was excited, even the smallest chunk of orichalcum could be worth a fortune after being processed and that gave Uriel enough motivation to make his best effort but after a while it was clear he wasn't cut out to be a miner.