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Mines and Diamonds

Reworks balance of mines and adds new related content.
(This mod will not work well with existing saves due to changed building sizes and some other balancing changes.)

First, here is a summary of all changes:

- All mines have a longer production cycles, releasing minerals in batches.
- Most mines have a bigger footprint.
- Large mines need much more power and a few more people.
- Large mines produce even more resources compared to small mines.
- Large mines consume motors during operation (1 per batch).
- Motors are slightly cheaper to produce.
- New resource Diamond.
- Diamonds can upgrade mines to increase yield.
- High tech tools and the drill need Diamonds instead of methane.
- New building: Diamond Synthesizer. Requires a new tech Diamond Coated Tools to unlock. Turns carbon into diamonds.
- New visualization overlay for resource deposits on the map.
- New building: Seismic Prospector. Requires a new tech Seismology. Increases minable area around mineral deposits in its range.
- New car models for trucks carrying ore (sand, iron, copper, aluminum, iridium, uranium, adamantine).
- New models for sand and sulfur mines to match their footprint.