Forename! You couldn't have come at a better time!
One of our number has been taken ill, you see, and I need someone to handle the work assigned to him.
Tell me, are you familiar with effervescent water? Alchemists use it to make a substance called natron.
And bakers use natron for leavening─that is, raising dough.
Without it, there'd be no ginger cookies, crumpets, blood currant tarts...
...Ahem. As you may have gathered, I'm fond of the odd sweet or three.
'Course, effervescent water's good for more than just baking. A lot of miners ask for a drop of it in their drinks─makes the stronger stuff that bit more refreshing, see.
And let me tell you, there's nothing better to wash away the dust of a hard day's mining.
But you didn't come here to hear my thoughts on food and drink, you came here to learn about mining. And so you shall─by procuring some effervescent water for me.
The Alchemists' Guild needs fifteen bottles of the stuff, and urgently─they couldn't stress that enough.
From what I can make out, they themselves are scrambling to fulfill an urgent order for natron from the Bismarck in Limsa Lominsa. It's one of Eorzea's finest restaurants, in case you didn't know.
Anyway, you'd best get going. You'll need to work fast to make up for all the time I wasted chattering about sweets and grog. Oh, and you'll have the best luck mining around Buscarron's Scar, over in the Black Shroud.