Copper Dust is the ground form of copper in the Ala Industrial mod for Minecraft 26.2 (Java Edition). The Macerator produces it: one copper ore, deepslate copper ore, or raw copper grinds into two Copper Dust, while a finished copper ingot or copper plate grinds into one. Each grind costs 300 EU and takes 150 ticks (about 7.5 seconds). The Macerator is an LV machine (low voltage, up to 32 EU per tick) with an internal buffer of 800 EU, and copper ore from other tech mods works too because the recipe reads the shared c:ores/copper tag — the output is always Ala Industrial dust.

Unlike most mod dusts, Copper Dust smelts even in a vanilla furnace (200 ticks, 0.5 experience): the Electric Furnace returns an ingot for 200 EU, and the Compressor presses one dust straight into an ingot for 260 EU — no blasting recipe exists. The ingots feed copper cables (three ingots craft three cables), copper plates, and the bronze and cupronickel alloys, so grinding instead of direct-smelting doubles every copper vein you mine. The supply stays renewable because Drowned drop copper ingots and one ingot grinds into one Copper Dust, a tier-1 Ala Industrial villager buys 12 dust for one emerald, and other tech mods can consume the dust through the shared c:dusts/copper tag. On Fabric and NeoForge Copper Dust behaves identically.