Storage cave question

[DarkLord]

Hi, I have a problem in the iron ore storage area in the cave; it never gets emptied, so the villager doesn't work. I don't understand who is supposed to empty that storage and what I need to do to make it empty faster. Thanks.

[PaigeOnline]

Hey there, have you got the correct storage in your warehouse and is your warehouse close enough by for the workers?

[DarkLord]

Hi, the warehouses have the mineral storage, but the cave entrances are far from the village. However, I have built roads to reach them. Do you think the warehouse workers don’t leave the village to go to the cave? Thanks

[Tommytools]

Does the warehouse store more than just ore?

It might be that the villagers are grabbing resources (of other types) that are closer to the warehouse first, but never get round to grabbing the iron ore.

[Aurelius]

Just a guess, but the warehouses have a fixed gathering radius that they'll service, and it sounds like your mine may be outside this.
I believe the method that works is to build a warehouse near the mine, add bloom\ore storage, add a worker; Next, build a market and assign a worker. Then set a task in the market to move goods between your mine warehouse and a central warehouse which also has bloom storage. The central warehouse should be near enough to your bloomery that the bloomery worker will gather materials from that to process the ore. At that point the warehouse worker should move the bloom back to storage for use by your crafters.
Regarding the remote mine and warehouse; make sure you surround this with at least a flimsy fence to keep off smolkrs. You can try a flimsy torch in the area to repel them, but torch servicing gets spotty, even with lots of builders, so I never rely on it.