"Ore...gold ore!"
The exclamations from the front directly alerted the large troops behind.
Professor Tao, who was being assisted by Zhou Yang, stopped immediately when he heard the sound, then looked at Zhou Yang and said, "I seem to hear the voice of auspicious day, what is that boy shouting?"
Zhou Yang knew that Professor Lao Tao seemed to be a bit deaf, so he immediately said: "It's an auspicious day, he seemed to say it was ore..."
Before he finished speaking, Professor Tao threw Zhou Yang away and walked quickly forward.
When Zhou Yang saw this, he immediately took a few steps and followed him.
At the same time, Jiri also ran quickly towards the direction of the teacher.
Soon, the two groups of people met.
"Teacher, look, this... is this gold ore?"
While speaking, Jirimutu handed a piece of broken stone the size of a thumb to Professor Lao Tao.
This piece of ore is not big, and there is nothing special about it. I don't even see the glittering gold in my imagination. It is no different from ordinary stones in the ravine.
At least, that's how it looks to most soldiers.
However, after Professor Lao Tao took the ore and took a look at it, he said excitedly: "Yes, it is gold ore. Although the quality is a little worse, it is definitely gold ore!"
Then Professor Tao looked at his student and asked seriously: "Jiri, where did you find this ore?"
"There was a pit in front of me. When I was exploring the path just now, I accidentally stepped on the air and fell into the pit. When I got up, I found that the stone was not right, so I dug it out of the wall of the pit. Come down!" Jirimutu replied.
"So there should be more in that pit?"
"Yes, I saw quite a few of them!" Ji Ri said.
At this time, Zhou Yang, who was following, immediately asked: "Mr. Tao, does this mean there is a gold mine nearby?"
"This is still uncertain. Gold mines and gold ores are two different things. The presence of gold ore does not necessarily mean that there is a gold mine. You must know that the conditions for the formation of gold are very harsh. It requires both a high-temperature and high-pressure environment and a certain amount of geology. conditions, and all of these conditions are indispensable!”
Then Professor Lao Tao continued: "Many times, after gold ore is formed, it will be alluvially deposited in some places under the action of water flow, but if it cannot form a mineral belt, it has no mining value."
After hearing what Mr. Tao said, everyone was somewhat disappointed.
But at this moment, Tao Lao's voice changed and he said again: "However, gold ore has been found many times in this place and can be found almost everywhere, so there is a high possibility of gold mines. But we have to pay close attention to the specific situation. Let’s investigate!”
Afterwards, Professor Lao Tao said to Jirimutu beside him: "Jiri, take me to the pit where you found the gold ore!"
"good!"
With that said, Jiri immediately stepped forward to support Professor Lao Tao, and then walked forward.
After walking forward for three to four hundred meters, everyone soon came to a small pit more than one meter deep.
The pit is not very deep, but it is very large. I don’t know how it was formed.
Professor Lao Tao first walked around the pit and took a detailed look at the geological conditions here, and then asked the students to test the surrounding magnetic field.
After doing this, he slid directly into the pit along the pit wall full of dirt and gravel, with Zhou Yang and others looking in astonishment.
Jirimutu jumped in without hesitation, and the teacher and student took advantage of the setting sun to explore the pit.
After checking and groping for a while, Professor Tao asked the students to hand over some professional tools, and then he and Jiri Mutu started digging on the walls around the pit.
After a while, many stones of different colors and shapes were placed in the small bucket in front of the teacher and student.
The two of them dug from 7:30 to 8:30. When the sun set, the soldiers continued digging with flashlights until the small buckets in front of them were filled with stones.
While Professor Lao Tao and the others were digging stones in the pit, Zhou Yang arranged for Chen Beixuan and others to immediately organize the soldiers to set up camp and bury pots to make rice.
It was already so late, and they didn't want to continue on their way to the small waterhole not far away.
After all, they are here to prospect. It doesn't matter whether they can find the pool or not. What matters is whether they can find the gold mine.
The soldiers immediately followed Zhou Yang's order, found a quiet and leeward place nearby, and began to pitch their tents.
For the soldiers, finding a campsite and setting up a tent is a basic skill, and it is really not difficult.
In a short time, more than a dozen large tents were set up. The comrades in the cooking class even built two simple stoves with stones. They were heating oil in pots and making rice on the desolate deserted beach. The real smell of rice wafts up!
Dinner was very simple, boiled dried meat, some fried rice and Mongolian fruits (fried dried food), and some compressed dry food.
The compressed dry rations were distributed by the troops, while the dried meat, fried rice, and Mongolian fruits were all bought by Zhou Yang and others from the local area after they arrived in Haizhen.
As soon as dinner was ready, Zhou Yang saw Professor Tao walking into the tent with the support of two students.
At this time, the old professor didn't have any elegance as a professor. He was covered in dirt like an ordinary farmer who had just finished working in the fields.
However, he was in a good mood. As soon as he entered the tent, he excitedly said to Zhou Yang: "Comrade Xiao Zhou, it seems that your judgment is right. There is probably a gold mine nearby!"
Zhou Yang looked at the small bucket in Jirimutu's hand and asked in surprise: "Are these gold ores?"
"No, how can gold ore be so dense? These are the indicator minerals of gold mines!" Professor Lao Tao said while wiping his hands with a wet towel.
"Associated minerals?"
Professor Tao said with a smile: "Yes, when we are looking for gold mines, we rarely look for gold ores directly. Instead, we first look for some indicator minerals of gold mines for research."
"For example, highly magnetic substances, black substances, sedimentary substances, etc. are easily found in gold mines. If these substances appear in the veins, it means that there is likely to be gold in the mine!"
"Then are there any of the highly magnetic substances, black substances, and sedimentary substances mentioned in the stones you always bring back?"
"Yes, and the content is not small, and there are a lot of gold ores, so I judge that not only is there a gold mine here, but it may also be a shallow mine, or even an open-pit mine!" Professor Tao said.
"Hahaha, if that's really the case, that would be great!" Zhou Yang said.
"By the way, Comrade Xiao Zhou, if a gold mine is really discovered, what are you going to do with it?" Professor Tao suddenly asked.
"Leave it to the state to mine!"
Zhou Yang did not directly say that it would be handed over to the military, mainly to keep it confidential. He did not know what the military would do with the gold mine.
Anyway, his mission is to find the mine. After finding the mine, he will not participate in the rest.
"Leave it to the country!" Professor Tao said happily.
"By the way, Professor Tao, can I send a report to the superior department now?" Zhou Yang said.
"Not yet!"
"???"
Professor Lao Tao immediately explained: "Although it is certain that there is likely to be a gold mine locally, but where is the specific location of this gold mine, how much is the reserve, how high is the gold content of the gold ore, and is it worth mining? This requires further exploration and analysis!”
"You have to know that we have actually explored many mines, but due to problems such as reserves and mining difficulty, we had to give up in the end. So if you want to report good news or ask for credit, you should wait until the mine is almost fully explored!"
"How long will that take?"
"For people like us, it would take a few months to grow up quickly..."
"No, it's too slow!"
"This is something that can't be helped. After all, our country's current mining technology needs to be improved, and there is a very lack of talents who can participate in mining, especially gold mines!" Professor Tao said helplessly.
When Zhou Yang heard this, he immediately thought of a unit-the Golden Army of the Armed Police.
That is a force specially created for gold exploration. If nothing unexpected happens, this force will not be formed until March next year. I may be able to take advantage of the exploration of the Changshanhao Gold Mine and suggest that the superiors put this force in advance. A team was organized.
Thinking of this, Zhou Yang fell into deep thought...
.........
(Gold ore)
(Gold ore)
(Gold ore)
(Mongolian fruit)
(Home version of fried fruit)
(avocado sticks)
(Mongolian fried rice!)
