On the port side, shortly after the Humpback Whale arrived at the port.

The heavy truck team sent by General Mopu and the Giant God X-type super-heavy transport team convened by Tan Jinghao, the general manager of the factory, have been assembled at the port.

A total of 12 sets of [diamond resonance separation equipment].

Each piece of equipment is about six meters tall and resembles a silver-white reactor attached to some kind of delicate instrument base.

Its appearance is very simple, unlike traditional equipment with a bunch of pipes, cables, all kinds of exposed pressure gauges, and so on. Except for its weight, it has no flaws.

It wants to work stably for a long time at an amplitude of one per second and a resonance frequency of less than 1,000 frequencies.

In addition to ensuring the structural strength of the ore storage container itself, it is also necessary to use its own gravity and special base material to offset the "damage" effect caused by high-frequency resonance.

Therefore, the weight of each separation plant is as high as more than 700 tons.

Together with the eight Titans X-type brought by the humpback whale, the transport convoy gathered a total of 17 Titan-X, and more than 30 heavy truck fleets.

Each separator comes with a special transport flatbed trailer, which is fixed behind the Titan's X-shape, like a slow-moving steel dragon on an improvised hard dirt road.

The convoy ended up splitting into three groups and heading to three different mines.

In addition, the Humpback Whale brought a batch of Nighthawk aircraft for quick patrols between the three mines.

The first equipment to enter the site was the drill mine located in the lake, and Ye Qing arrived here first in the Nighthawk aircraft.

Because the mine is located in a shallow lake, the soil near the lake is a little wet, and it is not suitable for the nearby installation of drilling separation equipment.

Therefore, before Ye Qing came, Tan Jinghao, the general manager of the factory, had already mobilized the construction team to enter the site and found a natural vacant land 500 meters away from the lake for factory construction.

The plant is now only in its infancy, but the most important power cables have been taken over from the plant and the earth foundations of the three separating plants have been concreted.

In addition to the separation equipment and mining equipment, the monster workers also specially designed a weapon to resist the inconvenient effects of the lake by drilling the terrain of this lake!

We all know that underwater mining is the most difficult technology in mineral mining.

So in order not to delay the progress of mining, the monster workers have prepared......

- High-power pumping machine!

A set of pumping equipment that needs Titan I power generation and power supply, there is Titan I type at the construction site. Therefore, after the pumping equipment was unloaded, a sloping water column tens of meters high was quickly erected on the south side of the lake.

A brilliant rainbow slid across the sky.

What should I do if the technical difficulty of underwater mineral mining is too difficult?

Wouldn't it be enough to drain the water?

……

The pumping equipment was roaring, and Ye Qing and Tan Jinghao stood on the opposite bank, watching the delicate master control the Giant God X-type to unload the separation equipment there.

The company's transferred employees are assembling the supporting drilling machinery on the heavy-duty trucks.

After two hours of operation by the high-power pumping equipment, the lake behind Ye Qing has receded by about half a meter.

The lake is a typical funnel-shaped lake, with a shallow edge on the edge of the land, and the deeper the water level gets further down the middle, less than two meters at its deepest point.

When the lake receded, Ye Qing simply walked around the edge of the lake with Tan Jinghao to observe the stones that were exposed after the lake receded.

Tan Jinghao walked by the lake and casually found a fist-sized black stone from the damp silt, "Boss, when I transferred the construction team into the factory for construction ten days ago, I specially asked the exploration team to conduct a detailed exploration of this lake. ”

"The results of the exploration show that the shape of the lake is unconventional, and the low of the lake radiates at a 4° dip towards the center of the lake, and the deepest part of the lake is 1.93 meters. ”

"We also conducted 20m drill sampling in the lake, with six samples taken. ”

"Drill samples show that there are also evenly distributed rock layers beneath the lake in front of us. And there are obvious mineral crystal particles in the bottom rock, and alumina and chrome oxide are also found. ”

"Is there an intrusion of kimberlite?" When Ye Qing looked at the edge of the lake in the noon sun, he could clearly see that the area along the lake was covered with small stones of uniform volume.

These small stones are usually the size of a fist, and when they are damp, they are shimmering white in the sun.

"It may be that the sampling is too small or too shallow, and no kimberlite intrusions have been found yet. When Tan Jinghao answered Ye Qing's question, he observed the rock in his hand by the way, and found that it was just a very ordinary gray-brown igneous rock, and then threw it into the lake.

"But we also salvaged some rocks for analysis, and the lake is very regular. ”

"We found that depending on the depth of the lake, the stones scattered in the underwater silt varied in size. The shallow stones are the smallest, and the further in, the larger the stone becomes. ”

"At the deepest point in the middle of the lake, the stones are usually the size of a car tire. And in these stones, there is a 5% chance that kimberlite may contain diamonds. ”

"Then what's going on?" Ye Qing's knowledge of geology was very average, and he didn't understand why these stones were distributed very regularly.

"I deliberately sent the data of the drilling samples, as well as the shape of the lake and the laws of the rocks, to a professor at a geological university in China. ”

Tan Jinghao said in an uncertain tone: "The geology professor said that the lake we are exploring is very likely to be a volcanic crater that has fallen silent. ”

"Because in the samples we sampled, there were mineral crystal particles that are unique to volcanic rocks, and pore rock samples. These are the most typical igneous rocks. ”

"This is also true of the evenly distributed rocks, because they were thousands or tens of thousands of years ago. The underground magma here may have spilled over to the surface along a deep linear fault zone in the earth's crust. This type of fissured eruption generally does not have an explosive phenomenon and the process is gentle, which can occur. ”

"Of course, it's just a possibility. ”

Tan Jinghao continued: "The professor also said that geographical phenomena are ever-changing, and the distribution of igneous rocks is very, very wide, accounting for about 65% of the total volume of the earth's crust. It is not possible to conclude from these phenomena alone that it must be a dormant crater. ”

"It's not a crater, it should have something to do with a volcano. Ye Qing nodded, not intending to delve into the reason for its formation.

As long as there are kimberlites and diamonds.

Where there is kimberlite, there must be igneous rock, because it is all associated with igneous rocks, but the reserves are very scarce.

By the time the master has finished debugging the diamond separation equipment, and the Titan X-type has turned this place over again, even if it is an active volcano, it will not be able to stop the pace of large-scale mechanized development.

If you dig up a volcano, you can still leave it for General Mup to be a tourist attraction!