Chapter 161 Mining Shaft
"If your sister really hated you, she wouldn't let us come to you, would she? Xiao Peng said.
"It's obviously my fault, it's me who was embarrassed to see her, so is she okay now?" asked JessCarter.
Xiao Peng shrugged: "If you mean her health, then I can say that she's okay, but if it's something else." I can't answer that, she's still locked up in it, isn't she? But your sister shouldn't be fine, because she's in a prison's outdoor rehabilitation program, which is pretty fucking up, but she's all involved in petty offenses. So according to my guess, she should be out of prison soon. β
After hearing this, Jessica Carter said: "My sister has been sentenced to seven years, and now she can be released on bail, but you have also seen that my family has no money in this situation, unless she mortgages the mining area, but my sister will be sad." After speaking, Jessica Carter wiped away her tears and showed a smile: "Okay, don't talk about this, you guys are waiting for me here, I'll go and cheer." After saying that, he rolled out a large oil drum from the warehouse and put it on his old pickup truck.
Xiao Peng pursed his lips, in the final analysis, the money was troublesome: "Mengzi, you help her go, wait for her to move back, I don't know how long it will take." β
"Okay. After Yang Meng finished speaking, he drove to the gas station with Jesse to buy gas, and the two came back after a while, but Jesse's expression was very strange.
Yang Meng was not ambiguous, holding the oil bucket and directly helping Jesse to refuel. Put the bucket back in its place: "Okay, open the way, open the road, go to the mine to fight the gopher." β
This was a very ordinary thing, but Jesse became strange. Take a gun from the room and put it in the cab. It made Xiao Peng and the others extremely speechless, just now, how could it suddenly become like this? Who is holding a gun to defend against? Is it because she wants to learn from her father and sister? But Xiao Peng didn't pay attention to it.
But Jesse is really good, the more than ten meters long Caldwell excavator is like a little sheep in her hands, and a woman driving such a big car is indeed very visually stunning. It is no exaggeration to say that this car was handed over to Xiao Peng and the others, and they didn't know how to drive it at all! As a result, seeing her drive it was easy and enjoyable.
Before driving, Jesse told the two to follow her car, especially after entering the mine. Xiao Peng didn't understand why, but he did it anyway.
After leaving the town for more than half an hour, the car finally came to the mining area surrounded by barbed wire, and was greeted by a huge slogan: Beware of deep mines. Jesse told the two again to follow him, and drove the excavation truck into the mining area.
Xiao Peng took a closer look at the appearance of this mining area, no wonder Jesse asked them to follow her car. The ground was like a marmot, digging pit after pit, all of which were made by the previous people, and next to the shaft were mounds of earth, all of which were dug out of the well. These are all abandoned wells that have been permanently abandoned.
If it weren't for these mounds, Xiao Peng would have thought he had arrived in Inner Mongolia: an endless flat prairie.
Arriving at a clearing, Jesse asked, "How's it going to be here?"
Xiao Peng stretched out his hand and made an OK gesture, and the two cars were parked. Jesse threw two hard hats at the two: "Put it on." β
Xiao Peng took the helmet and put it on: "Jesse, tell us something we don't know." β
Jesse regained his vitality at this time, looking like he was swaggering and absent from work, and he was not polite when he spoke: "Don't worry, you will learn a lot todayγγγγγγ β
Yang Meng laughed after hearing this: "Who said that Australians don't have a sense of humor?"
Jesse shrugged: "Come, help me unload the things." β
Yang Meng pouted: "We spend money on feelings, and we have to do these jobs ourselves." β
If someone asks Xiao Peng where there are the most flies in Australia, Xiao Peng will not hesitate to answer: 'Coober Pedy'! The flies are directly pounced on people's faces, and you must be careful when talking here, and you may not necessarily eat the next thing! There are only three things that have the most here: flies, mosquitoes, and dust!
Xiao Peng wanted to get rid of them, but he was afraid that Jesse would see the flaws, so Xiao Peng had an idea, returned to the car, and took out the mosquito net, China's 'fifth invention', ------ crooked nuts!
China's mosquito nets became popular all over the world, starting from the Rio Olympics that year.
You know, before Rio hosted the Olympics, the Seca virus actually raged in Brazil. Mosquitoes, on the other hand, are the main way to spread the virus.
The Rio government tried its best to get rid of mosquitoes, but to no avail. At that time, when sports delegations from various countries went to Rio, they had to prepare their own mosquito prevention measures! For example, South Korea directly added mosquito-repellent chemicals to sportswear. For example, Australia wore long-sleeved jackets and trousers to prevent mosquito bites, Japan had a mosquito repellent ring and a variety of mosquito repellent waters, and the Chinese team also had high-tech mosquito repellent suits, which were so effective that mosquitoes instinctively 'popped off' when they approachedγγγγγγγ All in all, in order to prevent mosquitoes, each country has its own magic power!
The most unfortunate thing is Australia, after finally living in the Olympic Village, a fire broke out in the accommodation building, and someone stole their clothes while they went downstairs to avoid dangerγγγγγγ Stealedγγγγγγ Stealedγγγγγγ Finish......
But there is another problem, usually during the competition, everyone's clothes can be said to be fully armed, but after all, you can't wear them to sleep, right? At that time, almost all the rooms smelled of insecticides and mosquito repellent patches. However, it really doesn't have much effect, and Rio is called a hot, you can't always sleep with the door closed and the window blocked, right? So how to prevent mosquitoes while sleeping is the same problem that plagues all sports delegations.
It wasn't until a foreign reporter went to the Chinese delegation to cover the news that he saw the legendary Chinese mosquito net, and he was completely stunned: There is still such a miraculous thing in the world? The Spanish newspaper "As" even directly said that the Chinese mosquito net is the 'magic weapon of the state'! Many foreign athletes came to the Chinese delegation just to buy mosquito nets! For example, those athletes who have a good relationship with China, such as Ai Fukuhara, such as Australia's women's basketball star Elizabeth Cambage, etc., were lucky enough to get Chinese mosquito nets, and they immediately tweeted thanks, and Chinese mosquito nets have become popular in foreign countries for a while.
Uh, Ai Fukuhara is understandable, how can Elizabeth Cambage have a mosquito net? Shhhγγγγγγh
Xiao Peng laid a mat on the ground and put a mosquito net inside, and wanted to hide inside and wait for Jesse to dig the mine. As soon as he got in, he had Jesse get out again. It turns out that several people need to work together to drill this shaft! Xiao Peng was speechless, feeling that he was working at his own expense!
Yang Mengpu fanned the flies in front of him: "Damn, there are too many flies here, right?"
Jesse looked calm: "There was a rain here two weeks ago, it could be sixty millimeters, and this rain caused a large number of flies to multiply, you just get used to it." After speaking, he looked at the tent that Xiao Peng was holding, and pouted: "It's so delicate." Here, help with the work!"
Caldwell excavators, if you look at the Chinese kids, nine out of 10 people will think it's a crane because a boom sticks out of the back of the car and hangs from the front of the car. When the car is fixed, it is necessary to turn the boom to the back of the car, which is a hard work, but Yang Meng is very handy to do it, and Jesse's expression is even stranger.
Jesse stood on the car and commanded the angle, this placement of the excavator is a precise job, but it is not just a casual place, but also to consider the angle of the body. After determining the position, the boom was erected and the digging ring was secured, and Jesse carefully applied the lubricant.
Simply speaking, the operation is very simple, put the drill bit into the excavation protection ring, connect the shaft on the boom into the drill bit, and you can directly start drilling the shaft, but this job is really not a person can do a good job, you know, a drill bit has five tons!
The drill bit is in the shape of a cylinder, about one meter in diameter and more than two meters in length. Xiao Peng fixed the drill bit with a truck-mounted crane and started digging directly. The drill bit is hollow, and the excavated earthwork can be directly put into the barrel of the drill bit, and after drilling to a depth of two meters, it is necessary to lift it up and scatter the excavated earthwork aside. That's how the mounds in this mining area came about.
Speaking of which, Xiao Peng really doesn't recommend tourists to Australia to try their luck here. This is not a sin that ordinary people can bear!
It's hot here, sweat evaporates before it runs down your cheeks, dust gets into people's eyes, and flies look like legendary monsters. This is the serious eight classics, facing the loess and facing the sky.
The most important thing is that the chance of finding Opal is very small, and even if it is found, if it is a low-grade Opal, the price is not much higher. So it's really a job of luck.
Every time the drill bit dug up the soil, Jesse would take a closer look at the soil, and after a few clicks, he shook his head before continuing to dig.
Xiao Peng didn't know why, and asked, "Jesse, what are you looking at?"
Jesse replied, "The key to finding Opal is finding good quality sandstone. Fragile gemstones like opal, often found in sedimentary layers, have been formed in places where rock formations change over millions of years, albeit in extremely rare quantities. β
When digging to about 15 meters, Jesse is more careful: "The high-quality sandstone layer is generally at a depth of 15 to 24 meters, so you have to be careful when you start digging now. If you don't have a high-quality sandstone layer at 24 meters, it means that we have to change placesγγγγγγ β
"So how do you know there's going to be a good sandstone layer here?"
"Instinct, look at luck. β
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However, it seems that Xiao Peng is lucky, when he reaches eighteen meters, the dug up rocks are broken by hand, this is high-quality sandstone, and Opal is in such a soil layer. Jesse used a shovel to rummage through the sandstone to see if there was any opal inside, but she was disappointed. And there was no gain.
"Opal is in this sandstone formation, most of the time it's arranged vertically, and sometimes it's dug up in strings," Jesse said. β
Xiao Peng looked at the shaft dug out and asked Jesse: "Isn't it possible to dig such a sandstone layer flat? hollow out the underground tunnel? Just like some coal mine? Is it possible to dig a shaft and finish the excavation?"
Jesse gave him a blank look, "What do you think of a good thing? Of course you're going to go down and dig it, but you can't do it now." β