First, the contract was finalized, and then I went to the gold mining company to get the mining license.

This year's rules have changed, raising the entry threshold and changing the deposit from $50,000 to $150,000. The deposit is not a real deposit, it can be understood as working capital, and the oil or other things needed can be purchased from the company, and the cost is directly deducted from the deposit...... That's the real entrance fee. Then pay 42 ounces of gold to the company every month, if you don't dig it, you need to pay the corresponding cash, if you can't get the cash, game over.

A mining license is a lease right in a mining area, but it is not possible to mine anywhere. It's a game of smell, luck and experience. Each team only has three chances to dig the ground, and after three chances, they have to pay the company dollars to dig a new hole......

In the past few years, the price of gold has skyrocketed, and there has been a gold rush in Alaska again, and many gold prospector teams have become 'slaves' without even finding a gold mine...... The money runs out, and even goes bankrupt and becomes absenteeism.

After going through all the formalities and getting along for a few days, Ye Mu is familiar with Bote, Blackbeard is a big voice, he looks rough, but he is actually careful.

"Ye, I know a good ore washer, only $60,000. Let's take a look?"

"Is it a big guy?" Haki asked, looking at Blackbeard.

“ON。 Less than 12 tons of gadgets, wide groove screening vibrating gold panger. ”

“OK。 ”

This washing machine is 2.7 meters high, 3.4 meters long and 1.7 meters wide, with crawler wave vibration, 12 hours a day, and if nothing else, washing 850 yards of ore is not a problem.

bargained, 46,000 yuan of equipment for $60,000 was taken, plus the supporting operation box, a total of 55,000. Then I went to see an old-fashioned elevated mining machine, a big guy, 4.9 meters high, weighing 26.9 tons, in an abandoned gold mine, with a package price of 43,000. But the age of this device is estimated to be older than Ye Mu himself...... It can also be started, and there are major and minor problems, and it needs to be carefully overhauled before being put into use.

Then there are the excavators, and it takes eye and luck to buy a good one, and Ye Mu and Karn are experts at this.

Two Caterpillar 336 heavy-duty excavators, weighing 36 tons. Three Caterpillar 320 medium excavators, weighing 20 tons. One wheeled bulldozer with power 220-320 and two tracked bulldozers with power 220-320 are all Caterpillar brands. This brand of equipment, this area is particularly numerous, all of them have changed hands and I don't know how many times.

The main equipment is complete, supporting equipment, such as ore trucks, high-pressure water pumps, clean water devices and so on......

These things are all purchased by Blackbeard. The preparatory work took more than ten days, and before I knew it, it was May, and the temperature was getting warmer day by day.

Ye Mu carrying Karn and Zhang Kun......

Karn this guy also has a big beard, but a white beard: "Ye, I know a place where you should be able to make a fortune." ”

"I know a place, too. It was a place that I chose with Kerlet, named the Valley of Good Luck, and it was planned to be excavated this year, but I didn't expect it to be ......" Hazuki sighed. Bad things happen almost every day, in newspapers, on the Internet, everywhere, and it is difficult to feel the taste of it unless you are not a witness.

"Alright, explore the Valley of Good Fortune first. Hopefully good luck......" Karn sat in the passenger seat, patted him on the shoulder, and handed him a cigar.

The Valley of Good Fortune is located on the outskirts of the Knox mega gold deposit. The main deposit area is still mined, and the contractable mining area is intimidatingly large in the northeast of the main deposit area all the way to the Yukon River. Although the area is large, not all places have gold.

As the saying goes, gold likes to be piled up. We're talking about people...... But in nature, gold really likes to pile up.

Ye Mu said that the Valley of Good Luck was a river a long time ago, and it was preliminarily judged that it was a river that passed through the rich deposit area.

Coming to the abandoned mining area that Ye Mu and they dug last year, the three of them got out of the car. On foot, with a drill truck in the back......

In the pristine cold forest, I walked for nearly two and a half hours and finally arrived at the Valley of Good Luck.

The hills on both sides of the Valley of Good Fortune are not particularly steep, and the valley is about a thousand meters wide. The owner of the drill truck, Orikov, is an experienced veteran driller who now specializes in drilling gold for a living.

Twelve holes were drilled outside the valley, drilled into the bedrock layer, and the soil was taken out and taken back for analysis.

Preliminary drilling, the 12-hole distribution area is the size of six or seven U.S. football fields. Then go into the valley and drill twenty holes......

The price is $260 per hole, and $8,300 for 32 holes.

The sound of the buzzing machine, the drill bit came out with the mud, Ye Mu brought the bucket, filled the mud, wrote the number, and left a mark on the borehole.

Thirty-two holes were drilled, it was dark, and he went back with the sample, where Blackbeard Bot was already waiting at Orickev's house.

"Hurry up, I can't wait to see what you guys do today. Blackbeard howled loudly, and came up and hugged Ye Mu.

"It should be a good result. "Ye Mu brought the first and second cylinders and went into Orickev's workshop, where there was a small washing machine. A bucket of mud and stone mixture was poured in, and it was selected in a few minutes.

The first barrel was disappointing, with very little golden sand, and no small nuggets. The same is true for the second barrel......

Zhang Kun brought the third barrel and the fourth barrel, which was about the same situation.

Ye Mu touched his mouth and frowned.

Karn saw and patted him on the shoulder: "Don't be discouraged, good luck is always behind. ”

"You can't rush to find a job in gold. Blackbeard handed Ye Mu and Karn a cigar, as well as Zhang Kun and Orikov.

Orikov collected the gold washed out of the four barrels of gold mines, only a little and a little, which has no mining value: "According to my experience, there are more than fifty chances of gold hidden in the Valley of Good Fortune, don't worry. ”

Ye Mu lit the cigar and began the fifth barrel of sifting, which was still the same, and then the sixth barrel...... The situation was still very bad, until the ninth barrel, and there were broken gold particles.

"Haha...... Gold, stinking gold. Blackbeard shook the gold panning bowl and laughed excitedly.

"There should be a gram of weight. Karn leaned his head over and looked at him. Not knowing the pressure of gold panning, he and Blackbeard invested almost all their capital, pulling Ye Mu to give it a go, and now it is a very far-sighted investment.

Buying equipment, paying a deposit, and the team had less than $10,000 left in their account. If they don't find the gold mine in the first place, they can only borrow money from the bank...... Even if it does, it may face bankruptcy if it does not produce enough. Judging by the gold washed out, there is a bonanza in the Valley of Good Fortune.

"The value should be between $35 and $55. Ye Mu rubbed his hands and looked at Orickev: "The gold mine you have drilled, the most gold produced in a well?"

"A well of 2.6 grams of gold. That was a few decades ago, during the Gold Rush. Orikov spread his hands and looked at Ye Mu with a smile: "Congratulations, lucky Chinese man." ”

Lucky Chinese man, Ye Mu's nickname here. He came to Alaska at about 21 years old, young, and succeeded in his first search for gold, hence the name. In fact, Yemu has failed to find gold far more than he has succeeded...... And a failure is a loss of tens of thousands of dollars.