Chapter Eighty-Seven: Drilling Through the Rock Formations
Jimingshan Coal Mine. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
A total of three large crawler drilling rigs, from the morning before yesterday to now, have been drilling down, until now it has been two full days, at the beginning, everything went well, although there were also rocks, but there were hard rock formations.
Since this morning, the three drilling rigs have successively drilled to the hard rock formation, hearing the news, Zheng Yan can still sit still, and immediately went to the Jimingshan Coal Mine.
Wang Xudong drove his own off-road vehicle, took Liu Yu and Zheng Xiaotong, and a total of three of them also went to the coal mine.
In the periphery, many family members gathered, and these family members, undoubtedly extraordinary, were full of sadness, and in the midst of sadness, they were full of anticipation, holding on to hope, hoping that their relatives would return safely.
In addition to a large number of family members, there are also many reporters, many news media reporters have set up cameras here, and some television stations have even reported on the scene there, reporting and releasing the situation here in the form of news.
Wang Xudong and the other three walked inside, and after arriving inside, Wang Xudong saw that there were many more people here, except for some commanders, more rescue team members wearing professional clothes.
When Wang Xudong and the others arrived, Zheng Yan was asking about the situation, and Mayor Zhao replied: "Secretary Zheng, the drill bits of the three drilling rigs have all been replaced, and the drill bits have been used to deal with the hard rock formations, hoping to drill through the rock formations." ”
Vertical drilling like this, encountering a hard rock formation halfway, that is a matter of no choice, can only spend some time drilling through the rock formation, what everyone hopes is, the rock formation is not too thick, do not spend too much time, at this time, time is life.
Little by little, time passed.
The entire Jimingshan Coal Mine seems to be gradually quiet, only the roar of three drilling rigs, after replacing the alloy drill bit, the three drilling rigs have been continuing to drill down.
Because it is three different drilling points, the three drilling rigs are still far apart, one of them is still on the hillside, from the position of the hillside to drill vertically, because the position is more than 200 meters down vertically is a large roadway, the purpose is to drill all the way to the top of the large roadway, until the drill through.
There are a lot of people next to each drilling rig, not only staff, but also rescue personnel wearing orange professional clothes, everyone basically did not speak, watching the drilling rig drill down little by little.
Three or four hours passed, and finally, the hard rock formation was drilled through, and after passing through the hard rock formation, the speed was obviously much faster, obviously, the hardness under the rock formation was much smaller, and the drilling speed of the drilling rig was also much faster.
Around noon.
One of the fastest drilling rigs is already drilling through and is about to drill through a predetermined roadway.
Next to this drilling rig, there were a lot of people around, all of them were nervous and full of hope, in the distance, in the periphery, there were some reporters, and a large number of family members.
As the leader of Wujiang City, Zheng Yan has been here, serving as the commander-in-chief of the scene, as for Secretary Sun, as the main leader of Jiangnan Province, he is busy with official business, and it is impossible to stay here all the time, after handing over everything here to Zheng Yan, the leader of Wujiang City, Secretary Sun returned to the provincial capital the day before yesterday.
A reporter, holding a microphone, reported live to the camera, "Ladies and gentlemen, the exciting moment is coming soon, the No. 3 drilling rig is about to be drilled, and the life channel is about to be opened......"
The families on the periphery, a heart also hanged, everyone was full of hope, and prayed in their hearts to bless their loved ones who were buried underneath for safety.
Zheng Yan came, and soon after, he finally drilled through, drilled through a roadway with a depth of nearly 200 meters below, and suddenly, many people cheered, and the drill pipe began to slowly withdraw, and after the drill pipe withdrew, the big hole drilled out was presented in front of everyone.
This big hole, which is bigger than a basin, is black, nearly 100 meters deep, leading to a horizontal roadway below, and it is also one of the main roadways in the depths of the Jimingshan coal mine.
Everyone cheered, many of the family members waiting on the periphery cried with joy, and the tone of the reporter who was reporting the news was also obviously excited.
Finally got through!
Soon, the special camera equipment was slowly put down, and through the camera equipment that was put down, the following image was transmitted back through the data cable.
The hole is very deep, nearly 200 meters deep, and it can be seen through the images transmitted back by the camera equipment that this position goes down to the horizontal roadway nearly 200 meters deep, except for a relatively thick rock formation, the rest basically does not have a very thick rock formation, which is also the main reason why it can be drilled so quickly.
The situation in the horizontal alley was passed back, and when everyone saw the situation below, their faces gradually became serious, because it can be seen from the image that this horizontal alley also collapsed seriously, and many places were blocked.
Everyone was silent for a while, originally full of hope, but now that hope was shattered, everyone's mood suddenly became heavy.
"Secretary Zheng, do you want to send someone down to take a look. ”
Zheng Yan shook his head slowly, "The situation below is already very clear, it is useless to send people down, we can only hope for the other two drilling rigs." ”
The family members who were waiting for the news on the periphery probably heard the situation, and suddenly, the crying of the sky and the earth came......
Although the rig drilled through the main roadway, it was basically useless and ended in failure, because the main roadway collapsed badly and no signs of life were found.
There are also two drilling rigs, and everyone pins their hopes on these two drilling rigs.
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More than 200 meters underground.
This is a large refuge point, because it is not far from the excavation face, when the disaster happened, the miners ran here desperately, 43 miners, all miraculously all arrived here, everyone has been waiting for rescue.
Two days and two nights passed.
The leading miner is a middle-aged man, named Tan Xiaohai, a squad leader of the excavation class, Tan Xiaohai looked at his watch and thought to himself, at this time, it should be in the afternoon, I don't know if the people outside can come to save him.
Although this is the biggest refuge point, the situation is not optimistic, there is very little food, it is some expired biscuits or instant noodles, etc., everyone eats some of it, and now everyone's stomach is very hungry.
Water is often more important than food, if there is water, a normal person can last at least ten days, but without water, even if there is food, it can only last for three or five days.
In this refuge point, there is not much water, only two or three boxes of mineral water, which are distributed to everyone, which is not enough for one bottle per person.
Tan Xiaohai looked at his watch, and then licked his chapped lips, two days and two nights, only drank a few sips of water, Tan Xiaohai was very thirsty, but there was no way, mineral water was limited, more than forty people, even if no one drank a few sips, but they had already drunk more than a dozen bottles, almost half of the mineral water.
Precious water was limited, and to make matters worse, several miners were injured, one of them was seriously injured, his wound was inflamed and he was suffering from a high fever.
Tan Xiaohai looked at everyone, knowing that it was time to divide food and mineral water again, Tan Xiaohai opened the cabinet containing food and mineral water, and without Tan Xiaohai shouting, everyone spontaneously gathered around and looked at Tan Xiaohai with blank eyes.
One of them said: "Old Tang, everyone is so thirsty, can everyone drink a little more water this time, and if we continue like this, we will all die of thirst before the people above come to save us." ”
Tan Xiaohai sighed softly, nodded, took out a disposable cup, everyone spontaneously lined up, Tan Xiaohai began to pour water, after half a glass of water, after thinking about it, he poured a little more into it, and poured most of the cup.
Obviously, this half a cup of water is a little more than last time, everyone lined up, one by one came up to drink water, more than half a cup per person, as for those sick people, Tan Xiaohai poured a full cup each, it can be seen that for these injured people, take special care.
Tan Xiaohai was the last to drink water, and only after everyone drank and distributed everyone's food did Tan Xiaohai pour water for himself to drink, and after pouring half a cup, he hesitated for a moment and did not pour it down, compared to everyone's half a cup, Tan Xiaohai was obviously a little less.
A biscuit, half a glass of water, this is Tan Xiaohai's lunch, and in the morning, he didn't eat, everyone only drank half a glass of water.
Even with this saving, there is not much mineral water left, only a few bottles, and it is estimated that it will be divided once again in the evening, and there will be no more water, and there is not much food, and it is estimated that it can be divided twice at most.
In order to save physical strength, after drinking water and eating a little something, everyone either lay down or sit, basically rarely moved, and there were not many people who even spoke.
Minute by minute, hours passed.
Tan Xiaohai looked at the time, it was already evening, and thought to himself, at this time, the sun was about to set, and the sky was about to get dark.
At this time, Tan Xiaohai has a strong desire to see the sun, even if it is for a minute, but this is just a luxury, something completely impossible.
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