"Red scorpion!"

Ackerman emphasized the name of this scorpion, Lin Quan had already found that the root of the problem was in this scorpion, but he was not a zoologist, so he didn't know anything about this insect, in his opinion, all scorpions were the same. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Red brown scorpion, what's wrong? Any questions? ”

If you don't understand, just ask, this kind of good habit was taught to him by the teachers diligently when Lin Quan was in elementary school.

"The red brown scorpion, also known as the lucky scorpion, this kind of scorpion often lives near gold or silver mines, they will feed on gold or silver, we found a nest of red brown scorpions, which indicates that there may be gold mines under our feet!"

Gold mine? That's, isn't it? Just this broken mountain, there will be gold mines in it? You think this is South Africa!

Lin Quan complained in his heart, but said on his lips: "Quick, hurry up and take me to see!" ”

I rubbed my hands as I walked, and I couldn't wait for a little golden man to appear in my eyes. . . That's a lot of little money!

The two hurriedly left the tent and walked to the mountainside, where the scorpions found under a stone when the workers were cleaning up the rubble, and at this time there were already a lot of people around, and the workers stood aside, pointing, not knowing what they were talking about.

Seeing this posture, Lin Quan quickly pulled Ackerman aside and asked, "What's the situation?" How do you all know? ”

He thought that Ackerman said that there was a gold mine here, and he wanted to pull him to mine it, but he didn't expect that the news had already been made public.

"Mr. Lin, the matter of the red brown scorpion can't be hidden, everyone knows about it, so we definitely can't hide it, and we have to report this matter to the government, after all, minerals like this, they are all the property of the state, but we can mine some of them ourselves before the government comes, after all, there is a reward for the discoverer, and the government generally acquiesces and will not hold us accountable!"

Ackerman's expression was very excited, it was not much better than these workers, and Lin Quan was a little bitter in his heart, so many workers, everyone shared a little, then there was not much in hand, and I don't know if there is gold down there! If you work in vain, not only will you not gain anything, but you will also lose time, and the time wasted will be precious in the rainy season.

"Tell me, what are your plans? Is it to be divided equally with the workers? In that case, you should have brought everyone in by now! ”

The number of workers around is not very many, only about forty or fifty people, their engineering team has more than four hundred people, all of them are transferred, the efficiency must be much faster than these forty or fifty people, in ancient times, digging gold mines This kind of thing originally required a lot of manpower and material resources, gold mines are not like the game, where is a big lump of piles, waiting for you to put it directly into the bag.

Gold is a rare metal, even if it is a gold mine, it is also very scattered, a large amount of gold is attached to the rock in the form of fine particles, and gold is mainly distributed in the innermost core of the earth, 99% of the gold is located here, and scientists speculate that the gold in the crust and mantle may be because of the movement of the earth's interior, which is slowly diffused, and this is mainly because of the extrusion movement of the earth's interior, such as crustal movement, volcanic eruptions, etc., The gold was erupted in molten form, and as a result, the gold mine was basically attached to the rock.

Therefore, it takes a lot of manpower to mine the gold mine, and all the soil and sand near the gold mine is transported out, and then it is brought to the river for washing.

This work requires two key elements, one is that there must be enough people, if there are not enough people, and there is not enough soil on their backs, the gold production after washing is definitely not optimistic, and the gold reserves of a large gold mine are only a dozen tons, and the extra-large gold mine is only a hundred tons.

This kind of gold mine needs to mine a large amount of ore for cultivation, and this output ratio is very low, taking a gold mine in western China as an example, this gold mine processes 1,500 tons of ore per day, and only produces 60,000 taels of gold per year.

60,000 taels of gold is about 3 tons, and the ore they dispose of in a year is as high as 550,000 tons!

The output ratio is 180,000:1!

Therefore, only a sufficient amount of mineral sands can be mined in sufficient quantities of gold, and sometimes, the mining of gold mines may not be calculated, the price of 3 tons of gold is only 900 million, and the processing of 550,000 tons of mineral sands a year requires at least 450,000 man-hours, 3 million kilowatt-hours of electricity, calculating the cost, this matter does not seem to be very cost-effective, which does not include the wear and tear of machinery and equipment, the loss of life and health of personnel, etc.

And it's a large gold mine that can be mechanized, and it's even less cost-effective if it's like a smaller gold mine with too much of a spread of deposits and too little expected production.

Like the Jiaodong Peninsula in Shandong, China, since the Northern Song Dynasty, the Linglong gold mine here has begun to produce output, reaching its peak in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but the government is unable to mine on a large scale, because the imperial court does not have the money to hire so many workers, there is not enough food for the miners to consume, and the gold produced by the household is in the hands of the household, which may only be less than half of the mined, and most of it is embezzled below, and the finance sown by the household department will also go through layers of exploitation, and then the remaining few percent will go to the miners, and in this wayThe miners are still hungry to death after high-intensity labor, and they will naturally get angry and have no way to live the more they work.

As soon as the imperial court calculated, it found that the matter was too bad, so it was not mined in the official form, and was handed over to the local government to deal with it itself.

The local officials then gave this large area of gold to the local squires, and they didn't know that it was a gold mine? Don't know there's gold in it? Of course they know, but this gold mine is true, but the mining income is not very large, so they are not willing to do it themselves, rather than their own hard work, and finally be red by others and then exploited layer by layer, it is better to give the gold mine to the local landlords, let them be the first bird, they hide behind not only to avoid the risk, but also to receive "filial piety", this is not very good?

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the largest gold mine in Shandong went into the hands of local landlords, these people through land annexation, so that a large number of homesteaders lost their land, and were forced to become their tenants, and the late Ming Dynasty had a lot of displaced people, everywhere was a disaster, so they could absorb a large number of displaced people at a low price to help themselves mine, just barely give them a mouthful of porridge to drink, a little batter to eat, you can let them work hard to work for themselves to mine, the primitive accumulation of capital is so bloody and cruel, However, the capital of these landlords in the Ming Dynasty has accumulated to half, and before they have time to develop and grow, they have encountered a more ruthless, that is, the Qing court in the north, their ancestors have worked hard to save their family wealth, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, they were cut leeks all of a sudden, and they refused to give the Ming court a little funding at the beginning, and even tried every means to evade taxes and evade taxes. Then he thanked the Jurchens for sparing their lives.

Another element needed to mine gold is to have water, and there has been a saying about gold panning since ancient times, what is gold panning? It is to wash the gold sands that have been dug up with water, and then wash away the dirt inside, leaving the gold behind, and finally fusing the scattered gold into gold ingots!