People like Tang Feng and others who revolve around the earth all year round, jet lag is a very strange thing to them, so at six o'clock in the morning, although they have crossed a third of the earth and have a time difference of seven or eight hours, Tang Feng and his friends still opened their eyes on time one by one.

After a hearty breakfast, a group of people picked up their tools and began to survey the mine.

The mine covers an area of about 10 square kilometres, in a low, gentle hilly area, and from the top of the slightly raised hills, you can clearly see the town of Northman four kilometers away when you look north.

The land here is very barren, to be typical of saline soil, and there are no vigorous weeds except for half-man-high bushes, which are close to the huge Lake Cowan. If you look at the map, the area of Lake Cowan is very large, but in fact this huge lake is a typical salt lake, although the area is large, but the lake bed has very little water, and most of the area is saline land with white flowers. It is only in rainy years that there is a little water on the huge Cowan Lake. But the water was saltier than the sea.

The original open-pit gold pit in the area was between two small hills, with some standing water at the bottom, but the pit has long been abandoned. The Fat Mine's iron ore is about 300 meters from the gold pit, below one of the highest hills in the area.

This is a fairly high-grade hematite, and the depth of the deposit is not very deep, about 50 meters below the surface, but this area is not very suitable for open-pit mining, mainly because the proven reserves of the deposit here are not very large, and the main deposits are under the small hill, although the small hill is not very large, but to completely open it for open-pit mining, its cost is not cost-effective compared with the reserves of the deposit.

If it weren't for the high grade of this hematite, it is estimated that the fat mine owner would not have mined this hematite. Because in Australia, especially in Western Australia, which produces high-grade iron ore, most of them are open-pit mines, and the mining cost is very low. Hematite, which has very small reserves and is buried deep underground, will not be exploited by ordinary large mining companies, and the mining cost is too high.

However, the owner of the fat mine spent more than one million yuan to buy this land, and originally wanted to continue mining gold mines, but the gold mine was gone, and it was difficult to operate this land into a ranch or farm, so in desperation, he began to mine the hematite.

Fortunately, in the past few years, because of the large increase in demand for iron ore in China, the price of international iron ore is bullish all the way. And now, with the decline in international iron ore prices, coupled with the fact that this hematite is almost exhausted, the fat mine owner can't hold his breath and finds an explorer company, intending to survey this land again.

Surveying has never been a good job, not to mention the wind and rain, there are still certain dangers. This kind of survey work in the plains is not bad, but if it is in the mountains, it is even more dangerous.

Because there are many aspects that need to be understood in the exploration of mineral resources, and many places need to be drilled and fired. Anything that involves industrial frying. The medicine has never been said to be 100% safe.

However, Tang Feng's gang has already run in a very tacit understanding, plus the company's No. 1 blaster Clark is retired from the army, this guy participated in the Afghan war, and he played explosives in the army, so in the two years that Tang Feng came, the explorer company has not had any problems with explosives.

The first day of work is to conduct a specific survey of the geology of the entire mining area, combined with the geological survey materials left over from the past, to determine the possible mineral deposits in this area. With these initial determinations in hand, we can begin to select specific surveys at each site to determine what deposits will be based on the material contained in the rocks and soil. Finally, the data from each survey site is combined to select the location where the deposit is most likely to occur, and further careful investigation is carried out, at which point work such as digging profile pits and drilling holes and firing guns will be useful.

In short, this kind of resource exploration work is very tedious and requires a very serious sense of responsibility, after all, most deposits are buried underground, and it is definitely not an easy task to find out the deposits suitable for mining from a few meters or even tens of meters of soil and rock layers. In addition, soil and rocks contain a wide variety of mineral components, and how to analyze the desired results from these minerals requires a high level of skill and experience, and most importantly, a sense of responsibility.

If you are very sloppy, in the face of these huge data, it is very likely to let go of a certain deposit suitable for mining, and it is also very likely to make a wrong judgment and treat the unsuitable deposit as a suitable mine, thus causing huge economic losses to the mine owner. Because all the deposits that can be mined are analyzed through these data!

Tang Feng worked as a data analyst at Explorer. Although this kind of work is not heavy physical labor, it is extremely consuming of brain cells, and it is dizzy at the end of the day.

However, the environment around Northman is still very good, basically there is no pollution, although it is mostly a wasteland, but if there is no windy weather, the air here is still very good.

And now it's October, the northern hemisphere has entered autumn, but here is the time of spring flowers, so every morning Tang Feng will always be very comfortable in the morning breeze around the mining area to run a circle, and then play a set of punches, an hour is enough to make Tang Feng energetic.

This kind of morning exercise Tang Feng has been insisted on for more than ten years, and when he was eight years old, he was in Cang. The grandfather of the county taught Tang Feng such a set of boxing techniques and formulas, according to his grandfather, this is the authentic eight-pole boxing method, which has always been passed on to children but not to daughters. It's a pity that my grandfather gave birth to a total of four daughters, but there was no one with a handle, so in desperation, he passed this set of Baji boxing method to his grandson Tang Feng.

Tang Feng is not very interested in this kind of boxing method, but after years of practice, he always feels that his body is getting better and better, coupled with the habits he has developed for more than ten years, which has made Tang Feng stick to it.

"Hey Wind, are your morning workouts over?" As soon as he returned to the dormitory, Sam walked out in a daze with the washbasin for washing.

Tang Feng nodded, pinched Sam's somewhat loose waist, and said with a smile: "Let you practice with me every day, if you don't listen, look at your waist now, it's almost a bucket, it is estimated that it won't be long before you can catch up with that fat mine owner!" ”

Sam held the toothbrush that had just been put into his mouth in his mouth, stretched out a middle finger and gestured viciously at Tang Feng.

Tang Feng laughed twice without mind, looking at this desolate but extremely rugged wasteland, and said to Sam who was brushing his teeth with a smile: "Hey, man, you said that if this land belonged to you, how would you develop this land?" ”

As a Chinese, Tang Feng also has the character of the Chinese people's fanatical love for the land, but in the current China, it is impossible for private individuals to have permanent land, and the land of more than ten square kilometers in front of him is owned by private individuals, and it is also permanently owned land, although it is only a very desolate land, although Tang Feng also knows that this is a system that many Western countries have. But whenever he looked at the land that was completely privately owned permanently, Tang Feng couldn't help but sigh! Including this desolate private land with an area of more than ten square kilometers!

Sam poured a mouthful of water into his mouth, "grunted" twice, spit it out, and said indistinctly, "Wind, your land complex has flare up again?" Hehe, for me, I won't want this land if it's given to me for free, there is no development value, and I don't bother to take care of it! ”

Tang Feng sighed and said, "If this land is given to me, I will definitely want it!" No matter what it's used for, as long as I have this land, I will be very happy! ”

"Haha, wind, you're daydreaming again?"

"Go, we can't have it, we can't think about it? By the way, you're going to go down the pit for the last time today, are you going to go? If you go, hurry up and pick up the slack! ”