Chapter 6: Going Down the Well (Part II)

"Boss, this doesn't seem to be good!" As the company's legal counsel, Sam has always been very cautious in encountering such things that may endanger the safety of the company's employees, after all, the danger of resource exploration is still relatively high.

Hearing Sam say this, the head pouted his teeth and looked at the fat mine owner with a constipated expression. As the leader of the Explorer Company, the leader of course knows that Sam's objection is absolutely tenable, on the contrary, his own violation of the work safety rules is untenable.

Of course, if it was an internal matter of the company, Sam would never raise objections in front of him, but now more than a dozen people in the Explorer Company are serving the fat mine owner, so as long as there is the slightest unsafe thing, Sam will always jump out and sing white face.

The boss has a good relationship with the fat mine owner, but a good relationship does not mean that safety issues can be ignored. On the issue of security, there has always been a veto, and even the leader cannot use power to suppress it.

The head is a man from all over the world, and the mine owners who have a good relationship with him all over the world are arrested, and the mine owners are some people, to say that it is not an exaggeration at all, they are all guys who eat people and can't even vomit bones, but these people are the parents of the explorer company, so the boss, as the boss of the explorer company, must definitely have a good relationship with these mine owners, and in the daily work of the explorer company, the leader has always been the one who sings red-faced.

However, the safety of employees can never be ignored, so this task of singing white face falls among employees. Companies and enterprises in the United States basically have trade union organizations, generally speaking, this kind of task of singing white face is carried out by trade unions, but there are more than ten people in the explorer company, where is the trade union!

So, at the beginning, the task of singing white face fell on the partner, Tim, who is now the second-in-command of Explorer. Stanton. Tim's identity in the Explorer Company is not clear to the mine owners except for the people inside the company, and the matter raised directly by the workers on the biggest reason of safety, even if the mine owners are very blood-sucking, will generally agree.

In the past few years, Tim has been doing well, and then after Sam entered the explorer company, this task was taken down by Sam in a grand manner, after all, in terms of identity, Sam is an employee and the company's legal counsel, and for security issues, this guy knows better how to deal with those vampire mine owners.

The fat mine owner naturally knows the importance of safety, so this guy is helpless against Sam's objections.

Originally, this matter was also very easy to solve, and it was okay to postpone the work of going down the well today until tomorrow, but the problem was that no one thought that this kind of thing would happen today, and the return tickets for tomorrow have already been obtained, and the tickets of more than a dozen people plus the checked tools and luggage or something, if the ticket is refunded, the loss is still not small. The most important thing is that the fat mine owner will meet with a farmer tomorrow to finalize the sale and purchase of this land. Although this land is very barren, the area is here, and the price is certainly not very high, so there are still people who like to ask for such land.

As for whether this land can be sold, it all depends on the final data of today's underground test, so the fat mine owner himself is also very anxious.

In the end, on the condition that the fat mine owner promised the boss an additional $10,000, everyone except the boss and Clark brought their own equipment and went down the mine "reluctantly".

This is a kind of fun that these guys usually do, not for the little money of the mine owners, but purely for the self-entertainment of these guys who circle the earth all day long, in the words of these guys, just to see the constipated expressions of the rich mine owners

Although the reserves of this mine of the fat mine owner are not very large, it can be seen that the fat mine owner still attaches more importance to this mine, not to mention anything else, this mine alone is enough to show this.

This mine is a high bonanza, with an average grade of 56, so the fat mine owner really cares about the mining of this mine. According to the usual theory, the most suitable development method for iron ore buried at a depth of about 50 meters below the surface should be the shallow hole retention method, and the geology here is very stable, and the thickness of the ore body has reached the level of medium thickness, and it is the most economical way to mine with the shallow hole retention method.

However, the main reason why the fat mine owner did not adopt this most economical mining method is because although the shallow hole retention method requires less investment in the early stage than other mining methods, this mining method has one of the most fatal drawbacks, that is, the recovery rate is too low.

Although the release rate of large ore drawing of shallow hole retention method can be as high as 60%~75% in theory, in practice, this mining method can eventually cause about 30% waste. In other words, if the storage capacity of this mine is 10 million tons, and the mining method of shallow hole retention method is adopted, the final waste of iron ore left in the mine will be as high as 3 million tons!

The reserves of this mine itself are not very large, and if this mining method is adopted, the waste of iron ore alone is enough to make the fat mine owner feel distressed. Therefore, after thinking about it for a while, the owner of the fat mine adopted the most common bottomless pillar segmented caving mining method. Although this mining method has a high investment in the early stage, the maximum loss of iron ore by this mining method is only 20%.

When the bottomless pillar segmented caving mining method is used for mining, the ore drawing chute, pedestrian ventilation equipment well, equipment shaft liaison road, chute liaison road, cutting shaft, segmented liaison roadway, mining roadway, stage transportation flat roadway, cutting roadway, machine repair room, etc. are all available, which can be called a sparrow although it is small. Moreover, there are few wooden supports in the roadway, and most of them are the support methods of concrete support and spray anchor support. This shows the serious attitude of the fat mine owner towards this mine.

It's no wonder that the fat mine owner is so serious, as a small mine owner, this mine is the only mine under his name, and his weight is directly related to the output of this mine!

Follow the sidewalk down the pit to the mining roadway below, and the big guys will move separately. This time, except for Demoman Clark and the leader, everyone else came down, including Sam, who had nothing to do, and also followed Tang Feng down the well because he was idle.

However, in the mine, Sam was not with Tang Feng, because Tang Feng was going to the end of the excavation face to get some new pyrite samples, and Sam thought it was too boring there, so he went to another place with the others.