Chapter 124 World-Class Mineral Veins

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Over the next 10 days, the good news was that the five drill holes selected by Explorer at the beginning had all drilled silver-gold-platinum complexes, each of which was spaced apart from each other, and if the five holes were connected, it would be an area of about 0.5 square kilometres.

The five drill holes essentially determined that there was a 0.5 square kilometre of super silver-gold-platinum veins mined approximately 3 metres below the surface of the land.

It is not an exaggeration to say that this vein is a super vein, with an area of 0.5 square kilometers and a recoverable thickness of 3 meters, which means that the approximate volume of this vein is about 1.5 million cubic meters, and the silver ore content in this mining area is about 8.25 million tons based on the proportion of silver ore is almost 5.5.

If the vein has a grade of only 50 g/t, then the vein can produce more than 400 tonnes of silver at most, which is nothing. However, the high grade of this vein is a bit scary, the core samples extracted from these five drill holes, after assays, almost every drill hole in the core content of more than 850 g/t, that is, the initial detection grade of this vein reached 860 g/t, if the rocks in this mining area are all silver ore, then the reserves of this silver ore will exceed 7,000 tons!

Of course, this is an ideal algorithm, and the actual silver ore reserves are definitely much less than this figure, but even if it is cut in half according to the popular regulations in the industry, the reserves of this silver mine are more than 3,500 tons!

With 3,500 tons of silver reserves, it can already occupy the throne of the fourth largest silver mine in the world!

But there is not only silver ore in this mining area, but also more precious gold ore and platinum group metals, which are worth more than silver, and according to calculations, in addition to the silver reserves of at least 3,500 tons, there are at least more than 150 tons of gold reserves and more than 50 tons of platinum group metals reserves in this vein!

Gold and platinum group metals, in addition to silver, are the main focus of this vein, so it is not an exaggeration to say that this vein is a world-class composite vein!

At the same time, the buried depth of this vein is extremely shallow, unlike other silver and gold mines, where hundreds or even thousands of meters of holes have to be dug at every turn. This super-complex mine can be mined on a large scale by open pit for industrial mining at a fraction of the cost of gold and silver mined in those mines!

And most importantly, after testing, the associated radioactive elements in this complex ore are very low, almost about the same as the radioactive elements in the ordinary earth's crust, what does this mean? This means that the cost of extraction can be further reduced.

As we all know, whether it is silver or gold or other precious metal mines, there will be a large number of radioactive element minerals, such as uranium, radon, radium and other radioactive elements, so when mining silver ore and vein gold ore, miners must be protected from radiation, which will undoubtedly increase a lot of mining costs.

And there are so few associated radioactive minerals in this vein, coupled with the scary high grade, it is still a vein that can be mined on a large scale, and once this vein enters the mining stage, then its mining cost will be scary, even lower than the cost of copper mining!

But what is contained in this vein? It's silver, gold, and platinum group metals, and if you take one of them, they're worth far more than copper!

In other words, even if the reserves of this vein are so large, Tang Feng, as the owner of this vein, will become a billionaire overnight!

Rao has been working in this industry for so many years, but he has never discovered such a huge reserve of precious metal composite ore, let alone anyone who has discovered such an extremely rare high-grade precious metal vein in just a few months. You must know that it is not more than a hundred years ago, at that time, whether it was gold or oil, it could not be said that it was everywhere, but it was very easy to find mines back then. Where is it now, it will take months or even years to find an ordinary mine, and this kind of high-grade precious metal composite ore is almost impossible to find in these days.

For Tang Feng's good luck, the leader is just envious, after all, the leader has seen too much. After experiencing that mining disaster, what the boss wants to do is to make the explorer company bigger and stronger, and now, the day is not far off when the explorer company will return to the top, as long as the news of this vein is announced, the explorer company will immediately become a star survey company in the industry. That's what makes the boss the happiest.

"Tang, do you want us to continue to survey and detect the specific reserves of this vein, so that we can have an accurate number when the news is announced to the public?" The leader asked Tang Feng with a smile.

Tang Feng shook his head with a smile and said: "Boss, there is no need to survey, I estimate that the reserves of this vein are like this, the reserves of silver are about 4,000 tons at most, gold is almost 200 tons, and as for platinum group metals, it should be about 60 or 70 tons." If I surveyed it again, the data estimate was similar to what I had estimated. Besides, the main body of this vein has been surveyed, and the remaining corners and corners can be exploited while making detailed reserves. Don't forget, this mine can be mined in the open pit, and it's easy to find out the true reserves of this vein! ”

There is really no need to keep them busy, you know, the location of the five boreholes that was originally set was requested by Tang Feng, because Tang Feng knew very well the situation of this vein underground, so these five boreholes were basically hit against the edge of the vein. If you continue to drill, it will be a waste of money.

"Well, you're the boss of this mine, and you're up to you. So since we have decided not to continue the survey, should we take the time to make this news public? ”

Tang Feng nodded and said, "Boss, this matter is up to you, after all, this mine was surveyed from under the hands of the Explorer Company, and your credit cannot be erased." And this huge honor is also what Explorer deserves. ”

Even if the information of this mine is not announced, I am afraid it will not be hidden for long, the two drivers of the drilling rig, but they are involved in the whole process, and they are not employees of the company, and they are not obliged to keep secrets for you. And if you sell the news of the discovery of such a world-class silver mine to a TV station or newspaper, you can get a lot of money.

Hearing Tang Feng say this, the leader said gratefully: "Tang, then thank you." I will prepare well to let this vein that belongs to you shock the world! ”