Chapter Eighty-Four: Mount Isa

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Two lovers who are in love but are in two places can only communicate through telephone porridge and online video to make up for the lovesickness between the two. In fact, when Tang Feng was still digging for Opal in Andamuka, Sophia had already arrived at Houston Airport, but Tang Feng was in a hurry at that time, so the two agreed to contact each other by phone every night.

Because there is a time difference between Queensland and Texas in the United States, it is about 9 o'clock in the evening on Tang Feng's side, and about 7 o'clock in the morning when Sophia is there. Although this time difference made the two people a little uncomfortable, the ten-hour time difference and the vast Pacific Ocean still could not stop the transmission of radio waves with deep love.

After boiling the phone porridge for a while, the two of them reluctantly put down the phone, Sophia is going to work, and Tang Feng wants to rest well, there are still three or four hundred kilometers to wait for him tomorrow.

After breakfast the next morning, Tang Feng led the two little ones to the car repair shop to pick up the car, and after paying a maintenance fee, one person and two dogs set foot on the road to the north again.

The Birdsville route that Tang Feng took yesterday actually has a highway marking, that is, C83 Highway, but after this highway passed Birdsville, although the highway number is still C83, the name has been changed to Eyre-Davidle Epment Highway.

About 200 kilometres north of the sandy road is Bedury, where there is a small settlement called Glengail, a fairly small town about the size of the three small human settlements on the Boysville path.

Located on the south bank of the River Eyre, Glengale is home to more than a dozen people, mostly ranchers and ranch workers. The town is less than fifty kilometers away from Bedury, so Tang Feng stayed in this town for a while as usual, one is to rest, and the other is to leave the beauty of this town in his phone.

It was almost eleven o'clock at noon when I arrived in Bedury, which was about the same size as Birdsville, and it was well equipped with all kinds of facilities.

The distance from Beduri to Bria is almost 180 kilometres, and most of this section follows the west bank of the huge Palico River. The huge Palico River is a dry channel, very wide, almost twenty-five kilometres wide at its widest, formed by the confluence of the Georgina, Hamilton and Eyre rivers.

It's just that this river, like the seasonal river, is seasonal, and it dries up most of the year, and even if water comes, it is difficult to say that this huge river channel is filled. In fact, the town of Beduri is located on the edge of the Palico River.

The scenery of this part of the journey is very good, and there is no hurry to hurry, so Tang Feng controlled the speed of the car steadily, and when he saw a beautiful scenery, he even stopped the car to take pictures and enjoy it, so when he arrived in Bria, the time was almost dusk again.

After Bria, even if you enter the bustling area of Queensland, although it is still not as prosperous as the eastern seaboard, it is undoubtedly much more prosperous than the desolate Birdsville Road.

After a night's rest in Bria, Tang drove to Mount Isa, more than 200 kilometres away, early the next morning. There are two routes from Dajara to Mount Aisa, the western route is to continue along kilometre 83 and the eastern route is to detour around Duches. Tang Feng chose the Eastern Front.

After leaving the small town of Dajala, turn northeast and follow the road that runs parallel to the railway to Dachis. In fact, it has been covered by rail since Dajara, with the Inland Railway, which runs west from the eastern coastal city of Townsville, to the west of Queensland, with the town of Dajara being one of three terminus, the other two being Kajabi and Mount Isa.

This area is also an important source of mineral resources in Queensland, which is why a huge railway line will be laid all the way to this area, including Tang's destination Mount Issa is Australia's largest silver producer.

At about 12 o'clock in the afternoon, Tang Feng finally completed the nearly 1,800-kilometer journey from Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, to Mount Issa, Queensland, which almost runs through the entire Australian continent, after all, to Mount Issa, it is less than 300 kilometers away from the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north.

Although the road is far away, Tang Feng did not feel much fatigue along the way, after all, this road is not in a hurry, and the average distance traveled in a day is more than 400 kilometers. For Tang Feng, this is definitely a very comfortable self-driving trip.

Tang Feng dreamed a long time ago of being able to drive his car through the mountains and mountains, drive on the empty plains, and have the most intimate contact with the nature of heaven and earth.

Mount Issa is far larger than any other town along the way, and of course that doesn't include Adelaide in South Australia, and even Port Augusta, South Australia's largest port, is not as big as Mount Issa.

Mount Issa is Australia's leading mining city, home to Australia's largest copper, silver and lead-zinc mines, as well as uranium and apatite mines. The city alone has a permanent population of nearly 30,000. The number of permanent residents of Port Augusta is only 14,000.

After Tang Feng came to this city surrounded by mines and pits, he couldn't help but be fascinated by the strong mining style here.

As a resource surveyor, it is undoubtedly a very happy thing to see such a huge mining base, and there are crazy rare mineral resources buried under this land, and trying to dig out these resources is the favorite job of people like Tang Feng.

However, this time Tang Feng did not come to Mount Isa to mine, Tang Feng wanted to secretly take out some of the rich mineral deposits here. To put it bluntly, Tang Feng drove nearly 1,800 kilometers to this mining city with bad intentions, just to grab food!

As the owner of the star core, Tang Feng would never let go of the silver in this land. Although Mount Isa is also rich in other mineral resources, Tang Feng has no interest in those, except for the rich uranium ore under the ground here to replenish energy, Tang Feng is most emotional about those white flowers

As for the gold here, although Tang Feng also likes it, the gold reserves under Mount Isa are not as rich as silver, and the ore veins are relatively scattered, so Tang Feng does not want to spend too much effort to get gold. Of course, if Tang Feng wants to get a gold mine, he can go to South Africa, Alaska or Nevada in the United States to get a gold mine, how big the gold reserves in those places are! Here, it's better to save it!