Chapter 351 Mogok Ruby Mining Area
It didn't take long to walk southeast from Muzaffarabad to the ceasefire line between India and Pakistan in Kashmir, and after many inspections, Tang Feng and the three of them finally entered Indian-administered Kashmir.
This area is still shuttling through the mountains, and if you want to say that India is not as good as China now, you can look at the highway if you don't look at anything else. Although India has been boasting that India has more than 70,000 kilometers of highways, in fact, in India, the real sense of the highway is only about 400 kilometers.
What is a Freeway? Presumably this big guy understands, but what is the so-called highway in India? Tang Feng and the others have now encountered a "highway" with a very high toll, and as a result, the 260-kilometer "highway" Tang Feng and they ran for eight hours
Along the way, Tang Feng and the three of them complained about it, and almost spit out the road. But there's nothing you can do, the real highways in India are actually just a few sections, and most of them are in the central and southern regions. The only real highway in the northern region is the 200-kilometre highway from New Delhi to Agra, which is also the longest highway in the whole of India.
After experiencing the baptism of the so-called "highway", Tang Feng and his family no longer dared to get on those highways marked with "national highways", but looked for ordinary roads.
Not to mention, India's road network is indeed quite developed, even if it is an ordinary highway, it is actually easier to walk, that is, the road is narrower and there are more pedestrians
Originally, Tang Feng and his team planned to complete the journey of more than 1,800 kilometers to Bihar in three days, but they were stunned for four days.
This made Tang Feng hold back his anger and arrived at Patna, the capital of Bihar. Tang Feng and the three of them found a star-rated hotel to live in. What makes Tang Feng complain is that although it is a four-star hotel, in fact, this hotel is even better than a hotel without stars in China!
This made Tang Feng even more angry, and that night Tang Feng activated the star core in the hotel, and began to absorb it against the thorium mine more than a hundred kilometers northeast of Patna.
In fact, the reserves of that thorium mine are far more than proven reserves, because this thorium mine is close to the border with Nepal. Moreover, the buried depth is also relatively deep, so on the Indian side, there are more than 200,000 tons of proven reserves. But in fact, through the star core Tang Feng, it can be clearly seen that this piece of thorium ore that has been proven is only a layer above. There is also a larger thorium vein in the rocky layer about 2,000 meters deep below this deposit.
Even in the upper layer of thorium veins, there are no less than tens of thousands of tons of thorium reserves in the distance extending to Nepal.
This discovery made Tang Feng immediately change his plan, originally wanting to bring disaster to this thorium mine, but now there are even more thorium veins in the underlying rock layer. Then let's take the trouble first. Minimizing unnecessary suspicion is the only way to get it done.
In one night, the star core almost absorbed one-third of the larger thorium vein in the lower rock layer, which successfully condensed the four star core splits, of course, such a huge thorium reserve also allowed the star core to replenish the energy again after splitting into four star core splits.
This time, Tang Feng really didn't dare to continue to upgrade the star core. Promoted from level three to level four, he almost didn't toss Tang Feng apart. If you are promoted to the fifth level, don't say that Tang Feng can't stand it. Even the thorium mine in front of me has been sucked up by the star core, and I am afraid that it will not be able to meet the terrifying energy required when the star core is upgraded to the fifth level.
Tang Feng was actually a person who was quite easy to satisfy, since the fourth-level star core was enough to cope with the current situation, Tang Feng was very satisfied and stopped absorbing energy.
Tossed in the middle of the night, but the next morning Tang Feng still got up early in the morning refreshed. The fourth-level star core full of energy made Tang Feng feel very good, and he took the next journey with him. Tang Feng felt that it was not so boring.
After coming out of Patna, the high-performance Mercedes-Benz GL65 made its way to Bangladesh in less than four hours. It then crossed Bangladesh, which is only about 300 kilometers wide, and then entered the Indian state of Tripura again, then through Mizoram, and finally into barren Myanmar.
It is about 1,300 kilometers from Patna to Mandalay. Tang Feng and the others arrived in Mandalay in one day. Although it was already the second half of the night when they entered Mandalay, the three of them did not feel very tired.
Despite the fact that Mandalay is the second largest city in Myanmar, it seems to be inferior to Patna. After all, Myanmar is a truly barren country, and after years of turmoil, this resource-rich country has not developed, and now its per capita GDP ranks only 154th in the world.
Let's put it this way, the current Myanmar is about the same as China in the mid-80s, and as for Mandalay, the second largest city in Myanmar, it is actually equivalent to the prosperity of a prefecture-level city in western China, and as for the economy, it can only be hehe
After finding a hotel that looked good in the middle of the night and staying at it, Tang Feng directly activated the star core and launched a survey of Mogok, which was more than 160 kilometers northeast of Mandalay.
Mogok is the world's largest and most high-quality ruby producing area, rich in more than 20 kinds of gemstones, the mine area is more than 40 kilometers long, more than 20 kilometers wide, and the entire mineralization area has reached more than 1,000 square kilometers. There are now 49 mines in Mogok. The world-famous 1,300-carat royal sapphire "Star of Asia" and the 495.5-carat star ruby are produced here.
In the Mogok ruby mining area, the ore body is mostly layered, and it is located near the contact metamorphic zone between magnesiatic and calcareous marble and granite or syenite. This mining area, also known as the "Mogu Group" by geologists, is a typical standard rock sequence of the low-pressure and high-temperature metamorphic zone, which is comparable to the "Gaoligong Mountain Group" in Nanyun, China, but the two geological groups are still controversial in terms of geological age.
In any case, Mogok's ruby is the finest in the world, and only this place produces the finest pigeon's blood rubies and star rubies.
Tang Feng's target is this mining area, of course, Tang Feng will only carry the best ore layers, as for those low-grade rubies, don't do it.
The reason why Tang Feng chose to move in Mandalay instead of going directly to Mogok also has a lot to do with local safety. Myanmar is a military junta that has just come out of turmoil. Even if you have a passport, if you don't have a local guide, you will be arrested as a stowaway when you enter the Mogok area.
Tang Feng doesn't want to be arrested in this kind of country, so let's honestly finish this job in Mandalay, where the law and order situation is better! (To be continued......)