Li Sanduo paused again after saying this, probably a little distracted by the flying bird just now, he looked up at the window, and came back to his senses after a while, so he tapped the map with a small wooden stick again, drawing more people's attention back to the map before continuing:

"Obviously, from the map, this time we need to go further inland than we have in the past, after all, the total area of this mining area is more than 1,000 square kilometers, and it is said that there are as many as 2.5 billion tons of ore reserves.

Of course, it is not possible to survey the entire area at the moment, this time we are only doing key exploration, not general surveys.

Even so, the exploration task is still not easy, because from the map, we are about 20 kilometers inland, note that I said a straight line distance, the actual exploration mileage must be much larger.

Fortunately, the plenary resolution only asked us to go to the key site to collect key samples, which is actually an exposed vein in the heart of the mine.

According to the geological data of the old world, Miss Cao marked a place for us before getting on the ship, well, this is ......"

Li Sanduo's small wooden stick pointed to a few green dots in the red circle on the map and said:

Ms. Cao said that the vein cover at this site is no more than one metre, and there are often ore bodies exposed to the surface, so this is a key area for us to explore.

Note that there are several varieties of ore that need to be collected, come to me and get pictures later, one of them is very important, it is called ......"

Li Sanduo didn't think about it for a while, so he looked for Zhu Beiguo in the crowd.

"Gibbsite!"

Zhu Beiguo replied immediately.

"Yes, that's it, in short, although the content of this exploration mission is single and the goal is clear, it is obviously not easy to walk, because in fact, there is no road at all, and from the map, the specimen collection point is ...... Twenty-two kilometers.

So I must point out again that a twenty-kilometre walk is by no means an easy distance depending on what we have, especially in primeval forests, so let's talk about the landing and exploration options. ”

After Li Sanduo finished speaking, he put away the small wooden stick, and sat back with his hands on his chest.

Seeing that Captain Li stopped talking, Zhu Beiguo began to speak, Zhu Beiguo said, since we have all come, let's try to do things better, judging from the current situation, although it is a shortcut to go straight through the jungle after landing, it is obviously also a road full of dangers.

Therefore, we should try to avoid walking in the jungle for a long time, where it is dark, not only snakes, insects, mosquitoes and ants are rampant, but also natives in the dark.

Ladies and gentlemen, I seriously suspect that the cause of the sudden flock of birds is probably man-made, and perhaps we may be being secretly observed!

Therefore, I strongly recommend that everyone walk in groups, because the water surface is relatively open, the view is good, and it is much safer than the dense jungle.

In addition, since the river will definitely be the main export channel for ore in the future, we will be able to collect hydrological data by water, survey the waterway, measure the depth of the water, determine the location of the future wharf, and rowing will be safer and less laborious than taking the land route. ”

Zhu Beiguo talked eloquently at the map, and everyone listened attentively, and many people nodded silently in agreement.

At this time, Captain Gu's voice suddenly came from the walkie-talkie on Li Sanduo, Zhu Beiguo, and several of them.

It turned out that the Nicole was not idle at this time, and Captain Gu told this side on the walkie-talkie that they strongly recommended that this landing exploration take the waterway, the small rivers on the north and south sides of the Weipa Peninsula are a natural channel, and you should make full use of Yunyun.

"This is what heroes see!"

After Li Sanduo ended the call with Captain Gu, he turned around and smiled at everyone.

Then he picked up the little stick again, pointed back and forth to the two small rivers on the map, and said:

"Brother Zhu has just said very clearly, from the map, although we go deep along the river a little detour, but starting from the mouth of the river, the rowing boat is only less than 20 kilometers, and when we get there, we only need to walk a few kilometers to reach the ore vein.

Well, it doesn't seem that far from the marked location to the nearby river. ”

Everyone's eyes followed the small wooden stick in Li Sanduo's hand, and many people also compared to the map, and finally nodded in approval of Li Sanduo's statement. It only takes a few kilometers to walk, which is good enough to avoid long walks through the jungle as much as possible.

At this time, after Zhu Beiguo looked at the map for a while, he put forward the suggestion that the troops should be divided into two routes, along the two rivers, one on the north bank of the peninsula, and the other on the south bank of the peninsula, with the purpose of finding out the road and finally determining the best route to take.

After finding a suitable place to land on both sides, you can even walk in a north-south direction, and from the map, this distance is only less than five kilometers.

So after a brief discussion, everyone basically agreed with Li and Zhu's suggestion, if you can really go deep along these two rivers to the vicinity of the mining area, it is indeed the safest and most economical and convenient path.

Everyone is really concerned about security now, they have seen the bloody scenes of the indigenous fighting, and they know that the indigenous people are not good at stubble, if they can avoid it, it is better to avoid it as much as possible.

Moreover, Dr. Zhu told you some of the situation of the Aborigines of Cape York as early as before going to sea, the distribution of the indigenous population of mainland Australia is not balanced, and this peninsula with a semitropical rainforest climate is inhabited by at least one-third of the indigenous people of the entire Australia, so this is a dense settlement of indigenous people in mainland Australia, and it is quite brave and ruthless, so we should try to be careful.

Once the exploration plan is determined, the next thing everyone discusses is the division of labor.

At present, there are 24 people on board, and after listening to everyone's discussion and opinions, Li Sanduo decided to leave half of the people, and the other 12 people will take four lifeboats on the Pride to participate in the in-depth exploration operations along the river, each group of two small boats, led by Li Sanduo and Zhu Beiguo respectively, they will measure the north and south rivers respectively, and each small boat has three crew members.

Subsequently, the exploration plan was reported to the Nicole through the walkie-talkie, and Captain Gu thought that although the plan was feasible, he felt that the strength of the Pride was a little weak, so he finally decided to transfer four more boats and twelve people from the Nicole to strengthen the exploration team.

In this case, there are twelve people and four boats in each of the north and south groups, plus everyone has AK47***, Colt python **** and multi-functional sapper shovel, and the power of self-protection should be enough.

In the end, the cautious Captain Gu also took into account that everyone was a newcomer and the surrounding environment was very unfamiliar, so he decided to send four small boats specially responsible for communication and liaison at the same time, and each small boat also had four people on board, in addition to being fully armed, it also carried four walkie-talkies with a communication distance of up to eight kilometers, so as to ensure docking and communication with the five-kilometer walkie-talkies of the exploration team.

The eight-kilometer walkie-talkie is the farthest portable device for communication in the cave, and the radio is needed further away.

Moreover, these communication boats can also support the front at any time, killing multiple birds with one stone.

So far, a total of 12 of the 16 lifeboats on the Nicole and Pride have been used, and the number of personnel participating in the exploration has reached 36.

In addition to being equipped with powerful firearms and hand-to-hand sapper shovels, the participants were also well equipped with other protective equipment, including high-strength fully enclosed helmets commonly worn by old-world motorcycle racers, jackets with fully sealed zippers, armed belts, thick canvas work pants, and cowhide shoes that are usually worn by geological teams when they go out into the field.

Of course, there are other wilderness survival gear, from military bottles, Swiss Army knives, stoves to telescope lighters and more.

Up to now, Li Sanduo doesn't have to worry about these things, and now it's not the first time for everyone to engage in field exploration, and everyone is very clear about these preparations.