In the wilderness hills north of Lviv, a sweaty procession with mules and horses marched among them.

In the fields of early spring, people can walk profusely sweating, and it seems that they have traveled a long way. Judging by the fact that they were wearing sturdy, thick cloth clothes with a lot of wear and tear, and their skin was coarse and reddish, these people must have been in the wild a lot.

The mules immediately dragged a lot of equipment, such as turning machines, shovels, rulers, shovels, tents, etc., and from these equipment they were a geological exploration team. They are exploring the northern regions of Lviv.

After crossing a river, one of the members at the front of the group walked to the middle and started talking to a middle-aged man in his forties.

"Captain Dolev, the guide said that the mountain in front of you is the C3 area marked on the map, and as long as the sampling and survey here is completed, we will only have the last C5 area further north, and our exploration work will be over."

"It's almost here, let's work harder and try to get there as soon as possible to set up camp, I want to go back early and sleep in a comfortable bed. At least there are no animals to disturb your rest. ”

Captain Dolev asked everyone to speed up their pace, and by the way, to boost everyone's fighting spirit. At the urging of the captain, the members of the exploration team involuntarily accelerated their pace.

Yes, it is the wish of everyone on the exploration team to go home early after finishing their work, even Dolloff, who has been in this business for almost 20 years.

In the eyes of outsiders, the exploration team is a noble and hard job. They climbed mountains and waded through various regions, searching for buried resources in the mountains and wilderness, providing ample impetus for Romania's economic development. In Doleff's view, hard work can be said to be noble, and the sourness of climbing mountains and wading through rivers all year round is not enough to tell outsiders.

What's even more uncomfortable is that when you do geological exploration all year round, there are basically problems in your body, such as arthritis and stomach diseases, which are almost everyone. Especially after retirement, the torture is very uncomfortable. Several of his previous captains were due to various diseases, and they now need help from others in their lives.

But fortunately, this time I only explored the hilly areas, such as the Carpathian Mountains, and many of them can be said to have a very poor living environment.

After crossing this low hillside, a barren mountain appeared before them, and there was not even a hunter's hut.

"Bring the guide here, you guys find a place to settle down first, and we'll take a break and explore the area."

As the captain, Dolev immediately instructed the team. So under his guidance, the team immediately found a leeward col and prepared to set up a temporary camp.

And the guide they invited, a local hunter named Liefort, walked up to him. "Captain, you're looking for me."

"Yes, Liefort."

Pointing to the mountain in front of him, Dolev asked, "Have you ever been here as a hunter?" ”

"I've tracked down prey before."

"Is there any vegetation in this area that is different from other areas?"

There's a reason why Dolloff asks, because there are many mineral areas that have different vegetation changes. For example, if there is iron ore in the area, it should be iron-loving plants that grow well, such as alfalfa, satawang, oriental cypress, dogtail grass, sandy cypress and other plants will grow more luxuriant than other areas.

And if there are copper resources in the area, then plants such as Nulou cabbage and broad-leaved herb will appear in a large area. This is also the basic knowledge of their exploration team, which preliminarily determines whether there are any minerals in the area from the distribution of plants. However, there are still many minerals that are not clearly vegetatively marked, which requires them to take samples from the area for analysis.

"This ...... I didn't think it was any different from other plants. ”

In the face of Dolloff's inquiry, the hunter Liefort thought about it for a long time and didn't come up with a difference.

"Okay, thank you Liefort."

Dolev was not discouraged by the lack of clues from the guide, this was the norm in the investigation work. On the contrary, mineral resources with obvious associated plants are really a minority, and he has only gotten clues from the local population once after so many years of investigation.

It was in a small village in the Carpathian Mountains called Liroko, and the local population knew that the iron mango was quite luxuriant. And the iron mangji is a gold mine companion plant, and he really found a small gold mine there, for which he and his team were rewarded with 10,000 lei.

The exploration team has been working in the field all year round, so they set up temporary camps very quickly, unloading the equipment and tents in a short time, and also building them with local materials. After all, it's just a temporary resting place, so there's no need to be too particular. And when the construction was almost done, Dolev immediately assigned tasks to everyone.

"Chezar, Koman, Diana, you three go east and probe first. Emir, Jeru, and Hull, go to the north. Hull, Albin, and I, go west and have a look, while the others fix up at the camp. ”

The team members who were assigned to the task replied, "Okay, captain"

After Dolliff finished assigning the task, he took a compass, a shovel and a rope and followed Hull and Albin, and chose the east to advance. He wanted to take advantage of the fact that it was still early to probe around the camp first.

The area has always been deserted, making it difficult for the trio to make their way forward, and they all try to choose areas with less vegetation along the way.

After coming to an open field, Dolev looked at the exposed geological rock formations around him and said, "Look at the exposed rock formations over there that look like they are from the Carboniferous, let's go and see if we find anything." ”

"Okay."

The two immediately followed the captain's footsteps. Romania's current coal mines are from the Carboniferous period, so they plan to look at the Carboniferous geology first. It needs to be mentioned here that the current famous coal mines in the Ruhr area come from the Permian strata, and the coal mines everywhere in Shanxi in later generations also come from the Carboniferous strata.

The three of them came to the edge of the rock formation, picked up their shovels and began to dig.

Geological exploration is simply to choose a place and dig it to see if there are minerals, of course, this is a joke. The exploration work is very detailed, and many of the tasks require the cooperation of instruments, and they are only planning to take a preliminary look at the geological structure of the area.

All three of them worked in the field all year round, and soon dug a pit more than one meter deep.

Team member Hull looked at the geological composition and said, "Captain, it seems that the geological structure of this area is no different from other places. ”

"Seems so."

Dolev also stopped and looked.

"Why don't we stop and try somewhere else?"

In the face of the team's inquiry, Dolev thought for a while and said: "If you don't dig half a meter anymore, you won't find anything in the pit that is just over one meter." ”

"Okay."

Then the trio began to dig, and seeing that the sun was about to descend on the side of the mountain, the exploration work was about to be finished.

"Hey"

Doluff dug a catalpa and was going to call it a day, but it didn't seem any different at the moment, when the shovel brought out some black particles.

"Huh"

Dolev reached for his shovel and picked up one of the black particles and looked at it.

"It's coal."

After years of geological exploration work, he recognized it as coal at a glance.

"Let's dig down and see what kind of coal this is."

The coal particles found did not attract much attention from Dolloff, because he basically found coal when he explored everywhere. It's just that the vast majority of them are lean and lean coal with no mining value, and these coals are not only of poor quality, but also the coal seams are generally less than half a meter, which has no utilization value at all.

As the three of them excavated, the coal here gradually revealed its true face. It was a hard, dense and high-gloss anthracite, and in the days that followed, they found that the seams were also quite thick, generally between 2 and 4 meters, and the area was not small.

Subsequently, they reported the news of C3's discovery of a coal mine with large reserves to their superiors. The lack of coal and iron has long plagued Romania, and the discovery of an anthracite mine immediately prompted the government to send a larger exploration team with the most advanced equipment to scout the area. It was eventually discovered that the area was a large coal mine. The total stock reached 5.3 billion tons, and 1.8 billion tons were convenient for open-pit mining, including 2.12 billion tons of anthracite, 1.82 billion tons of bituminous coal and 1.38 billion tons of lignite.

They reported to Bucharest the place where the coal mine was discovered, and recently a small village called Sokal named the mine. The next mining of this coal mine will require the necessary transportation, and now Mayor Dove Ritch finally has no worries about the funds.