Diamonds, the most beautiful and expensive material and wealth that nature has given to human beings!

As the first person in charge of the entire management of the labor camp in Siberia, Beria is now very busy, and he will not spend a few days getting out of the never-ending work of his own office in Novosibirsk if it were not for something very important. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The work is tiring and complicated, but it is also in the "world", which is better than going to a wild area.

Beria was not easy, either, as a large number of ordinary laborers were drafted and Siberian forestry and mining production had been partially put under the responsibility of labor battalions, which doubled the pressure on him as a leader. After years in Siberia, he had adapted to the environment and could not usually stay in the comfort of his office, but now he was even more exhausted by the toss.

As for Moscow, it can be considered a fond memory of your free time.

But in some places he likes his current job - he is God in his own realm, and he can decide everything to be God! Here no one will argue with his decision, except for documents from Moscow, he does not need to report to anyone.

Some time ago, the arrival of a large number of "laborers" on the Belarusian front greatly increased the workload of the Labor Camp Administration, but it also alleviated the severe shortage of labor, otherwise the output of production projects that require heavy manual labor support may be affected, which is precisely necessary to sustain the war.

The assignment of a large number of fascist prisoners of war to different labor camps had not yet been done, and a serendipitous discovery at a forestry production site, nearly 100 kilometers south of Chernyshevsky, disrupted Beria's daily work.

It was originally a very small settlement called Mirny, mostly Yakuts, with a permanent population of less than 200, the size of a farm in the western region. Last year, the forestry department set up a small logging site there, but because of the inconvenient transportation and small scale, production stalled after the war began (because the small logging sites were either abolished, or the "old, weak, sick and disabled" who rarely looked at the equipment, and other personnel were replenished to the forestry production base, which was short of labor after the increase in troops). ）。

Last month, while a forestry worker was repairing a vegetable cellar, one of the workers stumbled upon several large blocks of rocks with shiny crystals in the weathered rock underneath, a few of which were as big as sand, but one of them was almost larger than a pigeon's egg.

Coincidentally, the old forestry worker named Yankovsky, who had been working as a glass cutting and installer for a while, had an extra eye: he smashed the stone to extract the crystals, found a piece of broken glass and tried it as a "glass cutting knife".

He didn't know about it, and he was "shocked" when he tried it—he suspected that the four or five shiny crystals he had stumbled upon might be diamonds!

Jankovsky immediately reported to the Mirny group with the consciousness of a Communist, and the members of the Party realized the importance of the discovery: because digging another 20 centimeters under the cellar was the same rock formation as those weathered stones, and there were also smaller crystals of the same kind that were occasionally distributed!

Not to mention the value of the yellowish crystal, which is bigger than a pigeon's egg and has no cracks, there may be a huge mineral deposit hidden in those rocks beneath your feet!

Out of secrecy, the three-man team did not make the discovery public in Mirny, but drove the plow for two days to Chernyshevsky to report to their superiors (there were no telephone lines in both places, and the radios were temporarily unavailable due to lack of spare parts). -- The mineral appraisers who arrived from Yakutsk a week later were almost uncontrollable with excitement holding the "huge" crystal!

The diamonds, including the pale yellow one and the other four small crystals, are real diamonds!

Immediately after receiving the report, the Mineral Management Bureau of the Sakha Autonomous Republic sent personnel to Chernyshevsky to disassemble the light drilling rig that could be taken out and transport it to Chernyshevsky by transport plane along with personnel and other equipment. Almost at the same time, with the help of crawling plows and cattle that could be gathered, the route from Chernyshevsky to Mirny was opened along the old forest passage.

After the huge diamond was sent to Yakutsk, the Red Army also sent personnel to the site of discovery together with the Mining Bureau.

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As soon as Beria stepped off the plane, the cold wind forced him to tighten his coat. "-40 degrees Celsius." After seeing the hot breath he exhaled instantly turn into a white mist, Belia unconsciously flashed this thought in his heart.

Cold, really cold! As far as the eye can see, there is a faint ice mist, and the people's hats are all condensed frost.

The discovery of the diamond mines disrupted Beria's daily routine, and Moscow asked him to visit: prisoners of war sent from the front were constantly providing labor for his department, and although several years of work in Siberia had taught him about this largely unexplored area, he had never liked the land as much as he hated the fascist prisoners of war.

If you don't like it, you have to come, because it's important.

Diamonds are so mysterious and alluring that some people will go crazy about them! By the forties of the 20th century, diamonds were not only accompanied by the mythical legends of the old times, the worship and fear of religious colors, but also the symbols of bravery, power, status and dignity; It is no longer as mysterious as in the old world, and it is not a treasure that only royalty and aristocrats can enjoy.

Diamonds are over-polished diamonds, and diamonds are a natural mineral, the rough of diamonds, but sometimes people don't subdivide the two: but in the case of war, this needs to be subdivided, because they are used in very different ways.

The war is in full swing, why spend so much effort digging some stones that can only be seen but not used? Even if this is a huge rich gold mine, it is very likely that the country will not develop it until after the war -- the United States is "in arrears" for military aid, and gold is basically useless, and it is not as useful for war as digging more iron ore and refining more steel that can make tanks and cannons.

"Diamonds", which are magnificent jewels, can be used in peacetime to obtain great wealth, including hard currency, and even wealth in its own right; And "diamond" is not a noblewoman's jewelry, it is an extremely important material to ensure that some of the "sophisticated" technologies of industrial production are essential for the war!

Diamond is the hardest substance in nature and has many important industrial uses, such as fine abrasive materials, high-hardness cutting tools, all kinds of drills, drawing dies, etc., and high-quality ones are used. And diamond is also used as a component of many precision instruments, although the Soviet Union's military industrial system is to strive for pragmatism, "just work", but the relative "high-precision" is also a lot, many places need industrial diamond!

And this "sophistication" is not necessarily the manufacture of precision instruments: glass knives have to be used (man-made diamonds do not yet exist). ）。

Judging from Mirny's findings, it is very likely that it is a diamond bonanza, and of course enough attention should be paid to it, because it will help win the war!

But even though the war "trivialized" the use of gem-quality diamonds (diamonds), the huge pale yellow diamond weighing 300 carats caused a small sensation in the Soviet top brass - in fact, Lin Jun, who went to Lithuania, had already seen it, "It's no problem to change a bunch of trucks." ”

Lin Jun's words are gossip, of course its value is huge, but the Soviet Union will not exchange it for American trucks.

The huge diamond also passed through Beria's hand, and he had seen the dazzling array of jewels and diamonds left behind by Tsarist Russia, who had entered the Kremlin's diamond vaults.

The crown of the Monomakh, the crown of Peter the Great, the great crown of Catherine II, and the huge "Orlov" diamond on the scepter, Beria have all seen. The unprocessed rough diamond found by the forestry workers is a diamond that a layman knows can be processed into a national treasure, although it is unlikely to surpass "Orlov", but it is exciting enough!

This time Beria's assistant also had three "red flags of labor" in his bag, which he was going to present to the three comrades who discovered diamonds, mineral deposits, and reported them in a timely manner - the discovery was forged by coincidence, coupled with Yankovsky's earnestness; But would a selfish person do that?

"Most of our comrades are good comrades!"

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The geological team immediately got to work as soon as they arrived in Mirny, drilled a drill rig, and made a dozen holes, and found that it was a huge kimberlite tube, porphyry structure and rich in coarse olivine, a typical diamond bonanza!

Even the drill core found tiny diamonds, which is obviously an excellent bonanza, and even more exciting news - the tube is more than a kilometer in diameter!

Economically valuable primary diamond deposits are produced in kimberlite barrels, which are generally less than 10,000 square meters, and although drilling has just begun, this is already exciting!

In the Chernyshevsky Municipal Party Committee (in the Sakha Autonomous Republic, a settlement of 3,000 people is 100% of the city. Beria listened to the latest briefing from the local leadership.

"Although drilling has just begun, from the current situation, it is a large-scale mining, and this diamond mine can be mined for at least 30 years!" Secretary of the Party Committee of the city of Chernyshevsky Salakov reported to Beria.

Now that the news of the discovery of the diamond mine has been strictly controlled, it belongs to the army and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the mining bureau has become a "miner", and there is not much to be done in the local area - Salakov is in charge of a "wild city", but this "wild city" is the closest big settlement to Mirny, which is an opportunity for both him and Chernyshevsky, and it is no wonder that he speaks with some excitement - more people have arrived here in a month or so than in more than 20 years of the overthrow of the Tsar combined!

This is a huge bonanza, if it can be mined on a large scale for more than 30 years, such a scale, not only will the Soviet Union use more than enough for its own use, but also export a large number of them, and the wealth and industrial efficiency it brings are unimaginable!

Diamonds, the most beautiful and expensive material and wealth that nature has given to human beings! (To be continued.) )