No matter what kind of underground mine it is, whether it is a coal mine, an iron mine, or an aluminum mine where they are now, the tunnels of the underground mines are not places that a person is willing to enter.

Wet, cramped, turbid air, and a certain risk of explosion and collapse are clear to every mine worker before going down the tunnel.

You also have to change into clumsy and airtight overalls before you can ride the rail car into the depths of the tunnel.

Back and forth, still tired.

Why did this young section chief go down the tunnel as soon as he came?

Isn't this self-inflicted guilt?

What's more, it was the first morning of the first day.

Xu Mei couldn't figure it out.

But seeing that she didn't say anything, Zhong Bai looked at his watch again and reminded: "Mine Chief Xu, it's 8:25, isn't your mine going to be productive today?" ”

Originally, Xu Mei, as the mine manager of the sub-mine, naturally didn't need to go to the pit every day, basically once or twice a month at most, but Zhong Bai, a member of the supervision team, offered to go down, and she couldn't stay on the ground as a mine manager, right?

"Of course it's going to be produced!" So, when Zhong Bai asked like this, Xu Mei came back to her senses, thought about it, and unceremoniously straightened her chest, and said, "Since Section Chief Zhong wants to go down to the pit to check the actual situation, then I will go together!" ”

"Section Chief Zhong and Mine Chief Xu, you must pay attention to safety. Then I'll accompany Director He to check the information. Nie Mou finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this arrangement, if Xu Mei didn't say anything, it would really be impossible for the mine to let Zhong Bai go down alone, there must be a decent person to accompany him, right?

Xu Mei didn't say anything, nodded, and then asked Zhong Bai to change into work clothes.

A young worker found a set of work clothes with a similar body shape as Zhong Bai, and was going to teach the other party how to wear them first, but he didn't expect Zhong Bai to quickly get it himself, and the worker was a little surprised.

"Leader, didn't you say that you used to work in a fertilizer factory? Why are you proficient in our work clothes? Could it be that the fertilizer plant is also going to the mine? The young man asked stunned.

Zhong Bai smiled slightly and said, "Of course the fertilizer factory doesn't need to go down to the mine, let's go." ”

Of course, he wouldn't tell the young worker that in his previous life, he had been to the mine not eight times a year, but ten times, right?

Not to mention this kind of bauxite mine with the best safety, even some rare earth mines with extremely complex geological structures and high danger have also been underground!

Of course, this so-called "best safety" is relative, and Zhong Bai dared to do this last night after understanding the geological data of the No. 2 sub-mine in advance.

But it was obvious that when Zhong Bai sat on the rail car in the same way as other workers, the workers immediately became much more cordial to the young section chief sent by the provincial department.

If you can go down the pit together, you will be a proper hardcore worker!

This meaning is actually no less than carrying a gun together and sharing a window together!

After all, the mining work in the underground tunnel is dangerous, to put it mildly, as long as you go down, then everyone is a grasshopper on a boat, who can help you in the first time, can only be your workers, not people on the ground.

With the sound of the rail car "clanging", the light gradually dims after entering the tunnel.

For a long time, the geological exploration community generally believes that bauxite is distributed more than 150 meters underground, although Zhong Bai knows that Huaguo actually has deeper mineralization at a depth of 200 meters to 670 meters underground, but obviously, the underground bauxite mine in Heyuan City is not that type.

The current mining area of No. 2 Mine has been 130 meters underground, which is also 70% of the depth that No. 2 Mine has explored, which is not shallow in the whole country.

Under the dim light of the miner's lamp, after passing through one bend after another, a mining point appeared in front of me.

In the underground, everyone's voices will become quieter, this is because loud noises may cause some accidents, so Xu Mei pointed to the sectional flat alley in front of her, and whispered: "This is our main mining method at present, this point just collapsed last Thursday, you can see our pit wood consumption ......"

Zhong Bai clearly saw that behind the rake bucket and ordinary pillars, those dense and dense pillars were the "pit wood" used to support the balance of the ore falling point.

Judging from the above degree of newness, it is obvious that this batch of pit wood is not the same batch of products, there are new and old, and the specifications are slightly different.

Zhong Bai immediately noticed that it seemed that the mine did consume a lot of pit wood.

"The five pit logs in front should have been transferred from other sub-mines, or they were newly entered by the unit, right?" Zhong Bai turned his head and used the artificial mining light on his head to shine on the five pit woods he said: "Even the pit wood is not replaced in the same batch at one time, don't you know that there is a great risk in doing so?" ”

As soon as the so-called connoisseur spoke, he knew if there was any, and after listening to Zhong Bai's first sentence, he pointed out the hidden dangers in the current mining, Xu Mei couldn't help but feel empty, her body shook slightly, and she almost hit the rock wall without standing firm!

"Mine Chief Xu, be careful!" Or a worker next to him was quick-eyed, and immediately reached out and dragged her back, otherwise her head would have hit the sharp rock wall by more than 20 centimeters!

Of course, Xu Mei must have worn a helmet as required, and nothing would happen, but if she really hit it, it would be too embarrassing.

It just so happened that Xu Mei stood up straight in embarrassment, and accidentally made eye contact with Zhong Bai again.

Zhong Bai smiled slightly, and didn't say anything, but Xu Mei felt very unhappy, why was her luck so bad today?

But Zhong Bai didn't say anything, Xu Mei had to turn her head and blame the worker who pulled her: "Xiao Liu, what are you doing today, you just stepped on my foot!" ”

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry for the ...... of Mine Xu"

Xiao Liu Gang wanted to apologize, but was interrupted by Zhong Bai: "Is there a big steel tape measure?" Give me one. ”

"Oh, yes, lead you and wait." Xiao Liu immediately fumbled a few handfuls on his body, took out a large steel tape measure and handed it to Zhong Bai: "Huh." ”

Zhong Bai's move made Xu Mei feel more and more puzzled.

This is good, what do you want a steel tape measure to do?

But Zhong Bai didn't explain, but after pulling it open, he asked Xiao Liu to cooperate with him and re-measure the lengths, heights and some irregularities of the tunnel wall.

After a little mental calculation of these numbers, Zhong Bai has a spectrum!

"Alright, this trip was not in vain today." Zhong Bai turned his head to Xu Mei and said: "Your basic work is better than I imagined, but limited by objective conditions, there is no way to further increase production with traditional methods, you should change your thinking." ”

"What? Section Chief Zhong, what is the change of thinking? "The second monk Xu Mei was puzzled.

Zhong Bai didn't explain, just stuffed the big steel tape measure back into Xiao Liu, and said to Xu Mei: "We can go back to the ground first, so as not to delay the normal work of the workers today." ”