Xu Xin had already opened the horizon of stratigraphic analysis, and his gaze continued to extend downward, penetrating the dark and deep earth.

Quaternary floating soil......

Mudstone......

Dolomite......

Breccia......

Siliceous rocks......

silty mudstone ......

The stratigraphy is clearly layered, except for the staggered strata above and below the fracture zone, which is caused by faults, which is not surprising.

A closer look at the lithology of the fracture zone reveals that in the breccia, quartz veins can also be discerned.

They had already left the Lost Dragon Valley, following the eighty-degree strike of the fault, thinking about going northeast over the mountains.

Along the road, you can see the trenching and pit exploration projects dug by the exploration work on the fault.

The technicians of the Laohuangjiang Gold Exploration Project have done a lot of work, in addition to surface work, as well as drilling works.

After traversing a large area of wilderness, they finally made their way onto a concrete road.

"There's not much need to go forward." Yan Peng said this, not because most of the people were panting like cattle, but because they continued to move forward in the northeast direction, they had also done work, and there was not much difference from what they saw along the road just now.

"Walking in the direction of the runoff of the Laohuang River bed, we can't find the characteristics of ore-seeking, and the same is true for doing work along the tectonic trend."

Xu Xin opened the stratigraphic analysis horizon along the road, and within a depth of 500 meters, as far as the line of sight could see, there was indeed no area with relatively high gold content.

"In the past, some people often said that prospecting is all about luck, and I don't think it's completely unreasonable." Someone shouted half-jokingly.

"There is a saying that no structure is not a gold mine, but let's follow the structure and find nothing."

"The primary gold deposit was probably on the surface before, and it was weathered and leached to form the Mirlong Valley placer gold deposit. After recent exploration work, we all believe that the Milong Valley gold mine is the last remnant. ”

A few technicians, stubbornly maintaining their dignity.

When they say this, they just want to prove that it is not that their technology is not up to par and they can't find mines, but that there are indeed no mines underground.

Yan Peng stretched out his hand to stop the argument of his subordinates, "Xu Xin, tell me, have you found anything?" ”

They have seen surface engineering, and they have also seen the core of the borehole along the way, and with his many years of prospecting experience, he has not found much valuable clue.

It depends on whether Xu Xin's bright eyes can find something.

The prospecting work is basically like this, and all the methods that can be used are basically used.

"Just a glance, it can't be said that there is no harvest, at least we rule out the possibility of gold primary ore in this area." Xu Xin could only say euphemistically.

They had just stopped to rest for a while when several cars came down the country concrete road and stopped on the side of the road.

Zuo Jing and a fat employee of Azure Mining got out of the car.

"How, did you find it?" Zuo Jing followed for a while at first, but finally gave up completely, returned along the road, and called for the car to pick them up, knowing that someone had called just now, so he rushed over in the car.

"And just like that, I didn't find anything new." The technician of Azure Mining hurriedly reported to Zuo Jing.

"Don't be in a hurry, come over on the first day, it's still a long time after that, do your work slowly, don't be in a hurry."

Zuo Jing was very generous in front of Xu Xin.

Everyone walked for most of the day, and they were really tired, sweating profusely.

They got into the car and walked back.

Bai Yifei saw Xu Xin sitting next to him without saying a word, thinking that he was too lost, and hurriedly comforted: "Even if you lose the bet, the most you will pay is one million."

The Milong Valley Gold Mine makes a profit of one or two million per month, and the compensation is worth a little money.

Everyone has a time when they look away, and the occasional small setback is a huge driving force for future progress!

Don't be discouraged! ”

The VAM agreement signed by Xu Xin and Azure Mining is now lying in the safe of the mining office building in the book, and he has read it and clearly remembers the terms of it.

It can be said that if a large rock gold deposit can be found, the mining in the book can obtain the exclusive right to purchase the gold concentrate produced by the mine for 30 years, and the profit in this can be more lucrative than the mining stage!

Even if it's not a large deposit, a medium-sized deposit is a big deal.

After reading the contract, he had an impulse to increase capital investment and help Xu Xin win the VAM agreement.

Prospecting is not all about luck, and sometimes luck does matter.

"I'm fine." Xu Xin blinked his eyes and stared at the system panel intently, which was indeed quite distracting.

The reason why he seemed to be in a state of mind all the way just now was not because he was depressed because of the setbacks, but because he was just observing the profiles he had collected along the way.

Within the horizon of stratigraphic analysis, I walked all day and drew a narrow profile, which was hurried, and some details needed to be slowly checked later.

After carefully reviewing the profile within the horizon of stratigraphic analysis three times, I came to the conclusion that there really was no gold in this place.

In each formation, the gold content is almost zero.

In addition to walking along the tectonic direction today, he also walked more than 100 kilometers upstream along the riverbed of the Lao Huang River, exactly the same as what he saw today, the farther away from the Milong Valley, the gold content in the rock formation became lower and lower, or even zero.

From this point of view, there were no errors or omissions in the investigation work done by Yan Peng and others.

Did the Misty Valley placer gold deposit appear out of thin air?

It's impossible, what went wrong?

Qian Duoduo had a headache for the paper, and today he came out to run for a day in the field with back pain, full of complaints, he turned his head from the co-pilot and complained: "If you want me to read, you are just eating in the bowl and looking at the pot, there is so much gold in the gold mine in Milong Valley, it is the assets of the two of you, you don't look for gold mines there, you go to look for gold mines dozens of kilometers away, isn't it nothing to look for?" ”

Hearing this, Xu Xin woke up and muttered, "Yes, what you said is very reasonable." ”

"Really?" Qian Duoduo laughed, "You know me best, if we want to find mines, just dig stones in the gold mine in Milong Valley, what are you going to do so far." ”

As he spoke, he turned around again and shook his eyebrows at Xu Xin, "Let's buy some fruit another day, bring the computer over, and find gold mines while playing games, how happy, isn't it?"

Mountain climbing? Tired and boring. ”

"No, no, no......"

Xu Xin stretched out his hand and pinched the thick flesh on Qian Duoduo's shoulders, "You are simply a lucky star!" ”

Seeing Xu Xin's depressed mood just now, and now his eyes were shining, Bai Yi couldn't help but feel curious, "What inspiration did you get from Qian Duoduo?" ”

"Not really, but I think Qian Duoduo is right." Xu Xin laughed.

In fact, he just figured it out, since there are placer gold deposits in Milong Valley, and there are no gold mines in a large area to the northeast along the Laohuang River, there is no need to worry about where to be entangled.

If you spend a lot of time running around the mountains and wilderness, I'm afraid it will be exactly the same as the situation that Yan Peng and the others are facing now, they have invested a lot of money and manpower, they can't find a mine, and they are reluctant to give up.

Xu Xin can see the underground more intuitively, just take a look at whether there is a mine or not, there is no need to dwell on success or failure.

Wave your sleeves, change directions, continue to use the stratigraphic analysis horizon, and go to other places to look for minerals.

Of course, it's not an aimless prospecting, but around the Milong Valley Gold Mine, walk around, maybe luck will come?