The gold placer deposits in Milong Valley are by no means the work of the gods, and they appear here out of thin air.

It exists in this place, and there must be a basis for its existence.

Xu Xin didn't go back to Xingfu City that night, and stayed in the Milong Valley Mine, and Qian Duoduo also stayed in the mine.

Bai Yifei often worked and lived in the mine for several months, and it was not a problem to arrange the living of several of them.

Early the next morning, Xu Xin shouted Qian Duoduo, put on his backpack, and began to enter the mountain with the necessary dry food, pure water, and some equipment needed for geological work.

When he found the placer gold deposit in Milong Valley before, he came from the southwest of Milong Valley and walked through the northeast twice, so there is no need to continue running in these two areas.

They walked along the east side today, because there was a road on this side, and they walked about twenty kilometers away from the Milong Valley gold mine in one day, and when they reached the far end, they did not find any evidence of the existence of the gold mine.

The next day, I walked south and the situation was similar, but probably due to the influence of the upper reaches of the Lao Huang River, this area, the surface of the land was more or less gold-content, but there were no too prominent points. In order to completely rule out the possibility of this area, they ran in this direction for two more days in a row, and found nothing, so they gave up.

On the fifth day, they began to run northwest of the Lost Dragon Valley Gold Mine.

This was the beginning of their misery, as they walked northwest along the Mirdragon Valley Gold Mine, which began with a gentle slope that stretched several kilometers upwards, and then steeply increased into a steep mountain range.

Rockfalls accumulate on the ground, making it difficult to travel.

In front of them was a barbed wire fence that stretched halfway up the mountain, blocking the occasional tumble of rubble from it.

"Why don't we go back?"

Halfway up the mountain, Qian Duoduo was so tired that he was on the ground and didn't want to get up.

He had a notebook and a pen in his hand, and when he saw the exposed bedrock, he would record it casually.

After following Xu Xin for a period of field work, he has become proficient in this set of processes, but he is often still unsure of his mind about the identification of various lithologies.

"You look at the rocks in one place, and you don't see the bedrock outcrops all the way, it's all rubble floating on the surface, and you can't tell the geological situation at all."

For most of the day, he didn't record a single point, it was really a gravel all over the hillside, all rolled down from the mountain, not just accumulated over many years.

"Go around and take a look at the above, it took us thirty or forty million to clean up this dangerous rock mass above."

Xu Xin had heard Bai Yifei talk about this dangerous rock mass before, and he was also at the foot of the mountain, several kilometers away, looking up at the huge stone on the top of the mountain that had split in half.

From a distance, I don't feel like that.

When you reach the bottom of the huge dangerous rock mass at the top of the mountain, you can feel the magic of nature.

Standing under the stones, there is a strong sense of oppression, as if the stones above the head will roll down at any time and crush people into flesh.

"Isn't this the exposed bedrock?"

Xu Xin pointed to the stone above his head, like a high-rise building, "Is this limestone or dolomite?" ”

"Dolomite." Qian Duoduo said uncertainly.

"That's right."

Xu Xin bypassed the huge stone, walked to the crack in the middle, looked up, and saw a magnificent landscape in the sky.

"Huh?"

He looked down at the soles of his feet, where trees were growing tenaciously between the cracks, and in addition to that, he could see the difference in lithology on the ground.

"No, the rock is shattered, it doesn't look normal."

He pulled out the topographic and geological map from his backpack and carefully compared the reality with the situation on the topographic map.

"On the topographic and geological map, there is no fault in this place, am I mistaken?"

"What's wrong?" Qian Duoduo leaned over, looked at the dense terrain and geological map, and suddenly felt dizzy.

"Let's go and look further northwest into the deep valley."

Xu Xin suddenly became interested, packed up his things, and urged Qian Duoduo to hurry up and continue to cross the mountains.

Along the way to the higher valleys, most of the ground is covered with vegetation, but occasionally you can see fracture zones on the outcropping bedrock, in which the lithology is not only breccia, but also some siliceous rocks, quartz, etc.

At both ends of the fracture zone, lithologic surprises are becoming more and more apparent.

"The tendency is almost due north, go north and see."

Xu Xin compared the topographic and geological map, and at the same time looked at the stratigraphic analysis horizon, changed the direction, and walked in the direction of almost due north.

It's just that the mountain road is difficult, and the road is difficult, but he's okay, mainly because Qian Duoduo basically uses both hands and feet.

Turning over a ridge, Xu Xin suddenly showed a hint of a smile, "What do you see ahead?" ”

Qian Duoduo's way of climbing finally turned over the high point and looked ahead, but his view was blocked by the larger mountain.

In this area, the mountains are towering, and the valleys are deep, and the terrain is very undulating.

This is still in the territory of Xingfu City, next to Deyun City, and is already on the edge of the 100,000 Mountains in the east of Heijin Province.

"I saw the stone on the other side, probably also dolomite or limestone." He gasped and analyzed.

"No, I saw a dazzling golden light." Xu Xin said meaningfully.

In his sight, within a depth of five hundred meters underground, all the gold mines were nowhere to hide.

Qian Duoduo turned around, facing the west, the sun was setting, and the golden light was ten thousand ways, as if the Buddha's light was shining on the earth, and it was extremely holy.

"This Nima is quite glaring." He looked at the sky for a while, and his eyes were a little unbearable.

Sure enough, it was a dazzling golden light, and the sunset was infinitely better.

"Let's go, go back, or you'll starve for the night in the mountains." Xu Xin packed up his things and threw them all into his bag.

The journey back down the mountain is still difficult and dangerous.

"After running in the wild for so many days, have you gained anything?" Xu Xin asked.

Finally back on the gentler slopes, it was getting darker and the evening breeze was getting a little cooler.

"Yes," Qian Duoduo's tense nerves finally relaxed, "I feel that the flesh on my body is ten pounds less." ”

"Huge catch!" Xu Xin laughed, "Let's go to Teacher Bai again, and you will be able to raise your head for this harvest." ”

In this mountain field, except for the two of them, there is no one who can laugh out loud at will, without caring about the eyes of others, or being called crazy.

Qian Duoduo also became happy, "After the run, I feel that the paper has a direction, so I will write about the geological situation and briefly analyze the cause of mineralization, which is almost over." ”

"That's a double blessing!"

As soon as he returned to his residence, Bai Yifei came out to greet him as always, "Did you find anything today?" ”

He thought it was very strange that Xu Xin took Qian Duoduo to scare away all over the mountains, and he didn't know if it was out of fun climbing the mountain, or if he really went out to work.

"I went to the mountains and made a great discovery."

Xu Xin took out a touch of water from the room, tilted his head and poured it into his stomach.

"What discovery?" Bai Yi was not smiling, and he didn't think that the two of them would be able to discover gold mines after a few days of field work.

Looking for a gold mine, it is really a matter of learning from the West, and experiencing nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties.

It is difficult for individual people to find, and it is usually the team that has gone through a long investigation work.

Of course, there are a few people who are really lucky and can accidentally find the dog's head gold on the ground.

Xu Xin finally quenched his thirst, threw the backpack on his back to the ground, and pulled out a crumpled and dusty topographic and geological map and spread it on the ground.

Then a dim light pointed at the fault above.

Before he could speak, Qian Duoduo squatted down and said, "We found a fault in this place. ”

"Huh?" Bai Yifei squinted his eyes and looked carefully in the direction of Qian Duoduo's finger, "This place, there are no faults on the topographic map." ”

Faults are generally marked with red lines on topographic maps, which are very conspicuous.

"It is true that the fault passed through here, and the dangerous rock mass on the top of the mountain was probably formed by the influence of the fault." Xu Xin said very firmly.

Bai Yifei thought about it and quickly figured out the reason, "In the past, when I did surface work, it was basically impossible to run through every piece of land, like this kind of fault, to find two points at both ends, either draw a straight line, or according to the changes in the terrain, there are twists and turns."

Each fault, so to speak, is speculative, and there will definitely be some deviations from the actual situation in the middle.

This is normal and doesn't say anything. ”

"Yes," Xu Xin nodded, pointing to the north of the recalibrated fault, "This fault tends to be almost due north, we went along this valley and found ...... in these places."

As he spoke, the phone rang suddenly.

Xu Xin picked up his mobile phone and saw that it was Wu Chuchu's phone, and hurriedly connected it.

"Xu Xin, are you on the Misty Dragon Valley mine?" Her voice is always pleasant.

"yes, what's wrong?"

"People from the Bureau of Culture and Tourism came over today, saying that they were going to prepare for the May Day and asked our company to donate, and I think you need to make a decision on this matter."

"Donate? Is the amount high? ”

"See how much you're willing to give, if you're free tomorrow, come back and talk in person, and I'll call someone from the Bureau of Culture and Tourism over again."

"Okay, see you tomorrow."

Xu Xin hung up the phone, thought about it, and inevitably had some different emotions in his heart.

I have always heard that mining companies are going to face various taxes, and sure enough, in addition to hard taxes, unwritten taxes are also coming.

"Dinner is ready, Mr. Bai, it's time to eat!" Someone shouted at the door of the cafeteria.

"Okay, here!"

Bai Yifei shouted with a smile, and then folded the topographic and geological map on the ground, "You two have been running for a day, you are tired enough, look at the dust on Qian Duoduo's face, go wash your hands, wash your face, and eat first." ”

Xu Xin took the folded topographic and geological map, and originally wanted to explain a lot of things to Bai Yifei that only he saw, but he ended up at the hotel.

It seems that this matter has to wait for a trip to the company, and then come back to explain it to Bai Yifei.

After a day of running on the mountain road, the whole body was sore, and the energy in the body was almost drained, and the dinner on the mine became even more delicious.

The hot dry pot beef, served with white radish, is very good with rice.