For Wu Zhuoye's trust and expectation, Xu Xin felt a lot of pressure.

The leaders are gone, and everyone in the project department is still in place, but now the work is basically stagnant, and everyone is sorting out the materials indoors.

Yan Peng was still sitting in the conference room, with a lot of information on the table, looking down and wondering what to do.

After lunch, Xu Xin rested for a while, and after finding Yan Peng in the conference room, he pulled a chair, sat aside, and asked, "Senior, what are you studying?" ”

"Look at the list of chemical analysis of water samples I got yesterday."

Yan Peng turned his head and habitually pushed his eyes on the bridge of his nose, "The leader's inspection is over, why are you still staying here, according to your habits, it's time to go back to the city." ”

"Senior, I'm embarrassed about what you said."

Xu Xin glanced at the desktop, quickly found the "Project Phased Summary Report", picked it up and turned to the last page, and asked: "When you sent me the electronic version before, I wondered, you spent a lot of space in the last section here, indicating that this project still has great prospecting potential.

I'm curious, where is the potential? ”

Speaking of this, Yan Peng put down the work at hand, carefully glanced at the information in Xu Xin's hand, and sighed slightly: "What you said, this is what I specially instructed Xiao Yang to read and write, and analyze the prospect and direction of prospecting in the next step." If you look at the previous chapter, the part of reserve calculation, there are not many words.

As you have just seen, the leader looks at the data, which is basically a glance at the data of reserves, and no one will have so much patience to look at the part that we deliberately emphasize in the latter part.

That is, you, like us, are still lucky. ”

"It can't be considered a fluke, I look at the prospecting directions listed above, which is very inspiring."

Yan Peng smiled, threw the report on the table, turned his head to look at Xu Xin's eyes, and explained: "The content written in the book is written about physical and chemical exploration and geological structure, and I try to prove that there are bigger deposits underground. In fact, the reason is very far-fetched, and we are not sure of it ourselves. ”

"No one dares to be sure of such a thing as prospecting." Xu Xin expressed his understanding.

Yan Peng pointed to Xu Xin's chest, "The so-called prospecting potential must be better than me in my heart." ”

Clear what?

Xu Xin was confused, and couldn't figure it out for a while.

Yan Peng didn't sell it, and continued to explain: "If you think about it, the placer gold deposit in Milong Valley is the primary mine in the ravine behind Wangjiazhai, which has been washed by surface water for many years and flows into the Laohuang River.

However, we can no longer find the primary deposits in the ravine behind the mountain. In other words, many years ago, there was a high-grade and huge primary gold mine on the surface, which was exposed to the ground.

If you think about it, just the Mislong Valley placer gold deposit can find nine tons of reserves, if you add the placer gold in the lower reaches of Heshan County, how huge the overall scale is!

In the past, on the ground, it was very likely that there was a large gold deposit, or even a very large gold deposit! ”

Xu Xin agrees with various theories.

After finding the gold placer deposit in Milong Valley, he also guessed that there must be a larger primary ore upstream of the Laohuangjiang riverbed site.

A lot of people think this way, too.

However, judging from the current prospecting results of this project, it did not meet everyone's expectations.

"I have reservations about Dr. Fang's prediction of the prospects for this project this morning."

Yan Peng didn't agree with Fang Xingyuan's words, but he didn't refute it in person, "I recently studied the data of the Milong Valley placer gold mine exploration project, and I can basically conclude that the source of this placer gold deposit must be a quartz vein-type gold mine.

There have been many rich minerals in quartz vein gold mines, but they may not necessarily be small-scale! ”

"It's a bold idea." Xu Xin didn't expect Yan Peng to think like this.

Yan Peng smiled self-deprecatingly, "Imagine boldly and be cautious." ”

"According to you, if the project goes ahead, which area is most likely to be mineralized?" Xu Xin asked the question he was concerned about.

The project area is actually very large, and the area where the drilling program is currently carried out is not large, mainly around the composite of the two fault zones, as well as the shallow areas of the fault zone.

Yan Peng didn't hesitate at all about this question, pulled a project layout drawing, and casually drew five circles on it, "These areas are all possible." ”

"Why?" Xu Xin took a look, and the five areas circled out casually did not have any rules at all.

"There's a lot of pyrite found in these places."

"How?" Xu Xin's mind was full of confusion.

"In the few ore bodies we have discovered, there is a pattern, the surrounding rock around the ore body is wrapped in a layer of pyrite. This is also related to the origin of the ore body. ”

"Okay."

Xu Xin found a pencil, marked it with a pencil where Yan Peng had drawn a circle just now, and then folded the project layout neatly and put it in his backpack.

"Why did you take the diagram away?" Yan Peng couldn't see Xu Xin's operation.

"Borrow it for a few days."

Xu Xin smiled, then lowered his head and continued to look at the other materials in the conference room, and read all the information related to the five prospecting target areas, and he was able to take them away, and put them into his backpack.

Early the next morning, after breakfast, he told Yan Peng that he wanted to go to the field site to have a look, and arranged for one or two technicians to follow him.

Unexpectedly, Fang Xingyuan actually volunteered to run away with Xu Xin.

Xu Xin was not polite, threw the dry food prepared in the kitchen to Fang Xingyuan, and climbed up the back mountain.

When you reach the top of the mountain, you can see the valley that leads to the Valley of the Dragon.

Today they did not forget to go in the direction of the east, along the ridge, to the north, into the compound between the two faults, which is the focus of the work.

Xu Xin opened the horizon of stratigraphic analysis along the road, looked at the ground, penetrated layer by layer, and saw the deep underground 600 meters:

Quaternary floating soil......

Mudstone......

Dolomite......

Siliceous rocks......

silty mudstone ......

Breccia......

Granite......

Dolomite......

Each layer, according to the old and new age, is layered on top of each other at a time.

It is in the area of the fault zone that the dislocation occurs.

And within the fault zone, the lithology becomes more complex.

Near noon, the two of them were munching on dry food in the shade of a tree.

Fang Xingyuan ate two bites of slightly sweet head, it was too dry, and after walking for most of the day, he really had no appetite, leaning on the trunk of the tree, he saw Xu Xin eating with relish, "I can't see that a billionaire like you can still endure such bitterness." ”

"If I want to say that, I really admire Dr. Fang's noble character of hard-working and hard-working." Xu Xin didn't know who had heard of anyone say that many highly educated talents came to the local area, and their theories were set and their practical skills were almost zero, and even in the wild, they couldn't even distinguish the basic lithology.

After half a day of getting along, Xu Xin has a deep admiration for the person of Fang Xingyuan, and along the way, Fang Xingyuan can often identify the different strata at a glance, and even deduce which age the stratum was formed, and then deduce the cause of the formation of the rock stratum.

Along the way, Xu Xin listened to the book of heaven for a long time anyway.

"You said you don't look at the surface engineering, you don't go to the places where the fault surface is exposed, you run around the mountains and fields, and you keep looking at the ground, don't tell me that you are looking for gold." Fang Xingyuan was full of confusion, and walked down for a long time, unable to see anything.

Those who really understand this work can see at a glance that it is obvious that Xu Xin is running blindly.

Looking for a mine, that's not how it works!

If there is really a gold mine under their feet, according to the fault occurrence, it is also in the fault zone five or six hundred meters underground.

There is no other way but to go to the drilling project.

If you want to find gold at the surface, you need to be exposed in the fault zone, and the gold vein is right on the surface.

Prospecting here is clearly against conventional practice.

He didn't know, in fact, Xu Xin's eyes, the drilling project was still effective, and he could read the gold content in the underground rock formation without chemical analysis!

Xu Xin smirked, "I'm just looking for a gold mine, but in a different way." ”

As he spoke, he finished eating two full heads and a bag of pickles, stood up and patted his buttocks, "Dr. Fang, can you still go?" ”

"What's not to do, I want to see how you find gold!" Fang Xingyuan was competing in his heart, since Xu Xin was seriously looking for clues to the gold mine, there was no reason why he should not be serious.

The two of them just roamed the mountains and ran for three days.

After Xu Xin announced that his work was over, Yan Peng also arranged a special meeting to convene all the project technicians to come over and listen to what Xu Xin and Fang Xingyuan had gained in the past few days.

"Dr. Fang, tell me about your harvest first." Yan Peng said with a smile.

"I ate dry food for two days, and I really deeply experienced the hard work in the field." Fang Xingyuan spoke, looking like he was complaining, but in fact he was not, "For me, after three days of field work, I saw many rocks mentioned in books, and the theory and practice are indeed different. The actual geology of the field is much more complicated than that described in the original books. ”

This means that you have improved, and it is also a kind of gain.

For the advancement of the project, there is not much significance.

Yan Peng heard it, "Okay, is there anything else?" ”

"I'll just say so much, see what Xu Xin says, after all, I'm responsible for the three days of field work." Fang Xingyuan still doesn't know what Xu Xin is looking for.

If it is said that the mountains are all over the mountains looking for dog head gold, it is obvious that Xu Xin is walking the wrong route.

If you want to find dog's head gold, it is not suitable in the barren mountains, it is better to be in the area where there may be placer mines on the river beach.

However, according to Xu Xin's current identity, there is no reason to use such a means of making money.

Xu Xin had already taken out the project layout drawing that had been crumpled and covered with dirt and blades of grass from his backpack, spread the drawing on the conference table, pointed to a circle drawn a few days ago and said, "I think this place needs to be drilled." ”

"Why?" Fang Xingyuan looked carefully at the area of Xu Xin's fingers, he had also been there, except for stones and trees, there were no prospecting characteristics.

Yan Peng thought about it carefully, but he didn't see anything special about this area, "Is there anything to say?" ”

"There is no specific word."

Xu Xin couldn't say clearly.

He used the stratigraphic analysis horizon to see through the strata at a depth of 600 meters.

In the area of his finger, within the fault zone, nearly six hundred meters underground, he saw veins with high gold content.

As far as his eye could see, the average gold content of the veins was over 5 grams per tonne!

Of course, like several of the gold bodies they have discovered, the veins are pod-shaped and gradually moving deeper.

He only saw a small part of the ore body at the top, and it was uncertain how large the underground ore body was.

Regardless of the scale of the final discovery, with the current known grades of more than 5 grams per tonne gold, this is a very good prospecting characteristic.

It's worth a fight, the bike becomes a motorcycle!

Of course, if you want to completely determine the size of the ore body in this area, you must drill down a lot of deep holes, and how to decide it later depends on the research of Azure Mining.

Compared to several other areas, there is almost no gold underground, and this prospecting target is a very good occurrence of mineralization.

Seeing Xu Xin's firm eyes, Yan Peng asked again: "If you make a judgment based on your feelings, tell us about the origin of this feeling." ”

"You said that there may be a large amount of pyrite in this subterranean area, and I have also looked at the chemical analysis of your water samples, and the surface water in this area, as well as the sampling and analysis of the outflow of groundwater in the lower part of the area, is generally very high in indicator mineral elements such as mercury and lead. In my opinion, it is necessary to give it a try. ”

Xu Xin looked relaxed, "It doesn't cost much to make an exploration hole." ”

Yan Peng glanced at the occurrence on the map, calculated a little, and knew in his heart, "This place, through the fault zone, must be six or seven hundred meters, and a hole is hundreds of thousands, not cheap." ”

"I told Zuo Jing that it cost tens of millions, and I don't believe he would be stingy with these hundreds of thousands of exploration fees." Xu Xin swore an oath.

Yan Peng looked at Xu Xin's still firm eyes, thinking that it was probably Xu Xin who came forward to fight with Azure Mining and Wu Zhuoye to carry out the project in order to support his judgment.

With Xu Xin's current market in the mineral exploration industry in Xingfu City, his prestige is still very high, if he stands up and shows his attitude, presumably Wu Zhuo and Zuo Jing will support his idea.

"Actually, if it's just to satisfy our curiosity and guess the result, there's no need to waste money." He spoke.

"This money is not much, so it's decided, I'll talk to Zuo Jing, if he is reluctant to give this money, I'll pay it!"

Xu Xin spoke and acted very chicly, and it seemed that he didn't take hundreds of thousands of funds into account at all.

"Are you sure you really want to do that?"

"Of course!" Xu Xin nodded firmly.

"Okay, I'll talk to Chairman Zuo, it just so happens that I also have something to do and go back to the city, let's go over together and talk face-to-face."

After the meeting, Xu Xin, Yan Peng, and Fang Xingyuan walked all the way to Xingfu City and went straight to the Azure Mining Office Building.

When he was on the road, Yan Peng called Zuo Jing and briefly talked about the idea that Xu Xin had just proposed.

When he arrived at the office of the chairman of Azure Mining, in addition to Zuo Jing, Wu Zhuo was also there.

Seeing Xu Xin, Yan Peng, and Fang Xingyuan, Wu Zhuo also saw it in his eyes, but he was more concerned about whether the three of them came over today with dry goods.

"Xu Xin, three days are up, you are very punctual, I remember the promise you told me before, and you want to give me a satisfactory answer!"

Xu Xin looked up, just in time to see Yan Peng also turning sideways, "Senior, say it." ”

"Okay."

Yan Peng had already spread the drawings on the coffee table surrounded by sofas, and pointed to the area that Xu Xin had pointed out to him before, "What we mean is that the project will not submit an acceptance application for the time being."

This area, try to make another deep hole.

In the current mining industry, everyone has always been a hot discussion stage for deep prospecting, and it is rarely really implemented.

As an industrial city civilized by mineral resources, it is time for us to shoulder the role of a flag bearer. ”

The so-called deep prospecting, there is no clear definition, according to different types of minerals, some say less than 600 meters, some say less than 1,000 meters, all belong to deep prospecting.

For a long history of prospecting, people's underground mineral exploration work is mainly distributed in shallow areas within 300 meters of depth.

Deep prospecting is difficult, investment, uncertain, and of course, the potential is also very huge.

"Is this Xu Xin's opinion?" Wu Zhuo also asked.

"Yes, our project department has also gone through serious arguments, and we really think that Xu Xin's views are worth investing!" Yan Peng was still skeptical about Xu Xin's practice of playing three poles with dates without dates, but standing in front of Wu Zhuoye and Zuo Jing, he was indeed very firmly on Xu Xin's side.

Wu Zhuo also asked: "How long does this verification work?" ”

"Between five and ten days, if the first mine is good, the next drill will continue, and the time is uncertain." Yan Peng replied very simply.

Wu Zhuo also nodded and glanced at Zuo Jing, "Chairman Zuo, you can make a decision on your company's exploration project." ”

Zuo Jing listened to Wu Zhuoye's voice, as if he had suddenly woken up from his sleep, touched his red big nose, sprayed rough air like snoring, looked at Xu Xin, and peeked at Wu Zhuoye's expression, with his ability to observe words and emotions for many years, he immediately understood.

"Since it was proposed by Xu Xin, I must support it unconditionally!"

He grinned, "Who doesn't know Xu Xin's abilities!" ”

"Okay, you guys do it as soon as possible!"

Wu Zhuo didn't delay his work, stood up, and encouraged everyone: "I'm waiting for your good news!" ”