"Come, let me introduce you to Tashi, the general manager of the Koshan Provincial Integrated Geological Technology Company." Bai Yifei's arm was on Tashi's shoulder, and he introduced with a smile: "Tashi is my savior. ”

"We're brothers!" On Tashi's black face, which is covered with traces of the plateau, his smile still retains his simple temperament.

He speaks with an accent that also has a strong local flavor.

"When I first came to work in the Western Metal Mining Company, there was a project that was handed over to them by the Gaoshan Provincial Integrated Geological Technology Company, and I remember that Tashi was not the general manager at that time, but only a mid-level engineer and project leader."

Bai Yifei drove Tashi and chatted about the past, "I remember very clearly, it was the beginning of October, and the weather here was already very cold, and there were snowflakes at higher altitudes. I had no experience, and I had just come to the plateau for a short time, thinking that my physical fitness was good, and within two days of altitude sickness, I followed the technician of the project to run the field work together. As a result, at higher ground, the oxygen is thinner, and it is dark in front of the eyes, rolling down the hillside. I didn't know anything at the time, but when I woke up, I was already in the hospital. ”

"You're blessed with a great life!" Tashi laughed.

"As soon as I woke up, I heard from the doctor at the bedside that it was good to be in time." Bai Yifei patted Tashi's shoulder, more than ten years have passed, and his eyes are still full of gratitude, "Later, I heard that it was Tashi's brother who ran down the steep hill desperately, carried me on his back, and ran all the way to the hospital. To tell the truth, if it weren't for Brother Tashi, my grave grass would have been born and died I don't know how much stubble. ”

Tashi laughed, changed his words, and reproached: "I heard that you left the western metal mining industry and went back to school to teach, why did you come here today?" Your brother is not interesting enough, and when you get to our door, you don't know how to make a phone call. ”

"This is not Mr. Xie's invitation? Come and see? By the way, I took a few students to take a look at the geology here. ”

Bai Yifei said? Pointing to Xu Xin, Zheng Gaoyi and others? Let's talk about each of them.

"His name is Xu Xin?" Tashi looked at Xu Xin's face, very faced? But the name sounds familiar, and I can't remember it for a while? He asked uncertainly: "Is he the young man who found the diamond mine in Heijinsha?" ”

Can you see it? He, a lone eagle who has been stationed on the mountain for a long time, actually knows Xu Xin's name.

"Have you seen his interview?" Of course, Bai Yifei knows how loud Xu Xin's name is on the Internet now.

However, after this period of time, he found out that Xu Xin was famous? Xu Xin has not changed at all? No more interviews were given and there was no impact on life and work.

He does what he should do in a day, as simple as ever, and lives and works.

This concentration and plain mentality are really commendable in a young person.

"What interview did he give?" Tashi's eyes were confused.

"You don't know that gimmick with a net worth of 10 billion?" Bai Yifei was a little surprised? There are people who don't know about this.

After all, some time ago, this topic? It once occupied the hot words of major search engines.

"I don't know." Tashi is in his fifties and has less internet access? I guess I haven't seen the news on the Internet, but I'm looking at Xu Xin? It's still a little quirky.

"Why does my brother think the name Xu Xin is familiar?"

"I've heard a lot of my peers talk to me? Say there's a great geologist in Heijin Province? Very young, found a lot of mines. Many of the young people in our company often say in my ear when they are chatting that if Xu Xin came to help, we might have found a second large chromite deposit in Gaoshan Province long ago. Tashi looked at Xu Xin and asked expectantly, "Are you really that Xu Xin from Heijin Province?" ”

The people present, except for the people from the Gaoshan Provincial Comprehensive Geological Technology Company, everyone else knew Xu Xin's identity.

did not admit his mistake, the Xu Xin in Tashi's mouth must be the person in front of him.

The other party is Bai Yifei's life-saving benefactor, and it seems that Tashi is a simple person, Xu Xin has a good impression of the other party.

He smiled and said, "I am indeed Xu Xin." ”

"Brother, I can testify that he is the most famous Xu Xin in Heijin Province!" Bai Yifei laughed.

"That's great!"

Tashi opened his hands and wanted to hug Xu Xin excitedly, but for fear of offending people, he stopped his actions and said excitedly: "Are you free, our company can pay you, please come over and teach our project technician a lesson, and take a look at the project situation here." ”

As a senior geological engineer, there will never be superstitious ideas in my mind.

The lithology of the stratigraphy varies greatly from place to place.

They have information about the various strata of the plateau, and they obviously have more practical experience than foreign geologists.

However, when faced with the shackles that cannot be broken, there is always a glimmer of hope in sight, but it is impossible to reach the final destination - the second large chromite deposit.

These old geologists, who have devoted themselves to this land in search of chromite for many years, inevitably want to take shortcuts, or pass some side roads.

Hearing about Xu Xin's prospecting deeds in Heijin Province, they were eager to move, and they very much hoped that such a person would come over and give them guidance.

Now that Xu Xin is here, Tashi must of course seize the opportunity.

The sudden enthusiasm, Xu Xin was a little overwhelmed, glanced at Bai Yifei, and cast an inquiring look.

"Let me take a look, let's come here, at the beginning, let's help Mr. Xie and them look at the project information."

Bai Yifei was very open-minded and did not exert any pressure, "Nonferrous Metals Mining has established a new project here, and I have not seen the information of this project, so let's go and see it together." ”

"Okay." Xu Xin nodded and came down.

They followed the path they had come from and went down the hillside.

"Since leaving, Western Metal Mining has stopped the cooperative relationship with our company, and in recent years, fortunately Nonferrous Mining has given us projects to do, otherwise we would not have survived." As Tashi walked, he chatted with Bai Yifei about the past.

"Now in this mineral market, there should be a lot of projects, especially here in Gaoshan Province."

"The past two years have been very good, and if the project can't be completed, we have to pick and choose." Tashi put his arm on Bai Yifei's shoulder and invited: "Brother, since you have left Western Metal, otherwise don't be a teacher, you can earn a lot of money as a teacher, you come and work with us, and give you a higher salary than in Western Metal!" ”

When he said this, his expression was very serious, not joking.

"I'm not a teacher anymore." Bai Yifei shook his head.

Xie Yanghui pointed to Xu Xin, who was walking in front, and explained: "Tashi, you don't know, now Mr. Bai is the general manager of the famous Shushu Mining in Heijin Province. He, the young man, was the boss. ”

"Really?"

Tashi was surprised.

Thinking of what he said just now, he blushed a little, but fortunately, his black complexion concealed his emotions, "I just said that I invited you with the highest reward, not to be offended." It is difficult for us to recruit technicians here, the conditions are difficult, and when we hire people, the only attractive condition is that the subsidy is high, 800 yuan a day. ”

Xu Xin turned around and said with a smile: "We came here today to study with Teacher Bai, don't be polite to us." ”

"All the remuneration, Mr. Xie has already made it clear to us, and the non-ferrous mining industry is responsible for it, brother, you don't have to worry." Bai Yifei said.

"That's really bothering you."

Among the people present, Tashi was the largest in his grade.

He always treats others with a very respectful attitude, "Brother, look, you want to see the project, what do you think?"

Bai Yifei shouted to the front: "Xu Xin, tell me, what do you think of the project?" ”

The geology varies greatly from place to place.

However, the prospecting methods in each place are essentially the same.

Xu Xin knows what he wants to see, not the information that others have done well, or the projects under construction.

Instead, you have to use your own eyes and special functions to see the situation underground.

"Let's look at one or two sections that run across the project." After he finished speaking, he felt that this was not comprehensive enough, and added: "The boreholes of the construction, as well as the exploration trenches, and various project materials, let's take a look at them along the way." ”

There is nothing special about this set of views, no matter which geological expert comes, it is basically to follow this itinerary and see if there are any details that others have overlooked.

Bai Yifei nodded and agreed: "Okay." ”

Tashi called everyone on the project over, followed Xu Xin and Bai Yifei, each with a field notebook in his hand, recording every word they said at any time.

According to Xu Xin's suggestion, let's take a section today.

Tashi specially selected a geological section that was easy to follow, and as he walked, he introduced the situation at any time.

They were already in the project area and quickly moved slowly from the beginning of the section along the slopes of the rock formations.

The so-called profile map is actually to look at the bedrock outcropping on the surface with your eyes, and estimate the condition of the underlying rock layer according to the thickness and occurrence of the rock layer.

What the eye sees is the lithology of the earth's surface:

Conglomerate......

Sand shale ......

Hetero-stripping peridotite......

Pure peridotite ......

Peridotite ......

brecciated mantle peridotite ......

……

What you see on the surface is not much different from what you see in your eyes.

They walked for most of the day, a long distance, and they all walked on the ophiolite.

The area they are now stepping on is all brecciated mantle peridotite, the layer of chromite that is attached to it.

Just as they were walking, there was a borehole under construction, and the core was still on the machine.

Every rig worker, the area of his face that is not covered by engine oil, is covered with plateau red.

They stood next to the technicians, looking curiously.

In this desolate place where there are no people within a radius of several kilometers, it is rare to see so many people at once.

"This hole is mine." Tashi pointed to the core of the ore and said, "The chromite grade is 30 or 40 percent, which is very high. ”

After saying this, he stood up, looked at the undulating earth, and let out a long sigh.

"Seeing that the ore grade is so high, how can you still say that there is no breakthrough here?" After Zheng Gaoyi carefully looked at the core of the ore layer, he was even more puzzled by Tashi's sigh.

As soon as Tashi heard this, he knew that the bespectacled student must not know anything about chromite.

Bai Yifei, as a teacher, instinctively explained: "A single ore body, no matter how high the grade, actually doesn't make much sense. From the perspective of the economic benefits of mineral mining, the economic value of the ore body is not as high as the mining cost, and this kind of ore certainly has no value. Xu Xin must be very clear about this ore body form, the pod-shaped ore body, which is similar to the lenticular ore body. In many minerals, such as the Yantugou bauxite mine in which Xu Xin participated before, if you want to find out the underground ore body and reserves, the investment is not proportional to the income, and many times for mineral exploration, you can directly give up. We are now facing chromite, the scarcity of resources, and the market unit price is really high, so there are people who are willing to continue to invest money.

Of course, as I mentioned to you, the large chromite not far to the east is a belt of many ore bodies, and the whole has reached a large deposit. What we are looking for is an area with a dense ore body, not a single ore body like it is now. ”

What he said was already very detailed, but for Qian Duoduo, it was still incomprehensible.

"If you can't find it, forget it, stop the loss in time, is the most important thing." Qian Duoduo muttered casually.

"You're going to quit?"

Bai Yifei scolded with a smile and continued to explain: "Why do many people think that there is still a good chance that a large chromite deposit can be found here in Gaoshan Province? Because all of our past work has been superficial, the average depth of each hole is about 200 meters, taking the current drilling program as an example. That is to say, 400 meters down in the middle and deep, or even 600 meters down in the depth, there is actually a lot of prospecting potential! Especially in this area, it has been proven that there are large chromite deposits at the shallow surface, and deep prospecting is very necessary! ”

What he said was actually for Zheng Gaoyi, Xu Xin and others.

The technicians of the Koshan Provincial Integrated Geological Technology Company have been working here for so long, and they already know this information.

Even if you know this common sense, it is still useless to find mining.

Tashi explained: "The work we are currently doing is mainly to look for ore in the middle and deep parts, and the depth of the holes is basically set between 400 meters and 600 meters. At the moment, the situation is very bad. ”

They were talking, all of which were old problems.

In their opinion, if you want to find a mine, you have to rely on luck.

Maybe there was a burst of luck, in an area, all the boreholes were drilled, all the ore was seen, and a large area of ore body was circled, and that was the real finding of ore.

"Xu Xin!"

Bai Yifei saw Xu Xin coming all the way, almost didn't speak, and now that everyone was chatting hotly, he didn't say a word and shouted.

"Huh?" Xu Xin looked up, "What's wrong?" ”

"How are you sullen?" Bai Yifei thought that Xu Xin was tired.

"No, I'm thinking about something." Xu Xin replied casually.

"What's the problem?" Tashi asked curiously.

He didn't expect Xu Xin or Bai Yifei to be able to give him any point-to-the-point advice just by looking at the surface of the earth, if he could find some details that they didn't care about and have some inspiration, it would be enough.

Xu Xin shook his head, "I don't think there's anything wrong with the understanding you've gained so far. The sporadic small ore bodies really don't make much sense. ”

There were some things he couldn't say clearly, after all, he could see six hundred meters underground.

Along the way, as he said, Tashi and they gained the same understanding as he saw.

Walking along this geological profile, I basically walked up a gentle slope along the way, with occasional ups and downs, and the journey was five or six kilometers.

His fiery eyes had only seen one ore body so far, the area where they were standing under their feet.

The ore layer is thick and of high grade, but the overall scale is not large.

Tashi was a little disappointed and beckoned to the rig worker, "Keep busy, let's go ahead." ”

Bai Yifei was already accustomed to this situation, and smiled at Xu Xin, Zheng Gaoyi and others: "Look more, understand more, this kind of work is the most grinding work." ”