They followed the direction of the geological profile for another five or six kilometers, and when they reached the high ground, the road ahead of them turned sharply into a steep hillside, which was no longer suitable for human walking.

"The geological profile is here, and there is no longer an outcropping ophiolite in front of us, so there is no need to continue pulling the profile."

Standing on the edge of the steep hillside, Tashi pointed ahead, "Our project area is only here, according to the surface occurrence, where we are, the underground ophiolite has a depth of more than six or seven hundred meters, which is not within the target of our current work. ”

Everyone stood on the high ground, behind Tashi, and they didn't dare to stand too far away, looking at the steep hillside, dizzy.

However, looking ahead, you can look over the deep valley, and not far ahead, there are towering snow-capped mountains.

At the bottom of the snow-capped mountain is a babbling stream, which is formed by melting the snow and ice on the top of the mountain.

Above the creek, a layer of green turf spreads halfway up the hillside, and up there is no vegetation to cover the bare rock formations because of the cold climate, and up the mountain, near the top of the mountain, all covered with snow.

The mist stretched and rolled on the top of the mountain, covering the snow-capped mountain with a white hat.

"Wow-"

Zheng Gaoyi looked at the scenery in front of him, and suddenly felt relaxed and happy, and his soul seemed to have been cleansed.

"Only when we come here can we truly appreciate the beautiful scenery of our motherland and truly understand the vastness of our country!" Ma Xianlin opened his arms, closed his eyes, and breathed heavily, feeling the vastness of the world.

"Look at you like you've never seen the world." Qian Duoduo pursed his lips in disgust.

However, in his eyes, the word shock was clearly written.

He was already struck by what he saw.

"Come on, let's take a group photo here, this background is really beautiful!" Qian Duoduo suggested.

"Okay, with snow-capped mountains as a background? Take a picture? posted it in the group, envious of the dead classmates. "Zheng Gaoyi thinks Qian Duoduo's proposal is very good? He beckoned to Xu Xin: "Don't be stunned? Everyone stood on the protruding stone here and took a group photo. ”

Xu Xin withdrew his gaze from the soles of his feet? It ended the stratigraphic analysis horizon to the underground.

When I looked up, I saw that everyone was admiring the beautiful scenery in front of them.

"Here we are." He hurriedly leaned over.

Xu Xin, Zheng Gaoyi, Ma Xianlin and Qian Duoduo? Surround Bai Yifei in the center.

Xie Yanghui holding his mobile phone? Take a picture of them.

After a few clicks in a row, their smiling faces were recorded in the picture, and behind them were majestic mountains and blue skies and white clouds.

Are they elated? The interest in taking pictures was high.

In the opinion of Tashi and others? The scenery in front of me is already commonplace, and I don't feel much.

If it weren't for the excitement of these young outsiders, they would have forgotten how amazing the scenery they see every day is.

Bai Yifei was relatively calm, and after taking a few photos with the four classmates? quickly gathered his mind and said calmly: "Isn't it early?" Let's go back. ”

In fact, they have seen snow-capped mountains many times along the way, but this is the closest? So it's inevitable that there will be some excitement.

After cleaning up their mood, everyone began to walk back.

They returned to the county seat ten kilometers away? After staying for one night? Early the next morning? I drove to the project area again.

According to the plan set before, for three days in a row, three sections were run, and some of the surface engineering and drilling projects were selected and seen.

On the fourth day, Xu Xin, Zheng Gaoyi and others were a little tired.

In the conference room of the hotel, they sat down and decided to take a break and take a look at the project materials by the way.

Zheng Gaoyi and Ma Xianlin read the information very carefully.

In fact, the project has been carried out so far, except for some drilling information, a lot of data has not been summarized and counted, and looking at the data, there is no gain.

Qian Duoduo sat in a chair in a daze, because he would get dizzy when he read a book.

Xu Xin and Bai Yifei looked at the data of a few mine downholes, and then they were not interested in these materials.

What is the general situation of a borehole, they can get a general idea of the situation after a few glances.

"How's it going, how do you feel?" Bai Yifei raised his head and asked Xu Xin, "You can talk about your feelings based on the situation of running in the field a few days ago." ”

"How do I feel?"

In the past few days, Xu Xin has basically figured out the geological conditions of 600 meters underground in the demonstration area.

Especially in the ophiolite formation, the chromite content is also well understood.

He can even pat his chest and say that he now knows more about the project area than anyone present.

Because the project has only been drilled in shallow holes up to 400 meters, they still have no idea about the geology of the middle and deep parts.

"I'd like to hear about Tashi's plans for the project." Xu Xin didn't know what Tashi's surname was, but he kept calling Tashi his brother, and they got used to it.

With a simple smile on his dark face, Tashi spoke in a distinctive accent: "The shallow holes we have laid out so far have found three ore bodies, one of which is of high grade and the other two are not so good. The shallow ore is not good, you can only go to the middle and deep to see, the only way is to drill, drill deep holes, only like this. ”

Bai Yifei listened to this and did not comment, but his calm expression could show that he could guess Tashi's decision. "Drilling deep holes here is much higher than the cost of our Black Gold Province." Xie Yanghui frowned, "Mr. Bai, Boss Xu, you have seen the field and the information, do you think this project is necessary to continue?" ”

If the project is terminated, then all the investment that is worth it can be said to be a failed investment.

But if you continue to invest and go to the middle and deep to find ore, if you can't find the mine, the loss will be even greater, and then it will be even more unclear to the chairman of the group.

Bai Yifei has a very good mentality, as a bystander, he doesn't have to speak responsibly anyway, according to his own heart, he really needs to say a few words, after all, the food and accommodation here in the past few days are all borne by the non-ferrous mining industry.

"Pick one or two of the most promising exploration holes, hit them, and give them a try. Judging from the prospecting results of the shallow part, this place must have metallogenic conditions, and the shallow part has not formed a mineral group, so it depends on whether the middle and deep parts can be discovered.

By the way, has the geophysical survey in the middle and deep parts been completed? If it is on, the prospecting target area is circled, and in the end it can only be verified by drilling. ”

His comment was decent, as expected by Tashi and others.

The fact is that there are so many prospecting techniques and methods, and the options that can be chosen are clear to everyone.

After he finished speaking, he asked Xu Xin expectantly: "Xu Xin, in the past few days, when I saw you running in the wild, I kept my head down and thought, as if I really found something." You don't have to have a psychological burden, what comes to mind and what to say, let's discuss it together. ”

Tashi had been holding a notebook and a pen in his hand, and when he heard Bai Yifei speak just now, he wanted to record something, but found that he actually understood what the other party said.

Seeing Xu Xin raise his head, he straightened his waist, put the notebook on the table, and listened with his ears pricked.

After all, the rumors about Xu Xin's prospecting outside were amazing, and he was very curious about what different ideas this young man could have.

Xu Xin held a few pieces of paper in his hand, on which were scribbled by the drawer and several sketchy sections.

This is a few geological profiles he drew through the stratigraphic analysis horizon and according to the route he has been running in the field in the past few days.

In addition to the three ore bodies that Tashi just talked about, the profile shows four ore bodies that no one else knows about at a depth of 400 to 600 meters.

Of course, the gold deposits of these four newly discovered ore bodies are all good, but the ore bodies are all small in scale and widely spaced, and they cannot be connected into a single ore belt.

He raised his head, met the gazes of Tashi, Xie Yanghui and others, exhaled lightly, and said, "My suggestion is very direct and simple. Of course, what I said is just the words of one family, and everyone should refer to it. ”

"Please." Tashi was polite, with a simple smile.

"I don't think there's any need to move forward with this project."

After Xu Xin finished speaking, he put away the scratch paper in his hand.

Everyone waited for a while, and found that there was only one sentence, and there was no follow-up.

"That's it?" Bai Yifei's expression was a little strange, why don't you say more, even if you say a few reasons for making this decision.

"Yes, that's it." Xu Xin didn't want to say more.

This project is not a project invested by his own company, Xie Yanghui invited them to come and see the project, and he expressed his opinion, it's as simple as that.

And the advice he gave is very simple and direct, as long as a normal person can understand it.

As for what others decide, that's someone else's business, and he doesn't care.

In case the non-ferrous mining industry has a lot of money and has to continue to invest, he stands up to stop it, which is nosy.

Tashi's notebook was closed, and it seemed that there was something to record.

"There's no place where it's worth our investment?" Xie Yanghui was unwilling to give up, hoping to be lucky, "I heard that when you cooperated with Hongchen Group, you also found a new ore body for their mercury mine. You're on our side, so you don't have anything special to discover? Boss Xu, you are looking at these pictures to see if there is anything missing. ”

The drawing handed over by Xie Yanghui happened to be an aeromagnetic survey map.

Xu Xin looked at the different magnetic field strengths dyed with different colors on it, and suddenly remembered what Bai Yifei had said before, and asked with some curiosity: "Teacher Bai, didn't you say before that when you studied the data and wrote your paper, didn't you say that some places have great prospecting potential, let's finish reading the project here, why don't you go there another day?" ”

Bai Yifei originally thought that after this meeting, he planned to return to Xingfu City.

After all, there are still a lot of things in the company, and he has been away for too long, so he is a little relieved.

After listening to Xu Xin's suggestion, he thought about it, shook his head and said, "There is no need. ”

"How could it not be necessary!" Xu Xin was very moved.

Recently, the company has been expanding aggressively, and every new investment every month brings a lot of energy to the system.

He thinks that these energy values will be emptied before the end of the month, so it is better to use them in practice.

Moreover, he also trusts Bai Yifei very much, since Bai Yifei said that when he studied geophysical prospecting data, he thought that there was great potential for chromite prospecting, so his words had a certain truth.

Bai Yifei smiled helplessly, "When I was in Western Metal, I actually set up a lot of exploration projects based on my dissertation research. As it turned out, my data model research wasn't very accurate. In those years, Western Metal Mining invested a lot in chromite exploration, but it did not find any deposits worth mining. ”

"At that time, the projects established by the Western Metal Mining were all going to the middle and deep parts to find ore?" Xu Xin asked.

Bai Yifei shook his head, "That's not true, it's basically a shallow part within two or three hundred meters, after all, the funds are limited." However, there were a lot of boreholes at that time, and we didn't miss the places to look. ”

Xu Xin was still very interested, "Mr. Bai, then tell me about it, the data model research you conducted is only for shallow prospecting?" ”

"Nope."

Bai Yifei shook his head firmly, "On the contrary, I was mainly engaged in the study of the gravity magnetic field in the middle and deep parts at that time, and in the shallow part, in fact, everyone has done a lot of work, and I don't think there will be too many omissions." My idea at that time was to make efforts in deep prospecting, make discoveries, and make breakthroughs. ”

"That's great, let's go check it out."

Xu Xin was a little impatient, "We have seen everything we should have seen here, let's just go to other places to see." ”

After speaking, he asked Qian Duoduo, "Have you played enough?" Do you want to go back to Happiness City to be the security guard of your family's mine? ”

"The ghost just wants to go back." It's hard to get a lot of money out for a few days, because I really don't want to go back and be busy from morning to night every day.

"We still have a long vacation, I'll follow you." Zheng Gaoyi also looked at Bai Yifei expectantly.

"Me too." Ma Xianlin has come here to participate in the exploration project in the past few days, which can be said to have benefited a lot, and his thinking has improved a lot, not only limited to the theoretical knowledge in books.

When he saw his four students, he looked at him expectantly.

Bai Yifei smiled slightly, these young people were obviously having fun, and they wanted to continue to explore in this land full of mysteries.

"The area where I used to work was not in the southern part of Koshan Province, but closer to the northwest, where the conditions were even harsher!" What he said was really not alarmist, but realistic, "The field project area of non-ferrous mining is only about ten kilometers away from the hotel where we are now. If you go to the northwest of Koyama Province, you may not find a village for hundreds of miles! ”

"Will it be dangerous?" Qian Duoduo said with some horror.

"Yes, and there could be deaths!"

Bai Yifei said very seriously, "In that kind of no-man's land, the probability of danger is too great, and every year someone gets lost in the vast mountains." We really want to go to that kind of place, we can't go back and go back on the same day, we go there for several days, we live in the mountains at night, and there have been people who have gone out of the tent at night to pee, and when they turn around, they can't find the location of the tent, and they go farther and farther, and finally something happens. There are too many examples of such dangers. ”

"Are you afraid?" Xu Xin asked Zheng Gaoyi, Ma Xianlin, and Qian Duoduo.

"I'm afraid of a ball, it's okay if Mr. Bai doesn't say it, he says so, I want to be excited when I think about it." Ma Xianlin was faintly excited, and he had already felt the excitement of walking in the lonely night.

Zheng Gaoyi is also a bold person, "Let's hire a local guide, no problem." ”

"Even when you go to the field, you can't see anything just by looking at it."

Bai Yifei saw the expectant eyes of several students, compromised, and sighed slightly, "Okay, when the time comes, I will ask a professional team to take us to have a look, and walk in a safe place, the danger factor is not great." ”

As he spoke, he said helplessly to Tashi: "Brother, we can't help with the work here." ”

"We brothers, don't say such things." Tashi is very optimistic about this kind of work, "Let's have a few drinks in the evening, and if we have a chance in the future, we must come here often to get together with me!" ”

"Okay, definitely!"

Bai Yifei nodded at Xie Yanghui, and then said with a straight face towards Xu Xin and the others: "Since you want to endure hardships so much, then I will take you crazy!" ”