Follow the Yajiang River and go to the northwest, there is a national highway by the river that crosses the mountains.

The further back you go, the more desolate the scenery outside the car window becomes.

When I was in Zigzag County, the mountains were often covered with green turf.

In the northwestern part of the province of Takayama, the surrounding landscape looks bare, rocky and desolate.

Many of the towering mountains are covered with snow-white snow all year round.

Bai Yifei is already very familiar with the working environment here, which can be said to be very sinister.

For safety, they went to the nearest county town to the demonstration area, and it took them three days to prepare for entering the mountain.

Not only are there GPS, satellite phones, etc., but everyone is also equipped with the best hiking shoes, first aid kits, bright work clothes, and so on.

According to Bai Yifei's arrangement, it will take a day to walk to the place they go, go over and take a look, and return on the third day at the latest

The longer the delay, the greater the probability of problems.

The most troublesome thing is to stay overnight.

Driving to the nearest village to the demonstration area, they also asked three local village names to help them carry tents and sufficient food.

When everything was ready, they set off on foot and walked deep into the mountains.

There are loose rocks and dirt underfoot.

When you look up, the dull earthy yellow of the earth contrasts sharply with the blue of the sky.

In addition to the three sturdy local villagers, there was also a young man in his thirties, an employee of the Western Metals Company, named Mucha.

Bai Yifei called Mu Cha over, mainly because he was worried that after many years, he had a vague memory of the situation here.

During his time at Western Metals, he had a good personal relationship with Mucha.

Moreover, Mucha used to be the project leader here, especially in charge of the geological team, and knew the project better than him.

The preparations before coming over were basically carried out by Mucha.

Of course? Bring Xu Xin, Zheng Gaoyi and others over this time? In fact, it is purely a half-play and half-learning gesture.

"Mr. Bai, those of us who do things below? I miss you a lot. ”

Is Mucha a sunny talkative person? Laughing is as warm as the sun in the sky.

"I miss you too." Bai Yifei chatted first while walking, and did not forget to remind Xu Xin and the others in front of him: "When you are walking here?" Don't walk around and look around, be sure to keep an eye on the road? No surprises! Other than that? Don't leave the team alone, poop and pee, choose a place where everyone can see, don't go far! ”

"Okay!" Zheng Gaoyi responded loudly.

Of these people, he is the most excited? Like a wild horse? There is an endless amount of energy in the body.

"Gao Yi, I can't walk anymore, or you can carry me for a while."

Not long after he set off, Qian Duoduo began to pant heavily, and beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on his head.

"I'm pushing you up."

Are they going to a higher place? It's uphill all the way, Zheng Gaoyi pushes Qian Duoduo's back? Qian Duoduo suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.

Local villagers walking ahead of them, carrying food, tents and other items on their backs? After listening to Qian Duoduo's words, he turned around and smiled? Looking at Qian Duoduo, the fat man's eyes were obviously contemptuous.

"Mr. Bai? Did you come here to investigate? "Mucha didn't understand the purpose of this team? But apparently the direction they were heading in was a project area that they had done five or six years ago.

It was desolate, and the villagers in the vicinity rarely visited it, except for a period of time when they lived in the area for a project.

"It's kind of a survey." Bai Yifei nodded.

"I heard that you are no longer a teacher, you work in a mining company in Heijin Province, is your company planning to come here to invest in chromite projects? Have you set up a company here, and are you still short of people? If you're hiring someone here, you'll have to contact me, everyone else but me wants to leave Western Metal. Mucha asked several questions at once.

"Western Metal is the largest mining company in Koshan Province, and it is the best in terms of benefits, so why do you suddenly want to change jobs?" Bai Yifei has been away from Western Metal Mining for too long and doesn't know much about the situation here.

Mu Cha touched the sweat on his forehead and sighed: "According to the current field subsidy standard, when we go out into the field, the field subsidy is 800 yuan a day. But our current leader in charge only gives us 500 a day. The other three hundred, it is said that the leader in charge of the buckle was pressed down and put into his personal pocket. ”

"Oh." Regarding the affairs of the former owner, Bai is not bad to comment.

"There are ten people in a project, and he deducts three hundred a day, three thousand a day, and his ass is too dark!" Mucha was obviously still haunted by these grievances, and his sunny face was dyed with sorrow.

Many times, joy and sorrow cannot escape the influence of money.

"Follow the feedback above and vote for the leader's mailbox." Bai Yifei can only come up with ideas.

He's out of reach now.

In the past, when he was in Western Metal, he was the most jealous and hateful of this kind of behavior of deducting the company's employee subsidies.

Those technicians who work in the field, the working environment is very difficult, and every day they run in the field at the risk of danger.

This money contains blood and sweat, and you can't be greedy!

"It's useless, relational household, there is a brother who has been criticized for following the above situation." Mu Cha obviously trusted Bai Yifei very much, and said bluntly, "We all like Mr. Bai when you were still here before, and everyone was happy to go out in the wild." ”

Bai Yifei expressed his understanding and sympathy, and said bluntly: "Let's come over this time, let's take a look first, there is no plan to set up a branch here." ”

By the time they arrived at their destination, it was already afternoon.

At an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, they walked another twenty or thirty kilometers of mountain roads, and outside the local villagers, everyone felt physically exhausted.

After choosing a flat bottom and setting up a tent, they rested on the spot that night and set off the next day to see the geology.

When night falls, the sky is full of stars, as if you can reach out and pluck the bright galaxy.

At night, when it was cold, a bonfire was lit, and everyone gathered around the fire, chatting while eating.

"There's a wolf over here."

Mu Cha said this, not to scare Xu Xin and Qian Duoduo, these people in the city, it was indeed his personal experience.

"Does a wolf bite or not?" Qian Duoduo shrunk his neck, very curious and a little frightened.

"The current wild wolf is also picky about eating, and I am afraid that the wild wolf will not be able to eat such greasy meat as you have." Xu Xin joked with a smile.

"Then I'll be relieved." Qian Duoduo suddenly relaxed, "Did you meet a wild wolf here, what was the situation at that time?" Tell us about it. ”

"It was in the surrounding area, and we were living in the mountains," Mucha recalls. Thinking about our kind of project, it is impossible to go down the mountain every day, and we usually live in the mountain and send people down the mountain every week to buy supplies. Bacon, these things, if you have enough, are fresh vegetables, and you can only eat them when you come back on the day you go out to buy. The wolf probably smelled the flesh and bones we had thrown on the ground, and ran over at night while we were sleeping. However, wild wolves are also afraid of people, and when there is movement in the tent, they are scared away. ”

Everyone listened to these stories, and they were quite fresh and listened to with relish.

"Does this happen often?" Ma Xianlin said curiously.

"It doesn't happen very often, occasionally in the middle of the night, I hear movement outside the tent, sometimes I hear a wolf howling."

"It's really hard." Xu Xin was also quite emotional, he used to hear his father talk about the difficult working conditions here, and he didn't think so, and he also wanted to come here to experience the different scenery of the motherland.

Now it's time to realize my thoughts, but after a day of walking, and it's on the plateau, my body is really uncomfortable, and I feel that my head is swollen.

Zheng Gaoyi picked up a stone on the ground, looked at it carefully, looked up and asked, "You have been working here for a few months, and finally found the mine?" ”

"It's kind of a mine." Mu glanced at Bai Yifei and continued to chat: "Our prospecting is mainly for shallow prospecting of about 200 meters, you also know when you come over today, there is no road here, the car can't get in, the drilling rig is a large equipment, it is very troublesome to handle, and many times only shallow prospecting is carried out." Within 200 meters of this, we actually found several ore bodies. ”

"How's the taste?" Xu Xin asked.

"The taste is not bad." Mucha replied.

"The geological conditions and metallogenic conditions of chromite here are similar to the non-ferrous mining projects we saw in Ziglian County a few days ago."

Bai Yifei listened for a long time, and finally spoke, "The more than 2,000-kilometer continental suture zone in Gaoshan Province is basically distributed along the north and south of the Yajiang River. That is, the national highway we came on, which is basically parallel to the suture belt. According to many scientific research results, in fact, the suture zone in the northwest has greater prospecting potential for chromite. So far, however, no progress has been made on this side, except for the discovery of a large deposit in the south. ”

It is based on the trust of these scientific research results that a few years ago, when he was still working in the western metal mining industry, he vigorously promoted the establishment of chromite projects.

As he spoke, he brought back his memories.

"With such great potential, is your company still working here?" Zheng Gaoyi asked Mu Cha.

Mu Cha shook his head and pointed at Bai Yifei, "Since Mr. Bai left the company, the project here has been directly stopped. The company said that it was a waste of money to carry out this kind of project, and also criticized Mr. Bai's approach internally. ”

Bai Yifei talked to Xu Xin about these past events, and now that Mu Cha has mentioned them, he can face them calmly.

Many years have passed, and he has let go of the past and put all the centers in front of him.

"Speaking of which, I have been working in Ko Son Province for more than 10 years and have worked on many projects."

Bai Yifei said, stretched out his hand and pushed the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and said with a smile: "If I really want to say that I am most sure of the prospecting research here, it is the project we came to see this time." Unfortunately, the project was not completed, and I left. I brought you here to see it again. ”

"Is this a pity?" Ma Xianlin saw Bai Yifei's expression was deep.

Bai Yifei thought about it and nodded: "It's a pity." At that time, I thought that this was the last project, and I would definitely be able to see minerals, at least the size of a medium-sized deposit! In that way, I can be ashamed of myself in the company and silence all the voices that question me.

At the time, I was a bit of a desperate bet.

Too young, that year. ”

"Then we come here this time, we must find the mine, shame on the snow!" Qian Duoduo said excitedly.

Bai Yifei was amused by Qian Duoduo, "Whether you can find the ore or not, in the end, you need drilling engineering to verify and quantify." Let's take a look at the surface, and we can't see it. ”

After that, he looked at his watch and ordered: "It's not too early, everyone put out the fire, hurry up and rest, and have to walk for a while tomorrow morning." ”

The mountains are unusually quiet, and there are no insects or birds.

Only the occasional whistling of the wind.

In the second half of the night, it was especially cold.

Luckily, they didn't encounter the wolves.

It was late in the morning, and when they got up, the sky was still dark, and they packed up their things, ate their food, and when they were punished, it was almost half past eight, and the sky was completely clear.

Along the desolate hillside, they continued to walk for about an hour before finally reaching their destination.

"This is the mantle peridotite belt."

Bai Yifei pointed to the exposed bedrock under his feet, very excited, "The place where we are standing now is one of the ore bodies exposed on the surface!" ”

Everyone picked up the scattered stones on the ground and looked at them carefully.

If it weren't for Bai Yifei's reminder that these are mineral-bearing rocks, with their experience, they wouldn't have seen it at all.

However, Mucha brought a trace element analyzer and measured the ore, and soon came up with a value of about 20% Cr2O4 content.

The taste is ok, not particularly high.

At the same time, Xu Xin had already opened the horizon of stratigraphic analysis, and his eyes penetrated into the ground, reaching as far as six hundred meters.

Their current location, the outcropping of the mantle peridotite belt, is not conducive to his ability to use the system.

Because the eye penetrates this ore-bearing stratum, the stratum downward, there is no chromite.

"Teacher Bai, why don't we walk along the stratum tendency." He made a suggestion, "As if on the zigzag county side, let's go through a few sections and see if there are any other discoveries." ”

"Running profiles?" Bai Yifei shook his head, "It's not necessary at all, you can take a look at the ore layer here, and the surrounding rock of the ore layer, so it's almost the same." The terrain here is complicated, and if you really want to run a profile, you have to go over the mountains and mountains, you can't bear it. There is not enough time. ”

"I'd like to see the formations over here, maybe it can give us some inspiration."

Xu Xin smiled, and it was not easy to say clearly, "I want to compare the stratigraphic differences between the north and south ends of the continental suture zone, after all, the entire suture zone is still very wide, and there must be dozens of kilometers or hundreds of kilometers, let's just look at one point, there is no good comparison." ”

"Is this necessary?" Bai Yifei's original plan was to come and take a look at the ore-bearing strata.

"It's necessary!"

Xu Xin pointed to Zheng Gaoyi, "What he will do in the future is the study of plate tectonics, and if he can see more of the different rock formations of the entire suture zone here, I think it is very necessary." Just looking at the chromite layer is too one-sided, and it is completely impossible to appreciate the complex tectonic topography of the entire suture zone. ”

"Really?" Bai Yifei didn't expect Xu Xin to think about Zheng Gaoyi so much.

He turned his head to look at Qian Duoduo, saw that his face was full of sweat, and said with concern: "Qian Duoduo, can you still leave?" ”

Qian Duoduo shook his head and nodded and said, "If you take turns carrying my words, I can still go." ”

"Okay, then let's continue walking, follow the direction of inclination, and look at the formation over there. There happen to be a few structures over there, which can explain some of the structures here. ”

They walked along the direction of stratigraphic inclination, and walked all the way, Bai Yifei saw different stratigraphic demarcation lines, which could be distinguished at a glance, and then explained to them the different physical properties and genesis corresponding to different lithologies.

At the same time, Xu Xin's line of sight kept penetrating the ground.

The mantle peridotite belt, which contains chromite, has been extending downward at an inclination of more than 10 degrees in sight.

On the system interface, a clear section is drawn automatically.

Above the pattern representing the peridotite belt of the mantle, data on chromite content are also recorded at any time.

"Huh?" Suddenly, Xu Xin stopped.