"One year, just this year, 2031!"

Wang Jichun patted Xu Xin's shoulder and felt full of confidence for Xu Xin, "You have found a million tons of chrome ore in the mining industry!" This little character is not a dilemma for a mining hero like you, right? ”

Xu Xin didn't dare to guarantee anything, and there was no need to make an oath or military order.

They had just arrived in Gaoshan Province, and they were not familiar with the place, so it was impossible for them to be inexplicably under huge pressure because of a meal.

The annual mission goal of finding chrome ore pressed down from above is not yet their turn to worry.

"Mr. Bai, Brother Bai!"

Seeing that Xu Xin, a young man, was not easy to communicate with and his attitude was too cold, Wang Jichun put his arm on Bai Yifei's shoulder, very enthusiastic, "You used to work in Western Metal, and we can be regarded as having a deep friendship, what is my character, you know very well!" If you encounter any problems in the province of Alpine Province, come to me at any time, and my phone will be waiting for you 24 hours a day. ”

Bai Yifei naturally knew Wang Jichun for many years, and he also knew this leader, and his attitude was slightly milder than Xu Xin's, "The mining industry in the book must be the highest goal of prospecting, please rest assured Director Wang of this point!" ”

"With your words, I'm relieved."

Wang Jichun said, shaking the mobile phone in his hand, "I have already greeted the resource bureau below, but if you need help, you can contact the land departments at all levels at any time." All the formalities you need to go through will give you the green light all the way! In terms of institutional supervision, it is impossible for us to drag down the team that is prospecting for the country! ”

After a meal, Xu Xin and Bai Yifei got into the car arranged by Shuoxin Company and went north to the demonstration area.

The car departed from the provincial capital and followed the national highway by the Yajiang River? All the way north? Ride through mountains.

The whole journey is more than 1,000 kilometers, and the car runs for more than ten hours a day? Or did it take two days? before arriving at the location of the demonstration area.

They went directly to the township to which Gonglongba belonged, and rested for the night in a small hotel converted from a private house? Early the next morning, they went straight to the project area.

In the middle of the project area? A slightly flat place? I found the place where the technicians of Shuoxin Company set up camp.

"Whose problem is not difficult to solve, there are streams flowing all year round when the ice and snow melt on the mountains. Be careful, never drink raw water? Must it be cooked before you can drink it? Don't break the rules! ”

Xu Hengqiang has been here for several days, and because of his experience working in the mountains here, he quickly adapted to the climate here.

Some young people are not as good as him, they flew to the provincial capital and fell to the ground? Altitude sickness is coming, and it hasn't eased up until now? Two people also returned to Happiness City as a result.

He was discussing the arrangements with Jiang Yehu, "Three creepers? Do you have to make sure it's running properly every time you go down the hill and up the hill to deliver supplies? Relying on people and horses is too inefficient. ”

The so-called creeper? Is it a small crawler van? If a path is slightly smoothed out on the mountain road, it will be able to move unimpeded, and it will be no problem to pull three or five tons of goods at a time.

Tents, stoves and other living facilities have been set up.

The surroundings are desolate, because of these facilities, there is more or less some breath of life.

Xu Hengqiang turned around again and again, still not at ease, working here, the most worrying thing is not that he can't find the mine, but the life safety of every technician.

He saw Xu Xin and Bai Yifei coming, and after making sure that nothing was missing, he handed over two water cups, "Freshly boiled alpine snow water, you can taste it, it is said that drinking this water can strengthen the body and prevent all diseases." ”

Xu Xin walked for most of the day, and he was indeed thirsty, so he poured it with the help of a water cup, and there was no special taste.

"How's the work going here?" He sat down to rest and asked casually.

"Life is a problem, I used to do projects in Gaoshan Province, but in the south, the conditions over there are relatively better, I don't want to be here, I really can't find people within a radius of dozens of miles, and it's desolate, and I can't find a place to dig some wild vegetables."

Xu Hengqiang looked at the facilities that had just been built, frowning, his face full of sorrow, "Everyone is used to the prosperity of the city, and when they suddenly come to such a place, their mobile phones don't have much signal, and if you want to call, you have to find a signal everywhere." I listened to the young people under my command say that in the next month or two, it will be difficult, and they can only fight the landlord, and they can't play games to pass the time. ”

"It's really hard." Bai Yifei was deeply touched, "I have been on this project for a few months before, and I feel that I am about to become a savage, completely isolated from the outside world. Every time they go down the mountain to purchase supplies, everyone rushes to go to the nearest county town to take a stroll to see where it is prosperous and to see the people outside. ”

Xu Hengqiang nodded, "I went out to purchase supplies yesterday, and by the way, I figured out the route." From here to the mountain village at the foot of the mountain, it takes most of the day, and you have to drive to the county seat, not in the township, sometimes there is no meat or vegetables to sell. A round trip, departing before dawn in the morning, and arriving at night when it was dark. If you walk slowly, one day is not enough, it will take two days! Electricity is also a big problem, many of the instruments in our hands need to be charged, and they have to be moved down the mountain to charge. ”

"There are a lot of difficulties to overcome."

Bai Yifei glanced at Xu Xin, and sighed slightly: "A few days ago, I had dinner with Director Wang, and they mentioned that even if they find a mine here, there may not be mining conditions. If you want to build a road, it is very difficult to get large trucks to come here. Looking for minerals here is really for the construction of the motherland's resources, and the blood is spilled. You have to be prepared that this project may not be able to achieve any benefits in the short term. ”

Xu Xin didn't think about it so long-term, and he didn't have so many worries, "Let's do it first, there are difficulties to solve difficulties." ”

The people in this project, if you want to say that they know this place, Bai Yifei is the most experienced.

Xu Hengqiang happened to take advantage of Bai Yifei's presence to directly communicate with technical issues: "The local resources bureau heard that we had set up a prospecting project here, and they were very cooperative, whether it was to provide technical assistance or to provide rescue when necessary. The prospecting rights have been almost determined, and according to your previous proposal, the mining area is very large. After all, there are no other conflicts over the scope of mining rights here.

We still have almost a month to get to work.

I've heard that Western Metals has done a lot of work here in the past, surface work data, even drilling data, and I think it would be much easier for us to do our job if we had a full set of data. ”

"Yes, I thought of it!"

Bai Yifei patted a large stack of documents wrapped in a snakeskin bag at his feet, "I also specially printed out a copy, and I can also send you a full set of electronic materials." ”

"That's great. The information you gave us before was too little, and I was worried that I would need to do a lot of repetitive work. ”

Xu Hengqiang is very happy that learning from the data of predecessors is a very important way of geological work.

"Whether it is surface engineering or drilling engineering, we can only use it for reference, not directly, after all, we have not been authorized by Western Metal." Bai Yifei reminded.

"I know this, you can rest assured, you will never give Western Metal a handle."

Xu Hengqiang showed a smile on his black face, "Technology to deal with this kind of thing, we geologists are all good at it." ”

As he spoke, he opened the snakeskin bag, flipped through a copy of the report, looked up and asked, "Are these materials reliable?" ”

"Reliable, no moisture, it's all done in real terms, and there is no false fabricated data."

Bai Yifei gave very conclusive words, "In fact, I am personally involved in a lot of the work of this project, so you can rest assured." ”

"That's good."

Xu Hengqiang has been here for so many days, this is the best news I have heard so far, "We will not repeat the surface work, and the technical processing will be included in the workload." You are Party A, we are all our own people, this part of the work, should be counted as money or money, should be taxed or taxed, you have no opinion on this, right? ”

He looked at Xu Xin.

Xu Xin dared to have an opinion, nodded and said, "You can just look at it." ”

"That's good."

Xu Hengqiang has opened the implementation plan, spread out a project layout plan on the rocky ground, and introduced: "According to your previous opinions, since you don't do surface work, you don't do shallow drilling. Let's go straight to the drill hole and find the chromite in the middle and deep parts! ”

Directly in the middle and deep prospecting, this is the prospecting policy proposed by Xu Xin, and he also drew the main prospecting target area.

According to his requirements, the technicians of Shuoxin Company have determined the workload when doing the implementation plan.

"In the past, the work done by Western Metals here, the drilling hole was basically two or three hundred meters deep, and the ore situation was not too optimistic."

Bai Yifei was still a little worried, "How many drilling rigs have you arranged here, and you plan to arrange drilling rigs to drill holes?" My personal opinion is that let's drill one or two holes first, and the holes are three or four hundred meters deep. If you don't see the mine, you can study it well. What do you two think? ”

Xu Hengqiang listened to it and thought that what Bai Yifei said was reasonable, but his current work arrangement was not like this.

He glanced at his son, pointed to the project layout and said, "Mr. Bai, look here, our first batch of drillings is to penetrate this row of holes horizontally." Five drill holes were drilled at the same time, all of which were four to five hundred meters deep. ”

"That's a lot of investment!" Bai Yifei sweats in his head.

If this is done, the 15 million exploration fee is really like ice and snow on the mountain, which will quickly melt into water and flow away.

Xu Hengqiang pointed at Xu Xin, "He gave me advice." You are Party A, and the money is yours anyway. ”

Bai Yifei looked at Xu Xin and asked, "Are you really so confident?" ”

"Time is pressing, anyway, it's just a month-to-month project cycle, punch a hole at a time, and then slowly study, and wait until the whole set of processes is completed, and you have to wait for the spring of next year." Xu Xin is very relaxed and confident.

"I also agree with Xu Xin's opinion, cut through the mess quickly, and settle it within a month, seeing the mine is seeing the mine, and not seeing the mine counts the ball."

Xu Hengqiang had the same idea as Xu Xin, "The fifteen million exploration fee you gave is almost enough for this month's work." Five deep holes, one week if it's fast, two weeks if it's slow. In a month's time, how can you almost find out the main prospecting target areas that you circled.

If we don't see the mine, we'll retreat before the snow covers the mountain.

If the mine is good, if necessary, next year the ice and snow will melt, let's do it again! ”

As he was talking, Jiang Yehu ran in from outside and said, "Lao Xu, the boss of the drilling rig has come over with a few captains." ”

"Okay, let's take them directly to the fixed point in a while, drill directly, and let them arrange the drilling rig to enter the site as soon as possible."

"Straight to the rig?" Jiang Yehu was taken aback, "If you can't find the mine, you will be scolded by Party A!" ”

"Party A is here."

Xu Hengqiang pointed at Xu Xin, not at all in the face of Party A's inferior posture, but with his head high, "I'm going to arrange the drilling rig to see the scene in a while, how do you two arrange it?" ”

Xu Xin glanced at the engineering layout drawings and roughly judged that they had indeed arranged the boreholes at the designated location according to his suggestion.

He has nothing to worry about, he has been sitting in the car for the past few days, coupled with a certain altitude sickness, his body is sore, and he doesn't want to walk.

"I'm not going, you call me something."

He sat on the ground, looking at the snow-capped mountains and blue sky and white clouds in the distance, and didn't want to move.

"I'll go with you."

Bai Yifei is full of energy, and when he came to Alpine Province, he did not have altitude sickness at all.

Xu Xin sat for a while, then walked around, looked at the layout inside the tent, and looked at the materials prepared.

Not to mention, the large bags of beef and lamb jerky prepared are very appetizing to look at.

"Brother Xu."

A young man came over and handed Xu Xin two power banks, "There is no way to charge here, we have prepared a lot of power banks, I have many, this is for you." ”

Xu Xin looked at the young man carefully, and remembered that the other party was a technician from the mining industry in the book, and he came to supervise and cooperate with the work of Shuoxin Company.

He hurriedly smiled and said, "Thank you." Are you still used to it here? ”

"It's just that I was a little uncomfortable two days ago, but now I'm used to it." The young man was polite, "Are you going to be with us next, all the time here?" ”

"It depends, there's nothing else, I'm here now."

Xu Xin chatted along.

In the next few days, the work of the project progressed gradually and steadily.

Xu Hengqiang has been cultivating himself in the past few months and doesn't want to participate in the project.

According to the plan, he came over to take a look, and he went back, letting Jiang Yehu take full charge of the work here.

In the first two days, I took the drill rig captain to determine the drilling location, and then accompanied the drill rig boss to arrange the drilling and relocation into the site.

More than a dozen technicians, led by local villagers as guides, checked the data of previous projects done by Western Metal, and went around to work on the surface to verify the accuracy of the data.

In the end, the information was fine, and they didn't work on the surface.

Two or three people divided into groups and took turns to see the progress of the five drill holes.

The daily workload is not large.

Bai Yifei participated in the project here for two days, because the mining industry in the book still has an established work arrangement, so he took his assistant and returned to Xingfu City.

Xu Xin stayed, lived in a tent, and occasionally followed Xu Hengqiang to see the progress of the drilling rig.

It took five days from the rig entering the site to the start of drilling.

It's a long way, and it's a drilling rig that drills deep holes, and the equipment is heavy and huge, and it takes a lot of effort to pull it into the mountain with a creeper.

After the drilling rig started, it went very well.

The first drill hole, in five days, penetrated the target horizon and saw the rock of the floor.

Hearing the news, Xu Xin followed Xu Hengqiang and hurriedly dared to go to the machine.

Jiang Yehu had already arrived one step earlier, holding the core, and sighed: "This hole has penetrated the breccia peridotite, and there is no mine. ”