Chapter 229 56. Reasons for on-site exploration

  Impossible, absolutely impossible!

  A large gold mine that has been mined in the 21st century and is estimated to have more than 200 tons of gold reserves, how could it have been exhausted? It is the Sumitomo Foundation that will develop Hyokar Jinshan in the future, a group of capitalists whose abacus is better than anyone else. Sumitomo, a decapitated business, dared to do it, and Sumitomo, a loss-making business, would never participate.

  To put it ugly, the Hokkaido Konomai Gold Mine, abandoned by the Sumitomo Foundation, has a stable annual output of two to three tons of gold and 45 to 50 tons of silver. If this mine was in China, it would definitely be able to beat a dog's mind. But at Sumitomo, because of the low profits, they gave up mining.

  Only Lingga Jinshan, because it is rich in reserves and easy to mine, it keeps mining without stopping!

  How can the Sumitomo Consortium, which sells even its own hanging ropes, invest huge manpower and material resources in a depleted mine to continue its development?

  "Can you take me to Ryokan for a visit?" Chuemon is now a pragmatist, and he wouldn't dare to judge anything unless he saw it with his own eyes.

   "It is okay, but I will go to Edo next month to explain, everything is in a hurry, we can only go for a few days at most." Shigetomi nodded, but there was no objection.

  It’s just that he doesn’t quite understand why Chuemon is so active towards a mine that has completely dried up. Is there really a big gold mine in Ryokan?

"There are also good miners in the feudal clan. You can bring two together." As long as you can make money, Hirogo will be interested. No matter whether what Tademon said is true or not, you will not lose anything. .

   "So good!"

   There was no word for a night, and the next day Chuemon took Shigetomi Tadashi to Hishikari, which is ten miles away from Kagoshima, which is forty kilometers. Fortunately, the money for so many years in Guangxiang has not been scrapped for nothing, he at least repaired the official road completely. After all, people have to be stationed in the village to keep an eye on them, to levy taxes and suppress them forcefully.

   But even so, the two of them ran for five or six hours to reach the village of Hishikari. We set off early in the morning, and when we arrived at Lingkui, lunch was past. When they saw Shigetomi Zhongjiao, the village house and the warriors in the village rushed to see him, not knowing what had happened. I thought it was because of the incomplete offerings, which made the domain dissatisfied.

  Zhongfu Zhongjiao waved at them, saying that he was visiting the Lingkari Mine. This made everyone feel at ease, and they brought rice **** and melons. I also sent some sweet rice wine over, and there was nothing very good in the village. However, Shigetomi Chukao is similar to Chuemon, and you just have to eat enough, not so picky, you can eat the good ones, and you can eat the bad ones.

  The Lingkari Village in front of you is next to the Kawauchi River. This year, agriculture depends on the sky for food. Basically, the villages are distributed along the water source. Without water, there will be no people.

  Tadaemon came to the Zhuangya site and asked about the topography of the local area. Obviously, this place is completely formed by a volcanic eruption. Perhaps a million years ago, this place was completely the ocean. After experiencing the continuous eruption of Kakuto Volcano in the west and Okou Volcano in the east, a valley between the two mountains was formed here.

  It is not appropriate to say that he is a valley, because this kind of submarine volcanic eruption, and then the formation of land, is often accompanied by violent and continuous earthquakes.

  Obviously, Lingkari Village used to be a violent earthquake zone. Otherwise, there would be no abrupt appearance of several hills of one or two hundred meters above the valley where the Sichuan River flows. Judging by normal geographic knowledge, this river course of the Sichuan River is likely to be a crack torn by the earthquake, while the hills such as Mount Hishikari are the ground that was arched and raised due to the violent earthquake.

  Just after millions of years of rain erosion, the original section has been constantly invaded, and it has become a not-so-continuous hilltop now.

  "Have you ever collected any placer gold in the river course of the Kawauchi River?" Tadaemon stood by the river and asked Zhuangya.

   "It seems to have happened, but it was all a hundred years ago, and the little ones are not very clear." Zhuang Wu is only thirty or forty years old, how can I know the details of hundreds of years ago.

   "Is the gold mine previously mined on the top of the mountain?" Chuemon nodded, then turned to ask the two miners.

"That's the case. The veins are very narrow and short. There is only a very small area on the top of the mountain. It was completely exhausted as early as 20 or 30 years ago. Progress." A miner apparently had knowledge of this place, and said, pointing to the top of the mountain that had restored lushness.

   "Let's go, let's see!" Chuemon had some predictions in his mind, but he was not quite accurate yet.

  The road up the mountain has been covered by vegetation again. Regardless of the mountain with an elevation of 280 meters, a group of people actually walked for an hour.

  Sure enough, there are mines left over on the mountain, as well as some other artificial traces. But the mine, which was completely abandoned twenty or thirty years ago, was crumbling, and everyone did not dare to enter it easily. Chungemon ordered Shintaro Terazawa to pick up a dozen stones near the mine and put them in the basket and go down the mountain.

  The people who had achieved nothing did not understand the meaning of Chuemon, so they climbed up with great pains and moved down the mountain with more than a dozen stones with no gold at all. Even Tadashi Shigetomi was so tired that he rode horses in the morning and climbed the mountains in the afternoon, and he didn't understand where Chuemon had so much energy.

  Hurrying down the mountain, the sky is getting late, Chuemon ordered the man to dig the soil on the edge of the Kawauchi River, and dig deep down, either two meters or three meters, until a lot of rubble appeared. More than a dozen villagers who were summoned, dug all the way to a depth of more than five meters, and finally found a large number of gravel formations.

  Holding the fire down into the pit, Chuemon took out the stone on Hishigari Mountain and compared it with the stone excavated by the riverside of Kawauchi. There is no doubt that it is sandstone full of quartz. Because of the violent earthquake, the sandstone that was originally in a formation, one was sunk under the river channel at a depth of five meters, and the other was lifted to a 280-meter-high hillside ~lightnovelpub.net~ The situation has been completely clear. !

  There was placer gold in the river channel, and there was also a very weak gold mine on the top of the Lingkari Mountain. It seems that the gold mine is on this floor, so why in the future can be found in this place, which is almost the world's first rich mine?

  It must be the earthquake that arched out the huge gold veins hundreds of meters underground, and then formed Hishigari Mountain. As for the small mineral veins on the surface, it was just a small sneeze, a puff, and two drops of golden water when the volcano erupted. The predecessors were confused by this little gold, and after collecting it all, they did not have enough geological knowledge to judge the underground veins. So he came to the conclusion that the Ryokanjin Mountain was exhausted, and completely abandoned the exploration here.

We were completely wrong before we came. The vast majority of this mountain should be sandstone and shale deposited over millions of years. Only the slopes and the stratum below the slopes are the real gold veins propelled out of the ground by the earthquake. .

   And this vein is very likely to be wrapped in shale, and it needs to be digging a distance to the mountain to discover it. However, after overturning the previous judgment, Chuemon was also taken aback.

  In the future, we can only dig into the underground 18 meters, and only 170 tons of gold will be mined. Then, how much gold has to be stuffed in from the hillside to the small community 18 meters underground!

  (End of this chapter)