“It’s really cold here!”

It was just windy, and Tao Mingzhi shrank his neck and hid on the back of the tent. "Sometimes it is so cold that I can't sleep at night. You just came here, so you should pay more attention to keeping warm. You can go to our camp later. I have a very good sleeping bag there."

"Thank you for your kindness."

Li Tang is not that pretentious. Everyone can work here for a long time. He has no spoiled habits and does not need special treatment.

After chatting for a few words, Li Zaiqiang took the initiative to talk to Li Tang about the progress of the project: "The four main ore bodies are progressing smoothly. Within the range of the porphyry body circled by the geophysical exploration measurement, if the holes are drilled, the ore can be basically seen. However, we have arranged the geophysical exploration personnel to pass through the main faults of the ore body to do some work to see if we can figure out the direction of the porphyry body to the deep."

"There is no rush to work." Li Tang waved his hands while drinking hot tea to warm his body. "It's cold now and there's not much working time this year. If you want to look for mines deeper now, you will definitely not be able to achieve results. It's better to concentrate on the shallow ore body as you did before!"

“This job will be done sooner or later.”

"Come here next spring and continue to do it. Now there is no time to do so much work."

After hearing this, Li Zaiqiang thought for a while and nodded, "Okay, listen to you."

I don't know why, but he believed his son's words without hesitation.

"By the way." Li Tang saw the drawings in his father's hand and clicked one of the places, "This place..."

"No. 4 ore body." Li Zaiqiang explained the naming.

"Is this the ore body in the east of the project?"

"right."

"The cause of this ore body is somewhat different from that of the other three ore bodies. This is a shallow low-temperature hydrothermal deposit formed by the interaction between rainwater, surface water and magma, which is different from the other three ore bodies."

Li Tang was afraid that his father would not notice this important difference, so he specifically reminded: "Don't make mistakes when you do your work."

"From the surface and lithologic perspective, there is indeed a difference, and we have discovered it." Li Zaiqiang nodded, "And the current ore drilling situation of this ore body is slightly worse than that of the other three ore bodies. The average grade of the copper ore of the other three ore bodies is around 0.6%, and the average grade of this No. 4 ore body is below 0.5%, which has not reached the industrial grade."

After briefly understanding the progress of the project, Li Tang quickly got into the role, running back and forth between four ore bodies every day, participating in everyone's work, and occasionally giving some advice.

Although he is young, he has a high prestige within the Purple Mining Technology Department and the 101 Geological Team.

Others will always calm down and listen to what he says, and then work according to his wishes.

Nothing else, he found a big mine for Purple Mining!

He also got 50 million yuan for the 101 geological team to investigate the project in detail!

In addition to these two units, there are also the Geophysical Exploration Corps, Drilling Company, and dozens of fellow villagers invited by the local government.

Two or three hundred people were in this unmanned land, working hard, facing the wind and snow, without fear of hardships.

Li Tang was busy all day and returned to the camp. Seeing that the weather was good, he walked to the top of the uphill and admired the land.

When summer comes, I look up and see a green and full of vitality.

It’s almost winter, and there’s a snowy world of ice and snow all around it, another magnificent beauty.

Hahaha...

There was a brisk sound of footsteps behind him. He thought someone was approaching. When he looked back, he saw that it was not a human, but a wild donkey!

Wild donkeys have big heads and big eyes, so they are not afraid of people.

Li Tang squatted motionlessly, only daring to scan the wild donkey gradually approaching with his light.

Huff...

The wild donkey sniffed and walked to Li Tang's back. His hot breath had already sprayed on Li Tang's neck.

Crunch...

The wild donkey's two thick lips kept chewing Li Tang's hair, as if he was using this black hair as forage.

It soon found that the black hair could not chew and had no taste when it was eaten, so it gave up and turned around and walked leisurely towards the distance.

Li Tang reached out and touched the back of his head, which was wet, all covered with the saliva of a wild donkey.

When the cold wind blew, the wet hair quickly condensed into ice residue.

"The donkeys in the production team are not as good as your appetite, and they eat all their hair." He smiled.

In such an isolated world, time passes very slowly, but it does not stop flowing.

During this period, Han Dexun led an expert team from Qianzhou Provincial Geological Bureau to come all the way to guide the work. Before he could reach the project area, half of the experts returned urgently due to altitude sickness.

Before the mountains were closed with heavy snow, they finished their work this year, and everyone, all the machines, left the project area while the weather was clear.

Drilling machinery, instruments and equipment were all left in the Tubo Provincial Capital. They rented warehouses and hired special people to take care of them.

After returning to Qianzhou Province, each of them received a 30 yuan per day outdoor allowance, and the remaining part of the food expenses of ten yuan per day. In more than two months, each received a 2,000 yuan per day subsidy.

Suddenly, everyone's life became more and more generous.

People with families will improve their family living conditions at the first time, buy meat and buy new clothes for their wives and children.

Those who have not yet started a family are even more comfortable and happy when they have money.

The atmosphere of the entire 101 geological team became vigorous and extremely joyful.

After a simple day off, everyone returned to the office, sorted out the information from morning to night, and prepared phased exploration reports.

Even if I'm busy late at night every day, almost no one complains.

Tao Mingzhi and others from the Purple Mining Technology Department did not rush to return to Jian'an Province, but followed Li Zaiqiang to live in Qianzhou Province, moved into the guesthouse of the Geological Bureau, and came to the 101 geological team every day to organize information with the technical team here.

Li Zaiqiang personally took the initiative to calculate the data of drilling during this period and calculated the most critical data - reserves, especially the reserves of copper ore.

"How?" Tao Mingzhi would come to Li Zaiqiang's office every day and ask.

"The reserve data has been calculated, and we have calculated it many times, so there will be no big differences in the data."

Li Zaiqiang was busy all day, stood up and stretched his waist, and moved his stiff body for a while, "Yuexing, you can sort out the information and hand it over to Minister Tao. By the way, the Tubo Provincial Department of Land and Resources will also submit a phased summary report. Director Nobu is very supportive and caring about our work, and he specifically instructed us to report the progress of the work to them at any time."

"Okay, let's sort out the information in order today." After Li Zaiqiang was promoted, Pan Yuexing naturally became the director of the Geology Institute.

Since joining the 101 Geological Team, he has been working with Li Zaiqiang.

According to the tradition of "transmitting and helping" in the geological industry, he can actually call Li Zaiqiang a master, but usually according to his position.

As a country kid, without relatives or reasons, in his thirties, being able to become the director of a geology institute is already much better than most of his colleagues who entered the unit together.

He is very grateful to Li Zaiqiang and does not forget Li Zaiqiang's support.

He understood even more that he must firmly grasp the relationship between Li Zaiqiang.

Even though he was prepared, Tao Mingzhi was still shocked when he got the data from Pan Yuexing, and then was excited and speechless.

After a while, he asked in disbelief: "You are not wrong? The reserves are too high, and they are all 14 million tons!"

"That's right."

Pan Yuexing was very calm and handed over another document, "Minister Tao, take a look at this document. This is the workload we have completed during this period, and the workload budget we have compiled in finance. Please review it."

"Okay." Tao Mingzhi took back his mind, picked up the financial information and took a look.

Pan Yuexing explained on the side: "The first phase of work was originally budgeted for five million, and we paid 1.5 million yuan in the first phase. According to the workload completed later, the overall exploration fee exceeded the budget, reaching 5.3 million yuan. In the middle of the project, you settled part of the exploration fee, which was about two million yuan. In addition to the 20% exploration fee that needs to be settled after the project acceptance, you also need to pay 740,000 yuan for the first phase of the exploration fee."

He pointed to one of the documents, "Minister Tao, if you have no objection, please sign on the workload list and confirm it."

“This is OK.”

Tao Mingzhi understands these financial situations and has records on his own, so there is no doubt.

The cost of 740,000 is the pre-examination and census work completed in the previous few months, and the part has not yet been settled.

Pang Yuexing pointed to another financial bill, "This bill is the second phase of our work, that is, the workload we have completed, and the overall exploration fee calculated based on the workload."

He paused for a moment and explained embarrassedly: "The overall budget for the design workload of the work is 10 million, but this time, we exceeded the work. The overall exploration fee is 11.8 million."

In order to complete the target tasks assigned by the bureau, they had to complete 10 million workloads. They mobilized almost all the forces that the Bureau could mobilize, and worked day and night, and finally lived up to expectations and completed the task more than they could.

The more they do, the more exploration fees they can get.

This is why the geological survey bureau is so active in doing things, and everyone is trying their best.

"What about so many?" Tao Mingzhi was quite surprised.

"You also know that in terms of exploration difficulty level, the budget standards are the highest level five, which are much more expensive than other places." Pan Yuexing quickly explained.

"I can understand that the exploration fee is as much as it is."

The exploration fee is calculated entirely based on the workload completed. Tao Mingzhi also had no objection. After all, they all counted the amount of workload completed, and you will know after calculating it.

"If there is no problem, we will send someone to your Purple Mining to handle the settlement procedures."

Pan Yuexing was about to go out and say to Zhou Zhenxing that he could go and get the money.

"Director Pan."

Tao Mingzhi shouted, "Well, I will return to Jian'an Province tomorrow morning."

"So fast? Our Captain Zhou also said that we would take you here for a few more days."

"Such great news, I must report to the company's leaders immediately!"

Tao Mingzhi is now impatient to report the results of this time to Chen Jinhe in person, and doesn't want to wait for a moment. "By the way, please tell General Manager Li and Li Tang, it's best that they can go to Jian'an with me."

"Don't you call us Team Zhou?"

Pan Yuexing suddenly felt that he had asked this question more.

In the entire 101 geological team, whoever knew about Purple Mining recognized Li Zaiqiang and Li Tang and his son!

"You are going to settle the bill, so why not go there together."

"Okay, I will definitely notify them!"

The next morning, everyone took their own information and took the plane and flew directly to the Purple Mining Headquarters of Jian'an Province.
Chapter completed!