"The Baimuluo mining area is centered on Baimulo Mountain, and the area available for mining is about three square kilometers.
There are nearly 200 employees in the current mine, 36 of whom are technical and managerial staff sent from the company headquarters. The remaining staff are recruited from the local area, mainly from the Wildebeest tribe. p>
Chermia is an alliance composed of many tribes. The Baimuluo area is the living area of the Wildebeest tribe. When we mine here, we must not only obtain approval from the Chermia government, but also reach a cooperation agreement with the Wildebeest tribe.
, otherwise there will be no way to carry out the work.
According to Qirmiya's practice of introducing foreign investment to develop minerals, we can only get half of the annual income from this mining area, and the other 30% will be handed over to the government, and 20% will be given to the wildebeest tribe.
The Wildebeest tribe requires that at least half of the workers in the mine must be recruited from various villages in their tribe, but the people in their tribe are relatively honest and work very hard, so they are still good miners."
While Lao Yan introduced the situation, he accompanied Gao Xingyu and Zhou Hongsheng into the mining area.
The mining area is like a large construction site. From the office area above, it doesn't look like much, but when you get down, you realize that the ground has been dug up and down, making it really difficult to walk.
There are already miners working in the mining area. They are divided into several groups, holding small hammers and other tools, and carefully pounding the excavated rocks.
"Chilmi stones are found among these rocks. Cermi stones are small in size and of high value. Current technology cannot allow mining machinery to automatically identify them, so manual beneficiation is the only feasible mining method." Zhou Hongsheng said. Gao Xingyu nodded. He tried it during his lunch break. Of course, he could tell the difference between ores and ordinary rocks with his spiritual consciousness, but this consumes a lot of his spiritual consciousness. Using his spiritual consciousness in exchange for these stones can only be sold for money in the secular world.
Not worth it.
Lao Yan asked Gao Xingyu and Zhou Hongsheng to go to a working group and watch the miners beneficiating minerals.
There are four or five people in a group, each with their own division of labor. Some are responsible for carrying rocks, some are responsible for grinding and opening windows, and some are responsible for cutting.
The most critical figure in the working group is the elderly black man in front of him. He holds a small hammer in one hand and something similar to a copper trumpet in the other hand. One end is wide and the other is narrow, with a ninety-degree angle.<
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He placed the wide end on a rock half a meter in diameter, and the narrow end next to his ear, and then used a small hammer to hit the rock in order from light to heavy.
After a few minutes, he put down the tools in his hands, shook his head, and then closed his eyes to rest.
The person next to him immediately moved the rock in front of him to one side and drew a mark on the place where he struck.
Only then did Lao Yan speak: "He uses the 'listening' method to determine whether there is a Chermi stone in it. For a larger rock like this, after they inspect one side, they will use a cutting machine to cut off five to
A layer of ten centimeters, and then continue to repeat the operation just now."
"How many pieces of rock like this usually need to be cut to get a piece of Qilmi stone? Does it need to be screened bit by bit like this?" Gao Xingyu asked casually.
"The performance of the mine depends on the condition of the veins and personal luck. Generally speaking, our place is pretty good. On average, one hundred stones can be mined to produce one Chirmi stone.
The value of chermi stone is related to its color, but the size of the original stone is also a very important factor. Therefore, the mine can only carefully dig out the rocks and then slowly screen them manually.
Chirmi stones are sold as gem-grade raw materials. The smaller the size of the rough stones, the less valuable they are. Brutal operation is pleasant, but if we continue like this, I am afraid that we will not even be able to recover the cost of operating this mining area."
Gao Xingyu has already used his spiritual consciousness to examine the rock, and there is indeed a Qilmi stone near the inside. However, this Qilmi stone is not large in size.
If miners don't handle it carefully, it can easily be missed or even directly destroyed by the cutting machine.
While several people were talking, a burst of cheers came from not far away.
"Mr. Gao is so lucky. As soon as you came over there, the Qilmi Stone was opened. Let's go and have a look." Lao Yan said with a smile.
Gao Xingyuke followed the host and walked over. As for Lao Yan's kind words, he just listened casually. Who is serious and who is stupid!
The Chirmi stones found here are not large in size, only the size of pigeon eggs, golden yellow, but not clear enough.
Now this is just a raw stone that has not been polished. After post-processing, the volume will be reduced, but the color, transmittance and other indicators will increase significantly, reaching the level of ordinary people's perception of gems.
After looking at the rough stones, Lao Yan took Gao Xingyu forward and came to a mine.
"Mr. Gao, this is the mine where those special stones were mined. Those stones are stored in it, and the mine has been temporarily closed. Are you ready to go in and take a look now?"
"Yes, I'm going to go take a look. Please make arrangements, thank you." Gao Xingyu replied.
When Gao Xingyu got off the plane, he used his spiritual consciousness to discover this place. His spiritual consciousness is relatively sensitive to energy, and the concentration of vitality in this mine is much higher than in other places, so Gao Xingyu has long noticed it.
The mine tunnel slopes downward, changing direction every time it passes a certain distance. The total length of the tunnel is about a hundred meters, but it is not deep, only about ten meters. Every few meters in the tunnel, logs are used to line it.
Supports were made all around, and wires and lights were pulled in. It was very formal.
Those raw spirit stones were placed in the passage near the exit, one next to another.
A window was opened on the outer skin of one of the raw Lingshi mines. Although it was not fully opened, energy was slowly leaking out from the window.
Gao Xingyu could even clearly discover where in the mine these raw spirit stones were dug out, because the concentration of vitality there was significantly higher.
However, there seems to be a force in the passage. Although it is not strong, it effectively suppresses the vitality, so that the vitality in the passage is sealed inside and does not spread out.
"Such mines were dug by the mining area in order to analyze the underground geological structure and determine the direction of the veins. A total of four mines were dug around the mining area. After the special stones were discovered here, we also dug mines in several other directions.
Inspections have been increased, but so far, only this mine has yielded results."
While introducing Gao Xingyu, Lao Yan took out the key, opened the door installed at the entrance of the mine, and closed it to light up the lights in the mine.
"Director Yan, what are these horns and these symbols used for?" Gao Xingyu asked, pointing to the entrance of the passage.
On the wall at the entrance of the mine tunnel, there is an animal horn hanging, which looks like a cow horn but is not a cow horn. There are traces of artificial polishing.
There are also some ghostly symbols on the ground, one every few meters, extending deep into the mine.