industrial lord

Chapter 500 The mountains are full of mines

Frederick did not forget what he came here to do just because he picked up a queen, and Catherine did not ask him to send her back. She just chopped wood, cooked, and fed the giant horned deer with the support staff every day.

For many years, prospecting was a matter of chance. People first found the ore exposed on the surface and used this as a basis to search for veins in the surrounding areas.

A few years ago, geologist Georg Bauer wrote a book called "Encyclopedia of Mining and Metallurgy", which classified rocks and listed the relationship between different minerals and different rocks, pointing out a new direction for mineral exploration.

When Frederick appointed him to form the Land Resources Bureau, he also read this book for a while and had some understanding of finding shallow iron deposits.

Beside the campfire in the wild, more than thirty pieces of ore were placed in front of Frederick. These black ores were black, magnetic, and obviously magnetite ores.

This is what they gained from their fifth field trip.

Prior to this, Frederick used the campsite as the center and searched in different directions for five to six days at a time. This time he harvested more iron ore than the previous four times combined.

Hurley was cooking instant noodles on the campfire and sighed again: "I never thought you could find ore on the ground."

Several Aurora warriors accompanying him nodded in agreement.

It's starting to snow lightly now, and the forest floor is covered with a thin layer of snow and thick pine needles, and you can't see anything on the ground at all.

In the past, when people from the Antler Tribe came here to herd deer, they could only pick up some after the pine needles were washed away by the melting snow in spring and exposed on the ground.

Frederick just smiled. He was also a quasi-Dharma god. The rough domain was released, and he could control every plant and tree around him, and the ore was even clearer.

He had always felt that it was too wasteful for the Sword Masters and Gods of Swordsmen and Gods who had broken through the limitations of human strength to just fight and kill, and should play a big role in production and life.

But I dare not say this casually, for fear of being used by Master to make a nest.

The fragrant braised beef noodles are cooked. You can't eat without less calories when you go out. Whale oil and whale meat are added to the noodles, as well as some dehydrated vegetables.

Frederick also brought a good thing - capsaicin, which is extracted from chili peppers using alcohol.

/*I forgot to get peppers in the previous two chapters, so I changed them*/
The yield and quality of pepper cultivation in the Principality of Wesson are not high due to climate reasons. Most of the peppers on the market today were grown by Frederick in the territory east of Constantbulo and imported from the Kingdom of Kush in the south. The market is in short supply. , and the price of transporting it from a long distance is quite high, so cheap instant noodles cannot be used.

Another important reason why peppers are in short supply in the food market is that it is more profitable to make medicine than condiments. The smoke bombs made with capsaicin at the Springfield Arsenal are even more outrageous.

Frederick only added a little capsaicin to the noodles. Everyone was sweating profusely after eating, which was very comfortable in this season.

After dinner, a girl said to Frederick: "This is so good. I wish I could eat it every day."

Frederick immediately shook his head and said: "No, if you eat too much, your throat will hurt, and you will easily get hemorrhoids."

"I hate it!" Heli reached out and hit him on the shoulder, "How can you talk to a lady like this?"

Frederick looked at a young bear lying next to him. He was attracted by the smell of braised beef noodles just now. Hurley rushed over and jumped behind it and scratched its neck with her fingers. The bear's head almost fell off.

He said to the lady who could kill the bear easily: "These must be explained clearly first, otherwise some people will think they have been poisoned."

Another girl smiled and said to him: "Heli is poisoned and I can ask you to help me with the medicine."

Hurley jumped over to hit her, and at the same time said: "How about letting him put his hands on your shoulders to help you apply the medicine."

Then the girl blushed and started fighting with her.

While the two were fighting, someone cleaned the pot, fetched water from the newly dug well, and put in dried pine needles to boil the water.

There is a lack of vitamin intake here in the winter, so they go to any lengths to supplement it. In the summer, they collect pine needles and dry them, and in the winter, they boil water to drink, which can be regarded as a little supplement.

The nights are getting longer and longer now, and it will get dark soon after dinner.

Frederick was playing with a box the size of a computer case, placed it on the ground, and after opening it, a beam of light shot straight into the night sky.

More than thirty kilometers away, there was a thicker light pillar between the sky and the earth. This was the location of the campsite.

This light beam can not only be used for positioning, but can also simply convey messages and report each other's safety.

Frederick checked the light magic crystal that powered the equipment. The current energy was enough for one night.

There are many ice elements around here, and after absorption, they need to be converted into light elements through a specific magic circle before they can be charged and used.

It's just that the conversion efficiency of magic elements is too low, only 10%, and the speed is slow. You have to prepare several magic crystals to use at the same time. Frederick had no choice. He offered gold coins to solicit efficient transformation plans, but no one has come to ask for the money until now.

When everyone was drinking pine needle water around the campfire, Frederick pointed to a mountain more than 200 meters high one kilometer away and said: "Let's go there tomorrow to have a look. I suspect that the iron ore around it was washed down from the mountain." of."

The girls nodded and listened to his actions during the day and their actions at night.

Early the next morning, everyone cooked the best meat from the bear last night with dehydrated vegetables. The broth was used to soak dehydrated mashed potatoes. After eating, there was a cup of orange carrot juice made with juice powder, and finally the tent was packed. Set out with bearskins.

When he reached the top of the mountain, Frederick said excitedly: "Camp here first, there is a big discovery here!"

Then he started to unleash his ultimate move.

With Frederick's current strength, the waterfall technique he used was enough to wash away half a football field of land.

Even so, the edge of the iron ore belt on the ground is still invisible. The entire top of this mountain is filled with magnetite ore!
This made Frederick so happy that he felt like he had won a big prize!
A few days later, Jin Li brought a convoy to deliver supplies and went back with a replacement.

She saw from afar that trees on the mountain were falling down in large numbers, a phenomenon that only occurs when a mudslide occurs.

But it’s not the rainy season or snowmelt season, so there’s no mudslide.

When they went up the mountain, they found a lot of traces of mudslides on the hill. When they approached the top of the mountain, they saw Frederick laughing and picking up Heli and the others one by one and spinning them around.

When Frederick saw Jin Li and the others coming, he went over and hugged them all twice.

Some girls had been in the sauna with Frederick and didn't feel anything wrong, but some were thin-skinned and suddenly turned red after being hugged.

However, before the blush on their faces subsided, Frederick laughed and went over to hug the big-antlered deer pulling the cart and rub his face.

"He's crazy!"

"It's okay, just wake up after being knocked unconscious."

Before Jin Li and others could come up with a solution, a big-horned deer gave Frederick a hoof and kicked him down the mountain, startling a group of grouse looking for pine nuts in the forest.

That night, Frederick happily cooked a meal of roast chicken for everyone. Capsaicin was mixed with wine and smeared on the venison, and everyone was full of praise for the meal.

When he began to rest, Frederick took notes in his tent. He had just calculated the longitude and latitude here by measuring the stars in the sky, and also recorded the scale of the discovered mineral deposits.

It was Jin Li who entered Frederick's tent tonight. She sat down next to Frederick and asked, "Did you really find iron ore?"

She was a little unbelievable that so many people had come and gone on this land and could only pick up some iron ore. Only he could find the veins.

Frederick said while writing: "This is the largest iron mine in the world, and the ore contains more than 60% iron."

"The ore in this iron mine is like a flat plate inserted diagonally into the ground at an angle of about 60°. The length of the shallow vein is more than 3 kilometers and the width is about meters. The depth is unknown. It is estimated to be one or two kilometers, or even deeper. "

"I plan to search along both sides of the deposit next. There is a high chance that I can find shallow veins."

"There is a lake not far to the north of the mountain. I plan to build the tribe between the mountain and the lake, and then build a railway to the place where we disembark."

The ore here is easy to mine because the veins are sloping. You only need to dig up the soil above, and then use explosives to peel off the ore layer by layer and pull it away.

Frederick made a lot of money when he went north this time. Not only did he find high-quality iron ore, but he also heard that there was a coal mine in Gray Crow's land. Naturally, he would send troops to avenge the Antler Tribe.

When the time comes, using these two places as bases, we can reach far away.

Jin Li leaned against his shoulder and whispered, "That's great."

Frederick held her in his arms and asked softly: "Have you really thought about that matter?"

Jin Li blushed and lowered her head and said, "We will always have children."

Frederick finally nodded slightly and left it to them. It would be up to God if the time comes.

In the following time, Frederick started new exploration work centered on this mountain, and subsequently discovered some small veins.

While Frederick was prospecting in the north, a lot was happening in the south.

(End of this chapter)