Alaska Gold Rush

Chapter 196 Analysis and Understanding
'Revisiting the old place', let's count it as revisiting the old place.

Chen Ruobai, who returned to Facai Creek again, felt very good, especially when he climbed to the top and reached the river beach, the sense of accomplishment in his heart is self-evident.He is full of expectations, this is his land, and this is the out-and-out Fa Cai Creek!
Knowing that there is gold here naturally means full of expectations.While others are busy with a series of preliminary constructions, Chen Ruobai will not really be idle. He still has a lot of things to do, and he needs to further investigate a series of conditions of the mine.

The real bottom line is also for the subsequent construction and mining. These are all tasks that must be done in place.

He laid out the series of equipment he brought along. Although the environment here is still original, he has been here two or three times.In addition, Charles and others have also come here, so the tent can also be set up now.

Thinking about it in a bitter way, it has been improved now, and compared to the first time I came here, this is also a huge improvement.As a gold digger, you should also learn to be content.

"It doesn't matter if you stroll around here for a while, don't run far away." Rubbing Da Zhuang's head, Chen Ruobai said, "This side is not safe, if there are deer herds, maybe there are some big beasts, be careful!"

Brown bears, gray wolves, lynxes, etc. These beasts, not to mention threatening Da Zhuang, even Chen Ruobai had to be careful in front of them.If there is no powerful weapon, you may not be able to escape even if you encounter these beasts.

In the wilderness, being careful is the first priority. Excessive self-confidence is just making fun of your own safety.

Chen Ruobai has high hopes for Fa Caixi, and now he has found two gold mines, but he is not satisfied yet.He always felt there was more gold to be found along Fortune Creek, and he felt there would be gold further upriver, which was rougher and rougher.

Further searches are inevitable, but what needs to be done now is to find out the situation of the two proven gold mines.

This time, there is no need to explore the core area, what is needed now is to explore the edge area.

The real size of the mining area is what Chen Ruobai is eager to know now.He now only knows that the ore sand layer in the core area is very deep, and he also knows that the overall distribution of gold here is relatively uniform.

Even Chen Ruobai suspected that he might be able to directly extend the prospecting area into the existing river channel.After all, it seems that this area is connected to the river beach now, and the distribution of gold does not mean that there is a fault.

On the surface, the current stream is relatively narrow, but who knows if it was a wide river millions or tens of millions of years ago.The exposed river beach may just be the tip of the iceberg.

So now Chen Ruobai has reason to suspect that this mining area may not be complete at all.The exposed river beach now seems to have the appearance of an inner bay, but if the buried ancient river channel is also completely found out, it may be possible to include the existing river channel, and the overall area can be larger.

In order to prove his conjecture, Chen Ruobai really worked so hard, standing in the stream and digging hard.

It seems that there is no harvest on the surface for the time being, which is also a very normal thing, probably because some gold on the surface may have been washed downstream.What he needs to study is deeper, and there is the focus of attention.

When we drilled to a depth of about two meters, we finally changed from ordinary river sand to ore sand, and we could see some golden light.This can be regarded as confirming Chen Ruobai's judgment that the existing river course is indeed part of the inner bay of the ancient river course.

Such a discovery is naturally the best thing, which means that the area of ​​the mining area can be expanded a lot.

This is the exciting news. Although it will definitely increase the difficulty of construction at that time, compared with the huge rewards, this little difficulty is not a concern at all.

Looking around, Chen Ruobai also felt that if nothing happened, there might be something wrong with the small ridge more than ten meters away.

He didn't immediately plan to dig the ridge, Chen Ruobai was still digging hard, but he still didn't dig to the end, and still couldn't find the bedrock layer.

This is good news, and it is also bad news. Regarding this gold mine, Chen Ruobai still has no way to find out the details.He couldn't figure out how deep the ore sand layer was, and he couldn't figure out how big and large the gold mine could be.

The patient Chen Ruobai was working hard to find every clue, and slowly approached the ridge.

At this time, the Luoyang shovel is no longer useful, and there is no way to get the excavator up for the time being, that is to use a small shovel.There is no way to do this, let's see the situation first.

The soil was soft, and when the shovel went down, a large pile of mud and mud clods slid down.This is not surprising at all, this is just some floating soil on the surface.

Chen Ruobai does not intend to completely dig up this ridge now, such a project is really too big.

It is only necessary to dig out the surface soil layer, that is, to dig out the cross section of the ridge, which is the focus of the work.

Looking carefully at the cross-section of the soil layer, Chen Ruobai made some judgments with his not-so-rich knowledge of geology.If nothing else, it is dominated by silty clay and miscellaneous fill.

This is also normal, it is some common surface soil layers, and such soil quality is even more common in river channel areas.

Chen Ruobai, who continued to plan the section, suddenly noticed something was wrong, he saw obvious sand grains in the section.This is what is commonly known in geology as sedimentary layers, the kind of soil and bedrock material that comes from rivers and rivers that carry them to the sea.

And now suddenly there are sediment layers, which also shows that the surface here has undergone huge changes, so there have been such big changes.

The soil layers are not necessarily complete, geological changes will bring about huge changes, and it is these changes that Chen Ruobai is focusing on now.

Taking the posture of a geologist again, Chen Ruobai wanted to fully understand the conditions of these soil layers.After figuring out these conditions, it can basically be used as a reference to speculate on some changes in the entire mining area.

Chen Ruobai, who worked hard, continued to dig the soil, and took pictures and saved pictures from time to time.He's not particularly specialized in some things in geology, but he can let people judge them.At most, you need to spend some money for consultation, which is not a big problem.

The next moment Chen Ruobai was attracted by a small conch in the soil layer, it seemed that it was not an ordinary conch.

"Could it be a fossil?" Looking carefully, Chen Ruobai was not sure, "During my tutoring last year, I heard that geological changes turned the seabed into land, and many fossils of marine life remained. If it is really a fossil , then I can totally understand it.”

Earthquakes, landslides, etc., may bring about a series of changes on the surface.It is also very normal to form geological faults and uplifts.

It may be said that this place was integrated with the mining area before, but because of geological changes, this place was slightly raised, while other areas sank.At least it looks like this now. According to the previous prospecting situation, if there is a complete whole here, there should be gold sand.

Even if it is a small amount, it should appear a little bit.

It's a pity that no gold sand has been seen so far, which means that it is very likely that this ridge has become a watershed, and the gold in this area has either been buried deeper.Either that from here, basically out of gold.

After all, after geological changes, this place was raised, blocking the deposition of gold.Now there is no guarantee that the geological changes occurred after the gold deposits, or the surface changes occurred after the gold deposits.

It can only be that everything is possible, and what Chen Ruobai needs now is to have more evidence, so that he can have a real right to speak.

It's not bad to have such a little discovery, Chen Ruobai didn't think about fully understanding the situation, after all, he is not a geologist.As long as you understand some of the changes, there is no need to get to the bottom of it.

Chen Ruobai's hard work has been somewhat effective, and he has further improved his understanding of the situation in the mining area.Let's exaggerate a little bit, and some understanding of this land has also deepened.

This is obviously beneficial, and it will certainly bring more help to the follow-up work.

Old Dewei appeared, looked at the disheveled Chen Ruobai and said with emotion, "I am not surprised that you can succeed, you are one of the hardest working young people I have ever seen. You deserve this, and this is a reward for your hard work." award."

Chen Ruobai didn't want to drink chicken soup, and said directly, "There are many young people who work harder than me, but their efforts are not rewarded so generously. But I also need to take responsibility. I really work hard. I take my work very seriously. .”

Old Dewei didn't bother to talk about this with Chen Ruobai, he just said, "Our work will be completed soon, and now it is the widening and leveling of some roads."

"Contact my finances." Chen Ruobai smiled brightly and was very proud, "I don't care about these things now, I won't handle everything, my employees will take care of it."

The old Devi laughed and cursed, pointed to the river and said, "I think you need to do a good job of flood control, and there will be heavy rain again in two days. This is a big test for your mine, and it is also a test for us. If something changes, there is a good chance that all our previous work will be in vain.”

Chen Ruobai naturally understood this, and the heavy rain that followed was quite a test.

For Chen Ruobai, such a rainstorm may also be an opportunity for him to observe and analyze better.

It was because of a torrential rain that he found Fa Caixi, and now this torrential rain also allowed him to analyze some situations upstream.

(End of this chapter)