Alaska Gold Rush

Chapter 46 Calmly
Chen Ruobai carefully leveled the land with a shovel, and first roughly delineated the area.He also became more and more sure that he must be "picking up people's teeth", and just washed the ore left by the previous gold diggers again.

There's nothing shabby about it, as long as gold can be laundered and money can be made, that's obviously a skill.

And Da Zhuang has been directed by Chen Ruobai to the side of the road, and is obediently waiting for Montgomery. He can easily complete the job of leading the way, so that Montgomery won't go the wrong way.

Hearing the sound of an excavator from a distance, Chen Ruobai straightened up, finally heaving a sigh of relief.Excavators are effective. Digging two buckets casually is more effective than Chen Ruobai's hard work for an hour.

Although there is no road, Montgomery doesn't care about these things. He doesn't need to care about how many weeds the excavator crushed along the way.

Seeing that Chen Ruobai had stepped aside and pointed forward, Montgomery poked his head out, "Shall we start directly?"

Chen Ruobai nodded, wiped his sweat and said, "Yes, turn over the surface soil along the land I circled."

Montgomery didn't have any complaints, and immediately drove the excavator skillfully to start working, as long as he used the teeth in front of the bucket to rake the ground.

The excavator was working hard, and the smile on Chen Ruobai's face could no longer be hidden.It seems that this time is really good, this time it is considered a good luck, and found a good 'gold mine'.

Suddenly Chen Ruobai said loudly, "Don't keep going, change the direction."

This is where Chen Ruobai's advantage lies. According to the range of the golden light, Chen Ruobai can probably judge the trend of the 'gold mine'.There is almost no golden light ahead, and it seems that the ore over there has no mining value.

It took Montgomery two hours to dig out an area of ​​almost two acres.It's just that the soil on the surface is slightly opened, so that Chen Ruobai can better observe some situations here.

Stopping the excavator, Montgomery asked while drinking water, "This looks like a former gold mine, and the soil is full of ore sand."

"Yes, this is the ore sand left by the former gold diggers." Chen Ruobai looked around, feeling a little regretful, "It doesn't look too big, now we have to check the depth. Wait, try digging down and see See how much the ore sand layer is."

Regardless of the area of ​​two acres of land, this seems to be a relatively large pile.But ore is not gold, and two or three grams of gold washed out of one ton of soil and sand is not considered a loss.What's more, in the area of ​​these two acres of land, there is no golden light in the edge area, and it is basically just useless sand and gravel.

Montgomery continued to observe diligently, while Chen Ruobai seemed to see some clues as the work continued.

If there is no accident, this is indeed the place where ore sand was once piled up.It's just that for various reasons, the previous gold diggers missed such a small batch of ore sand and did not wash it more carefully.

Maybe it's winter, maybe it's a mechanical failure, it's more likely that this area has been missed.

Suddenly Montgomery dug up some logs that looked like they were decaying for decades if not 100 years.The mess was at the bottom of the pit, which also gave Chen Ruobai a new judgment.

It is very likely that the gold diggers here made an omission and actually treated the ore as waste, which allowed Chen Ruobai and others to take advantage of it.

But no matter what, seeing that the hole was dug to a depth of more than two meters and there was still no sign of bottoming out, Chen Ruobai had a bottom line.

"It seems that we have a new site, and we don't need to worry about losing income when the work on the river channel ends." Chen Ruobai smiled happily, and said to Montgomery, "You can transfer the machine back, and continue to work tomorrow."

Montgomery looked at Chen Ruobai with expectant eyes, and hurriedly asked, "We can also find gold here, right?"

"I feel good, it should be fine." Chen Ruobai said, pointing to his feet, "This is the former ore accumulation area, or the area used for backfilling. It seems that our predecessors have missed a lot of money."

The excited Montgomery clenched his fists again and again, he believed in Chen Ruobai's judgment, this kind of trust naturally came from the fact that Chen Ruobai's 'myth' was still going on.Even if it seems that no particularly large mines have been found, Chen Ruobai has always been able to find gold, and this is enough.

So what if this is Chen Ruobai's first year in the field of gold panning?
Even those gold diggers who have been panning for gold for many years cannot guarantee that they can find gold every year.It is not uncommon for many experienced gold diggers to barely save their capital after a busy year, and it is not uncommon for some gold diggers who have been panning for gold for half their lives to end up bankrupt.

So being able to find gold is the most important thing, this is the real ability, and you don't need to care about the others.

Looking at the wasteland in front of me, maybe it is a barren land in the eyes of others.But Chen Ruobai knew that there was a lot of gold hidden here, which might increase his income this year.

It's just that the profit is a little lower. Who made this Dawson's mine, the necessary expenses are indispensable.

This can be regarded as Chen Ruobai's Long Wangshu. If other gold diggers have Chen Ruobai's income, they will be overjoyed.But Chen Ruobai was lucky, not only was he dissatisfied with his income, he also felt that the profit was not enough.

Others don't have this kind of treatment, and the costs and expenses of those people are far more than Chen Ruobai.

Chen Ruobai was undoubtedly happy and proud. Rubbing Da Zhuang's head, Chen Ruobai said, "The construction here is not too difficult. It is basically ore dug by others before, and the site is leveled. The only thing to worry about is the The wires are coming, and a signal receiver needs to be installed. But no problem, we also have some experience."

Needless to say, life is inconvenient and so on. If you are mining in the wild, don't expect to be very comfortable. This is the fact.

Naturally, all of these can be overcome, even now they are relatively good, because Chen Ruobai hardly has any particularly bad working environment.That is to say, there was no capital to go to human mining at the beginning, and I suffered a little bit during that time.

"But mining here, the biggest problem is that the power of the excavator and washing machine is not enough." Chen Ruobai scratched his head and said, "Small excavators must be eliminated. This year's gold rush season is over, and this excavator will I'm going to announce my retirement."

But my own 'big excavator' is really not too big, so I am reluctant to eliminate it now.The main reason is that the depreciation fee is too fast. After working for a year, the price has to be discounted.

"It seems that this winter is busy, and we need to consider the excavator and the large washing machine." Rubbing his big head, Chen Ruobai said to himself, "I still want to go to the beach to absorb gold, at least You also need a large excavator and mining machine. If you make a little money this year, most of it will be invested in these equipment.”

That can't be helped, although the investment has been made, the machine is here, and it can be regarded as one of his own assets.Furthermore, if you want to make more money, you must invest.

The labor cost is actually not low. After all, the labor cost in the United States has always been relatively high.The key is that the efficiency is not enough, it is not cost-effective.

It seems that it can only spend a little more money and buy more "family property".

It is not difficult for Chen Ruobai to make these decisions, and he is very clear about the principle that if he wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his weapon.It's not that they don't want children to be unable to trap wolves. These simple things are necessary production tools, it's that simple.

"It seems that things here are about to start to be arranged, and the site is set up in advance, and then the connection will be seamless, without delaying work." Chen Ruobai planned carefully, time is money, "the mine over there can dig up to At the end of July, it may be a month here. It will be almost September by then, and it may be too late."

Let's see, if you find a small mine, it's good to prepare for the gold rush season next year, so as not to be busy looking for mines when the gold rush season comes.Only with the 'remaining mines' in hand can we have more confidence and calmness!
(End of this chapter)