i have a super island

Chapter 599 Copper Smelting
The small island in the south became the best gift that God bestowed on them.

What is surprising is that the records on the sea chart are accurate. According to the markings on the sea chart, the small island is full of malachite, and the result is exactly the same.

This trip across the sea can be said to be fruitful, and Fang Fang and Lu Fengmei couldn't stop laughing.

According to Lu Fengmei's proposal, the two quickly decided not to go back, and built a furnace in the south of the island to start copper smelting.

With the method of building a blast furnace learned from Ayue, Lu Fengmei guided the aboriginals to build the furnace on the spot.

Firstly, enough soil was transported from the woods, and then seawater was added to form a thin mud, and then pure stones without copper ore were selected from the copper ores brought back, and the mud and stones were used to build a building in the woods by the coast. A copper smelting furnace.

After finishing all this, the aborigines were arranged to go to the woods to cut wood.

Fang Fang and Lu Fengmei stayed to deal with the copper ore.

Ore is the most basic form. It is not that simple to extract copper. There is no way to calcine stone. First, the copper attached to the ore must be knocked off.

The knocked-out green copper is collected. These green coppers are simply code names. They are not real copper. They are still attached to the rocks. To obtain real copper mines, they need to be calcined in a furnace.

But what Fang Fang and Lu Fengmei are doing now is to knock off the green copper attached to the ore as much as possible. After all, the next step is to smelt copper, not to burn stones.

When the natives brought back enough wood from the forest, Fang Fang and Lu Fengmei also knocked out enough green copper.

The next thing to do is to throw the knocked-off green copper into the furnace, and then throw the wood into it, and start calcination after a fire is lit.

The fire was raging in the furnace, and the flames from the mouth of the furnace were still tinged with green light.

Seeing this scene, the natives around felt incredible that there was still green fire in this world.

Because they did not understand this wonderful phenomenon, these natives knelt down to worship the furnace as if they were in awe of the gods, uttering incomprehensible languages.

Lu Fengmei said with a smile: "This is because the flame reacted with the copper in the ore, so the green fire came out. This also shows that the copper ore resources contained in these malachite are quite rich."

The corners of Fang Fang's mouth trembled slightly, and he was so excited that he was a little nervous. If the copper smelting was successful, then it would really be a big step from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age.

The fire in the furnace kept simmering, and the flames that spewed from the mouth of the furnace also showed that all this was going well.

Seeing the scorching red charcoal constantly rolling down from the bottom of the furnace, Fang Fang and Lu Fengmei's mood at the moment was just like the burning charcoal, and they just wanted to see the result of the burning.

After waiting for two hours, the fire in the furnace began to gradually go out.

Lu Fengmei found a wooden stick and began to pull the burnt plant ash out from the hole at the bottom of the furnace.

Apart from plant ash, there were also calcined and crushed ores that were pulled out, but these were not what Lu Fengmei wanted to see.

Seeing Lu Fengmei scratching her head alone, Fang Fang also found a wooden stick to join in, and the two of them dug out from the lower hole of the furnace together.

Finally, the wooden stick touched something hard, and Lu Fengmei's frown instantly relaxed.

Pushing aside a cloud of plant ash, a lump of black lacquer was revealed inside.

The shape doesn't look like a piece of copper at all, it's like a pool of liquid flowing around randomly and then solidifies, turning into something strange in shape.

Lu Fengmei pushed the piece aside with a wooden stick, her eyes were full of excitement, and she laughed loudly: "It's done, it's done, this is copper!"

Equation ran up to the black lacquered thing and took a closer look. In fact, it was impossible to tell what it was, but Lu Fengmei said it was copper, so it was right to assume that it was copper.

"Old Lu, you have it!"

"It's done, we will have copper on our island in the future!"

The two danced and danced, holding sticks and jumping up and down, which made the remaining natives confused.

The aboriginals were full of doubts and wondered what was going on. The master had always been serious and cautious, but why did he jump into a big god today? What is that dark thing that can have such a great magical power?

"Get some water!"

Lu Fengmei urged anxiously.

Those aborigines rushed to fetch water and handed it to Lu Fengmei.

Lu Fengmei poured the water in the clay pot on the black thing, and there was a sizzling sound and a burst of water vapor.

When the piece was cooled by the water, Lu Fengmei dared to hold it in her hand.

Scratching off the layer of black ash attached to it with a fingernail, a small piece of dull metal was exposed.

At this moment, Lu Fengmei is like a gold digger who has refined gold, even this kind of excitement is happier than refining gold.

"Look quickly, do you see it? This is copper." Lu Fengmei pointed out the piece of exposed metal to Fang Fang.

"It's really, it's really copper!" Fang Fang smiled happily.

Throwing the piece of copper aside, Lu Fengmei continued to paw under the furnace with a wooden stick, saying, "There are still a lot of them inside."

Fang Fang also took out the stove with him. At this moment, the two of them were like two children, only thinking about getting more copper pieces out of the stove.

Because the ashes in the stove were still very hot, the wooden sticks in the hands of the two of them soon emitted white smoke and turned into black charcoal.

But this did not stop the enthusiasm of the two of them in the slightest. While smiling, they took out the remaining copper pieces in the stove.

In the end, all the ashes in the stove were taken out, and Lu Fengmei poured water on top of the ashes continuously. When the cold water met the boiling ash, steam came out immediately.

The larger pieces of copper have been picked out, and the next task for everyone is to rummage through the ashes for small copper particles.

Lu Fengmei showed the natives a copper nugget pulled out of the ashes, and told them to follow her example and dig out such a copper nugget from the ashes.

Those aboriginals nodded with half understanding, and joined the team looking for copper nuggets.

Seeing the copper grains being found out continuously, Fang Fang showed a gratified smile on his face. This moment meant that they had the ability to smelt copper ore.

In fact, all of this is too hasty today, and there are still many areas that can be improved.

But this is also a matter of no choice, who told Lu Fengmei and Fang Fang to be too excited, and only wanted to refine the copper as soon as possible.

Seeing these smelted copper nuggets now, only Fang Fang and Lu Fengmei could experience this kind of joy. They packed these copper nuggets and hurriedly took them back to share the good news with everyone in the camp.

(End of this chapter)