Chapter 568 Mountaintop Observation
But what made Yang Jing feel a little disappointed was that the Porgela mining area did not apply to visit the mining area submitted by Yang Jing and his group. The reason given by the other party was very "cold".
"The mining area is undergoing technical upgrading and renovation, and unrelated personnel are prohibited from visiting."
A very powerful reason, but it just makes people unable to refute it.
Faced with such a result, even Liu Zhaoming was a little unbelievable. You know, he and Adrian went to the mining area to apply, and Liu Zhaoming even used his own name, but was still rejected by coldly.
Guo Xiaoxiang asked Liu Zhaoming in confusion: "Teacher Liu, you said that when you came to visit and inspect the last time, Rio Tinto and BHP were the ones who were welcomed by Gao Jingyuan. Why did you suddenly change your face today?"
Liu Zhaoming smiled bitterly and shook his head and said, "Who knows? But I guess that the last time I was able to visit here smoothly was also a major cooperation project with BHP Billiton. At that time, BHP had a request for our country, so we would easily pass the application for visiting. As for this time, although the person in charge here is still Mr. Albany, we do not have any new cooperation projects with BHP Billiton or even Rio Tinto. On the contrary, there are still some irreconcilable differences with these two companies in terms of iron ore imports. People refuse to visit us and probably give us a face."
After a pause, Liu Zhaoming continued to analyze: "And there are four private mining companies in our country who have obtained permission from the Papua New Guinea government to enter Papua New Guinea to conduct survey and development of precious metal mineral resources. In terms of minerals, it has formed a direct competitive relationship with Rio Tinto and BHP. It would be strange if someone could let us visit their mining areas."
Yang Jing and his group were helpless about this unexpected result.
"Let's go, why are you poking from here? Are you making those guys laugh at me?" Guo Xiaoxiang said angrily.
"I said Xiao Xiang, don't be so angry. It's summer now, and it's easy to get angry if you get angry." Yang Jing joked with a smile.
Guo Xiaoxiang spat at the mining area, "If you want to say that this Australian is the ungrateful wolf, and he is not well-raised. He is obviously very dependent on our China now, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Australian mining companies are pointing at our country to support them. However, when China is good to them, they are docile like a dog. But once they have a little conflict with China, these guys don't know what it means to "take a step back and the sky is wide open", and they are still petty and even bite back from time to time. What a bunch of ungrateful wolf!"
Yang Jing patted Guo Xiaoxiang on the shoulder and said, "Okay, you all know that these guys are a bunch of ungrateful wolves who are not well-fried. So what are you calculating about? If the dog bites you, can you bite it back?"
"No, I won't bite it back. I'll stew the dog that bites me!"
"Isn't this going to be a tyrant? Rio Tinto and BHP will give us a face today. Let's open a gold mine next to them that is larger than this mine, and they will be pissed off! This is the most powerful counterattack."
Yang Jing's words made Guo Xiaoxiang feel a little relieved. He asked, "Then why are we still staying here? Let's go."
Yang Jing shook his head slowly, turned around and pointed to the mountain next to the largest main pit in the mine area and asked Chris: "Chris, are you sure to drive the helicopter up on the top of that mountain?"
Chris had not answered yet, and Liu Zhaoming, who was standing by, said: "Mr. Yang, even if Mr. Patton can drive the helicopter up, we cannot go there. That mountain, even the town of Porgela, is theoretically the scope of Rio Tinto. If we don't get their permission, go up that mountain, they have the right to catch us."
Liu Zhaoming's words made Yang Jing sigh helplessly, pointing to the mountain at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters east of Porgela Town, six kilometers away, and said: "Teacher Liu, we can't climb this mountain, so we can't climb that mountain over there, right?"
Liu Zhaoming pushed his glasses on his nose, looked at the mountain six kilometers away, and hesitated for a moment and said, "In terms of the scope of the Porgela mining area, that mountain should also belong to Rio Tinto and BHP. However, it is a little far from the mining area. If we climb the mountain by climbing, no one will be bored and cause trouble for us."
Yang Jing clapped his hands and said, "Okay, then our next task today is to climb that mountain. Teacher Liu, Xiao Xiang, if you two don't want to climb, you can find a cafe or restaurant in the town to wait for me. Chris and Adrian will just climb the mountain together."
Guo Xiaoxiang asked in confusion: "Old Yang, isn't it just a broken mine? Do you have to take a look?"
Yang Jing shrugged and said, "You can't say it, I have never appreciated the open-pit mine up close in my life. Okay, don't say it, just wait for me in the town below. I can return in at most two hours."
Guo Xiaoxiang also knew that his brother had some little secrets in the past two years. For example, when his old man said that his brother had learned some magical skills from an old Taoist priest when he was studying in London, he still thought about it but still couldn't figure out when his brother who had been sleeping in the same room with him for two years had learned something from an old Taoist priest.
However, Guo Xiaoxiang has a high emotional intelligence. Since Yang Jing is unwilling to explain some things, he just pretends not to know about them.
This time, Yang Jing said that he would climb the mountain to see the mining area. Guo Xiaoxiang did not even hesitate and agreed happily.
Yang Jing and his group returned to the town on the same road. Guo Xiaoxiang and his team found a coffee shop in the town. Yang Jing took Chris and Adrian to climb the mountain with unknown name.
The altitude of the town is about 2,200 meters. Although this mountain exceeds 3,000 meters, the height it needs to climb is only more than 800 meters.
Moreover, after the height of the mountain exceeds 2,500 meters, the dense broad-leaved forests disappeared, replaced by some coniferous forests. There are not so many vines in the woods, so it is relatively easy to climb.
Yang Jing's physical fitness is naturally not true. Chris and Adrian are both professional bodyguards, and climbing is not a problem for them. So even though the mountain is indeed very steep, it still does not stump the three of them.
It took about an hour to complete the three of them successfully climbed to the top of this mountain.
Standing here, looking at the mining area six kilometers away, you can see the entire mining area.
It was almost noon and the weather gradually cleared up. A ray of sunlight revealed from the clouds, forming an extremely beautiful golden ray, which shot directly from the low clouds to the ground below.
Among the mountains in the distance, low clouds flow slowly along the hillside, just like water, extremely beautiful.
Only the huge main mine pit and those scattered small mine pits can be seen in the mining area six kilometers away. The giant mine cart, which was originally huge, could only see a black dot in vaguely when looking at this location.
The huge main mine pit is one kilometer in diameter. The circles of mine tunnels seem to be threaded, extending downwards around the edge of the pit. However, the main mine pit is too deep. Even if the position where Yang Jing and the others are standing is more than 700 meters higher than that of the mine pit, they can only vaguely see about one-third of the mine pit.
But even so, Yang Jing was shocked by such a huge project. In fact, just thinking about it makes me feel a little scary. The diameter of this huge main mine pit exceeds one kilometer and the depth exceeds six hundred meters. If the mine pit is turned upside down, it will be a mountain with an altitude of more than six hundred meters!
Yang Jing once saw many mines in the jade mining area in Myanmar. The jade mining area in Myanmar is open-pit mine, but compared with this mine, the mine there is like a teacup in front of a huge twelve-print marching pot. There is nothing in comparison between the two!
The power of technology is indeed infinite. If this kind of mine was placed in ancient times, even if it was excavated by 100,000 people, such a huge mine would never be dug in a few hundred years. In front of scientific and technological machinery, this huge mine was dug out in less than thirty years.
In addition to this huge mine, the most attractive thing is the slag that is almost piled up in mountains. The slag produced by mining gold, especially open-pit gold mines, is not comparable to other mines. You should know that only a ton of gold ore can produce a few grams of gold, this ratio is really scary.
A large number of slags piled into several hills, and in PNG, such slag is very dangerous. Because PNG is close to the equator and is an island country, the rainfall is very high every year, so if you don’t pay attention to this kind of slag piled into hills, you may want landslides and mudslides.
Last year, the Glasberg copper and gold mine, which belongs to Indonesia, experienced a slag landslide due to heavy rains, and it buried more than 100 miners in it, causing the mine to be shut down for nearly a year.
For mining, it is also a great investment in the treatment of these tailings or slag.
After watching for a while, Yang Jing quietly activated the Sky Eye skill. At the beginning, the Sky Eye did not see anything, but when Yang Jing continued to inject excessive energy into the Sky Eye, a layer of green light suddenly appeared above the gold mine.
Chapter completed!