Chapter 720: Thunder strikes from the sky
If Yang Jing and his friends want to reach the coordinate location from Sipok Town, they need to walk along a bumpy mountain road. Although this road is very broken and has been undulating, it is excellent compared to the situation where the first two places do not even have roads.
But when Yang Jing and the others came to a high point along the road, the scene in front of them really shocked them.
This third hidden place is located in the San Antonio area, which is located in the heart of Marinduke Island, with an average altitude of about 500 meters.
On the way I came, although the road was difficult to walk, the surrounding scenery was still good. At first glance, there were lush primitive tropical jungles and endless green everywhere, and the negative oxygen ions concentration in the air was also very high. Although it was very stuffy, it was a very good distance to see.
But what the hell is in front of you?
Before entering the San Antonio area, this road will cross a small mountain with an altitude of about 700 meters, so here you can almost see the entire San Antonio area.
Although I had known before coming, this area was a mining area and could clearly see the mines densely spread across this area on the satellite map, when I saw the situation in front of me, everyone still did not react for a while.
If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they really couldn't believe that the situation in front of them would have appeared in the tropical rainforest.
The area under the hills is more than six kilometers long from north to south and about three kilometers wide from east to west, and is almost a small one. It is not seen with your own eyes. You can't imagine that such a loess-filled area would appear in the tropical rainforest.
There are bottomless mine pits everywhere, and countless huge mine trucks are moving between the mine pits and the ore dressing plant like hardworking ants. In the north and south of the mine area, there are two tailings ponds with a diameter of more than one kilometer, which are already filled with water. Between the two mine areas, there is a residential area.
This is a tropical rainforest, and the vitality of plants is extremely strong, but here, humans once again show the nature of killers. If humans are destruction of the Amazon jungle, then here, these small-scale mining areas are simply a kind of destruction.
Those areas that were not long and thin, against the backdrop of the lush tropical rainforest around it, were like a few pieces of alopecia areata suddenly appeared on the head of a normal person. It looked so eye-catching and so ugly.
The princess shook her head speechlessly and sighed, "These mining industry are so crazy. There are not many forests in nature, but they are still here to destroy them unscrupulously. Don't they think about their descendants?"
Yang Jing reached out and held the princess' hand, and said helplessly: "Everything is caused by interests... There is no way, who makes precious metals abundant here? Only such huge benefits will make these mine owners do such a thing as losing their children."
The princess turned her head and looked at Yang Jing and said, "Yang Jing, let me tell you, if your Rongbao Mining Company destroys the environment so unscrupulously, then don't do it there and return the shares. We don't want such shares. You said that this is a matter of severing the descendants. I don't want our descendants to be punished by curses."
"Haha, don't worry, although Uncle Guo is very greedy, he is not the kind of person who has no bottom line. He still pays great attention to environmental protection. I have mentioned this to him many times, and he attaches great importance to this. If you don't believe it, go to Beaumont and make sure you can't recognize the oil fields there."
"That's good! Don't forget that you have Taoist traditions, Taoism believes in Taoism following nature. If even you, a Taoist disciple, do not pay attention to protecting nature, how long can the world last?"
Yang Jing smiled and touched the princess's hair, and whispered: "I didn't expect that my wife is actually a sentimental person. Come on, madam, give me a smile to my husband..."
The princess opened her mouth and said a silent word to Yang Jing playfully - Get out...
Seeing the couple flirting, Chris leaned forward and whispered: "Boss, there is probably no hope in this place. This is a precious metal mining area, and we may not even be able to enter."
Yang Jing nodded and said, "Don't I just say it before coming, don't have any hope for this place. Now that I see this, you have given up completely, right?" As he said, Yang Jing pointed to the larger tailings pond at the southernmost end of the mining area and said, "I saw that tailings pond is not there? According to the coordinates provided on the information, the third hidden place is in the center of the tailings pond. In this case, how do you ask us to find it?"
Chris took out the telescope, looked at the tailings pond that Yang Jing pointed to, and finally shook his head helplessly.
Tailing pools are made up of extremely fine particulate matter accumulation, poor condensation ability, low breathability and air capacity; lack nutrients for plant growth, soil bacteria and micro animals cannot survive; at the same time, because they are enriched with a variety of heavy metal elements, they are completely incompatible with plant growth.
The damage to vegetation by tailings ponds is very serious. Now in regular mining areas, in order to protect the environment and allow vegetation to grow in the areas occupied by tailings ponds, about one meter thick waste stone layer and soil are usually covered with a surface of the tailings pond, so that vegetation can be planted and the environment in the mining area can be restored to the greatest extent.
But again, this practice will cost a lot of money.
Obviously, these mine owners here are all black-hearted guys. Not only did they not use the method of covering the waste rock layers and soil to solve the tailings pool, but instead adopted another even more crazy approach, that is, they selected the tailings pool in a low-lying area, so that they could use the abundant precipitation here to directly flood the tailings pool, making the tailings pool a real pool.
Doing this is unethical. Even if you don’t cover the waste rock layers and soil, don’t use this method.
The only benefit of this method is that it can prevent the tailings pond from producing dust. However, the consequences are extremely serious, because the water in the tailings pond will be seriously polluted by heavy metals. Although the tailings pond is in a low-lying area and is blocked by mountains around it, making the contaminated water unable to flow out, the contaminated water will continue to penetrate underground, and eventually pollute the groundwater source of the entire island.
This process may take a long time, but there is no doubt that groundwater is contaminated, and even the surrounding waters are highly likely to be contaminated.
But who cares about this? Perhaps after more than ten or twenty years of mining, these miners will pat their feet and leave here after the mines are completed. The pollution or not has nothing to do with them, but what about the residents living here?
If the amount of money that is dug in the vicinity is called "destroying children and grandchildren" because of mining, then this kind of pollution of water is simply a matter of having a son without eyes, giving birth to a daughter as a J woman, the eighteen generations of descendants are slaves, and the women are prostitutes for generations!
Chapter completed!