Chapter 156: Malachite?

Finally, the young lady was no longer worried about serving her, and Wang Zhuo was relieved.

Guan Yingying was sitting on the shore, Wang Zhuo was in the water, and the two were doing foot massage. There was a noise and a raucous and playful sound from afar, and a few children were running towards this side.

Guan Yingying quickly stepped forward and jumped into the water. Wang Zhuo was afraid that she would slip, so he hugged her body. He couldn't help but touch her a few more times, and then took advantage of her.

With a few bangs, the children jumped into the pool next door. The two pools were separated by specially planted shrubs, and the winding steam was blocked. It was probably that the children did not notice anyone here, which made the two of them feel relieved.

Breaking free from Wang Zhuo's attentive embrace, Guan Yingying pressed him into the water, and it took him a long time to let go, so that he could raise his head and take a breath.

At this moment, the children in the pool next door suddenly started arguing. The two of them listened carefully and found that they had found some beautiful stones. One of them had only two pieces, but not enough for three people to share, so they had a dispute.

The kids who quarreled were two women and one man. It sounded like the boy was younger and he didn't exert any effort when picking up the stones, so the two girls didn't want to share them with him. As the quarrels, the little boy became angry and suddenly threw the stones out.

Coincidentally, the egg-sized stone came straight to the direction where Wang Zhuo and Guan Yingying were. Wang Zhuo stretched out his hand and steadily picked it up.

The surface of this stone is rough and a bit stubborn. When Wang Zhuo spread his hands, he was immediately surprised. This was actually a mottled malachite?

Malachite is named because its color resembles the feathers of a male peacock, also known as Shilu or Qinglangxuan. This kind of stone produces a lot and is not very valuable in itself, but it is a companion for copper ores. If you see it in the wild where people are rarely visited, it means that it is very likely that copper ores will be found nearby!

Wang Zhuo had a piece of malachite when he was a child and saw relevant knowledge introductions in "Hundred Thousand Whys", so he knew this kind of stone well, so as soon as he recognized this stone, he realized the importance of this discovery.

After a few whirring sounds, a little girl pushed the bushes and came over. Then she found that there was someone in the hot spring pool next door, and she was a little embarrassed and didn't know what to do.

The girl looked about ten years old. She had already recognized Wang Zhuo and Guan Yingying and hid her hand holding the stone behind her. Her eyes swept over the stone in Wang Zhuo's hand from time to time, as if she had something to say but didn't dare to say.

Soon the other two children also chased after him. Seeing Wang Zhuo and the others, they hurriedly hid the stone behind them, which made them a little amused. Do they think the two adults would still be greedy for their few stones?

Guan Yingying quietly set a distance between Wang Zhuo. Although the other party was only three children, she felt embarrassed when outsiders saw her and Wang Zhuo hiding here.

The three children discussed quietly, got into the water one after another, walked to Wang Zhuo, and the little boy said timidly: "Uncle, can you give me the stone?"

Wang Zhuo weighed the malachite and smiled and said, "It's okay to give it to you, but you have to show me the stones in your hands and tell me where these stones came from."

The children looked at each other and handed seven or eight stones into the little boy's hands, holding them and handing them to Wang Zhuo.

When Wang Zhuo saw that except for another piece of malachite, the others were blue-copper ore. After this ore with rich copper content was exposed to the air, the surface layer turned blue-cyan, with natural and beautiful patterns, which attracted these children who were playing to pick them up as treasures.

A little girl begged in a panic: "Uncle and Auntie, can you keep this matter secret? Especially, you can't tell Teacher Sun."

Can't tell the adults, especially Sun Jinshan? Wang Zhuo thought for a moment and understood that copper ore is often toxic and not suitable for children to play with. Sun Jinshan must have warned the children not to play with these things, so as not to fall into the vegetable fields or wells to cause pollution.

"These stones are so beautiful." Guan Yingying came over and took away a few stones, fiddling with them in a bit of love.

"Don't you recognize these stones?" Wang Zhuo asked.

"I know these two pieces, they are malachite." Guan Yingying smiled and said, "I don't know the remaining ones, and I have never seen them before."

Seeing her natural expression, Wang Zhuo immediately concluded that this person only knew one thing, not the other. She must not know what malachite originated and didn’t know what it means to see malachite here!

You should know that this is an isolated paradise, and there are very few modern things, so the identity of these malachites is certainly not from outside, so there must be unknown copper mines nearby!

"Where did you find these stones? Can you take me to find a few?

When Wang Zhuo asked, the children looked embarrassed. A girl said, "It's very far away, it's going to take a long time to go."

The little boy suddenly said, "Teacher Sun said that this kind of stone is poisonous and we don't let us tell others, nor do we go."

After saying that, he quickly added: "Uncle, you and aunt helped us study the school. You are not outsiders."

"Is this stone poisonous?" Guan Yingying was skeptical. Seeing that the stone dyed the water in her hand blue, she couldn't help but believe it.

"It's poisonous." Wang Zhuo nodded, took the stone back from her hand, and turned around and said to the three children: "I have kept this matter secret for you, but if I want to confiscate the stone, you have to help me do some work, otherwise I will tell Teacher Sun."

The three children quickly begged, expressing their sincerity that they can do as much work as possible, but they just can't tell them to adults.

The three children were successfully arrested and went to wear clothes nervously. Wang Zhuo carefully installed the stone with his socks, put the *** on it, and tied a few buttons to ensure that everything was foolproof.

Guan Yingying felt inexplicable from the side. Wang Zhuo smiled at her and said, "You will take those two girls to help my sister pick flowers later. Do you have to remind them not to tell anyone about this, do you understand?"

"Then what are you doing?" Guan Yingying asked.

"I went with that little boy to see where they found the stone. This matter is very important. I will tell you in detail when I come back."

Children in the mountains have strong feet and they say they are very far away, so this distance will never be close.

After walking for a while, the little boy's physical strength could not keep up. Wang Zhuo was prepared and directly carried him on his back and continued to move forward.

Along the way, I crossed mountains and rivers and had no trace of people. Wang Zhuo estimated that even if I saw wild animals such as wolves or bears here, it would be nothing unusual.

Finally arrived at the destination. This was a valley. One of the mountain had a landslide with no area, revealing the rocks under the surface soil of more than two meters thick. The rock was exposed about twenty meters long and three or four meters high. It was covered with mottled light blue and blue, which was the color after copper oxidation.

There is no doubt that this is a copper mine exposed to the surface.

When you walk closer, you can see that the rock has not been exposed for too long. The nearby vegetation still retains the shape of the landslide before. Wang Zhuo thought for a while and asked, "Xiaokang, has your village been in earthquakes in recent years?"

Xiaokang nodded immediately, counted on his fingers, and said, "I was shocked when I was four years old. I was seven this year, probably three years ago! The school pigpen was shocked at that time and even broke the front leg of a pig."

That's why the shock is not serious. Wang Zhuo nodded slightly. It seems that the hillside fell from that time. Three years was not long for this isolated small village. I guess the news has not leaked out yet.

When I came to the bottom of the slope, there were some children's footprints on the ground. It was obvious that they were left by Xiaokang and the other three when they came yesterday. The malachite and blue copper ore were found here. You can see that there are many loose stones on the slope that may slide down at any time. It is indeed dangerous for children to come here to play.

Let Xiaokang wait in a safe place in the distance, Wang Zhuo himself went around the slope, dug out a few pieces of ore under the floating soil, knocked off the dust on it, and took it down.

These ores have a large proportion of weight. With heavy hands, the copper ore is fine crystals in the sunlight and flashes with a faint metallic luster. This is a characteristic that only rich ore has. Wang Zhuo suppresses his joy and looks carefully into the ore with a perspective eye.

As Wang Zhuo expected, the copper content in the ore reached about 40%, which means that 400 grams of pure copper can be purified by one kilogram of ore. This is a rich ore and a very rich ore among rich ores!

He left two small pieces of them in his pocket and threw the large piece of ore back to his original place. Wang Zhuo quickly climbed to the top of the slope, closed his eyes and accumulated his energy for a few seconds before slowly opening his eyes and looking at the rolling surface opposite.

It took more than ten minutes to see the boy Meng Kang quietly sat down and waited. Uncle Wang's tall and tall and majestic body left an unforgettable impression in his heart.

In the direction where Wang Zhuo looked, below the soil of one to two meters underground, there was a mineral rock layer that was three to five meters thick. It stretched about eight hundred meters ahead, and it could not reach the edge on the left and right.

Seeing this, Wang Zhuo was so tired that he closed his eyes and rested for a while. He walked back to Meng Kang and sat down, took out his cell phone to calculate.

The thickness of the ore layer is four meters on average, and the area is temporarily calculated as 800 meters square, 640,000 square meters multiplied by four meters, totaling 2.56 million cubic meters.

The specific gravity of copper is 8.9 tons per cubic cube. Wang Zhuo did not know the specific gravity of copper ore. He calculated it according to five for the time being and obtained an estimated data of 12.8 million tons.

Wang Zhuo would not forget the rest. He didn't know what the value of 10 million tons of copper-rich ore was. It was impossible for him to search online, so he had to stop for the time being.

He stood up and was about to explore again to see how big the ore vein was, but he heard Meng Kang's little stomach screaming. Wang Zhuo then realized that it was already past one afternoon, and he was just spending time on the copper mine and forgot about lunch.
Chapter completed!