Chapter 500 The mountains are full of mines
Frederick did not forget what he came here to do just because he picked up a queen, and Catherine did not ask him to send her back. She just talked with logistics every day The people cut firewood, cooked, and fed the giant horned deer together.
For many years, prospecting was a matter of chance. People first found the ore exposed on the surface and used this as a basis to search for veins in the surrounding areas.
A few years ago, geologist Georg Bauer wrote a "Encyclopedia of Mining and Metallurgy", which classified rocks and listed the relationship between different minerals and different rocks to provide guidance for prospecting. new direction.
When Frederick appointed him to form the Land Resources Bureau, he also read this book for a while and had some understanding of finding shallow iron deposits.
Beside the campfire in the wild, more than thirty pieces of ore were placed in front of Frederick. These black ores were black, magnetic, and obviously magnetite ores.
This is what they gained from their fifth field trip.
Previously, Frederick used the campsite as the center and searched in different directions for five to six days at a time. This time he harvested more iron ore than the previous four times combined.
Heli was cooking instant noodles on the campfire and sighed again: "I never thought you could find ores on the ground."
Several Aurora warriors who were traveling with him nodded in agreement.
It's starting to snow lightly now, and the forest floor is covered with a thin layer of snow and thick pine needles, and you can't see anything on the ground at all.
When people from the Antler Tribe came here to herd deer in the past, they could only pick up some after the pine needles were washed away by the melting snow in spring and exposed on the ground.
Frederick just smiled. He was also a quasi-Dharma god. He was able to release the rough fields and control every plant and tree around him. The ore was even clearer.
He has always felt that it is too wasteful for the sword masters and magic gods who have broken through the limitations of human strength to just fight and kill, and should play a big role in production and life.
But I dare not say this casually, for fear of being used by the master to make a nest.
The fragrant braised beef noodles are cooked. You can't eat without less calories when you go out. Whale oil and whale meat are added to the noodles, as well as some dehydrated vegetables.
Frederick also brought a good thing - capsaicin, which is extracted from chili peppers using alcohol.
/*I forgot to obtain peppers in the previous two chapters, so I changed them*/
Due to climate reasons, the yield and quality of pepper cultivation in the Principality of Wesson are not high. Nowadays, the peppers on the market Most of the peppers were grown by Frederick in the territory east of the city of Constantinople and imported from the Kingdom of Kush in the south. The supply in the market exceeded the demand, and the price of transporting them all the way was quite high, making cheap instant noodles unaffordable.
Another important reason why peppers are in short supply in the food market is that it is more profitable to make medicine than condiments. The smoke bombs made with capsaicin at the Springfield Arsenal are even more outrageous.
Frederick only added a little capsaicin to the noodles. Everyone was sweating profusely after eating, which was very comfortable in this season.
After dinner, a girl said to Frederick: "This is great, if only I could eat it every day."
Frederick immediately shook his head and said: "But No, eating too much will give you a sore throat, and you will easily get hemorrhoids.”
“I hate it!” Heli reached out and hit him on the shoulder, “How can I talk to a lady like this?”
Frederick looked at a young bear lying next to him. He was attracted by the smell of braised beef noodles just now. Holly rushed over and jumped behind it and scratched its neck with her finger. The bear's head almost fell off. .
He said to the lady who could kill the bear easily: "These must be explained clearly first, otherwise some people will think they have been poisoned."
Another girl smiled and said to him: "Heli has been poisoned. I can ask you to help me apply the medicine.”
Heli jumped over to beat her, and at the same time said, “How about letting him put his hands on your shoulders to help you apply the medicine.”
Then. The girl blushed and started fighting with her.
While the two were fighting, someone cleaned the pot, fetched water from the newly dug well, and put in dried pine needles to boil water for drinking.
There is a lack of vitamin intake here in the winter, so they go to any lengths to supplement it. In the summer, they collect pine needles and dry them in the sun, and in the winter, they boil water to drink, which can be regarded as a little supplement.
The nights are getting longer and longer now, and it will get dark not long after dinner.
Frederick was playing with a box the size of a computer case, placed it on the ground, and after opening it, a beam of light shot straight into the night sky.
More than thirty kilometers away, there is a thicker light pillar between the sky and the earth. This is the location of the campsite.
This light beam can not only be used for positioning, but can also simply convey messages and report each other's safety.
Frederick checked the light magic crystal that powered the equipment. The current energy was enough for one night.
There are many ice elements around here. After absorption, they need to be converted into light elements through a specific magic circle before they can be charged and used.
It's just that the conversion efficiency of magic elements is too low, only 30%, and the speed is slow. You have to prepare several magic crystals to use at the same time. Frederick had no choice. He offered 100,000 gold coins to solicit efficient transformation plans, but no one has come to ask for the money until now.
While everyone was drinking pine needle water around the campfire, Frederick pointed to a mountain more than 200 meters high one kilometer away and said: "Let's go there tomorrow and have a look. I suspect that the surrounding iron ore was washed down from the mountains.”
The girls nodded and listened to his actions during the day and their actions at night.
Early the next morning, everyone cooked the best meat from the bear last night with dehydrated vegetables. The broth was used to soak dehydrated mashed potatoes. After eating, there was a cup of orange juice powder. carrot juice, and finally packed up the tent and set out with the bearskin.
When he reached the top of the mountain, Frederick said excitedly: "Camp here first, there is a big discovery here!"
Then he started to use his big move.
With Frederick's current strength, the waterfall technique he used was enough to wash away half of the land the size of a football field.
Even so, the edge of the iron ore belt on the ground is still invisible. The entire top of this mountain is filled with magnetite ore!
This made Frederick so happy that he felt like he had won a big prize!
A few days later, Jin Li brought a convoy to deliver supplies and changed people on the way back.
She saw trees on the mountain falling in pieces from a distance. This phenomenon only occurs when there is a mudslide.
But it’s not the rainy season or the melting snow season, so where are the mudslides?
When they went up the mountain, they found a lot of traces of mudslides on the hill. When they approached the top of the mountain, they saw Frederick laughing and picking up Heli and the others one by one and spinning them around.
Seeing Jin Li and the others coming, Frederick also went over and hugged them all twice.
Some girls had been in the sauna with Frederick and didn't feel anything wrong, but some were thin-skinned and turned red immediately after being hugged.
However, before the blush on their faces subsided, Frederick laughed and went over to hug the big horned deer pulling the cart and rub his face.
"He... is crazy!"
"It's okay, just wake up after being knocked unconscious."
Before Jin Li and others could think of a way, a big-horned deer gave Frederick a hoof and kicked him down the mountain, startling a group of people in the forest. Grouse looking for pine nuts.
That night, Frederick happily cooked a roast chicken meal for everyone. Capsaicin was mixed with wine and smeared on the venison. Everyone was full of praise for the meal.
When he began to rest, Frederick took notes in his tent. He had just calculated the longitude and latitude here by measuring the stars in the sky, and also recorded the scale of the discovered mineral deposits.
The one who entered Frederick's tent tonight was Jin Li. She sat down next to Frederick and asked: "Did you really find iron ore?"
She was a little unbelievable that so many people had come and gone on this land and could only pick up some iron ore. Only he could find the veins.
Frederick said while writing: "This is the largest iron mine in the world, and the ore contains more than 60% iron."
"The ore of this iron mine is like a flat plate. It is inserted into the ground at an angle of about 60°. The length of the shallow vein is more than 3 kilometers and the width is about a hundred meters. The depth is unknown. It is estimated to be one or two kilometers or even deeper."
"I plan to take it. Come down and look along the two sides of the mineral deposit. There is a high chance that you can find shallow mineral veins."
"There is a lake not far to the north of the mountain. I plan to build the tribe between the mountain and the lake. Then build a railway to where we disembark”
The ore here is easy to mine because the veins are sloping. You only need to dig up the soil above, and then use explosives to peel off the ore layer by layer and pull it away.
Frederick made a lot of money when he went north this time. Not only did he find high-quality iron ore, but he also heard that there was a coal mine in Gray Crow's land. When the time came, he would naturally send troops to avenge the Antler Tribe.
When the time comes, using these two places as bases, we can reach far away.
Jin Li leaned against his shoulder and whispered: "That's great."
Frederick held her in his arms and asked softly: "That thing is wrong." Have you really thought about it?”
Jin Li blushed and lowered her head and said: "We will always have children."
Frederick finally nodded slightly and let them go. It depends on God's will whether they have it or not.
In the following time, Frederick started new exploration work centered on this mountain, and subsequently discovered some small veins.
While Frederick was prospecting for minerals in the north, a lot was happening in the south.
(End of this chapter)