Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 235 Mine Development

Liang En originally thought that as long as the two sides handed over the things, the matter would be over, but what he didn't expect was that the mixed team of soldiers and archaeologists hoped that they could stay for a few more hours.

The reason for this situation is that the other party didn't know the value of this stele or the importance of the entire mine before they came, so after seeing it now, they immediately asked their superiors for reinforcements.

This is also the reason why Liang En and the others stayed. On the one hand, it was to achieve the purpose of mutual supervision, and on the other hand, it was to temporarily borrow their manpower to temporarily guard this precious place.

"Those guns of the security personnel shouldn't cause any problems, right?" Liang En walked up to Scudder and asked in a low voice while everyone was starting to arm themselves.

Because the weapons carried by these security personnel were all imported illegally.So once the official force from Egypt comes over, it is likely to cause some troubles.

"No problem, now that we have discussed it, let's say that these guns are weapons of the Coptic militia, and we are only temporarily borrowing them for safety reasons." Scudder smiled.

"Now our discovery is likely to be the top archaeological discovery in Egypt in the past half century, second only to the last time you dug up the Rashid stele, so you only need to find a passable excuse for such a small problem as holding a gun That’s fine, no one will delve into it.”

"That makes sense." Liang En nodded. Obviously, this kind of thing related to human relations is very similar all over the world. For example, this kind of practice of ignoring small things when encountering big things is like this.

Obviously, the Egyptian side paid much more attention to this stele than Liang En had imagined before.Just two hours later, two Mi-17 helicopters and two Ka-25 helicopters appeared in the sky.

When these helicopters reached the valley, two armed helicopters immediately began to patrol, while the other two transport helicopters quickly landed on a nearby flat ground and sent an elite team and a team of archaeologists.

Once on the ground, the men sprang into action: They removed the gilded stele from the caravan and loaded it into a helicopter.Then two helicopters soared into the air and flew in formation with the armed helicopters in the direction they came from.

It's just that the arrival of this group of people didn't mean the end of all affairs. It wasn't until a team of six trucks arrived the next day that Liang En and the others completely completed the handover work and returned to the Coptic village.

When their car drove into the village, almost all the people in the village came out to greet them, because these Copts believed that this mine would light the way for the future of the Copts in this area.

What surprised them even more was that when they walked into the courtyard of Daniel's house, which was the village head, Liang En found that standing side by side with Daniel's father was the housekeeper Lubson who had come from France.

Soon, everyone sat in a circle in the living room of Daniel's house, and then began to discuss about the turquoise mine.

"Among my team members are engineers who used to be engaged in the mining industry." The first person to speak was Skold, who showed everyone the photos he had taken before on a tablet computer, and at the same time talked about the content of mining exploration .

"According to the engineer's judgment, although the ancient Egyptians have been mining there for 2000 years, the number of gems actually mined is not particularly large."

"Now, there is still a large amount of turquoise in that mining area, and the burial is extremely shallow, which has a high commercial mining value. According to his estimation, the entire mining area can be mined for 7 to 8 years."

It has to be said that the prospectors under Mr. Skold are elite enough, because the mine was discovered by the British in 1845 in Liang En's previous life, and then large-scale mining was carried out from 1854 to 1866.

Afterwards, the French mined intermittently for a period of time until the British obtained a concession in 1903 and carried out another large-scale mining, but this time the minerals were completely exhausted after only one or two years of mining.

Since then, all mining of local turquoise has failed, that is to say, the British have carried out [-] or [-] years of industrialized mining and the French have sporadically mined all the turquoise in the entire mining area.

If modern technological progress is taken into account, the inference that the ore left in this mine can be mined for 7-8 years can be said to be very accurate.

"7-8 years?" After hearing this sentence, Daniel's father became a little depressed, because such a short mining time will not be particularly strong in driving the local economy.

"I think that mining area may not be able to carry out modern mining." Liang En said suddenly at this time. "Don't forget, the entire mining area is now an ancient relic, and similar large-scale mechanized and blasting mining should not be allowed."

"More importantly, the value of this stone does not lie in the stone itself." Liang En said to everyone while picking up a turquoise sample placed on the table.

"This is the world's first turquoise mine and a witness to ancient Egyptian civilization. Its added value is much higher than the value of the gemstone itself."

"That's right, besides the texture, the value of gemstones mainly comes from their cultural background." Butler Lubzon nodded.

"For example, the Chinese are chasing after a gemstone called Hetian jade, but this thing is not very popular in Europe, and this happens because of cultural differences."

"It can be said that the existence of the same source as the turquoise carried by the ancient Egyptian pharaohs has great cultural value behind it. If it is properly publicized, it can generate several times the value."

"You are right, so I think the second plan proposed by my subordinates is more appropriate." After listening to Liang En and the others, Mr. Scudder changed the subject and threw out the second plan.

"The overall mining time of the second plan will be as long as half a century, and a large number of manpower will be mobilized at the same time." Mr. Scudder quickly sent a document to Liang En and his mobile phone.

"Compared with the first plan, this plan consumes more time and costs more. But the overall benefits that can be obtained are also much higher than the first plan—"

After everyone hastily read the contents of the document, Mr. Scudder immediately talked about his plan.According to the plan, the mining of the mining area will be done manually and with a small amount of machinery, which will prevent most of the mining area from affecting the ruins.

In addition, considering that if the road is repaired a little, the mining area will only take more than an hour's drive from the Sinai Peninsula Korean Peninsula Highway, so the tourism value of the mining area can be fully developed.

To achieve this goal, they need to promote this turquoise from the Sinai Peninsula from now on, and find a partner who can guarantee the safety of the entire region.

"Don't worry, we can provide the safety and manpower for this place." Daniel's father thought about it seriously at this time, and then seriously assured everyone present.

"Due to the poor local environment, many of our young people can only go to the surrounding cities to work, and then they are discriminated against because of their Coptic identity."

"So as long as this place is developed, I can guarantee that within a week I will recruit 3000 young people to serve the entire construction."

(End of this chapter)