Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 440 Ancient Mine
Because it was confirmed that everyone had indeed found the right target this time, everyone present became excited, so after resting for a while, they immediately walked towards the valley.

After more than an hour, they finally entered the valley, and then Liang En gave up rest and immediately started his own inspection work.

According to a series of knowledge he learned by cramming, although this valley is called a valley, it is actually an east-west fault zone.

Looking at the fracture surface of the fault zone, Liang En found that the rocks on the mountain should be serpentine, which is also the rock most likely to produce emeralds, and there are even some gneiss and actinolite mixed with it.

Considering that it is not suitable to build a camp in the rainforest, everyone simply moved the camp to a high ground on the river bank with stone ground, so that it is convenient to get water and there is no need to worry about flooding.

After everyone set up their tents, a few people who were free now went down the slope to the shore, and then dug up various samples under Liang En's command.

It may be because the surrounding rocks have been weathered continuously for hundreds of years and no one has excavated them, so now there are many small jadeite fragments in the river, and many specimens of jadeite fragments have been found by simple excavation.

According to the information Liang En obtained from the jeweler before coming here, the appearance of these specimens proved that the mine should be nearby.

Early the next morning, Liang En and the others entered the valley to search. Although these security personnel were not professional scholars, their training allowed them to find the traces of ancient human excavations.

Of course, considering the size of the mine in his memory was not too small, Liang En quickly found a place that he thought was good, and then consumed a piece of [Detection (N)] and 12 legendary points [Eye of Daedalus (SR)] was used.

With the use of the skills, Liang En immediately had a situation within 120m away from himself as the center of the circle, and just as he had guessed before, there were many clustered lights on the periphery of this detection circle. point.

You must know that each of these points of light represents a historical item, and it is indeed not normal for so many items used by humans to gather in this wilderness.

After walking past the spots of light, Liang En found that the places where the spots of light were located were occupied by a large group of tropical plants. Obviously, this place has now been re-occupied by nature.

Faced with this situation, everyone can only spend some time and energy to level the vegetation on the ground first, and then dig down, and this is definitely not a small-scale project.

Fortunately, because the people present didn't know much about archaeological excavation work, Liang En said that they would dig wherever they wanted to dig, and they didn't care why they had to dig a tropical rainforest that was not much different from other places.

In the eyes of this group of people, Liang En had demonstrated his extremely rich archaeological excavation knowledge along the way, so there must be a reason for letting them excavate an open space now.

And the fact is exactly the same, when they emptied the surface plants and dug down less than 30 centimeters, some things made of stone appeared in front of everyone.

Unlike the rough and inconspicuous stone tools of the Paleolithic Age, the level of stone tools produced by the Mayans has reached the level of the Neolithic Age, so even amateurs can recognize the stone tools that are dug up now.

"These should be some stone axes, stone hammers, and stone chisels." After arranging the dozen or so excavated tools on the ground, Liang En explained to everyone in a low voice, "They are the tools used by the Mayans to mine mines. "

After removing the dirt on the surface of these stone tools, everyone was surprised to find that at least 1/3 of the tools were actually made of jadeite.

You know, for the ancient Mayans of the Stone Age, jadeite was a real treasure, because jadeite is harder and tougher than ordinary stones, and the tools made are more useful and durable.

Due to the nature of emeralds, they were even regarded as treasures that surpassed gold among the ancient Mayans, so such items are rarely unearthed in ruins, and in addition to various decorations and ritual vessels, emeralds can be used as treasures. There are even fewer raw materials.

Such a concentration of labor tools made of emerald was very rare in the previous archaeological process, so Liang En tended to believe that this place itself was an emerald mine.

Therefore, the workers of that era were able to obtain local materials and use this extravagant material even in the Mayan era to make their own labor tools.

Judging from the overall situation of these jadeite labor tools found so far, although all jadeite products seem to be very rough, the seed water looks very good, which can be regarded as good jadeite.

In the next three days, they conducted a comprehensive survey of the entire valley. Although everyone is not a professional and cannot see how much emerald there is, they can confirm that this is indeed the place where the ancient Mayans mined emerald. .

Because with the excavation in the past few days, Liang En found several ancient Mayan mining relics and discovered more various stone tools.

If only from the perspective of jadeite tools, Liang En can guarantee that this should be the relic with the most jadeite tools unearthed at one time in the past 20 years.

However, because of the search in the past few days, Liang En can also confirm that even though he has made great progress in terms of wealth and power compared to a year or two ago, there is definitely no way to monopolize this emerald mine.

Just think about the fact that the biggest source of income for a group of warlords in Myanmar who can fight back and forth with the Myanmar government is the emerald mines in northern Myanmar, and you will know what these mines represent.

Not to mention that the law and order in this ghost place of Guatemala is already bad. After leaving the city, many places are even in a state of anarchy, and various illegal armed organizations emerge in endlessly.

Therefore, it is impossible to mine in this kind of place without a strong background and sufficient military support. Even if Liang En has enough combat power, he would not want to spend a lot of time and money to suppress bandits in this green hell.

Not to mention that the local officials have shown all kinds of unreliability. For example, Liang En and the others have passed through several police or military checkpoints before, and they have to pay for each checkpoint.

Although in Liang En's previous world, it was an American couple who successfully developed the emerald mine in Guatemala, in fact, it was also supported by American capital, otherwise it would be impossible to hold on.

For Americans, these small countries in Central America are like their back gardens, so even if those Guatemalans had ten guts, they would not dare to erode the interests of these American capitals.

But if someone else came, this place would definitely be untenable, so Liang En wanted to mine those mines was not a simple matter.

Fortunately, Liang En has also got rid of the early solo state, so he climbed to the surrounding mountains on the last day of exploration, and then began to use satellite phones to contact those he knew to see if he could attract enough investment.

(End of this chapter)