Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 688 The Road

After breakfast the next morning, several people quickly packed up their equipment and left the camp by the lake, and then came to the small river more than 200 meters away to inflate the inflatable boat that was transported yesterday. Started the next trip.

This river is only about 15m wide, and the water depth does not even exceed 1m. However, for Liang En and the others who are riding a small kayak, this kind of river is just right for them.

"It's a good thing that the plane brought enough marine engines yesterday, otherwise it would definitely not be an easy task to go upstream." Hearing the vibration of the marine engines behind him, Liang En nodded in satisfaction .

"How big do you think the gold mine can be?" Looking at the trees on both sides of the river bank moving towards the rear, Joan asked a very important question.

"I don't know, or no one knows this." Liang En looked at the gold ore in his hand and shook his head slightly. "The only thing that can be confirmed is that these ores have a high gold content, and at the same time, there is a high probability that this gold mine has not been discovered by others."

"But one thing I can be sure of is that if we can successfully find this gold mine, we will definitely make a fortune. After all, this area is more convenient for mining and transportation, and the mining cost will not be high."

"In the past few years, the overall international economic situation has been a problem. The overall trend of gold prices in the international market has been rising all the way. Gold mining is definitely a profitable thing."

Although the original ecological scenery on both sides of the river looks extremely beautiful, and even taking a photo casually can be used as the background on the computer and mobile phone, but these things will soon become boring to people.

Different from the previous expedition work, the geological survey work requires repeated monotonous and repetitive work, so it is a test of patience for everyone present.

Every time the ship traveled a certain distance, the geologist named Joey asked everyone to stop at the shore, and then took out the gold pan and started panning for gold.

"It feels—the amount of gold is increasing."

After collecting the last bit of gold dust on the gold pan again, Louis said in an uncertain tone.

This is the seventh hour since they set off. After nearly ten times of gold panning, they found that the amount of gold at the bottom of the gold pan was gradually increasing after each panning, and the size of the particles seemed to be increasing. get bigger.

"Your guess is right." After drying the gold powder with fire and weighing it, Liang En looked at the numbers displayed on the electronic scale and said, "From the perspective of proportion, the weight of the gold sifted per unit of sand is now It is 20% more than when the downstream just started.”

"In other words, we are now getting closer and closer to where the gold mine is." Louie showed an excited expression on his face, "I hope we can find the target soon. I really want to see what the gold mine looks like."

Although everyone knew from Liang En that the gold mine looked no different from ordinary mountains, but almost everyone present wanted to see what a real gold mine looked like.

Especially after Liang En also announced that the gold found in this search will be used as a bonus for everyone, everyone is now full of fighting spirit.

It's just that the situation began to become more complicated as they continued to move upstream, because a large number of tributaries began to appear in the river, which made their subsequent search work more complicated.

In order to find out where the gold came from the tributaries, they had to go deep into each tributary 30 meters, and then carefully sampled and analyzed.

Fortunately, they have five ships this time, so everyone can divide into multiple groups to carry out sampling and investigation, but even so, they still haven't found the target's location when night falls.

"There are forks inside the fork, it's really terrible." Fan Meng said in a low voice after taking a sip of the freshly made thick soup made from dried vegetables, compressed biscuits and canned food.

"I hope this river will not have so many forks in the future. Otherwise, we alone will not be able to find what we are looking for even if we are exhausted."

"There should be no more forks." Liang En said while looking at the map. "Next we will enter the mountainous area, where the river course will be relatively fixed and easy to find."

"Mr. Liang, I think if there are no accidents, we will find a reasonable source of these gold within three days." Joy, a geologist who completed the calculation at this time, said.

"Because from the samples we have collected now, the gold mines will not be too far away from the aboriginal settlements by the lake before, otherwise it cannot explain why they can find such large grains of natural gold."

"You are right, and the area where we bought the exploration rights is not particularly large. If we go further, our previous exploration may come out. At that time, if we find gold mines and want to buy them, it will be faster than ours. It’s much harder than you can imagine.”

The exploration rights of this gold mine were bought by Golden Dawn in the 80s. At that time, the mining work in northern Canada had not yet started, and no gold, oil or diamonds had been discovered.

So at that time, the land price here was also very cheap, and it was even possible to buy tens of square kilometers of exploration rights for a few million dollars, but now the land price in this area has increased by tens or hundreds of times, and it is very difficult to buy again .

Liang En and the others embarked on the journey again early the next morning, but just like what they had observed before, the terrain on both sides of the river gradually became steeper.

"The water flow is getting faster, and the stones in the river are getting bigger and bigger." Listening to the louder and louder voices in the river, Louis became more and more nervous.

"If this continues, we will probably need to abandon the ship and move forward on foot in a short period of time, and then move upstream on foot."

"It's okay, it's pretty good to be able to come here." Liang En said with a smile, "At least we used ships to go farther than Brown's expedition back then."

Even though the external engine used by Liang En and his rubber boat was not powerful, it was stronger than human power anyway, so they drove the boat until they reached a canyon before stopping.

"Then we can only move forward on foot. Fortunately, there are still roads on both sides of the river." After storing the boat and hiding it nearby, Liang En took out his trekking poles and said. "Hopefully we didn't go in the wrong direction this time."

"What is this?" After walking along the road for two or three hundred meters, Joan suddenly pointed to a pile of weeds by the roadside.

"What?" Liang En stopped and pointed towards the place where Joan was pointing, only to find that there were only some lingering plants in the corner, but after careful inspection, he found that there seemed to be a U-shaped black thing there.

"It's a horseshoe, but it's already broken." Liang En picked up the horseshoe and inspected it and said, "And it's a wrought iron product that's rare now."

With the advancement of science and technology, the materials used in modern horseshoes have changed from wrought iron in the past to stainless steel, aluminum alloys and even titanium alloys, so traditional horseshoes like this are becoming less and less common.

And the horseshoe in Liang En's hand now should be a product of the early 20th century in terms of style. After all, the horseshoe produced at the industrial level at that time was obviously much rougher than the modern horseshoe, which can be seen at a glance.

(End of this chapter)