Chapter 1624: 1624. Mining

The machinery of the engineering team entered the sea, and the clear sea water was stirred to become turbid, and a large amount of submarine gravel was pushed onto the coast along with the sediment.

Li Du came to the engineering office with his hands behind his back and strolled around. The engineer and the engineering team leader showed him the planning drawings and construction plans. He nodded in approval, and returned to the villa at the bottom of the mountain with his hands behind his back.

Sophie was recording, and Ali held up a sign with an expressionless expression on his face. There was a slogan on it. This was an advertisement for a certain company.

Seeing Li Du, Ali threw away the sign and jumped over, hiding behind him and refusing to show his face.

Sophie glared at it, then turned to look at the other brats: "Come on, ah, you are the most obedient, you come to cooperate with mom."

Ah Ao rushed into the nearby grape grove with a 'swoosh', and disappeared without a trace.

They are not very sensitive to cameras and cameras. They all know that once they are pointed at by this thing, they have to carry out Sophie's arrangement and move according to Sophie's requirements. It is very hard and boring!

Li Du laughed, and Sophie threw away the video recorder angrily and pulled him over, saying, "Why don't you cooperate with me? They are all backed by you, that's why they are so arrogant!"

This made Li Du very wronged: "Don't they listen to you the most? If they don't listen to you anymore, how can they listen to me?"

Sophie was still angry, so Li Du pulled her away and said, "Forget it, let's go to the hot spring, the weather will be cold soon, more hot springs are good for your health."

The bowl-shaped mountain on Shaou Island is a small volcano, which should have erupted millions of years ago. This island is the result of the eruption.

Now the volcano has become an extinct volcano, but there is still plenty of geothermal energy. There are several springs on the top of the mountain that are full of hot springs. When the weather is cold, the hot springs are full of smoke all day long, making the island look like a fairyland.

These hot springs have been artificially modified, and now they have their own styles.

Li Du sat in. It was late March, and the southern hemisphere was about to enter winter. At this time, the air temperature outside was a little low, and it was very comfortable for people to enter the hot spring.

The bear children followed up the mountain and saw Li Du enter the hot spring. A Fei, who was hovering in the air, retracted his wings and flew down, flicking his beak and throwing him a white seabird.

This seabird is not dead yet, but somehow it was caught by A Fei because the Andean condor is a carrion bird, they don't eat living things, so although A Fei is very big, he seldom attacks birds.

Shiratori's eyes widened and his whole body was stiff, as if he had been stabbed.

Li Du knew that it had fallen into a physiological process similar to a freezing reaction, and that the white bird was like this because it was too nervous.

So he pushed Ah Fei away, put the white bird in a bunch of grass and left.

Just as Shiratori was about to relax, it turned its head and saw two big eyes that were crystal clear and glowing with yellow light, which frightened it out of its wits. Even in the frozen reaction, it still couldn't help screaming: "Karma!"

Li Du shouted: "Amiao, come back, don't scare people."

Ah Meow left reluctantly, it didn't want to scare the bird, it really planned to eat the unlucky bird: birds are all on the tiger cat's diet.

Ah Ao jumped out of the woods and jumped into the hot spring. Li Du stuffed it behind his back and leaned on it. The wolf fur was much more comfortable than the back of a chair.

He was resting when his phone rang suddenly.

Li Du lazily picked up the phone, and the engineer Pierre's excited voice sounded: "Mr. Li, where are you? Please come to the dock site quickly, we have discovered something, we have made a big discovery!"

"What discovery?" Li Du suppressed the churning emotions in his heart and continued to pretend to be lazy. From Pierre's tone, he guessed that they discovered the black opal mine!

Sure enough, Pierre went on to say: "We found gems, Mr. Li, we found gems in stones under the sea."

From this point of view, the engineers and members of the engineering team are very professional, otherwise it would be difficult for Li Du to notice if they found the black opal and secretly pretended to take it away.

Li Du said, "You are mistaken", got up, dried himself, changed his clothes and walked down.

On the dock site, everyone stopped working and rummaged through the piled up rubble.

They are Australians and know the value of black opal very well.

After Li Du arrived, Pierre handed him a stone as if offering a treasure.

The stone is ordinary seabed granite, which has been polished to reveal a black crystal stone surface the size of a baby's palm. When it is lifted up to let the sun shine, the black crystal emits colorful light.

"This is black opal, Mr. Li, I can swear it is definitely a black opal!" Pierre said excitedly.

Li Du looked at the stone and asked, "How did you find it?"

Pierre said: "This was discovered by Hugh Sack. A pile of rocks was dug up in the morning, and there was a big crab inside. Sack wanted to take the crab out, and then found this stone."

"He didn't realize it was black opal at first, but he just thought it looked weird, so he polished it with a file. After the stone surface was exposed, he recognized it as a gemstone and reported it to me."

Li Du nodded and said: "Yes, your judgment is correct. This is a piece of black opal. I have a jewelry company and I have seen this thing before."

After finishing speaking, he whistled and shouted to the others: "Guys, stop working here, each of you can get a reward of 50,000 yuan, Hugh Sack can get a reward of 100,000 yuan, let's build the dock in another place !"

Pierre said enthusiastically: "That's great. The underwater terrain here is actually not suitable for building a pier. There are hidden reefs in many places. A slightly larger ship will easily hit the reef. I chose a good place. Mr. Li, let me take a look at the design drawings..."

Work has to continue here too, but instead of construction, it's excavation.

From this seabed, the opal vein appeared, and it went deep into the island. This is a fairly large vein, and the value is amazing.

It just so happened that the opal mine in Lightning Ridge had been exhausted after more than two years of mining. Li Du didn't bother to look for the veins anymore, so he directly mobilized Obradovic and his team to the island to continue digging opals here.

Mining opal mines in water is much more dangerous than on land. You can't dig mines in the sea, you can only mine them in an all-round way and focus on searching.

However, Li Du controlled the excavation engineering team, and he gave a mining plan, which was to mine completely along the veins. Under such circumstances, the efficiency was not low.

In this way, Li Du became busy. Firstly, he had to preside over the development of gemstones, and secondly, he wanted to publicize Shaou Island to attract tourists. He was busy all day without touching the ground.

Sophie understood him very much and didn't ask where to spend her honeymoon. She felt that she had a lot of fun staying on Sha'ou Island, and she was quite busy fighting wits and bravery with the children all day long.