645. 644. Ore Enrichment Zone (3/5)

Chapter 645 644. Ore Enrichment Zone (35)

The four people who ate a hearty breakfast were very satisfied. Ah Ao ate with them, his belly was round, and he hurried to have a trip while people were packing up.

Ah Ao defecates and digs up stones, and then buries them.

After a day and a night of getting along, brother wolf was no longer so taciturn, he started to speak actively, saying: "This wolf is too smart."

Li Du smiled and said, "Do you know why it buries its excreted poop on its own?"

Brother Wolf shook his head.

Li Du pointed to Ah Miao and said: "It taught me. When I was a child, Ah Ao was urinating and messing around. Ah Miao stared at it. As long as it dared to do this, it would be a fat beating. After a lot of times, it learned the correct way. The way of defecation."

"Unbelievable." Brother Wolf opened his mouth wide.

Li Du smiled and led Godzilla to work. The two of them dug some stone pits and carefully found the fire opal hidden in it. These magazines are relatively poor and difficult to find.

After a while, Brother Wolf came over: "Boss, they are watching us with binoculars."

Li Du knew who he was talking about, so he looked at the tent next door and asked, "Are you sure?"

"Just now the lens reflected light, I could see clearly." Brother Wolf said firmly.

Li Du had no choice but to say, "Let them monitor, let's continue to work, search here, and then change to another place."

I worked until noon, and it happened to be hot, so the area was searched.

Li Du found a total of hundreds of opals, large and small, but he didn't have a specific number. Some opals in them were not of high value, and they were stuck together with stones.

However, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is still meat, so he still did not let it go.

Da Ao and Brother Wolf packed up their things and opened the tent. Li Du didn't work, but he still released the little flying insects to look for resource-rich belts in the surrounding area.

The national park covers an area of ​​380 square kilometers, with a length of about 44 kilometers from north to south, a maximum width of 33 kilometers from east to west, and a narrowest point of about 1.6 kilometers.

In this vast area is not only the petrified forest, but also Interstate 40, the BNSF Freight Railroad, and the Peck River, a major tributary of the Little Colorado River, all of which pass through the park.

In such a large area, it is naturally impossible to have fire opal.

Like other gemstones, fire opal has ore belts, and gemstones can only be found within the range of ore belts, and it is difficult to find them.

The ore belt is not continuous. It is intermittent and distributed in several areas. The details are not clear, but according to word of mouth among ore pickers, these areas together cover an area of ​​at least ten square kilometers.

In other words, the area where fire opal is produced is thousands of hectares!

In these areas, there are more fire opals in some places, and less in some places. Li Du has found the enrichment zone these few times, and he needs to work in the enrichment zone.

It is not easy to search for the enrichment zone. Small flying insects fly very fast and have a good view. However, some gemstones are small and poor in color. It is not easy to find them in a pile of stones.

After searching for a long time, Li Du did not find a place rich in gemstones.

Just when he was about to give up, the little flying insect passed a mound of soil, and saw some gravel and ore fragments under the soil.

Seeing this, Li Du became interested.

There should not be many people searching for this place before, because it is not a pure rocky beach environment, but a rocky beach surrounded by a piece of muddy land and small hills.

Due to geographical reasons, there are few fire opals in the mud, and more gems and ores are hidden together.

This place is an exception. In fact, the mud that people see is formed by the mud falling from several small mounds covering the rocky beach. Under the thin soil layer, there are still gravels.

Where no one has searched, there are always more fire opals. After all, national parks have been searched for decades or hundreds of years.

Even if everyone does not have the ability of Li Du to find a large number of fire opals, but after a long time, many opals are still picked up.

Sure enough, after the little flying insects searched here carefully, they immediately found a few opals, and they were of good quality. This is a gem-enriched belt.

After determining the target, Li Du left.

They first drove to the nearby motel and rented a room, took a hot shower, and took a nap. As usual, he set off again in the afternoon.

This time he leased two adjacent hectares of land. Owen and some jewelers stayed at the ticket gate. Seeing him coming to buy tickets, he asked, "Li, how is the harvest?"

Li Du showed a frustrated expression, and said: "It's bad, buddy, God seems to be far away from me suddenly, I wasted a lot of energy last night."

Owen said: "Patience, you have to be patient, God will bless you."

After speaking, he showed a meaningful smile.

If Brother Wolf hadn't warned him, Li Du wouldn't have observed Owen's expression carefully, so he couldn't see the meaning of the smile. Now, although he didn't look directly at Owen, he released small flying insects to stare at him.

Through the vision of the little flying insect, he found this weird smile, and became vigilant in his heart.

The ancestors were right, knowing people and faces but not heart!

Seeing him leasing two hectares of land at a time, someone folded his arms and said, "Man, are you sure you can search such a large area in one day?"

"Yeah, even if you turn around two hectares of land, it will take you a lot of time. Seriously, a rookie, you need to dig deep and carefully to find opals."

"You seem very confident that leasing such a large area of ​​land will not be done by machines?"

As soon as these words came out, several people stared at Li Du, including the conductor and the security guard.

Machines are strictly prohibited from entering the Petrified Forest National Park. The main purpose is to prevent machines from harming the protected area and to ensure the output of opal.

The national park has more than 3 million visitors per year, with an average of nearly 10,000 people per day. It is a well-known local scenic spot. People who come here not only to watch fossil trees, but also to look for fire opal.

If there is no allure of fire opal, the number of visitors will drop by at least half.

Rumors often spread in national parks, where tourists kicked a few stones and found a fire opal, where tourists found fire opal during a picnic, and where tourists found fire opal.

These rumors have attracted a large number of people who don't know the truth. After all, people have ambitions to make a fortune and are willing to come and try their luck.

National parks are happy to see tourists come to find fire opals, not just for an entry fee, but also for the revenue after the opal is found.

According to regulations, after discovering fire opal, tourists have to hand over 20% of the proceeds to the national park, while ore pickers do not have to pay this part of the money.

If tourists take other stones from the national park, they also have to pay a certain fee accordingly. The purpose of doing so is also to protect the ore inside.

Otherwise, if the ore can be taken away for free, it is estimated that some tourists will drive trucks to pull it.