The third diamond mine was the furthest away, more than 400 kilometers away.
Fortunately, the entire Western Region had already connected all the main roads. Although the main road to Tagana was not a concrete road, it was also repaired and compacted by General Maups who rented the Mechanical Colossus Type X.
In the dry Western Region, this four-lane wide dirt road did not feel too bumpy.
This time, there were as many as 20 cars in the convoy.
In addition to the previous four hardcore off-road luxury cars, General Maups also mobilized 16 Toyota and Mitsubishi off-road vehicles to escort the convoy.
These convoys were all filled with General Maups' personal guards. After all, the third diamond mine was very close to Tagana. Although Tagana's public security was not bad, General Maups felt that since it was to protect Ye Qing's safety, it was not excessive to be strict.
Twenty off-road vehicles galloped on the dirt road like a long dragon. This lineup would attract the attention of passersby no matter which country it was in.
From time to time, worn-out pickup trucks pulling goods could be encountered on this flat dirt road. These pickup trucks, when encountering Ye Qing's convoy, without exception, pulled over and sent envious and fearful gazes.
The convoy set off in the morning and passed through the orange grassland, the lush edge of the rainforest, and the continuous low mountain range.
When the convoy stopped, Ye Qing saw a rolling brown land in front of him. The spacious road curved on the undulating ground and finally disappeared behind a lonely mountain.
"Mr. Ye, the top of the mountain at the end of the road is the territory of Tagana."
"Our diamond mine is behind the undulating mound behind us."
General Maups asked his men to hold two parasols and followed Ye Qing. At noon, the sun was high, and Ye Qing looked around with his hand over his eyes.
It felt very desolate.
Ye Qing used the satellite network to let Dian Jing locate his position. From this position, he used the holographic glasses to find a satellite overlook of this area on the commercial satellite map.
The diamond mine in front of them was the largest of the three.
At the same time, it was also the farthest one from the Nigeria factory, so when large-scale mechanization operations were carried out soon, a small living base would be built here to provide a living foundation for the workers stationed here.
After checking the satellite image, Ye Qing quickly found a location for the living base.
After getting back into the car, the convoy drove all the way to the top of the rolling hills.
From a high vantage point, he could see the entire diamond mine.
The diamond mine was in the middle of the hills. According to the estimation of the demarcation line pointed out by General Mopu, the diamond mine was at least twenty to thirty thousand mu, which was almost three times the size of the previous two diamond mines.
Of course, not all diamonds were buried in such a large diamond mine. In the words of General Maups, diamonds had been found in many places in this diamond mine, but in some places, hundreds of workers had been invested in screening for months, and there was a historical record of only a few dozen small diamonds being screened out.
In some places, there had been gratifying results of screening out several thousand carats in half a month.
However, this diamond mine was not owned by General Maups alone.
There were a total of five "shareholders" in this rather large diamond mine.
Because it was close to the border of Tagana, and a lot of water was needed to screen diamonds, two shareholders were also in the opposite Tagana country. They were responsible for providing the necessary water for the diamond mine and the necessary security protection.
Ye Qing could overlook five circles of workers with different numbers. They were hundreds of meters away from each other, and there were hundreds of workers in one circle with ropes tied to their arms.
General Maups said that the workers who had been transferred here to dig diamonds were all criminals who had been sentenced to heavy sentences.
Below them were five different circles of workers belonging to five different shareholders. According to their agreement, whenever the diamonds in the circle were dug out, the five shareholders would draw lots again to determine the new excavation area.
Among them, General Maups had the largest number of workers and occupied the largest circle.
Of the remaining four circles of workers, two had about a hundred people, and the other two had more than fifty people. They decided the number of drilling workers according to their respective shares.
"Mr. Ye, you can rest assured that the shares of the other four shareholders have been bought back by me with US dollars."
"The last major shareholder of Tagana, I also took back his shares."
"But I don't use US dollars, but I have to pay him the same amount of diamonds as the original mining every month." General Maups pointed to a circle of a hundred people below and explained, "As soon as your mechanical equipment is transported, all the workers in the five circles below will immediately evacuate."
"The Tagana side will not dare to interfere with any of your decisions. After all, this is our territory. If they dare to point fingers, I will cut off their claws."
"No need." Ye Qing waved his hand. When large-scale mechanization was launched, the guards around the diamond mine could easily clean them up if the Tagana side dared to point fingers.
In the face of the power of technology, human power often became extremely small.
At that time, the entire diamond mine would be built with automatic sentry towers around it. If anyone who did not wear a security identity card slipped into the wall, the sentry tower could teach them how to behave.
After overlooking the mining area, Ye Qing and General Maups walked into the middle of the hills for a detailed inspection.
The diamond mine in front of them had been mined with more than twenty large pits of varying sizes.
The depths of these pits were generally about twenty meters. Because of the extreme lack of water in the area, these large pits were still dry, revealing circles of small paths that could barely allow two people to walk side by side.
General Maups took Ye Qing to one of the large pits and explained, "Mr. Ye, these pits are not abandoned because the diamonds in them have been mined."
"In fact, diamonds can continue to be mined in these pits, but because we are all mining by manpower, the pits are very small. If we continue to use the spiral mining structure to dig down, we will dig a large funnel-shaped pit. The bottom of the pit can only provide two or three workers to continue to work, so the mining efficiency is greatly affected."
"So we might as well find a place to reopen the pit. The large pits you see can continue to be regarded as high-quality diamond resources."
Open-pit mining of minerals is based on a spiral downward mining structure.
If vertical excavation is used, not only will there be the risk of the mine wall collapsing, but engineering vehicles will also not be able to transport along the periphery of the mine wall.
Ye Qing expressed his understanding that General Maups had handed over the details of the diamond mine before departure. According to the average weight of diamonds screened per hundred tons of mineral soil in the past, the diamond reserves of the mineral vein in front of them should be at the level of ten million carats. It may be 15 million carats, or it may be 30 million carats.
Of course, most of them are of lower quality and smaller low-value raw diamonds.
However, in the reserves of ten million carats, there must be a small portion that can meet the selection requirements of Monster Industries.
After asking people to collect soil and stone samples in the diamond mine, Ye Qing waved to the Master Metal Expert behind him.
The latter turned around and took out a metal suitcase from the trunk of the Mercedes-Benz G65. When the suitcase opened, a motionless goshawk was curled up in the suitcase.
General Maups raised his eyes and recognized the identity of the vigorous goshawk.
When he accompanied Ye Qing to explore the distribution of calcium-uranium mica at the edge of the Soto Rainforest, he was impressed by the mechanical goshawk that could flap its wings and soar.
Could it be...
Monster Industries has developed technology that can accurately explore the distribution of diamonds?
"It's just building a digital three-dimensional map of the diamond mine's surroundings." Ye Qing adjusted the holographic glasses to the goshawk vision mode and activated the watch on his wrist to operate the rudder.
The next moment, the motionless goshawk opened its eyes and spread its wings to take flight.
"Switch to terrain scanning mode."
With Ye Qing's order, the goshawk's vision in the holographic glasses turned white, and it could no longer distinguish between the sky and the earth.
A green light fanned out from the goshawk's abdomen, and the terrain ruler marked a width of one kilometer. As the green light wall passed over the ground, the white picture in the holographic glasses immediately showed a gradually extending green terrain model.
The establishment of mining areas, living areas, and isolation belts is inseparable from terrain data.
When the digital map is scanned, the factory can immediately work out the modular structure of these facilities.
The goshawk hovered over the mining area in a spiral route. When the mining area was scanned, Ye Qing controlled the goshawk to fly to the lonely mountain.
That mountain is the boundary between Nigeria and Tagana, and a mountain is half of each side of the two countries.
Ye Qing felt that a small optical observatory could be built on the top of the mountain, so that the wind and grass could be easily grasped within dozens of miles around the mining area.
The mountain area was not small, and the goshawk circled the entire mountain outline for dozens of minutes.
Next was the foot of the mountain.
As the green light curtain skimmed the ground, the wide dirt road that wound to the end of the mountain also appeared in the three-dimensional map model.
Then there was a square model of a house.
"Is there someone living there?" Ye Qing asked General Maups next to him.
General Maups thought for a few seconds. "Oh, there seems to be a border crossing of the Tagana Country."
As soon as his voice fell, the goshawk vision in front of Ye Qing shook violently.
Just as Ye Qing was wondering why, the ground model in his field of vision began to rotate and gradually grew larger.
This was not a fault of the optical detection equipment.
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