Impossible, absolutely impossible!

How could a large gold mine with a reserve of more than 200 tons of gold mines be dried up in the 21st century? In the future, the Sumitomo Consortium is the Sumitomo Consortium, which has made a group of capitalists who have better abacus than anyone else. Sumitomo who dares to do the beheaded business, but Sumitomo who loses money will never be able to participate.

To put it bluntly, the Hokkaido Hongzhiwu Gold Mine, which was abandoned by Sumitomo Consortium, has a stable annual output of two to three tons of gold and forty-five tons of silver. If this mine is in China, it will definitely be able to make a human mind. However, for Sumitomo, he actually gave up mining because he thought the profit was low.

Only Rikikari Kaneshiro has been mined without stopping because it has abundant reserves and easy mining!

How could Sumitomo Consortium, which even sells its own hanging rope, invest huge manpower and material resources in an already exhausted mine and continue to develop?

"Can you take me to Haruka to take me for a trip?" Tadaoemon is now a practical person. If you don't see it with your own eyes, you won't dare to make a judgment on anything.

"Yes, yes, but next month we will go to Edo to explain. Everything is in a hurry, so we can only go there for a few days at most." Shigemota Tadaic Sect nodded, but did not object.

But he didn't understand very well why Tadaoemon was so active in a completely exhausted mine. There is really a big gold mine in the place of Rikika?

"There are also good miners in the vassal state, so you can bring two together." As long as you can make money, Hirosuka is of course interested. Regardless of whether what Chuanyoumon said is true or not, you will not lose anything when you go and see it.

“So great!”

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day, Tadao Eemon pulled Shigefuta Tachijo to Rishiki. Rishiki was ten days away from Kagoshima, which was only 40 kilometers. Fortunately, the money for the remedial station for so many years was not in vain. He at least had to renovate the official road. After all, he had to send people to the village to follow him and forcefully collect taxes and suppress him.

But even so, the two ran for five or six hours before they arrived at the village village. They set out early in the morning and when they arrived at the village, lunch time was over. When the village houses and the samurai stationed in the village saw the Takashi Toshima, they came to pay their respects. They thought that the offerings were incomplete, which made the vassal dissatisfied.

Shigefuta Tadoro waved to them and said he was visiting the Rikika Mine, which made everyone feel at ease. They brought rice balls and melons. They also sent some sweet rice wine. There was nothing good in the village. But Shigefuta Tadoro and Tadoro Eemon are similar. They just need to eat enough. They are not so picky. They can eat good food, and those who are poor can get a mouth.

The Rikika Village in front of you is right next to Kawauchi River. Agriculture is now relied on the weather for food. Basically, the villages are distributed along the water source. Without water, there is definitely no one.

Chuanyoumon found the Shouya land and carefully asked about the local terrain of Rikika. It is obvious that this place is a land completely formed by volcanic eruptions. Perhaps millions of years ago, this place was completely ocean. After experiencing the continuous eruption of Kakuto volcano in the west and the Dakou volcano in the east, a valley between the two mountains was formed here.

It is not appropriate to say that it is a valley, because such undersea volcano erupts and then forms land, and the areas formed are often accompanied by severe and continuous earthquakes.

Obviously, Rikikari Village used to be a severe earthquake zone, otherwise there would not have been a sudden number of hills of one or two hundred meters in a row on the valleys flowing through in the river. According to normal geographical knowledge, the river channel of the river in the river is likely to be a crack that was torn open by an earthquake, and the hills such as Rikikari Mountain were the ground that was arched and raised due to the severe earthquake.

It was just that after millions of years of rain erosion, the original section was constantly invaded and turned into a smaller hill that was not so continuous.

"Has the sand gold been collected in the river channel of this river in the Uchi River?" Tadyuemon stood by the river and asked about the Soya.

"It seems that there have been one hundred years ago, but that was a hundred years ago. The young one was not very clear." Zhuangwu was only thirty or forty years old, so he didn't know the details of hundreds of years ago.

"Was the gold mine mined before on the top of the mountain?" Tadaoemon nodded and turned around to ask the two miners.

"That's true, the mine veins are very narrow and short, only a very small place on the top of the mountain. They were completely exhausted twenty or thirty years ago, searching for the top of the mountain, and even looking down for several deep rooms, without any progress." A miner obviously had an understanding of this place and said, pointing to the top of the mountain that had recovered its lushness.

"Let's go and have a look!" Tadaoemon had some predictions in his mind, but it was not very accurate.

The road up the mountain has been covered by plants and trees again. Although the mountain with an elevation of 280 meters, the group actually walked for an hour.

There were indeed mines left over from the mountain and some other artificial traces. However, the mine that was completely abandoned twenty or thirty years ago was already shaking, and everyone did not dare to enter easily. Tadaemon ordered Shintaro Tatezawa to pick up more than a dozen stones near the mine and put them in a basket and carry them down the mountain.

Everyone who had nothing to find out was a little confused about what Tadaoemon meant. After working hard to climb up, why did he move more than a dozen stones without gold down the mountain? Even Tadao of Shigefu was very tired. He rode a horse in the morning and climbed the mountain in the afternoon, and did not understand where Tadaoemon got so much energy.

As he hurried down the mountain, it was getting late. Tadaoemon ordered people to dig soil on the edge of the river in the river and dig deep down. Whether it was two or three meters, it was dug until a large amount of gravel appeared. More than a dozen villagers who were summoned digging to more than five meters deep, and finally found a large amount of gravel strata.

Holding the fire down into the pit, Tadaoemon took out the stones from Rikikay Mountain and compared them with the stones excavated from the edge of Kawauchi. There is no doubt that they were all sandstones filled with quartz. Due to the severe earthquake, the sandstone originally located in a strata, one sinks under the river channel of Kawauchi, and the other was lifted to a hillside 280 meters high.

The situation has been completely clear!

There was sand gold in the river channel, and there were extremely weak gold mines on the top of Rikikay Mountain back then. It seemed that the gold mine was on this floor. So why can we find almost the world's rich mine in the future?

It must have been an earthquake that arched out the huge gold veins hundreds of meters underground, and then formed Rikikayama. As for the small veins on the surface, they just sneeze when the volcano erupted, and squeezed out two drops of gold and water. The predecessors were confused by this little gold. After collecting it, they did not have enough geological knowledge to judge the underground veins. So they concluded that Rikikayama had run out and completely gave up exploration here.

Before we came, we were completely wrong. Most of the mountain should be sandstone and shale deposited for millions of years. Only the hillside and the strata below the hillside are the real gold veins that have been poked out from the ground by earthquakes.

Moreover, this ore vein is very likely to be wrapped in shale and needs to be dug a distance to discover it. However, after overturning the previous judgment, Tadaoemon was also shocked.
Chapter completed!