1840 Indian Rebirth

Chapter 148 [Daily Money]

There are many so-called gold digging machines in this era, but most of them are not easy to use, and many are even the whimsical products of Minke, the kind that Wang Duoyu is ecstatic.

After all, at such a historical stage where the development of science and technology is relatively young, no matter whether they are professional or not, everyone wants to invent something, and some people have indeed succeeded.

Compared with those Wangduoyu gold panning machines, the ore washing tank seems simple, but it is actually very efficient.

This is also true in the original history. The use of ore washing tanks was a turning point in the gold rush. People abandoned the original gold pans and all kinds of flashy gold panning machines, and began to use a large number of self-made ore washing tanks.

Since then, ore sluices have grown in popularity and are still used regularly even into the 21st century.

The horse post explained the construction of the ore washing tank in detail, and then people started construction, felling wood, and building buildings while building the ore washing tank.

During this period, Horse Whistle used metal detectors to continue to detect the river, and then marked the results on the map.

A shoal.

"Stick Wolf, take a note. There may be very rich gold mines nearby, and they should be mined first." Horse Whistle said without looking back, holding the detector.

The vertical wolf following behind immediately marked it on the map, marking a number "2" next to a section of river, which means "very rich".

"This section seems to be relatively small." After walking for another section, the horse whistle looked at the steady speed of the indicator fan.

The vertical wolf immediately marked "0" on the map, which means "less gold mines", or the detector did not respond.

In this way, the two explored and recorded repeatedly along the river, preparing for the next gold rush, accompanied by several guards.

"It would be great if this detector could be bigger and more sensitive." After a day's work, the vertical wolf couldn't help sighing.

"First of all, there must be a better battery." Horse Whistle replied.

"Better batteries?"

"Yeah, the battery is a big problem." Ma Shao said sincerely, even before his rebirth, human beings were still facing a bottleneck that was difficult to break through in battery technology.

"So the detector can't be improved?" Vertical Wolf sounded a little disappointed.

Ma Shao laughed and said: "Actually, it's useless to improve it. Do you really think this thing is used to explore gold mines?"

Some people didn't understand.

You were using a detector to explore gold mines just now, why now you say that this is not used to detect gold mines?

Ma Shao continued: "In the final analysis, we were lucky and bumped into this high-quality gold mine. The detector is just a secondary auxiliary tool, that is, it is better than the human eye, nothing more."

"The so-called 'rich gold deposits' or 'fewer gold deposits' detected by this thing are only talking about the shallowest gold deposits, not the real gold deposit content."

"Perhaps the place marked '2' on the map is just a few pieces of gold the size of wheat grains stuck between the cobblestones, while the place marked '0' has ten tons of gold buried deep underground."

After a pause, he continued: "So, just use this map as a reference, don't take it too seriously."

Vertical Wolf asked again: "If metal detectors are not suitable for detecting gold mines, what should be used to detect them?"

"Well...geology." Ma Shao didn't understand geological exploration, so he raised his mouth vaguely.

I don't know if there is modern geology in this year...

Half a month later, a large-scale ore washing tank was built, and the gold panning work of the westward team officially started.

Compared with serious geological exploration, metal detectors are obviously of little significance, but for the rough manual gold mining industry of this era, it is still a rare weapon.

The California gold diggers in history basically relied on God's blessing to find gold.

In contrast, the Apaches of the Westward Expansion Team had at least a little reference provided by the metal detector. Although it was not accurate, it was at least more reliable than God.

In addition, the efficiency of the ore washing tank is far higher than that of the gold pan, so as soon as the gold panning work started, the logging camp immediately entered a state of sudden wealth.

Literally earning thousands of dollars a day.

Bucket after bucket of sand was dug out of the river by workers and poured into the ore washing tank, and then let the water flow along the slope of the wooden tank to hit the sand in it.

After repeated washing, most of the sediment returned to the river with the water flow, while the gold and a small part of the soil were stuck by the wooden boards of the washing tank.

Then the workers remove the sand with high gold content and do further manual gold panning to get relatively pure gold.

Most of them are sand-like gold dust, which is a golden handful in your hand.

There are also larger pieces of dog-headed gold, the size of which reaches the level of a finger or even a baby's fist. Naturally, such large pieces of gold do not need to be washed, just reach out and pick them out.

July day.

Horse Whistle is counting the results of the first week of gold panning, with a large scale in front of him.

It was midsummer, and the climate in the forest was hot and humid. Even though he was wearing only a pair of shorts and his feet were still soaked in water, he still felt stuffy.

But the sweltering heat can't offset the joy brought by gold.

"79 and a half kilograms!" This is the result of his final count.

Nearly [-] kilograms of gold, converted into US dollars, is about [-] US dollars.

Of course, the real figure should be less than [-] US dollars. After all, the specific purity of the gold has yet to be determined, but it is still worth [-] to [-] US dollars.

Eighty kilograms of gold, this is the income of the first week of gold mining.

On average, the daily income exceeds [-] grams of gold, and there is no doubt that "every day earns ten thousand gold".

"Good guy, this is more profitable than selling arms." Du Wang exclaimed.

"This is not making money... this is picking up money!" said the vertical wolf.

"Small scene." Ma Shao smiled, "From now on, we will pick up money like this every day, and we will get used to it in a short time."

He was right.The California Gold Rush in history produced hundreds of tons of gold for the United States in ten years.

From the founding of the United States to the eve of the gold rush, in about 70 years, the total output of gold was only a few tens of tons.

Compared with hundreds of tons, the [-] kilograms mined by Ma Shao and others is just the beginning.

Even if they only mined one percent, that is, a few tons of gold in the end, it would definitely be an astonishingly huge sum of money.

"Great Chief, how should we spend this gold?" Vertical Wolf asked.

Ma Shao thought for a while: "First of all, we have to melt all the gold produced and make it into gold ingots. If people see a lot of placer gold and dog's head gold, anyone will suspect that we have a gold mine in our hands."

Du Tiao said: "I think it's better to just make gold coins, our own gold coins...for example, Apache gold coins!"

(End of this chapter)