The rise of nanometers

After lunch, Chu Xinyue and the others did not continue to visit Jade Street, but took the suspended light rail tram to the northwest mining area.

Sitting on the tram, the scenery outside the window is like a landscape painting. Looking back at Nabatang County and the three-dimensional city between the mountains, I suddenly feel like a future cyberpunk.

The smooth and fast tram passes through two tunnels, surrounded by mountains, flowing water and cliffs on both sides. The uncanny workmanship of nature, sunlight and flowing water have shaped this place.

This bridge, this road, this tram and smoke.

It is a trace of mankind's attack on nature, but the previous transformation method was extremely simple, crude and reckless.

Nowadays, the way of transforming nature in China has become more and more in line with nature, and at the same time, it is getting further and further away from nature.

On the tram, Chu Xinyue could see dense mountain forests, jagged rocks, and winding streams, but it was difficult to directly touch the reality.

Human technology is advancing, but humans must revere nature more and more. Technology is never a reason for our arrogance. Without awe, it will only lead to blind arrogance and ultimately self-destruction.

After a while, the tram arrived at the mining development area, which is also the first mining area of ​​the Batang Jade Mine.

After getting off the tram, you will find Emerald Town, a residential area in the mining area. The first base established by the previous prospecting team was the predecessor of Emerald Town.

Feicui Town is surrounded by mountains and rivers. The layout of urban buildings is similar to that of Batang, with various integrated buildings densely covered.

The jadeite veins developed in this way are located underground in the mountains behind the town. Since the veins are buried relatively deep, a vertical shaft excavation mining plan is adopted instead of open-pit mining like the flood bottom.

On the surface, there is no mining area, precisely because the mining area is hidden underground.

This underground mining method will bring some problems, such as the risk of mine collapse and the formation of underground cavity areas.

Therefore, after excavation, the entire mountain will be blown down by overall blasting, or transformed into underground warehouses, underground tunnels, and underground bases.

The waste soil was excavated from the ground, and after preliminary treatment, it was filled in a ravine not far from Feicui Town. The surrounding mountains were then blasted flat, and the land was leveled as a whole.

In this way, Emerald Town has transformed several micro-plains in the surrounding areas, and these micro-plains have been used as residential settlement areas and agricultural areas.

The mountain people in the mineral vein development zone will move to the new area bit by bit in this way to avoid accidents during the mining process. The living environment of the local mountain people can also be improved by merging villages and villages.

The three man-made plains currently being renovated have successfully resettled 572 nearby mountain residents, totaling 2,143 people. The residential area is right next to Feicui Town, called Xinmin Town.

The other two micro plains were transformed into agricultural planting areas.

Chu Xinyue came to Baihe Street in Jade Town. There were many jade merchants here and it was also a stopping place for tourists.

Standing on the balcony of a B\u0026B, you can see three huge holes in the mountains, which are connected to the transportation system inside and outside through rails.

After a while, a train came out of the mine, loaded with 5 carloads of dregs. The guide told Chu Xinyue that this was the waste dregs selected by the mining company and was ready to be taken to fill the ravine.

She quickly took Mo Lan and Yin Jingli to a van and headed to the New Taipei Plain, where the slag was dumped. The van driver was a fat man with tanned skin, chatting with the guide in local dialect.

The reason why we go to the slag dumping area is that after the slag is selected by the mining company, there are still about 2 to 5% of jadeite rough remaining in the slag.

These ores will be piled in a special gravel dump during the second screening process. Local residents and tourists can enter and hunt for treasures by paying 10 yuan.

The van was driving on a simple township highway. This kind of simple highway is different from the previous township roads. In fact, it can be regarded as a low-end version of a super highway.

Simple highways are characterized by modularity, rapid construction, strong terrain adaptability, and high safety. The construction cost is usually around 3 million per kilometer. Except for being relatively narrow, everything else is very good.

The guide smiled and said to Chu Xinyue: "Sister, when you get to the New Taipei Plain later, don't wander around. Although the management there is stricter, there are a lot of poisonous insects and beasts in the mountains."

"No problem. I'm also checking to see if there are any rough stones. I'm sure I won't wander around." Chu Xinyue nodded. She used to go to Hongsawady with her father, so she naturally understood the dangers of primitive jungle mountains.

As for whether someone will be interested in the money, you can rest assured here.

To work as a guide or a passenger vehicle driver in Batang, you must obtain a professional qualification certificate, and your mobile phone and passenger vehicle have positioning systems, and the surveillance cameras on the vehicle monitor the entire process.

Twenty minutes later, the van crossed a highway bridge and arrived in New Taipei Plain.

The guide took Chu Xinyue and others to the slag field. There is a slag processing plant not far away. After the slag is processed, the large and small stones will be screened out and poured into the slag field. It is then mixed into soil and transported to the mountains on the south side.

She looked around and saw that two kilometers away on the south side, a large number of excavators, bulldozers, dump trucks, and workers wearing exoskeletons were busy transforming the land.

From the perspective of topography, the width of the New Taipei Plain is about 1 to 1.7 kilometers from east to west, and the length from north to south is about 3.2 to 3.5 kilometers. The distance to the south side from Xinmin Town is only about 6.1 kilometers.

According to the reconstruction plan, except for the two high mountains in the middle, which cannot be flattened, the other areas will be turned into plains, forming a long and narrow valley plain, which will eventually be connected to Xinmin Town, Feicui Town, and Donglinyuan.

Turning their attention back to the slag quarry, they were located just south of the slag quarry. There was a simple street built by the jade mining company, where a large number of workers lived.

She took out her ID card, applied for a pass at the entrance of the gravel field, and paid the 10 yuan admission fee.

The staff issued another admission notice, which mainly required people not to rob, fight or attack others during the treasure hunt, otherwise they would be blacklisted for life.

Chu Xinyue knew that even if there was jade in the slag quarry, it was left over from being picked. It was probably a way for the local area to attract tourists and create some jobs for local people.

Several people went to a prospecting house nearby and bought camouflage uniforms, protective shoes, gloves, hats and small hammers. The boss also gave them a jadeite rough identification manual.

Entering the quarry, hundreds of people were immersed in the piles of stones, carefully knocking them, or shining their flashlights on the stones.

The stones here are all small stones, no larger than the size of a fist.

Because there are restrictions here, for example, each person can only enter here 8 times a month, and can only take away a maximum of ten kilograms of stones each time.

Locals and tourists are trying their luck, and more people regard it as a pastime and entertainment.

Real jade merchants do not come here to look for minerals. Instead, they wait for the prospectors outside to find the rough jade stones, and then bid for them.

Chu Xinyue and the other three also came to have fun and didn't care too much about whether they gained anything.

There were many people at the scene, all in small groups, and each was knocking in his own area, which seemed to be distinct.

She found a deserted area, squatted down and picked up a stone. It looked like an ordinary marble, and there were many translucent ores that looked like glass, but were actually water foam with a relatively low density.

The existence of this slag field plays an important role in the development of local tourism.

At least compared to the mining area in Hongsawady, the planning, mining, sales, and aftermath work here are all done very well, and it is not the kind of blind development.

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