After returning to Mount Hagen, Guo Dabao's fat face was filled with joy after hearing the detailed news of the inspection. In the evening, he set up a big table to reward Yang Jing and his party.

Yang Jing was also very happy. He did not expect that he could find a world-class large gold mine in the first survey. Although there is no specific survey result yet, judging from the natural treasure gas coming out of that ore body, the gold reserves of this ore body are definitely not worse than that of the Porgera gold mine. In fact, the average grade is higher than that of the Porgera gold mine. Otherwise, the natural treasure gas emitted by this ore body would not be so much richer than that of the Porgera gold mine.

Others may not know, but Yang Jin is almost certain that there is a world-class super-large gold mine here.

The first good start made Yang Jing full of confidence, so in the next few days, Yang Jing and his team took the rented helicopter and traveled almost all areas within a hundred kilometers around Mount Hagen. But unfortunately, except for the gold mine that was accidentally discovered in the first place, there was no gain in the rest of the days.

This does not mean that there are no gold mines near Mount Hagen, but there should be no high-grade enriched mines like the first discovery.

In fact, there are still many large and even micro gold mines in the mountains near Mount Hagen. This can be seen from the private gold diggers that can often be seen here. This also shows that the reserves of gold resources in the mountains near Mount Hagen and even in the entire Mahler Mountains are still very rich.

It has been confirmed by scientists that heavy metals such as gold, platinum, silver, and copper are elements that cannot be formed by the earth itself. And it is well known that even the sun, after the nuclear fusion inside it ends, cannot produce heavy elements with a molecular weight greater than iron.

The final product of nuclear fusion is iron, which has been confirmed by scientists. As for where heavy elements such as gold come from? Now there is a theory that has gradually become the mainstream, that is, these heavy elements on the earth actually come from the heavy elements produced by the collision and explosion of two neutron stars before the birth of the earth.

Because even after the nuclear fusion of the star ends and an iron ball is formed inside, due to the gravity, this huge iron ball will continue to undergo chemical changes under the action of strong gravity. If the mass of the star is large enough, the final product of the collapse can form a neutron star, then this neutron star will contain heavy elements with a molecular weight larger than iron.

Once two massive neutron stars collide and explode, the heavy elements and metals that were originally bound by the huge gravity of the neutron stars will be thrown into the universe.

When the earth was formed, gravity captured these heavy element metals that were thrown into the universe, and they slowly settled on the earth, eventually forming heavy element metal ore bodies.

Just like gold, the content of gold in the earth's crust is very low, but the content in the core is much higher than that in the earth's crust. Similarly, even in the earth's crust, there are few places where high-grade enriched ores can be formed, which is why there are so few high-grade enriched gold mines on the earth.

Because of the orogeny on Irian Island, the gold element deep in the earth was raised to the surface. Therefore, the gold content in the Male Mountains is abundant, but the chance of forming high-grade enriched mines is extremely low.

At present, there are only two world-class super-large gold mines discovered in the central mountain system of the entire Irian Island, one is the Grasberg copper-gold mine in the west, and the other is the Porgera gold mine. The ore body discovered by Yang Jing a few days ago is the third super-large gold mine discovered by humans on this island so far.

At the same time, considering the topography of Irian Island, only gold mines with reserves of more than several hundred tons or even thousands of tons are worth mining on an industrial scale. Mines with reserves of less than ten tons may be mined on a large scale if they are in plains, but forget about it in mountainous areas.

The initial investment in mining in mountainous areas is quite high, so gold mines with small reserves are simply not worth large-scale mining.

This is why there are so many private gold prospectors mining for gold on this island in Papua New Guinea and even in Indonesia to the west.

This type of miniature gold mine has a small reserve and is not an enriched mine. The grade of the gold ore is very low. Even if Yang Jing increased the energy injection to the extreme, he could not see any natural treasure coming out.

After four or five consecutive inspections, there was no effect at all, which made Yang Jing a little discouraged.

However, Yang Jing had just returned this afternoon when Guo Dabao brought him good news.

"Jing, the area you guessed has been confirmed by satellite remote sensing technology. It has been confirmed that there is a high-grade precious metal ore body there. And through the verification of the Papua New Guinea mining department, we have confirmed that the area is not within the scope of Rio Tinto's survey and mining. Rio Tinto's survey and mining range is further north."

When Guo Dabao said these words, his chubby face turned into a big sunflower with joy. It can be seen that Guo Dabao was very happy to get such a result.

At the same time, Yang Jing also understood that Guo Dabao's relationship with the upper echelons was much deeper than it seemed on the surface. You have to know that it was mobilizing a resource satellite hundreds of kilometers away, and the results came out in just a few days. This could only mean that Uncle Guo, who was smiling like Maitreya Buddha, had a special relationship with the upper echelons.

"Uncle Guo, can we successfully obtain the surveying and mining rights for this area?" Just knowing the result is not enough. Being able to successfully obtain the surveying and mining rights for this area is the fundamental thing.

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