"Is this, is this a super silver and gold mine?" The scene before him almost made Yang Jing open his mouth involuntarily. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and did not show the look of a fool who had discovered huge wealth.

Although the value of silver is far less than that of gold, it is also a precious metal, and one ton is worth more than three national coins. According to this price, one ton of silver is more than three million national coins, more than half a million US dollars.

Although we don't know how thick the ore body is, its large area and rich precious light are enough to prove that this ore body definitely contains extremely rich silver.

The most important thing is that there is obvious gold mixed in with the silver-white light, which further proves that there is also a lot of gold contained in this ore body.

It is difficult for pure silver to form minerals alone, because silver belongs to the copper type ion, is sulfur-philic, and has strong polarization ability. In nature, it often exists in the form of natural silver, sulfide, sulfur salt, etc. Because of its large ionic radius, it can form selenide and telluride with huge anions Se and Te. But it usually likes to hide in galena, or mechanically mixed, or as isomorphous latent crystals. Secondly, it is found in minerals such as natural gold, tetrahedrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, etc. Therefore, silver can often be recovered in the mining and smelting process of lead-zinc mines, copper mines, and gold mines.

Therefore, most of the silver mines found in the world are associated mines, such as silver-gold mines, copper, gold, silver, and molybdenum mines. Of course, more silver is smelted in galena.

The co-existence of silver and gold is a very common phenomenon in nature. The huge ore body in front of us is obviously a silver-gold co-existence ore. Of course, it must contain other mineral resources, but they should not be as rich as silver and gold. Therefore, only silver and gold can be seen in the precious light emitted by this ore body.

In fact, the reserves of silver in nature are not very large, not much more than gold. The reserves of gold on the earth are actually very rich, but most of the gold is hidden deep in the core of the earth, and the gold contained in the earth's crust is very small.

The same is true for silver. The amount of silver that can be mined in the world is not much, with only more than 500,000 tons left. So, even though the price of silver is very low now, as more and more silver is mined, the amount of silver that can be mined on the earth will decrease, and the price of this metal will sooner or later soar.

Even now, the price of silver is quite expensive, more than half a million dollars per ton, and how much is copper? Six thousand dollars per ton...

Therefore, as long as the silver ore grade of this ore body is high enough, mining this ore body will definitely be very profitable.

Although it is impossible to know the thickness and ore grade of this ore body, Yang Jing believes that this accidentally discovered ore body is definitely worth large-scale mining.

I never thought that just by climbing a mountain, I would find a silver and gold mine of great value!

This is really an unexpected success! If I had known that there was such a huge silver and gold ore body under the sea, I wouldn't have had to fly around in a helicopter for the past two days.

Looking at the huge glowing ore body below, Yang Jing felt helpless. But after thinking about it carefully, he felt relieved. Whether it was New Britain Island or New Ireland Island, or the St. George Strait between the two, they were all one of the most geologically active areas in the world. For example, next to the volcano where he was standing, there was an active volcano that had just erupted less than 30 years ago.

It is well known that only violent geological movements can form large-scale high-grade mineral veins. Just like China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which is known as the world's third pole, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau contains a staggering amount of mineral resources!

The seabed near Japan also contains extremely rich mineral resources. The North American Rocky Mountains, South American Andes Mountains and Central America, which are also located in the Pacific Ring of Fire, also have extremely rich mineral resources.

The mineral resources contained in Mother Earth's crust are far inferior to those in the mantle. Therefore, only areas with intense geological activities can move the mineral resources in the mantle into the crust through intense geological activities and eventually form world-class super mineral veins.

The huge ore body suspected to be a silver-gold mine was obviously formed in this way. Just look at the volcanoes standing around it. God knows how much mineral resources these volcanoes have brought to this area within tens of millions of years.

But no matter what, this huge silver-gold ore body in front of us is definitely the product of the combined action of these volcanoes and the Indo-Australian Plate and the Pacific Plate.

"What are you thinking about? Are you thinking about your sister-in-law?" The sudden question startled Yang Jing. He turned around and saw that it was Guo Xiang.

Yang Jing opened his mouth and thought about it, but when he saw Captain Howard beside him, he immediately gave up the idea.

William Howard's real boss, Mr. Fortelis, is a famous Australian mining tycoon. If the news that there is a huge silver-gold mine here falls into this guy's ears, it is likely that the surveying rights and even the mining rights of this piece will be taken away by the mining tycoon in no time.

Although the mining tycoon is a good person, when faced with mineral resources worth billions or even tens of billions of dollars, everything will become empty in the blink of an eye, and only the most practical interests are the most real.

So Yang Jing simply shook his head and said, "Let's go. It's getting dark and we have to ride back to the city." Then, Yang Jing winked at Guo Xiang.

The two had lived together for two years. When Yang Jing blinked, Guo Xiang naturally understood what he meant. So he nodded in agreement and said, "Yes, the sea breeze is quite strong today. It makes my scalp a little tight. Captain, how about we go back? I'm hungry."

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