In order for Yang Jing and his team to reach the coordinate location from the town of Xibok, they need to walk along a bumpy mountain road. Although this road is very broken and has constant ups and downs, it is already very good compared to the previous two locations where there is no road at all.
But when Yang Jing and his companions reached a high point along the road, the scene before them really stunned them all.
The third hidden location is located in the San Antonio area, which is located in the center of Marinduque Island with an average altitude of about 500 meters.
On the way here, although the road was difficult to walk on, the surrounding scenery was still good. At a glance, there were lush primitive tropical jungles and endless green everywhere, and the concentration of negative oxygen ions in the air was also very high. Although it was very hot and stuffy, it was still a very scenic journey.
But what the hell is this?
Before entering the San Antonio area, this road will cross a small mountain with an altitude of about 700 meters, so from here you can almost have a panoramic view of the entire San Antonio area.
Although they knew before coming that this area was a mining area, and the mines densely distributed in this area could be clearly seen on the satellite map, when they saw the situation with their own eyes, they were still unable to react for a while.
If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they really wouldn't have believed that the scene before them would actually happen in the tropical rainforest.
The area below the hill, which is more than six kilometers long from north to south and nearly three kilometers wide from east to west, is almost barren. If you don't see it with your own eyes, you can't imagine that there would be such an area covered with yellow earth in the tropical rainforest.
There are bottomless mines everywhere, and countless huge mine carts are moving between the mines and the ore dressing plant like hardworking worker ants. In the north and south of the mining area, there are two tailings ponds with a diameter of more than one kilometer, which are already filled with water. Between the two mining areas is a residential area.
This is a tropical rainforest, where plants have strong vitality, but here humans once again show their nature as killers of nature. If the indiscriminate logging in the Amazon is a destruction of the Amazon, then these mines are simply a kind of destruction.
Those hairless areas, against the backdrop of the lush tropical rainforest around them, looked like a few bald spots suddenly appearing on the top of a normal person's head. They were so eye-catching and ugly.
Gege shook her head speechlessly and sighed, "These people in the mining industry are so cruel. There are not many forests left in nature, but they are still destroying them wantonly. Don't they think about their future generations?"
Yang Jing reached out and held Gege's hand, saying helplessly: "It's all caused by profit... There's nothing we can do. Who made this place rich in precious metals? Only such huge profits would make these mine owners do such a thing that would wipe out their entire family lineage."
Gege turned her head and looked at Yang Jing and said, "Yang Jing, let me tell you, if your Rongbao Mining Company also destroys the environment so recklessly, then you should stop working there and return your shares. We don't want such shares. You also said that this will cut off our lineage and grandchildren, and I don't want our descendants to be punished by the curse."
"Haha, don't worry. Although Uncle Guo is greedy for money, he is not a person without limits. He still attaches great importance to environmental protection. I have mentioned this to him many times. He attaches great importance to this. If you don't believe me, go to Beaumont and take a look. I guarantee that you won't be able to recognize the oil field there."
"That's good! Don't forget that you have Taoist heritage. Taoism believes in following the laws of nature. If even a Taoist disciple like you doesn't pay attention to protecting nature, how long can this world last?"
Yang Jing smiled and touched Gege's hair, whispering: "I didn't expect my wife to be such a sentimental person. Come on, my wife, smile for your husband..."
Gege playfully opened her mouth and said a silent word to Yang Jing - Get lost...
Seeing that the couple had finished flirting, Chris came up and whispered, "Boss, I'm afraid there is no hope for this place. This is a precious metal mining area, I'm afraid we can't even get in."
Yang Jing nodded and said, "Didn't I tell you before we came here? Don't hold out any hope for this place. Now that you've seen this, you've completely given up, right?" Then, Yang Jing pointed to the larger tailings pond at the southernmost end of the mining area and said, "Do you see that tailings pond? According to the coordinates provided in the information, the third hidden location is right in the center of that tailings pond. In this situation, how do you want us to find it?"
Chris took out a telescope, looked at the tailings pond that Yang Jing pointed out, and finally shook his head helplessly.
Tailings ponds are formed by the accumulation of extremely fine particles, with poor cohesion, low air permeability and gas holding capacity; they lack nutrients for plant growth, and soil bacteria and micro-animals cannot survive; at the same time, because they are enriched with a variety of heavy metal elements, they are completely unsuitable for plant growth.
Tailings ponds cause serious damage to vegetation. Now in formal mining areas, in order to protect the environment and allow vegetation to grow in the area occupied by the tailings pond, a layer of waste rock and soil about one meter thick is usually covered on the surface of the tailings pond. In this way, vegetation can be planted to ensure that the environment of the mining area is restored to the greatest extent possible.
But again, this approach would cost a lot of money.
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