Chapter 435： Sokal Coal Mine

In the wild hills north of Lviv, a sweaty team marched with mules and horses.

In the wilderness in the early spring, people are sweating profusely, and it seems that the distance they travel is not short. Judging from the fact that they wear heavy thick cloth clothes and have a lot of wear and tear, and their skin is also thick and reddish, these people must be active in the wild frequently.

The mule immediately dragged a lot of instruments, such as turning machines, shovels, rulers, shovels, tents and other tools. Judging from these equipment, they were a geological exploration team. They are exploring the northern area of ​​Lviv.

After crossing a river, a member of the front of the team walked to the middle position and talked to a middle-aged man in his forties.

"Captain Dolov, the guide said that the mountain in front is the C3 area marked on the map. As long as the sampling and investigation are completed here, we will only have the last C5 area further north, and our exploration work is about to end. Up."

"It's almost here, let everyone work harder and try to get there early to camp. I want to go back to sleep in a comfortable bed earlier. At least there are no animals to disturb your rest."

Captain Dolov asked everyone to speed up and encourage everyone's fighting spirit by the way. Under the urging of the captain, the members of the exploration team accelerated their pace involuntarily.

Yes, it is the wish of everyone in the exploration team to go home early after their work, even if it is Dolev, who has been in this line for almost 20 years.

In the eyes of outsiders, the prospecting team is a noble and hard job. They climbed mountains and waded in various areas, searching for resources buried in the ground between the mountains and plains, and provided sufficient impetus for the economic development of Romania. In Dolev's view, hard work is nothing but noble, and the sorrow and sorrow of climbing and wading throughout the year is not enough to tell outsiders.

What is even more uncomfortable is that when doing geological prospecting all the year round, there are basically all problems, such as arthritis and stomach problems, which exist in almost everyone. Especially after retirement, the torture is very uncomfortable. Several of his previous team captains were due to various root causes, and now they need help from others in their lives.

Fortunately, this time I only explored hilly areas. For example, the Carpathian Mountains have basically been visited. Many of these areas can be said to have very poor living conditions.

After climbing over this low hillside, a barren mountain and ridge appeared in front of them, not even a hunter's hut.

"Bring the guide here, you will find a place to settle down first, and we will explore the area after a break."

As the captain, Dolov immediately instructed the players. So under his guidance, the team members immediately found a leeward mountain col to set up a temporary camp.

And the guide they invited, a local hunter named Lielfo, walked in front of him. "Captain, you are looking for me."

"Yes, Lielfo."

Dolloff pointed to the mountain in front of him and asked him: "Have you been here as a hunter?"

"I've been tracking prey before."

"Is there any vegetation in this area that is different from other areas?"

There is a reason why Dolev asked this, because there are many mineral areas with different vegetation changes. For example, there are iron ore in this area, so the longest ones should be ferrophilic plants, such as alfalfa, astragalus, oriental arborvitae, setaria, cypress and other plants will grow more luxuriant than other areas.

And if there are copper resources in the area, then plants such as N. vulgaris and Elsholtzia vulgaris will appear on a large scale. This is also the basic knowledge of their exploration team, which preliminarily determined whether there are minerals in the area from the distribution of plants. However, there are still many minerals that do not have obvious plant markers, which requires them to collect samples from the area for analysis.

"This... I didn't see the difference between plants here and other places."

Faced with Dolev's question, Hunter Lielfort held his head and thought for a long time but didn't think of a difference.

"Okay, thank you Lelf."

Dollef was not discouraged without getting clues from the guide, this is the normal state of the exploration work. On the contrary, the mineral resources with obvious associated plants are really a minority. He has surveyed for so many years and only got a clue from the local population.

It was in a small village called Liroko in the Carpathian Mountains, and the local population knew that the iron awnings growing there were quite luxuriant. The iron mang skip is a gold mine companion plant, and he really found a small gold mine there, for which he and his team members were rewarded with 10,000 lei.

The exploration team worked in the field all year round, so they set up temporary camps very quickly. They unloaded the equipment in a short time and set up the tent on the spot. After all, it is just a place for temporary rest, so there is no need to be too particular about it. But when the construction was much worse, Dolov immediately assigned tasks to everyone.

"Cezar, Koman, Diana, you three will explore to the east first. Amir, Jelu, and Hull, you must explore the north. Hull, Albin and I, go to the west to see Look, others are repairing in the camp."

The team members who were assigned to the task answered one after another: "Okay, Captain"

After Dolov assigned the task, he took a compass, a shovel, and a rope, and followed Hull and Albin, choosing the east side. He wanted to explore the vicinity of the camp before it was still early.

The area has been deserted and uninhabited, making it difficult for the three people to move forward. They tried their best to choose areas with less vegetation along the way.

When he came to an open field, Dolov looked at the surrounding exposed geological rock formations and said: "Look at the exposed rock formations over there that look like Carboniferous. Let's go and see if there is anything to discover."

"Ok."

The two immediately followed in the footsteps of the captain. Romania’s current coal mines are from the Carboniferous, so they plan to take a look at the Carboniferous geology first. I need to say one more thing here. At present, the famous coal mines in the Ruer area come from the Permian strata, and the coal mines all over Shanxi in later generations also come from the Carboniferous strata.

The three of them came to the edge of the rock, picked up the shovel and started digging.

To put it simply, geological exploration is to choose a place and dig it to see if there are minerals. Of course, this is a joke. Among them, the work of exploration is very detailed, and many tasks require the cooperation of instruments. At present, they are only planning to take a preliminary look at the geological structure of the area.

The three of them worked in the field all year round, and soon dug a pit more than one meter deep.

Team member Hull looked at the geological formation and said, "Captain, it seems that the geological structure of this area is no different from other places."

"It seems to be."

Dolov stopped and looked at it.

"Should we stop and try another place?"

Faced with the team's question, Dolev thought for a while and said: "If you don't dig half a meter to see, there will be nothing more than a meter in the hole."

"Ok."

Then the three of them began to dig. Seeing that the sun was about to descend to the side of the mountain, the exploration work was about to end.

"Hey"

As soon as Dolev dug down the iron tree, he also planned to stop work like this. At present, it seems that there is no difference. At this moment, the shovel brought out some black particles.

"what"

Dolloff reached for a shovel, picked up one of the black particles, and looked at it.

"This is coal."

Years of geological prospecting work made him recognize coal at a glance.

"Let's dig down and see what kind of coal it is."

The coal particles found did not attract much attention from Dolov. UU read because he basically found coal when he explored everywhere. It's just that most of them are lean and poor coals that have no value for mining. Not only are these coals of poor quality, but the coal seams are generally less than half a meter in size, which is completely useless.

As the three of them excavated, the coal here gradually revealed its true meaning. This is hard, dense and high-gloss anthracite, and in the following days of continuous excavation, they found that the thickness of the coal seam here is also quite good, generally between 2-4 meters, and the area is not small.

Then they reported to their superiors that C3 had discovered a coal mine with large reserves. The lack of coal and iron has always plagued Romania. Now that an anthracite coal mine was discovered, the government immediately sent a larger exploration team to carry out detailed exploration of the area with the most advanced equipment. Eventually it was discovered that the area was a large coal mine. The total stock reaches 5.3 billion tons, and the open pit mining reaches 1.8 billion tons, of which 2.12 billion tons of anthracite, 1.82 billion tons of bituminous coal, and 1.38 billion tons of lignite.

They will report to Bucharest where they found the coal mine, a small village called Sokal recently as the name of the coal mine. In the next mining of this coal mine, the required transportation will be indispensable, and now Mayor Doffrich finally has no worries about funds.