Chapter 644 Rich Ore Deposi (1/2)
Chapter 644: Rich Ore Deposit
Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The four of them were very satisfied with the sumptuous breakfast. Ah Ow, who was eating with them, ate until her small stomach was plump. She took the opportunity when the others were tidying up to quickly defecate.
Ah Ow would dig apart rocks when defecating before using the rocks to bury her feces.
After one day and one night of living together, Brother Wolf was no longer as quiet and began taking the initiative to talk. He said, ”This wolf is too smart.”
Li Du smiled. ”Do you know why she buries her own feces?”
Brother Wolf shook his head.
Li Du pointed at Ah Meow. ”He's the one who taught her. When Ah Ow was young, she would pee and defecate anywhere. Ah Meow would stare at her whenever she did so and give her a fierce beating. After many beatings, she learned the correct way of defecating.”
Brother Wolf's mouth was wide opened. ”Unbelievable.”
While smiling, Li Du brought Godzilla along to start work. Both of them dug a stone pit and searched meticulously for fire opals that were hidden inside. As these fire opals had dull inclusions, they were harder to find.
After a while, Brother Wolf walked over. ”Boss, they are using binoculars to monitor us.”
As Li Du knew who he was talking about, he looked at the neighboring tent and asked, ”Are you sure?”
”I saw very clearly the reflection of the lens earlier,” Brother Wolf said firmly.
Without a solution, Li Du said, ”Let them monitor then. We'll continue our work and change location after searching through this place once.”
After working until around noon, they completed searching this piece of land just as the weather became hot.
In total, Li Du found more than 100 pieces of variously-sized opals. He did not count them too carefully because among them were some cloudy opals that, besides being not very valuable, were stuck together with rocks.
Nonetheless, he did not let them off as no matter how low-priced they were, they still had value.
Godzilla and Brother Wolf tidied things up and dismantled the tent. Li Du, who was not doing work, released the little bug to search the surroundings for a resource-rich area—as usual.
The area of the national park was 230-square miles. It was around 27 miles from north to south. The furthest across it got from east to west was 20 miles while the shortest was around one mile.
Besides having petrified forests in this vast area, there were also the interstate 40, BNSF railway, and one of the main tributaries of the Little Colorado River, the Puerco River, which all ran across the national park.
As expected, it was impossible to have fire opals everywhere in such a vast area.
Fire opal, like other gemstones, had gem deposits. Only in the vicinity of these deposits could gemstones be found, and finding gemstones anywhere else was very difficult.
The deposits were not continuous. They were discontinuous and were distributed over various regions. Although the exact regions were not clear, the total area of these regions were at least ten square miles according to the word of mouth of gem hunters.
In other words, the fire opals produced spanned over an area of more than 1000 hectares!
Among these regions, there were some regions with more fire opals and other regions with less. These few times, Li Du searched only for rich deposits as he needed to work on them.
It was not easy searching for rich deposits. Even though the little bug flew very fast and had a very good field of view, these gemstones were small and dull. As such, finding them amidst a bunch of rocks was not easy.
Even after searching for quite a while, Li Du was unable to find a place that contained a rich amount of gemstones.
Just as he was about to give up, the little bug passed a hillock and saw that there were also a few crushed rocks and ore fragments underneath the soil.