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Chapter 94 Elemental Copper in Nature (Part [-])
After the other side tasks are completed, you can focus on the last completion task and building concrete houses.

It took two days for Won to turn all the exterior walls of the wooden house's four walls into concrete walls.

By the way, several furnaces of quicklime were fired, some concrete was made, and the land around the wooden house was hardened.

It really took millions of years for this planet to evolve intelligent creatures, and there is really no way to explain these hardened concrete and houses.

At that time, those researchers in white coats will definitely look at the ruins with puzzled expressions.

"Have there been prehistoric civilizations on our planet?"

As for those who could give them answers at that time, it is estimated that they have long since ceased to exist.

No.20 five days, early in the morning, Han Yuan got up early in the morning, and set off with a bamboo basket on his back, an iron ax and a hatchet.

Today he is going to collect some copper ore from the chalcocite mine.

The distance between the wooden house and the chalcocite is [-] kilometers. This figure does not sound far, and it is not even a third of the distance from the wooden house to the lake.

But to move forward in the jungle, especially in a rainforest where no one has ever been, it takes at least two hours to walk for a distance of [-] kilometers.

Regarding Won's detection of the jungle again, the audience in the live broadcast room did not have any doubts.

After all, in the past 25 days, the Korean won has gone deep into the jungle to look for resources a lot.

He didn't say anything, just holding a hatchet, splitting bushes and vines from time to time, marking the way, and heading towards the direction given by the metal mineral detector.

Starting early in the morning, until the sun was shining, the triangle displayed on his virtual screen coincided with a small dot.

Turning off the virtual screen, Han Yuan looked around, and a field of purple flowers and grass came into his eyes.

He walked over quickly, and the camera showed the flowers and grass in front of him.

"Everyone looked at this, and I found something good."

The camera showed that the audience in the live broadcast room saw a piece of vegetation with purple flowers without his prompting.

【beautiful flowers. 】

[Purple flowers are quite rare, but they are really beautiful]

【I also have these flowers in my hometown. There are large pieces of them all over the mountains and plains. They can be used to make tea to relieve the heat, but they can't be put too much at a time. 】

[This thing is called 'Copper Grass Flower', the scientific name of the flower is Haizhou Xiangrui, and it usually grows in the land containing copper ore. 】

[Copper mine?Then the anchor quickly searched to see if there was a copper mine nearby. 】

[Our side is called Toothbrush Flower. 】

[If you want to see this kind of flower, you can come to Tongling, Fenghuangshan Copper Grass Flower Ecological Park blooms every June. 】

Han Yuan leaned over and picked off a copper grass flower, habitually put it under his nose and smelled it, and said.

"That's right, this is copper grass flower, a kind of grass that grows on top of copper mines."

"In the early days, when mineral prospecting technology was underdeveloped, many experienced experts would judge whether there were mineral deposits underneath based on the various plants growing on the land."

"For example, the copper grass flower in my hand, the 'iron mango velvet' that grows in places with high gold content, and the silver thread grass that grows on silver mines."

"Even with various prospecting technologies and equipment now, finding mineral deposits based on plants is still an indispensable technology."

"There are copper grass flowers growing here, so there are some possible owners of copper mines nearby. Let me look for it now and see if I can find it."

As he spoke, he searched around.

The appearance of the copper grass flower just gave him an excuse to find the copper ore, otherwise he would have stepped on the copper ore when he ran over, which would be great luck.

After searching around for a while, Han Yuan's eyes lit up suddenly, and he saw an irregular stone with a patina green.

He walked over quickly, knelt down and reached out to touch the stone, his hands were immediately covered with a thick layer of green-brown copper rust.

Wiping off the copper rust on his hands, Han Yuan was going to pick up the ore to show it, but found that he couldn't pick it up.

When I lifted it hard, the ore on the ground still remained tattooed. This time, I immediately noticed something was wrong.

He took out his iron ax and hacked on it. Some of the brown-green patina was chopped off, and the red metal inside was immediately exposed.

"Eh? This doesn't seem to be copper ore, but simple copper?"

Seeing the crimson color, Han Yuan was startled.

The ore on the ground is not chalcocite ore at all, but elemental copper that exists in a very small amount in nature!
And this single piece of copper does not look small, only a small part is exposed on the ground, just like an iceberg in the water.

Hearing his words, the live broadcast room became lively.

[Elementary copper?Copper is easily oxidized, where does the elemental copper come from?This is what you put here beforehand, right? 】

[I have only heard of elemental gold and elemental silver, but not elemental copper. 】

[Isn't copper generally present in the form of various ores?Such as chalcocite, chalcopyrite and the like?And single copper? 】

[Anchor, you are a fake and finally exposed? 】

[Good guy, I caught a group of fish who slipped through the net of compulsory education. 】

Han Yuan saw the barrage, but ignored it for the time being. Instead, he took an iron ax and chopped off a corner of the copper.

Elemental copper is very soft, with a Mohs hardness of only three, and a piece of it can be easily chopped off with a tempered iron axe.

Holding this piece of copper with a brown-green surface and a purple-red incision, he showed the audience a glance, and then explained.

"Elemental copper actually exists in nature, but it is not common."

"Elementary copper is also called free copper. More than 4000 years ago, our ancestors accidentally discovered some elemental copper in nature, and then made various copperware by cold hammering."

"Otherwise, do you think that when copper smelting technology did not appear thousands of years ago, how did copper ware come out?"

"Under normal circumstances, elemental copper only exists in the head part of a copper-rich mine, and the amount is very rare, so it is normal for everyone not to know."

"The piece in my hand is a piece of high-purity elemental copper. Except for the copper rust on the outside, there are almost no impurities inside."

He showed the simple copper in his hand, put it in the bamboo basket, and then began to dig the rest of the ground.

In the live broadcast room, there was a lively discussion again.

[Elemental copper really exists. I just found it from Du Niang. It is exactly the same as what the anchor said. Elemental copper exists on the top of the copper mine, and the amount is very rare. 】

[First I found a hematite ore, and then I found a copper bonanza!The anchor is also very lucky. 】

[Unfortunately not in China. 】

[That's okay, the anchor is in the Amazon rainforest. After you come back, you can tell the country the specific location. The higher-ups can find a way to obtain mining rights. They are all superficial rich minerals with high value. 】

[Little leaf red sandalwood worth more than [-] million, a rich iron mine, and a rich copper mine. Didn't anyone watching the live broadcast find out the specific location of the anchor?I can't believe it! 】

[That's up to you to find it, in the vast rainforest, where do you go to find someone? 】

【It's just a pity that I can't see copper smelting anymore. The anchor has found simple copper, so he won't smelt copper anymore, right? 】

(End of this chapter)