Three days later, at night.
The hilltop where Mine No. 13 is located in the small town of Shambhala is brightly lit.
"Kacha kacha..."
"Wow, wow, wow..."
There were various sounds on the mountain. Many miners were mining ore. They put the ore into heavy wooden boxes, then lifted the wooden boxes onto the carriages and transported them continuously to the processing factory at the foot of the mountain.
Workers in the factory unloaded the wooden boxes from the carriage, quickly processed the ores in the boxes in a specific order, and then transported them away for sale.
In the distance, a group of construction workers were busy building a new factory. After successful construction, this factory will be used to prepare a dark gray medicinal powder. No one knows its specific use yet.
All this situation, compared with the deserted nights in Mine No. 13, was like a world away from heaven.
In the night sky a hundred meters high, a pair of invisible consciousness eyes are watching all this.
"It seems that everything is going according to plan and there are no problems. I hope it can be maintained."
Richard, who was in a conscious state, had this idea, and then controlled his conscious body to descend, crashing into the soil like a cannonball.
After hitting the soil, Richard overcame the slightly viscous resistance and moved underground to find his target as if swimming in water.
Soon, in his conscious state, he "saw" a large shadow appear in the soil. As he approached the past, he could vaguely feel the energy reaction. It was the uranium ore he was looking for.
The reason why he personally came to Mine No. 13 today and left his body was to find out the reserves and underground trends of uranium ore. In order to provide more useful information for the nuclear weapons research and manufacturing plan he started.
Thinking like this, Richard was like a fish hiding from natural enemies in the deep sea. He controlled his consciousness and moved further downwards, "dive" under the uranium mine, and moved away from the starting point of the uranium mine.
During the movement, the cross-section of the uranium ore and the corresponding position on the ground were constantly estimated.
In this way, it took about five minutes for Richard's consciousness to emerge from the ground at the end of the uranium mine.
He found that he was several kilometers away from Mine No. 13. After looking around for a week, he determined the location based on the information in his memory. It should be Mine No. 9 near the town of Shambhala.
At this time, he had already estimated a rough value in his mind for the reserves of Shambhala uranium mine.
According to what he detected, the uranium ore reserves in Mine No. 13 are not large because the deposits are narrow and slender, probably around a hundred tons.
After leaving the scope of Mine No. 13, the mineral deposit widened and thickened, then narrowed and thinned again near Mine No. 9, and finally disappeared completely.
Generally speaking, complete uranium reserves are on the order of thousands of tons, and the specific point may be between 1,000 tons and 1,500 tons.
If the uranium content of the so-called ores is at the standard level, all these uranium ores should be mined and purified under the premise of passing the technical requirements. Approximately 1 ton of weapons-grade enriched uranium can be obtained, and nuclear weapons with a yield of approximately 6 million can be produced, which is equivalent to 6 million tons of TNT explosives.
Of course, this is just a theoretical value. Considering reality, due to the influence of various problems, the final result may not even reach one-tenth of the theoretical value.
But even if it is not one tenth, just one percent, it is enough to produce nuclear weapons with a yield of 60,000 tons.
After all, a 60,000-ton nuclear weapon is equivalent to the simultaneous detonation of 60,000 tons of TNT explosives. The first atomic bomb used in actual combat on the earth, "Little Boy", had a yield of only 16,000 tons, which is equivalent to 16,000 tons of TNT explosives detonating at the same time, which is only about a quarter of this value.
The 16,000-ton "Little Boy" instantly vaporized more than 70,000 people, including Hiroshima Mayor Abuya Senkichi, through high temperatures, and subsequently killed 10 more people through burns, radiation, etc. More than 0,000 people, claimed a total of 20,000 lives, and destroyed most of the buildings in a city.
Then 60,000 tons of nuclear weapons can really be manufactured and used in actual ground combat in this world, and the effect will only be more amazing.
Of course, if you want to actually create a 60,000-ton nuclear weapon, the first thing you have to do is to mine and make good use of the uranium ore in the entire deposit.
This first step alone is not a small project.
With this thought, Richard's consciousness floated back to a camp at the foot of Mine No. 13, entered a room in the corner of the camp, and merged with the body lying on the bed.
…
"call-"
The body of Richard, who was lying quietly on the bed, let out a long breath, blinked his eyes, sat up, and then jumped out of bed.
The place where he is now is a newly established camp in Mine No. 13. It has not been officially put into use and is relatively simple. He took the time to come here this time and only asked the miners to notify one person before entering and starting out-of-body detection.
Counting the time now, the person he notified should be here soon if there is no accident.
Sure enough, after a while, there was a knock on the door of the room.
"Bang bang bang!"
Richard walked to the door, opened it and walked out, and saw standing outside the door Waltz, who was currently managing Mine No. 13.
Waltz looked at Richard and asked with slight confusion: "Master Wizard, why are you here suddenly?"
"I came to see the situation in the mine." Richard replied.
"Is that so?" Waltz responded, "Then let me tell you about the current general situation of the mine."
"Okay." Richard nodded, walked out of the camp, and took a walk.
Waltz followed Richard, reporting as he walked.
He wasn't very sure whether Richard's real purpose of coming here was to understand the situation, or whether he was worried about him and made a sudden inspection. However, he did not feel guilty and seriously stated that there was no false information.
“The overall planning of Mine No. 13 is progressing smoothly now, and most of it is proceeding as planned. Because of the alchemy props you provided, Lord Wizard, the mining speed of the mine is ten times that of other mines.
As a result, tens of thousands of kilograms of ore are mined, processed and transported every day. This is why a large part of the manpower is used in construction, otherwise the amount of ore mined will be even greater.
This has brought huge profits to the mining farm. With the huge shipment volume, we have successfully obtained some pricing rights in this nearby area. If we continue, we can take a great deal of initiative in pricing power in nearby areas, forcing other mines to follow our "suggestions".
If the time is longer, we can even enter other areas, such as the Delan area or the Tok City area. Once we capture these two places, one is a commercial center and the other is a transportation hub, the circulation of mineral resources in the small half of the Southern Free Federation will be affected by us. "