Danzhai mercury mine was founded in the 1940s and was once the largest mercury mine in China and even in Asia. Production was gradually discontinued in the 1990s.
The mining area is 36 kilometers long from north to south and 5 kilometers wide from east to west, covering an area of about 180 square kilometers. There are nearly 100 mines in the whole mining area, including 2 main roadways with a total length of 8km and 30 sub-roadways with a total length of100km.
There used to be a state-run mercury mine in Danzhai County, deep in the mountains of Guizhou Province, which was once one of the largest mercury mines in China and even Asia. However, more than 70 years later, with the exhaustion of resources, it has become an industrial site. The picture shows the sculpture on the roadside of the mercury mine.
This is a very prosperous living area in the mining area. There used to be 20 thousand people working and living here. Once known as "Little Hong Kong", it was once more lively than the county town, so that Danzhai people did not go to the county town when they went to the market, but went to this mercury mine, which is more than 0/0 kilometers away from the county town.
In May, 1952, the Labor Reform Department of duyun city Public Security Department went to the mining area to take over and set up a factory. 1953 Guizhou public security took over the construction of "Guizhou local state-owned Danzhai mercury mine factory". 65438-0956, foreign experts Klin and Durczynski entered the mining area to guide the work and put forward suggestions and opinions on how to carry out geological exploration in the mining area.
At present, there are only three people left in the old site of the mercury mine, each of whom is responsible for 10 day, and rotates once a month. Yang, 54, is one of them. Yang has been on the construction site for nearly five years, earning a monthly income of 1500 yuan, and wandering around the empty factory every day.
Yang entered the factory on 1987 at the age of 23. Yang's father is a blaster in a mercury mine, and many workers in the mercury mine are the second generation. Because of their parents, many of them can work in the mine.
Yang said: "At that time, working in a mercury mine was a very decent thing. It is difficult to squeeze in the relationship, and the girls in the surrounding villages want to marry. "
Master Yang said: When the mining area was beautiful, there were more than 20,000 people living there. Like a lively small county, there are all kinds of schools, auditoriums and hospitals, and people around you will come here to go shopping, watch movies and see a doctor. After the minerals dried up, everyone moved away, leaving only Master Yang and his workmates to take turns to replace him in the wind and rape blossoms. The picture shows Lao Yang watching a TV series.
After entering the mining area, Yang became a boiler worker, working 8 hours a day. His job is to fill the boiler with fuel with a shovel, which is a "chore" that people bake like steamed rice every day. The picture shows the two-story building where Master Yang lives now.
At that time, the monthly salary was over 30 yuan. "At that time, the price was not cheap, and pork was 4 yuan a catty." Yang remembers that the family lived frugally. The picture shows the pork eaten by Master Yang.
Yang said meaningfully: 33 years have passed, and now my work is like "seclusion and practice", with free time and light tasks. I just patrol the mining area every day and take a walk.
"The leader has already confessed that it is enough to pay attention to' fire prevention and theft prevention'." He said that he was clumsy, not good at dealing with complicated interpersonal relationships, and he was getting older and older, and he could hardly find any other job except guarding mines.
Master Yang said that his wife abandoned her son's poverty when he was 4 years old and ran away with other men. It is he who takes care of his eldest son and even does needlework by himself. At this point, Master Yang's tears swirled in her eyes. My son studied undergraduate in Wuhan and returned to Danzhai after graduation to work as a math teacher in a middle school in the county. After working for two years, I felt that the future of working in the county was bleak, so I took the postgraduate exam and returned to Wuhan for further study.
Most of the time, the mining area was silent. The mine manager is very boring. Every day is monotonous and repetitive, and time passes slowly. "One day is like ten years." Usually, some tourists visit the mining area; This year, affected by the epidemic, there were fewer tourists, and Yang felt more lonely and bored. The picture shows Yang's room, which used to be the office building of the mining area leader. Yang and a nearby farmer are chatting in their room.
Yang Ping's life is very simple. He leaned on the mountain to pick up some bits and pieces of wood for cooking, and the food he ate was simple.
On the wall of Master Yang's residence, there is a "Schematic Diagram of Equipment Division of Danzhai Gold Mercury Mine in Guizhou Province". From the schematic diagram of the equipment, we can see how brilliant the gold and mercury mine used to be.
Yang knows that the development of Wanda Danzhai town, which is more than 0/0 kilometers away from mercury mine/KLOC-0, can attract a large number of tourists every year in just a few years. He hopes that the mining area can develop like a small town and attract more people. He also hopes that he can have a chance to be a tour guide.