The Keketuohai was originally a thick history book. Only it has been quietly forgotten in the northwest corner, covered with dust. When the dust whisked away, casually flipping through the volume, is actually an amazing work, a hundred years of legend hidden in it. Approaching it, there will be an urgent desire to read.
Once you read it, you will find that the small Keketuohai, as it is rich in mineral deposits, contains too many stories. It is hard to calm your thoughts every time you read it, and you can't help but choke on your tears every time you tell it.




The No. 3 Mine, which contains 84 types of rare mineral resources, an underground hydroelectric power station 136 metres below ground, the largest integrated rare metal beneficiation plant, the repayment of 40 per cent of the former Soviet Union's foreign debt, and the provision of raw materials for the aerospace and aviation industries of the "two bombs and one Satellite" are just some of the examples of the legendary stories of the Keketuohai that have amazed the world time and time again. ...... The Keketuohai has amazed the world time and time again with one fabulous legend after another.
Nowadays, the magical Keketuohai Aiguozhi mine exploration tour once again focuses everyone's attention, and becomes another boiling point of Keketuohai's characteristic industrial tourism and red tourism.




Ayiguozi Mine pit was developed in 1949 and closed in 1965; it was re-mined in 1971 and closed again in 1974; it was not until 2015 that it was re-developed as a red tourism and educational attraction, which brought back the former mystery and elegance of this silent mine cave for dozens of years.



In order to allow tourists to experience and feel the immersive experience of the inner structure of the mine and the life of the miners, the mine has been done to heighten the reinforced treatment, and in the past the miners can only be rickety all day in the inside work.



Ayiguozi mine pit is more than 800 metres long, divided into six levels, with more than a dozen intersecting or connected mining chambers of different sizes, as if it were an underground labyrinth.
In the long, narrow and dark mine, you will feel the cold air, it is said that the temperature in the mine is only 0 ℃ all year round, it is hard to imagine how the miners at that time in the winter endured the bone-chilling cold to complete the high-intensity mining work.







In the dim light, can still be seen in the mine levels of veins, sometimes the rock wall glittering, the original is a fine cluster of mica clustered into the "mica nest", that the top of the crystal flashes like a Milky Way is composed of a piece of white quartz "quartz river", as well as beryl, lithium pyroxene and other rare minerals in the rock layers of the original form of the ...... as if entering the Jules Verne novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth" in the world of geodesic exploration and treasure hunting.





Continuing on, you come to the largest mining area on level 4 of the mine, and it is said that miners in the past used to rest in this slightly larger clearing between jobs. They often brought their own branded naan and settled down with plain water for lunch. I wonder what kind of joys and sorrows they shared with each other here to relieve the pressure of intense work.
Near each mining area in the cave, you can see the ore cars used in the old days of mining and the tracks that transported them. This technology originated in the former Soviet Union, and the sight of these gives a deep impression of the difficulties of mining in the past.



The journey was winding and labyrinthine, but luckily there were horse lights to guide us out of the "labyrinth". When slowly feel the cold air is no longer so cold, the darkness is no longer so thick, is close to the exit. Out of the cave, the sun is bright in the sky, compared with the cave is just like two heavens, suddenly feel warm.
Keketuohai will certainly move towards a more brilliant new era, in the near future to write its legend.