The next day, a week after George left Los Angeles and returned to school, good news came from Paul. Three pieces of land in Texas had been purchased. However, because the area was relatively large, the purchase this time cost directly

He paid $45 million to George. But considering his gains, everything was worth it.

Let’s talk about the largest piece of Gobi desert first. George remembered that in his previous life, the land was bought by China for 1.7 billion U.S. dollars. Four years after the purchase, oil was discovered under that piece of land. With the crude oil technology at that time, it could be recovered

The reserves are 20 billion barrels, in addition to 16 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 1.6 billion barrels of natural gas condensate, setting a record for the largest unconventional crude oil reserves in the United States. The value of the oil field even exceeds 1.14 trillion U.S. dollars. This oil field can be added to Saudi Arabia

The daily output of Vaal is as high as 5 million barrels, which is comparable to the world's largest oil field. China has become the big winner.

The second triangular forest area, with a total of 560 square kilometers of land in this area, is the historically famous East Texas Oil Field. The East Texas Oil Field was not only the largest oil field in the United States, but also one of the largest in the world.

Large oil field. Historically, the East Texas Oil Field was discovered in 1930 and has been the largest oil field in the United States since it was put into production.

The last piece of land located in a small town, that place created four oil tycoons in the United States. The oil resources underground can be imagined.

In the end, the two pieces of land that George bought in California were not oil mines, but gold mines. The land in Prior County could be surrounded by five mining sites, and they were all open-pit mines. As technology improved, that piece of land

The average gold content of the gold mine reaches 1.15 g/t, and a total of 77.5t of gold can be recovered.

In the last piece of land, the ore reserves of the deposit are 7,000,000 tons. The bureau estimates that the ore reserves contain gold grade of 0.07 ounces/ton, with a total of three mining sites.

These five pieces of land are only high-quality mines in the United States that George has chosen. Like some other mines, George has not purchased a large amount yet due to issues such as money and ability.

When George left Los Angeles, he had notified Paul and acquired a qualified mining company. Then he asked the exploration team to start detecting four places except the Gobi. The reason why the Gobi was not detected was because the current technology was not yet available.

Developed. Spending time on this land is not as good as developing the wealth that is easy to develop first.

Moreover, the oil price at this time is still too low. I can develop it step by step and let the oil price soar for a while.

George's behavior now is just like that of horse racing and staking. Others were staking land, but George was staking money, but who allowed him to have this condition?

On this day, George followed Osborne in the laboratory to observe the germ experiments.

Half a month ago, Osborne had George as the first signatory, and he published a paper on penicillin as the second signatory. The paper specifically discussed that penicillin can significantly inhibit many infectious bacteria that can cause serious diseases.

and destructive effect, and the bactericidal effect is extremely strong.

This paper also attracted the attention of the college and was recommended to professional platforms by the college, but it has not been published yet.

By this time, the first stage of the experiment had been completed, and Osborne had begun to apply for a patent for penicillin. George knew that if he wanted to further study the effects of penicillin, he must solve the problem of purifying penicillin. After 18 months of hard work, the original time and space

, they finally obtained 100 mg of yellow powdered penicillin that was pure enough for human intramuscular injection.

George directly proposed a solution, using the freeze-drying method to extract penicillin crystals. In fact, there is a more advanced solution, but the patent has not yet been issued. George thinks it is better to go slower. This extraction method is enough to meet the experimental requirements.

Requirements.

The next step of the experiment is to conduct experiments directly on experimental mice to observe the therapeutic effect of penicillin. It also has effects and principles on which germs. These require a series of observations and frequent experiments.

"George, George, read the reply from The Lancet!" Osborne happily walked into the laboratory holding an opened envelope.

"The Lancet?" George raised his head from the microscope. Before Osborne said that he wanted to publish a paper, George just looked at it and didn't ask which journal it would be published in. But it could be published in the "Lancet" journal.

George is still very happy because this will be of great benefit to the subsequent experimental advancement.

That night, George invited all the staff in the laboratory to have dinner together to celebrate the results of the experiment.

There is not much that George can learn in school. The help that school professors usually give George is to establish a direction and sort out the structure of knowledge. Then George will continue to fill in the information through his own learning and reading.

George is already preparing to take the final exam held every year, and his graduation thesis is about the effects of penicillin. If there are no other circumstances, George will graduate from college in June this year.

Three days later, news came from the California Mining Company that after a month of surveying, gold deposits have been discovered. The survey report has been released.

Next, George will have to consider the issue of development. The gold ore with mining value must reach more than 0.3-0.5 grams per ton. And George's two mines have reached above this level, so they have great development value.

Therefore, after a little thought, George planned to mine these two gold mines by himself. The greater advantage of mining by himself is that he can successfully launder the more than 80 tons of gold in his own space.

After George informed Paul of the decision by phone, he asked him to arrange all the mining matters. George also wrote a 145-page plan on the heap leaching gold extraction process and gave it to Paul.

Heap leaching gold extraction refers to the process of piling low-grade gold ore or flotation tailings on the bottom material, and circulating and spraying sodium cyanide solution to dissolve the gold and silver in the ore to form a gold-containing precious liquid to recover gold.

Gold craft.

Gold extraction by heap leaching has the advantages of simple process, easy operation, less equipment, less power consumption, low investment, quick results, and low production cost. Heap leaching is used to process low-grade ore of 0.5-3g/t, and the recovery rate of gold is

50-80%, even up to 90%.

But in fact, this process was used for leaching copper oxide ore as early as 1752. But George was the first to use it in a gold mine.

After George told Paul about this method, Paul was very excited. He even proposed to register this method as a patent, but George stopped him because all the knowledge used in the whole process had been discovered, so there was no patent issue.

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If you want to use this method to make money, it is not impossible. There are two methods. One is to buy other people's low-grade mines and extract them again yourself. If this method can be kept confidential, you can gain benefits to a certain extent.

The second is to directly use this method to negotiate with other mining companies to obtain one-time benefits.

Why is it a one-off? Because there are a lot of tricks here. To put it simply, you can only cooperate once. If others know it well, they will come to you for cooperation next time. So it can only be a one-time cooperation.

In the end, George decided to charge a fee directly.

The next day, George arranged for Paul to release the exploration results to the outside world. He also asked Paul to send invitations in his name to the top 20 mining companies in the world. These mining companies would definitely be present. After all, he might also be planning to sell the mine.

As for the younger George, he was not invited.

The day after the news was announced, many mining companies called to ask if they had any plans to sell or cooperate in mining, hoping to talk to George. But George already had plans, so how could he change it?

Let them wait for news.

The next day's newspapers also reported the news. George estimated that this would bring another gold rush to California.

A week later, the meeting was held in the banquet hall of the Plaza Hotel. All invited companies were present. After all, according to the data published by George, the two mines together may have 100 tons of gold. What a huge fortune this is.

Mining companies want to miss out.

"Hello everyone, I'm glad to meet you here. Let me introduce myself first. My name is George Orwell. I invite you here this time because gold mines were discovered in the two pieces of California land I bought some time ago." George

Said first.

"Mr. Orwell, are you prepared to sell these two mines? At what price are you prepared to sell them?" At this time, someone underground began to ask questions.

"Haha, that's it. I don't plan to sell these two gold mines."

"Then why did you gather us together?"

"Well, I discovered a new type of technology that can increase the utilization rate of low-grade ores to 90%. I wonder if you are interested."

"Orwell, is your method really feasible? If the cost is too high, it would be unrealistic." Someone asked at this time.

"Haha, no, my newly developed method has simple technology and low cost. I can guarantee this. I called you here today just to talk about this business. Of course, if you don't believe me, we will

Another way you can use is to sell low-grade ore to me a second time. We can recycle the ore at a certain discount based on the unit gold content."

When the mining companies present heard what George said, they immediately understood that maybe this method was really feasible. Otherwise, George would not have been able to call so many mining companies at the same time, and he would not have been able to offend so many mining companies at the same time.

"So Orwell, what are your conditions? You can't publish the method for free, can you?"

"Of course, you are among the largest mining companies in the world. You must have had a batch of low-grade ores in your hands before, and felt that there was no mining value. Now, with the plan I provide, these wealth will be used again."
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"As I said just now, you can sell low-grade ore directly to me. Of course, I invited you here today because I want to make friends with you, so you can also directly pay 5 million US dollars to obtain this method. We will teach you

If you know how, you can also teach on-site. The premise is that you sign a confidentiality agreement after purchasing the method, and you cannot disclose the method within one year."

"Mr. Orwell, is this price too much?"

"Haha, everyone needs to understand two things. The first is that you must have a lot of low-grade ores in your hands, which is a fortune. The second is that you can use the time difference to acquire a batch of low-grade ores.

Mine. In this way, the money will be earned back. Our company also wants to make friends with you and is willing to trade the plan to you because we don’t want to be alone.”

In fact, 5 million is really cheap for these companies, because George invited the top 20 companies in the world. The reason why these people can still bargain is because it is the nature of businessmen not to call out.

"You can also think about it. Let's get to know each other today and you can tell me the answer tomorrow." George said.

"Haha, no need, I believe Mr. Orwell will not cheat us for this little money. In this case, I will sign this agreement first." At this time, Enlil, the head of Cliffs Natural Resources Company in the United States.<

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When George saw someone expressing his stance, he raised the water glass in his hand and made a slight gesture after raising it.

After seeing someone's statement, other people also expressed their willingness to cooperate and accepted the quotation. Everyone agreed to sign the agreement the next day and leave the meeting. George knew that from the moment the meeting ended, low-grade mines around the world would usher in

A wave of acquisitions. These big companies will never let go of this opportunity to make a fortune.

Sure enough, the next day, a large number of small companies with low-grade ores were merged and acquired on the stock market. George believed that more people were rushing to those unlisted companies to negotiate acquisitions on the spot.

Still in the hall yesterday, George signed contracts with 20 mining companies. After these companies paid the checks, George sent each company a 145-page mining plan. A round of experiments was also conducted on site to demonstrate

To various mining companies. This time, the mining companies also brought technical personnel in advance. After discussion by these technical personnel, they finally came to a technically feasible conclusion.

In the evening, George held a small banquet again. The heads of these companies also stayed in order to save face. As for the acquisitions their companies are making, there will naturally be people to do it.
Chapter completed!