Xu Yun followed this guy and got into a Toyota Land Cruiser that probably hadn't been repainted in half a year. One thing about the little Japanese devils is quite powerful, and that's when it comes to car manufacturing, like the Cruiser and the Nissan Lotto.
, the off-road performance is no worse than the Grand Cherokee, and even more capable than the Range Rover.
In addition to the Wrangler and Land Rover Defender, the Cruiser is really not afraid of competing with any rivals on bad roads. In fact, the name Cruiser is quite nice, but it was given the more prestigious name "Land Cruiser" in China.
Full-time four-wheel drive, Torsen differential, front coil spring double-wishbone independent suspension, rear four-link non-independent suspension... Needless to say, these are all included, including steep slope descent and center differential locking.
It has everything.
Even though most of the roads on the continent of Africa are difficult to walk, this car cannot be troubled. The mechanical performance of this thing is very reliable. It can eat coarse grains and do dirty work without being pretentious at all.
The man with facial paralysis did not speak when he was not driving. There was no sound at all when he was driving. Even when he was breathing, there was almost no movement.
Xu Yun sat in the back seat of the car and simply ignored him, looking at the African scenery outside the window.
Although it was not his first time coming to Africa, he never felt that he could get familiar with this continent.
In the eyes of many people, Africa is dirty, chaotic, black and poor. In fact, Africa is really a fertile land.
Most of the primary gold deposits in African countries are related to the Archean or Early Proterozoic greenstone belts, and are produced in the greenstone belts. The deposit types are mainly gold-bearing quartz vein type and fractured altered rock type, followed by various layered and layer-controlled types.
Disseminated gold deposits.
In addition, there are a small number of skarn-type and hydrothermal-type gold deposits related to magmatic activity among the primary gold deposits on the African continent.
So this is the continent with the largest gold resources. Think about the fact that thousands of kilograms of gold ore can be produced on this land. What a concept!
Perhaps it is because resources are so abundant that talents fall behind and are bullied.
People in the world who like to invade and plunder are often small countries. They are probably forced to do so. They have no choice. They have no resources, so they can only go out and rob. If they want to rob, they must force themselves to develop faster.
Think about Japan, it's a small, tiny place where people show off their power all day long, and people have no place to live, so they have reclaimed the sea.
Their invasion is just for resources. Otherwise, in a place as big as a palm, they can't just survive by selling electronic products and cars, right?
Besides, Japanese electronic products are almost obsolete now. Sony could still use them to show off their products more than ten years ago. Who still uses them now? There are iPhones for mobile phones, beats for headphones, and cars can no longer maintain their market in China.
Chinese people are the most particular about appearance. They use iPhones for their mobile phones and beats for their earphones. Their cars must also be Mercedes-Benz and BMW. If not, a Land Rover, Jaguar or Porsche will be chosen.
Toyota and Honda have long since become shabby cars bought by "poor people", while Lexus and Infiniti, coupled with the unsatisfactory Acura, have no effect in improving their performance in China. They are not as good as Volkswagen's four laps.
, it is estimated that within ten years at most, Japanese cars and Sony will be on a par with each other.
If we insist on saying that there is anything that Japan can produce now, I am afraid that only cameras are left. Canon, Nikon and Pentax are the three pillars. But in a few years, they may be completely beaten to death by Germany's Leica and Sweden's Hasselblad.
Having said that, the abundance of gold mines in Africa will naturally attract countries without resources to make money.
At the same time, those big countries with resources also come to make money.
The U.S. Empire is the most shameless person. Although it is the country with the largest oil reserves, it still wants to "import" it. It is just waiting for the day when no one else can use it. What is left in its hands is the most precious.
Speaking of African gold refining, it is basically smelting on-site in the mines, using the most traditional crucible method. Due to the different production processes and properties of the materials processed, the gold content of the produced alloy gold is also different. The gold content of the direct sales bank is not high or contains
Because silver is not priced, some mines use chemical methods to remove impurities and resmelt them or electrolyte methods to separate and refine gold and silver in order to improve quality and economic benefits.
Nowadays, more people are beginning to use the new hydrometallurgy process, which removes base metals from cyanide gold mud through electrochlorination, replacing the crucible smelting in the past, reducing costs and improving working conditions.
However, the conditions for local absenteeism have not changed much.
After all, everyone who comes here wants to exploit, and exploitation is to extract more profits and more labor force.
The car kept driving, until Xu Yun felt bored and started to sleep. He was really ambitious. As soon as he closed his eyes and opened his eyes, the car drove all night, and then he arrived in the southwest of Mali.
Mali is a chaotic place. The presidential palace in Bamako has been robbed. Although those who staged the coup in Mali promised to transfer power to the democratically elected government, they refused to specify a time limit for the transfer of power.
This country is really pitiful.
The Tuareg separatist forces in the north continue to launch new offensives. The US empire and other major powers have put pressure on the coup forces, trying to make the situation conducive to their respective counter-terrorism and political interests.
All this has left the country in chaos, the so-called four-party conflict in Mali.
The more chaotic the place, the more mercenaries like to live there. Regardless of the separatist armed forces or the local army, as long as there is a war, mercenaries will always benefit.
This may be the meaning of mercenary survival.
But Xu Yun didn't come here to join the mercenary group in the armed struggle. He just came to help Lai Wen protect his local gold mine.
If you want to make money by opening a gold mine in a turbulent place like Mali, it is simply impossible without certain armed protection.
Therefore, the mercenaries hired here only fight to protect their own interests and will not do anything on their own initiative.
Lai Wen has been recruiting and arranging people from home because he doesn't trust the mercenaries here. He always thinks that even if he spends money to hire these people, they will do everything possible to benefit him.
Because they have guns, they can even threaten gold mining workers to sneak something into them...
Lai Wen couldn't solve this kind of thing even if he saw it with his own eyes, let alone he had no chance to see these situations at all.
This is a very difficult problem to solve.
Unless there is one of his own who can control these mercenaries, but it is a pity that the really capable people under him will not be willing to come to this damn place, and those who are willing to be obedient and work here do not have the ability.
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This requires not only a ruthless character, but also a smart ruthless character.
This problem has always troubled Lai Wen, but Lai Wen has no choice but to let nature take its course and let everything develop like this. Maybe one day things will suddenly turn around.
The car stopped in a typical deserted suburb, with some temporary houses and tents outside, and then some machinery and equipment. Xu Yun could even see the mine entrance with backward equipment through the car window.
Is there any difference between this and some existing private black mines in China? They are all with outdated technology and high risks. The only difference is that what is dug here is gold, while the Huaxia black mines are digging coal.
"We're here." He said calmly, "Get off the car."
After the car stopped, several mercenaries with weapons hanging around their necks walked over.
Along the way, Xu Yun saw many armed personnel, and there were at least dozens of people in the mine. This was definitely a considerable force.