Returning to Draculamore this time, sitting on the plane overlooking the blue Atlantic Ocean that seemed to be undulating and breathing with life, Cao Mo felt completely different from three years ago.
Three years ago, he was only thinking about making more money and providing more security for his family. Even though he knew about the chaos in Kanem before going abroad, he was not afraid.
At this time, he also knew that Draculamore had a complicated situation waiting for him to jump into again, but he more or less had the confidence and calmness to control his destiny in his own hands.
Seeing the colorful slums below the plane that looked like countless patches patched together, he felt the urge to do something for this place for the first time.
Is this what is called careerism?
However, after thinking about it carefully, all aspects of the link have been basically solved. It seems that there is no need for him to stay in the mud pond, right?
In front of a fool like Lu Yan who has a sense of superiority and condescension in his bones, there seems to be no need to curl up his hands and feet anymore, right?
After the plane landed, Lu Yan got off the plane first in first class. Cao Mo and the others walked to the pick-up hall and saw Lu Yan walking out of the simple pick-up hall surrounded by Huang Hebin, Zhou Han, Yao Haiming and others.
I went, and I didn’t mean to stop for two minutes, say a few words to them, and then leave.
Cao Mo didn't care.
In the simple pick-up hall of the airport, not only his full-time driver and bodyguard Ade and Orlu had been waiting here for a long time, but Xie Sipeng, Yang Deshan, Abacha, Feng Rui, and Wang Wen also rushed to the airport to greet them.
Everyone exchanged brief greetings in the pick-up hall and then took the bus back to the city.
Song Yuqing deliberately kept a distance from Cao Mo again and took a car with Wang Wen, Feng Rui and others. Cao Mo was pulled into the car by Abacha. Unexpectedly, Xie Sipeng squeezed in and squeezed one of Abacha's bodyguards.
Get to another car.
"Mr. Xie, why don't you go get close to Lu Shaoduo and squeeze into our car?" Cao Mo asked with a smile.
"I invested a little money before to participate in the direct operation of Lana Del Rey Beach Casino. I just withdrew my shares a few days ago. Did Lao Yang tell you?" Xie Sipeng asked with a gloomy face.
Cao Mo heard from Yang Deshan that Xie Sipeng voluntarily quit operating the Lana Del Rey Beach Casino, but now that he saw Xie Sipeng in person, he intuitively told him that things were not that simple.
Xie Sipeng has never been a person who dislikes money.
Even if he knew that cooperating with the Jidam family would undoubtedly involve the risk of seeking skin from the tiger, but with such high cash flow profits from the casino, he would not voluntarily quit.
Now it seems that Huang Hebin or Yan Zhicheng and the Jidam family behind them felt that Xie Sipeng was too close to them and intended to alienate them, so they put pressure on him to withdraw, right?
"I was on the phone two days ago and I heard Mr. Yang talk about this matter. Why, doesn't the casino make money?" Cao Mo asked pretending to be confused.
"It's just to earn interest money. If I had known earlier, I might as well have invested in something else!"
Xie Sipeng didn't want to complain too much, as that would make it obvious that he was too weak, but he still couldn't hide his frustration in his tone.
"Does the Felician family also think that the international gold price will continue to rise in the future? No one has come to me to exchange gold bars recently, so they should have all stocked up, right?"
"Ibogu has grown to a certain size now. I will no longer get involved in financial matters. Before I returned home, I didn't know that the old chief or Ojosan planned to hoard gold - maybe that's what he meant. I'll be back in two days.
Ibogu, it will be clear if you ask, why, Mr. Xie, your gold shop will not lack the business of Ibogu, right?" Cao Mo said nonsensically.
"Oh, I just wanted to ask if we should invest more in the Qiao Nai Gold Mine in the future. Lao Yang and I are still a little hesitant and want to discuss it together when you come back." Xie Sipeng said.
Xie Sipeng, Yang Deshan and Xu Sheng's cumulative investment in Qionai Gold Mine has been far behind that of Yibogu Gold Mine.
After Xie Sipeng, Yang Deshan and others invested a total of two million US dollars in the Qiao Nai Gold Mine, they stopped investing. Now that profits are generated, they will pay dividends directly.
At present, Cao Mo's cumulative investment in the Yibogu gold mine has reached nearly four million US dollars; the area with exploration rights has also expanded to the Yibogu River and the upper reaches of the Gray Crow River to 1,670 square kilometers.
In the past, the Ibogu gold mine mainly used gravity separation to mine coarse-grained gold in the rock formations. The comprehensive mining rate of the gold mine was far lower than the world's first-class level. This is also due to the good grade of the Ibogu gold mine and its comprehensive mining.
The rate can barely reach 60%.
What Cao Mo wanted to do when he came back this time was not just to add rough mining equipment and expand the ore mining capacity, but to add mineral processing and refining equipment, further optimize the process, and increase the comprehensive mining rate.
This method can not only increase the daily gold mining volume, but also extend the gold mining cycle.
At the same time, he also decided to add underwater mining equipment to mine placer gold in the riverbed in the flooded area.
Compared with the previous rough addition of mining equipment, optimizing and upgrading the process, and then resuming placer gold mining, the investment required is relatively less. Preliminary estimates only require an additional investment of more than one million US dollars to increase the daily gold mining volume.
Seventy to eighty percent.
As for how Xie Sipeng and the others were going to increase their investment in the Qionai Gold Mine, Cao Mo had not yet had time to communicate.
Of course, since the two parties have already cooperated in the Conero Lake Industrial Park project, the Ibogu Gold Mine is about to undergo technological upgrades, and there are still areas for cooperation. This is also the first thing Cao Mo has to do when he comes back this time.
After hearing Cao Mo talk about the upcoming upgrade of Yibogu Gold Mine, Xie Sipeng asked in surprise:
“Is the Ibogu Gold Mine going to build a real refinery?”
"We can't even talk about a real refinery. Kabuga and the others have been in Xinhai for almost ten days, and they have been discussing this matter with people from the Xinhai Mining Research Institute. The next step of the Yibogu Gold Mine will be to add a refinery
equipment, and strive to increase the comprehensive mining rate to more than 80%. However, compared with the international high level, this is still a dozen points behind! At present, the conditions in all aspects of Kanem are still a bit crude, and Ibogu cannot do it.
Your pursuit is too high." Cao Mo said.
"That's good, but we don't have this condition." Xie Sipeng said enviously.
The technical content of building a refining plant is still higher than that of coarse gold mining.
Xie Sipeng and others are not worried about the construction investment of a simple refinery, but what about the operation and management team?
Recruiting seven or eight operation and management personnel from China will cost us two million a year.
Based on their current ore mining volume, even if the comprehensive mining rate is increased by another dozen or twenty points, the newly increased profit margin will be eaten up by the newly increased costs.
"If Yibogu builds the refinery, we can directly sell the tailings gold sand to you for use..." Xie Sipeng's thinking was quick after all, and he suddenly thought of this.
They cannot mine the trace amounts of gold in the tailings, they can only dump them there as garbage, or backfill the pits, but Ibogu built the refinery, and their tailings containing trace amounts of gold are the raw materials for the refinery.
No matter what price they sell it at, it is equivalent to an increase in the profit margin of the Qionai Gold Mine.
"Mr. Ochosan means the same thing, and he asked me to come back and talk to you!" Cao Mo mentioned this, of course, because he was thinking of purchasing several tailings gold sand that could not be comprehensively utilized for refining.
The grade of the Qiong Nai gold mine is quite good. Cao Mo had someone test it and found that the coarse-grained gold that can be mined minus the gravity separation method and the tailings sand contain about two grams of trace gold per ton. It cannot be comprehensively utilized at present and is piled up in a pile.
It's really a pity there.
Now not only Ibogu Gold Mine, Qionai Gold Mine has a large amount of tailings gold sand that has not been processed, but there are also eight new gold mines in Lungta. Even if the comprehensive mining volume only increases to 80% as he just said, every day
At least it can increase the production of pure gold by about two kilograms.
The initial refining of tailings gold sand is not complicated. At present, Ibogu’s power supply is sufficient, and electrolytic refining equipment can be added directly. The stone house factory is also ready.
Kabuga led the team this time. Six engineers have been sent directly to the cooperative unit of the Xinhai Mining Research Institute and received a month-long training. When these engineers come back, they can directly arrange the equipment for trial production.
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To be honest, there are professional factories in China that specialize in purchasing tailings gold sand from overseas as raw materials for gold refining. The CIF price of this kind of tailings gold sand in China is transparent.
Xie Sipeng and others are veterans who have been in this industry for many years. They had not thought about exporting before. The transportation in Lonta was really too backward. They produced nearly 200 tons of tailings every day, which was transported by road to Draculamo Port for loading.
Shipping it back to China by ship would be too expensive.
With this energy, it is better to mine more coarse gold, which is the easiest.
It is different now that Cao Mo directly built a refinery in Yibogu. For short-distance transportation ranging from seven to eight kilometers to fifteen or six kilometers, there is also a huge profit margin by hiring local people to transport it on carts.
The gold content of each batch of tailings will be tested.
Now that Xie Sipeng came to the door, Cao Mo also directly told him the quotation plan, which was based on a 50% purification rate of the tailings, deducting the equipment depreciation, materials and personnel operating costs of the Yibo Gujian Refining Plant, and then giving the purification plant a predetermined price.
Keep 30% of the profit for conversion.
"In the purification plant, will Ochosan allow me and Lao Yang to become shareholders?" Xie Sipeng asked.
He estimates that if the Ibogu Gold Mine can really build a team, the tailings purification rate will not be only 50%. Even if it is only 50% initially, isn't there room for another 50% improvement in the future?
"The Felician family regards this as its core profit, which means that Abacha and the Felician family have very close interests. This time, I can take less shares..." Cao Mo said.
Abacha has been working very hard to learn Chinese recently. When he heard about him in the new refinery, his whole back sat upright.
"...We can ask Ochosan to come to Draculamore to talk." Xie Sipeng didn't want to give up this opportunity.
“Are you interested in investing in a hydropower station?”
At this time, Cao Mo would not let Xie Sipeng have the opportunity to intervene in the investment of the refinery, but apart from the refinery, he had further plans waiting for Xie Sipeng. He seemed to change the topic and asked,
"There is still great potential for hydropower resource development in the upper reaches of the Lukaku River. If you are interested, I can help you win this."
"This will work too!" Xie Sipeng said excitedly.
The new transmission grid connected to Dracula Moor is about to be completed, and the first batch of Gray Crow River Terrace Hydropower Stations will also be connected to the grid at the same time.
Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan have been busy with the Conero Lake Industrial Park project during this period, and they have already figured it out.
Don’t expect to be able to supply power to the factories in the Conero Lake Industrial Park at a price of 12 cents per kilowatt hour. After all, the operating costs of the regional grid are included, even if it is to supply power to the new transmission grid at a price of 8 cents per kilowatt hour.
, the profit margin is also huge.
Of course, the new transmission grid has greater profit margins.
Initially, Taihua mentioned that he hoped to get involved in the construction of the upstream hydropower station, but Ocho Sang (Cao Mo) directly rejected it.
Xie Sipeng thought that their thighs were not as thick as Taihua, and that they would have no chance to play, but he did not expect that there would be a chance for a turn of events at this time...