For the registration of the Felician Family Gold Mining Company and the West African Mining Equipment Leasing and Technical Service Company, Lucy has already contacted the accounting firm and only needs to submit the relevant documents and fees.
There is still no progress in the purchase of small gravel crushers and sand making machines in Draculamo City, but Lucy has contacted a domestic manufacturer.
The other party agreed that Cao Mo would pay the money and immediately went through the customs and delivery procedures as quickly as possible.
The other party was quite optimistic about the future development and market of Africa. When they heard that they were interested in selling their products as an agent, they gave them a huge discount for the two small devices. Including shipping costs, they only cost US$7,000.
This is within Cao Mo's budget.
Cao Mo went upstairs and went to the room to check on the Internet. The equipment manufacturer Lucy contacted happened to be located in Xinhai City. It mainly manufactured industrial machinery and was quite large in scale.
If they hadn't purchased foreign products under the guise of being a sales agent from the beginning, such a small overseas order would probably not have been ignored.
Cao Mo purchased diesel generators, water pumps, oxygen guns, welding, cutting, batteries and other equipment, hardware, water pipes, aluminum alloy and other accessories and profiles directly in Draculamo City, and then hired a car to transport them to Yibo Village.
In addition to company registration, preliminary purchase of equipment and materials, printing a bunch of materials, and going to the Draculamore Municipal Library to borrow a lot of books on gold mine surveying, equipment maintenance and repair, and infrastructure construction, it took three days in a hurry
past.
This time Cao Mo specially brought Lucy to Yibo Ancient Village.
The new gold mining company's personnel and division of labor are not complicated. At least the operation is much simpler than the machine repair shop where Cao Mo spent two years in Dongsheng Group.
However, it would be much more difficult for him to want the villagers of Yibogu Village to overcome all kinds of laziness, develop good labor discipline inspection habits, obey management habits, and also strengthen their studies and carry out skill training in their spare time.
He personally handles many things, but the results may not be good.
Using barbarians to control barbarians is a method used by our ancestors.
Since Cao Mo has recruited both Lucy and Kabuga, even if Lucy has to stay in Dracula Mo for the time being, he must create opportunities for her to participate in management.
There are some things that a strong local woman can do more effectively than a big man.
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After four or five days of widening and clearing weeds and bushes, the path to the gold mining point is much easier to walk, but the road is still narrow and muddy. The next step is to pave it with the fine sand and gravel left over from the gold mining tailings, and further
widen.
The vehicle carrying the equipment still cannot drive directly to the gold mining site, so Overema and his men can only carry the heavy equipment to the gold mining stone.
One good thing about the workers of the gold mining team is that they are strong enough.
An old-fashioned small diesel generator weighed 240 to 50 kilograms. Four people carried it from the tribe to the gold mining and masonry shed with bamboo poles, and they did not breathe for three or four kilometers.
On the basis of the gravel ground that Kabuga and others had prepared two days ago, Cao Mo personally led Kabuga, Potu and others to install and debug the equipment, and then pulled up simple lighting lines.
After all this busy work, it became dark.
At this time, the diesel engine started, and the incandescent lamps in the work shed, equipment room, warehouse, and small square lit up instantly. Many workers and villagers who ran over to watch the excitement screamed in surprise - many of them had never heard of it in their lives.
I had never seen a diesel generator, so I thought the lights in Longta Town would light up as long as they were connected to wires, but I had no idea where the electricity came from.
"I don't know how long it will take until I can see that Ibogu can use electric lighting..." The old chief Felician hunched over and said with emotion when he saw the situation in front of him.
If he had enjoyed it for himself instead of taking out the meager profits from the gold mine, the old chief Felician would have been able to live a better life than most people in the world. But he returned to the tribe, repaired the temple, and built
The school also broadened the way the tribe connected with the outside world, but his own life was much simpler than that of the leaders of other tribes.
However, the backward and poor development environment of the Lonta region, coupled with the fact that the old chief Felician was suppressed by the sixth military government of Kanem two years ago, and the object of supervision, what he can do for the tribe is also very great.
limited.
Judging from Longta's poor regional finances, it would be impossible to invest in the construction of a large-scale thermal power plant and build a matching power grid in just a few years. However, Cao Mo felt that building a large-scale thermal power plant in the upper reaches of the Lujiao River, where the Jingliu River is relatively stable, would be impossible.
A small hydropower station, with a short construction period and small investment, is enough to supply the electricity needs of Ibogu and several nearby tribes.
However, Cao Mo didn't say anything.
Even if the investment in a small hydroelectric power station only costs one million U.S. dollars in Kanem, it is still a terrifyingly large figure for the village of Ibogu.
Lucy stayed in Ibogu Village for two days, and Boto drove her back to Draculamore on a motorcycle.
Lucy is still the cook of the West Africa branch, and Song Yuqing and the others depend on her for three meals a day; Lucy is not in Draculamore, and Song Yuqing can only survive by chewing bread every day.
Of course, there is no need for Lucy to stay in the villa all day in the future. In addition to staying in Draculamore on weekdays to do her job as a cook and helping Cao Mo take care of Draculamore's affairs, she will go to Yibo on weekends.
I came to Gucun and was responsible for salary settlement, inventory sorting of warehousing materials, etc.
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In the next two days, Cao Mo took Kabuga, Potu, and Pari to try to make a placer gold machine.
The placer gold mining machine is a gold mining equipment developed by domestic gold miners based on many years of practice. It is mainly used to pan for placer gold from river beds.
The structure of the placer machine is not complicated. The main body is a steel gauze filter that drives multiple layers of holes gradually reduced by a vibration pump.
When panning for riverbed gold sand, dig out the riverbed mud containing fine placer gold and transport it to the surface steel filter. While rinsing with clean water, vibrate the steel gauze filter to directly wash away the large stones left on the filter.
, and fine sand and muddy water mixed with gold sand will leak from the holes of the steel gauze to the second layer and remain.
After being filtered through multiple layers of steel mesh, only fine sand particles are left mixed with alluvial gold.
The bottom layer is a plastic plate, which is a gold-absorbing blanket made by cutting out fine grooves with a knife.
The grooves of the gold-absorbing blanket can absorb tiny placer gold and finer sand particles for further filtration and separation.
In the last step, take it to the gold bucket and wash it to get pure gold sand.
The tribe used to mine rock gold, and the output was low but relatively stable.
If you want to mine rock gold on a large scale, the investment in equipment will be too great. However, as long as there are streams and rivers near rock gold, there will usually be associated riverbed placer gold mines.
Placer gold, so named because it is as fine as sand, is rock gold exposed by weathering and erosion, washed out by streams and rivers, and deposited in the soil of nearby valleys, riverbanks, and riverbeds over time.
There is a tributary of the Lukaku River near the gold mining point. It turns south and forms a large bay, forming a ravine about five or six hundred meters long on the west bank of the river.
According to the data, this kind of valley terrain is most conducive to the deposition and enrichment of placer gold.
Tribal villagers are not unaware that there is gold sand hidden in the ravines, but the gold sand reserves and density of the ravine soil are far lower than those of rock gold.
Especially for gold sand, the density of gold particles is high and they settle in the soil year after year, which makes the gold sand content of the surface soil even lower.
Although the gold sand content in the soil close to the bedrock layer will increase significantly due to sedimentation and enrichment, do tribes have the ability to dig deep gold-containing soil with a depth of ten or even tens of meters to wash it out?
The lack of such convenient and simple equipment as a gold placer is even more fatal. How much gold sand can be washed out in a day with just a sandalwood disk-type gold panning equipment?
Of course, even if Cao Mo made a simple placer machine, without drainage and excavation equipment and facilities, it would be unrealistic to carry out large-scale excavation of streams and valleys.
Not to mention digging a deep pit of more than ten or twenty meters to get out the gold-bearing soil at the bottom and wash it out - the river water has already filled it.
However, between the existing gold mining spots on the west bank of the Lukaku River and the river beach of the Lukaku River valley, there is a slope nearly twenty meters wide.
In addition to being washed away by years of rain, the slopes are piled with fine gravel and sand that have fallen from the blasting rocks in Yibo Ancient Village over the years. There must be a lot of gold particles that were shaken off during the blasting, and the gold particles are mixed among them.
This slope connects the river valley with the unmistakable rock gold veins, and is located above the river bank. No drainage equipment is needed, and soil can be excavated directly by humans.
Without an excavator, a shovel, a shovel, a pick and a trolley, how can we still work?
The first time Cao Mo made the placer machine, he did not think of using excavation equipment. He started digging the soil directly from this small piece of slope land with manpower, and then transported it to the placer machine to filter the gold.
Cao Mo had previously confirmed that this slope contained placer gold, but he could not confirm the content.
The stone crusher and sand making machine will take at least a month to be transported to Dracula Mo. Traditional rock gold mining methods are too time-consuming and laborious, so they must be suspended first.
During this period, Cao Mo couldn't keep so many people without any output, so he thought of making a placer gold machine. He asked Overma and Potu to take the manpower to dig the soil from the slope and send it to the placer gold machine for washing.
Even in the future, he will give priority to purchasing excavators and expand placer gold mining...
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It took Cao Mo two days to fumble around and make the first placer gold machine. In fact, the gauze net, vibration pump and switch box are all integrated. He just welded the machine tool frame and performed the wiring.
It took two days, and Cao Mo was a little embarrassed. He went to Dracula to work as a white-collar worker. He lost a lot of the skills he learned in the machine repair shop and was very unfamiliar. But Kabuga, Potu, and Pali were all full of enthusiasm.
I really didn’t expect that I could even do any kind of work.
Overmar's temper has also calmed down. Cao Mo does everything in the mine himself, and even teaches Potu, Pari and the others how to operate. It seems that they are here to serve the Felician family enthusiastically, which impressed him.
If you have a big belly, you will know that the colonists who enslaved and oppressed local hired workers are different.
The next two days will be to set up the wires under the slope and clear out the working platform there.
This also shortens the process of manual soil transportation as much as possible, allowing water pumps to pump water directly from the Lukaku River to flush the mineral soil.
Everything was ready. Cao Mo's hands were sweating as he watched the first load of mineral soil brought by the handcart being sent from the height of the steps into the feeding port of the placer machine.
The placer gold content of the shallow soil is too low. Not to mention that the first load of mining soil will not produce anything, the tenth load and the eighth load can't be seen. Cao Mo still has to pretend not to care and point out the wave diagram, Parry operation
water gun.
The Internet is really a good thing, and relevant detailed information can be found, but Cao Mo didn't want to show his timidity in front of the gold mining team employees.
He had practiced with Potu and Pari several times before, and now he directly handed them over to them to operate. He stood aside to "guide", but in fact he was observing in secret. If there were any deviations, he could correct them at any time.
This will make it appear that everything is under his control.
Mineral soil was continuously poured into the feed port, but I still felt nothing. After loading the seventh and eighth carts of mineral soil, a layer of shiny gold material was clearly attached to the bottom gold-absorbing blanket.
This is where the placer machine comes in.
Simply using manual washing, thirty or forty people could not wash seven or eight loads of mineral soil in a day, but with a placer machine and a water pump, it only took five or six minutes; before there were excavators, most people only needed
Just be responsible for digging and transporting the soil.
"Gold has come out! Gold has come out!" Potu shouted excitedly, holding the water gun crookedly and getting wet all over Cao Mo.
"What's so weird about this? You're such a bastard, you've wet me all over." Cao Mo scolded with a smile, and told Botu to quickly grab the water gun and spray him all over. Don't wash away the gold powder that was finally absorbed on the gold-absorbing blanket.
This is just the beginning. Even half a gram of placer gold may not be enough.
Since Botu was so excited, Cao Mo felt that since Botu had been by his side during this period, there were probably not many people saying dejected words in front of him.
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Cao Mo suppressed his inner excitement and pretended not to care.
Although the whole process was very simple, Cao Mo still repeatedly looked at the connection of each link. If there was any incorrect operation, he would correct it and teach the employees some commonly used Chinese words.
The process of panning for placer gold is also simple. It is to put the placer gold in a sandalwood gold pan, put it in clean water and gently shake the gold pan. Let the sand fall from the gold pan into the bucket. If it stays in the gold pan, it will be relatively pure.
It can even be sold directly as gold.
When dusk was approaching and everyone had finished work, Cao Mo walked back patiently and watched as Botu weighed and recorded the small amount of placer gold he had earned in a day, then handed it to Kabuga and locked it in an old safe.
There were a lot of imperfect connections on the first day.
After reminding me for several days, I still cannot stop the phenomenon of arriving late and leaving early and coming in and out at will.
Kabuga wanted to catch a typical example and grabbed the two of them to punish them, which almost led to a fight. However, Owema knew what was wrong and pulled the two troublemakers away with curses, but he had no way to solve the problem of arriving late and leaving early.
question.
The gold mining team are all tribal villagers. They are still accustomed to treating the gold mining team as farmland and dense forests near their residences, and have not developed strict labor discipline.
Except for Kabuga, Overema, Potu, Pali, etc., fortunately Cao Mo did not officially disclose the salary policy beforehand. He first held a small meeting, then summoned all the workers, and announced that in the future, they would
The salary of one thousand five hundred naira (five dollars) per week is basically that if you can guarantee not to be late, leave early, not slack off in the middle of the work, and obey the management, you will get an additional bonus of one thousand five hundred naira per week.
In other words, every worker who works conscientiously for a month can receive a high salary of forty US dollars or three hundred and twenty yuan.
Just this stupid thing took up a lot of time.
Both Botu and Pali could not understand the problem of water pump elevation, so they tried to move the placer closer to the slope in order to shorten the distance of moving soil back and forth, which wasted a lot of time.
The road between the sloping land and the placer machine was built carelessly because Overmar did not pay enough attention to it before, and the people who led it were very careless. Some of them fell into the ravine with their vehicle. Fortunately, nothing happened to them.
At the final weighing, fifteen grams of placer gold was collected in one day, which was far from equaling the cost of one day, let alone the initial investment in equipment, but the members of the gold mining team were very encouraged.
After all, this is fully twice the amount of gold they mined before.
After three days, all aspects of the process gradually became smoother.
Compared with tradition, there is nothing complicated about the new placer gold mining. Even if the members of the gold mining team have not received much education, they are still young and middle-aged people in the tribe with flexible minds and hard-working hands. They were recruited by the old chief Felic.
Angie and Overema singled out.
From now on, the amount of gold mined every day will be stable at more than 30 grams.
Although this has not yet reached Cao Mo's expected goal, it can barely cover the cost.
Half a month later, Cao Mo's small amount of cash was almost exhausted due to his constant purchase of diesel and other materials. At this time, he also accumulated 500 grams of placer gold.
Cao Mo took out the placer gold from the safe, used a small amount of mercury to absorb it, and put it into a tong pot. Then he took out a high-pressure oxygen gun and smelted it into gold water.
When you see gold water foaming in the middle, add some borax to remove impurities. Wait until the alluvial gold completely turns into red gold water. Pour it into a long mold groove as quickly as possible. Apply a layer of oil to the mold groove in advance, and pour the gold water into it.
, it will take shape immediately and turn red. Let it cool naturally for a while, then put it in cold water to continue cooling.
These processes and materials were introduced in detail, but this was the first time Cao Mo had done it himself, and his hand holding the hyperbaric oxygen gun couldn't help but tremble a little.
Five hundred grams of alluvial gold, a large number of impurities in the middle are removed, and finally smelted into a fairly pure gold bar, about less than 460 grams.
This is the output of the gold mining team in more than half a month.
At the end of June 2004, the international gold price was only US$3,890 per ounce, and a 460-gram gold bar was worth only about US$5,000.
To be honest, even if more than half a month's US$5,000 is a pure profit, it is not a sudden windfall in Kanem; and such a large output, after deducting the costs of material consumption, equipment depreciation, labor wages and other costs, is almost nothing.
What profit is there?
The kind of story of finding a gold mine and becoming a nouveau riche, and becoming a new star overnight, did not happen here, but it represents a good start.