Song Yuqing and Guo Jian seem to be inseparable from each other, which is naturally the situation that Cao Mo is most happy to see.
However, despite that momentary impulse, he had no intention of winning over Song Yuqing, and it was impossible for him to attract Song Yuqing's attention now.
When he really calms down and thinks about it, if he really wants to be with a married woman and something happens due to their physical needs, things may get messy.
Xu Sheng and Xu Ling's uncles and nephews did not stay in the hotel, so they stayed directly in the room reserved for Yang Deshan on the third floor.
Cao Mo downloaded a bunch of information and only slept for three or four hours. When he heard Kabuga rushing over, he got up, grabbed Lucy and rushed to a second-hand car dealership on Kent Street.
In two days, he spent 4,000 US dollars to select a Toyota pickup truck, purchase small tools such as uranium saws, and a batch of wearing parts. Not only did he spend all his gold mining income in the past two months, but he also spent two months on it.
The wages and subsidies were all paid in. On the third day, I drove a pickup truck, picked up the small gravel crusher, sand making machine, chain saw and a batch of wearing parts that had been transported to Draculamo and rushed back to Lonta.
The stone crusher and sand making machine have arrived, and the previously interrupted rock gold mining can continue.
The gold mining team is still rich in manpower.
After taking over the gold mining team, in order to reduce unnecessary personnel, Cao Mo hired no more women from the tribe except for two cooks.
Even so, there are still more than fifty young adults in the gold mining team.
Two sets of processes were launched at the same time, and the main manpower was still wasted on excavation and transportation of earth and rock.
This was originally a job that could be completely replaced by an excavator and a dump truck.
As the crude oil market rises, Kanem has also expanded its infrastructure investment in the past two years. Draculamo cannot find a spare second-hand excavator to purchase; and the CIF price of a brand-new excavator is,
It costs 60,000 to 70,000 U.S. dollars, which is not what Cao Mo can afford at this time.
Fortunately, the gold mining team is rich in manpower. Even so, he has not been able to make full use of these many young men.
Not wanting to cause unnecessary problems, Cao Mo did not clear up the retreat. Instead, he specially organized more than a dozen remaining personnel to carry out infrastructure construction, continue to widen the road from the gold mining point to Yibo Ancient Village, level the land outside the operation area, and build more wooden buildings.
house.
The newly purchased chain saw and the newly purchased second-hand planing saw from Longta Town came into play at this time. Every day, they sawed down the trees blocking the widening of the riverbank access road in the upper reaches of the Lukaku River. It was much more convenient than before, and it was also possible.
Some boards can be sawn for use in mining area construction.
To use traditional blasting methods to break through rocks and extract rocks, you first need to use a steel drill to dig a hole one or two meters deep in the hard rock formation. This is not an easy task.
Fortunately, several of Overma's men are familiar with this set of procedures, so blasting dozens or twenty tons of rock a day is not a problem.
There were still many areas where the connection was not smooth in the early stage. After the employees explained it again and again, they were still not proficient enough in simple operations.
Cao Mo did not dare to rush for success and hoped that everything could be carried out step by step.
The small sand making machine and the stone crusher are used together, and Cao Mo also deliberately controls the daily ore processing capacity to about ten tons. This is more than ten times higher than the previous daily output of the Yibo Ancient Village gold mining team, which is called
The villagers of Ibogu have seen the magic of industrial equipment.
Combining rock gold mining with placer gold panning, the daily output quickly stabilized at over 120 to 30 grams. After ten days, Cao Mo had accumulated more than a thousand grams of placer gold.
This time Cao Mo smelted alluvial gold and followed Xie Enpeng's instructions to improve it.
After adding borax to remove impurities, there will be some fine black residue left at the bottom of the mold, which he collected.
According to the information downloaded from the Internet, these fine black residues are part of the product of the chemical reaction between placer gold impurities and borax.
Cao Mo crushed the small black slag on a polished stone slab. Sure enough, as Xie Sipeng said, there were some very fine gold particles wrapped in the black slag. He put them together and weighed them. After two smeltings, there were a total of six or seven grams of tiny gold particles.
Wrapped in black slag.
More than 1,100 grams of gold ingots were smelted twice, and the loss of 67 grams of gold particles seems insignificant, but when accumulated over time, it is still a considerable number.
Cao Mo benefited a lot from the exchange with Xie Sipeng and just had a meal at a seafood restaurant on the shore of the strait. This also proved from the side that Xie Sipeng had indeed been immersed in this industry for many years and was really an expert.
Of course, Xie Sipeng revealed many secrets in this industry, and his purpose was still to participate in the development of the gold mine in Yibogu Village.
This was something Cao Mo couldn't accept at this time.
He didn't want to call Xie Sipeng too "enthusiastic", nor did he want the Yibogu gold mine to attract too much attention. Cao Mo decided to split the gold produced in the future into two parts.
Part of it is sold directly to the local gold shop in Lonta and exchanged into local currency. This also facilitates the direct purchase of diesel and other materials from Lonta town to supplement the mine consumption, and also gives it to the workers of the gold mining team, Kabja, Lu
Xi, Potu, and Parry pay their wages, and they must not forget to pay dividends to the old chief Felician.
As for the other part, Kabuga or someone else would take it to Dracula Mo regularly, exchange it with Xie Sipeng for U.S. dollars, and deposit it into his company account to prepare for the next step of purchasing imported equipment...
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Even though it was temporarily impossible to purchase large-scale equipment, the daily output of the gold mine was stable at about 130 to 40 grams, but Cao Mo was still not satisfied.
Cao Mo worked in Dongsheng's machine repair shop for two years, and also obtained a college degree by himself. He didn't stop studying at Dracula, but he didn't have much experience in management.
Many of the management methods he implemented in the mine were copied from the Dongsheng Machine Repair Workshop.
Of course, even if he were to be a workshop director in China at this time, he might not be qualified. However, even if some equipment was added to the Yibogu Gold Mine, it might not be as good as the "workshop". Cao Mo was still more than capable of managing it.
Cao Mo could see that there were still many shortcomings in the gold mine, and he also promoted improvements while learning, and even urged Kabuga, Potu, Pari and others to follow suit.
So far, everything is going smoothly, but it is mainly due to his terrifying intuition.
He usually does not need to maintain unnecessary tension and alert, and can accurately grasp the thoughts and emotional changes of employees at any time, which allows him to manage and control local employees like a fish in water.
This time Overmar came back from Draculamore and was more willing to cooperate in work, so many things went more smoothly.
The old chief Felician supported him behind the scenes, and Owema, whose reputation in the tribe was second only to the elders, was willing to cooperate. This allowed Cao Mo to implement some work and rest and labor management in the mine that the locals were not used to.
Once the rules are set, it becomes much easier.
Otherwise, just dealing with the relationship with the local employees and worrying all day long about whether the employees might cheat him would be enough to make him exhausted mentally and physically, and he would not have the energy to take care of too much at all.
And if he was too wary and could not integrate into the local tribe, he would be exhausted mentally and physically. More importantly, Cao Mo would also be tempted to just grab a handful and run away, so it would be impossible for him to continue to invest in the development of the gold mine.
Okay, the idea is to expand the scale.
The latter is precisely the most fatal to the later development of gold mines and the tapping of potential.
Cao Mo really calmed down, especially after managing the gold mine for a period of time, and thought that he was right not to cooperate further with people like Xie Sipeng, or even resolutely not to cooperate with Yang Deshan and Guo Jian.
Otherwise, it will be difficult to avoid disagreements and conflicts regarding the development direction of gold mines in the future...
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Entering August, even though we cannot afford to purchase new equipment for the time being, the daily output, calculated in full cash, has slowly risen to a stable level of around 1,670 grams.
Compared with the previous mining scale of only six or seven grams per day in Yibo Ancient Village, in just two months, the output increased by more than 20 times. In the eyes of the villagers in Yibo Ancient Village, it is still a miracle.
Not counting equipment depreciation, the daily output of more than forty grams of gold can be exchanged for five hundred US dollars, which can almost cover daily costs.
Labor costs account for the lowest proportion here. Calculated every day, including the "high salary" promised by Cao Mo to Kabuga and Lucy, it is only about one hundred and fifty US dollars.
Two second-hand diesel generators are used alternately, plus several other small equipment, and the diesel consumed every day costs more than one hundred dollars. In Kanem, which has no refining capacity, even the largest oil-producing country in Africa, diesel
The price is still ridiculously high.
The loss of equipment and materials, as well as the continuous purchase of some tools and small equipment, as well as the purchase of food and vegetables from the tribe, and the provision of two working meals for employees, cost about one hundred and fifty US dollars per day.
Of course, after deducting the old chief's dividends, he can earn almost eight to nine hundred US dollars in gross profit every day. Compared with his meager investment, it is already quite terrifying.
In addition to asking Kabuga to bring 500 grams of gold ingots to Xie Sipeng every ten days, Cao Mo exchanged them for US dollars and put them into the equipment company's account. He also had some output that covered daily costs. Every ten days, there were about four
It seemed like a thousand dollars, so he went directly to the local gold shop in Longta to exchange it into local currency, which he used to purchase materials and equipment for expanding the infrastructure of the mining area.
It's very simple. In order for equipment such as excavators to enter the site and mine gold to reach the tribe, the road needs to be further widened.
Cao Mo didn't want to wait until he purchased the excavator to do these preparations step by step.
What's more important is that he doesn't have the idea of taking a handful and leaving. If he wants to truly expand the Ibogu gold mine, he cannot save money on the construction of the mining area.
Otherwise, building a simple dirt road two to three kilometers long through the dense forest, bypassing the towering trees and rugged terrain, is definitely better than building a relatively straight and wide road paved with gravel along the bank of the Lukaku River.
Much easier and much lower investment.
The completion of the new access road will facilitate the development of the entire tribe to the north.
In addition, one advantage of developing in Kanem is that small and medium-sized enterprises that cooperate directly with the tribe do not need to consider paying taxes at all.
In Kanem, like the Lungta area, business management in the town area is relatively formal. Small and medium-sized enterprise factories built far away from the town and directly cooperated with the tribes below have to pay taxes, which are also collected and paid by the local tribal leaders.
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These taxes are beyond the reach of regional city halls, so what do they have to do with the state and federal governments?
Otherwise, Kanem's federal government and state governments would not be so indifferent to local municipalities and people's livelihood construction.
At noon that day in early September, Cao Mo lived on the balcony floor of the wooden house that had just been built for him in the mining area. He thought that if he worked like this for another two months, he should be able to buy his first excavator.
In the past half month, Cao Mo also specially found a construction site with an excavator in Longta, and paid a certain fee to the other party. Potu and Pali took three or four young people who were willing to learn each day to train half of them.
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But Lily, who didn't want to take advantage of her vacation to run back to Yibogu Village, ran all the way to the mining area and said that Guo Jian was bringing many people to visit the mine. At this time, she was invited by the old chief Felician to stay in the village for tea.