Guo Jian took Xu Sheng and Xu Ling's uncle and nephew to Longta for a month or two, and it wasn't just a waste of time.
In addition to taking a large number of pictures and data, they also found a large amount of local geological materials in Longta. They also sent these data back to China and invited domestic experts to study them and help find countermeasures.
When they came this time, they already had a relatively clear idea and brought a large amount of picture data to directly compare with the rock formations and landforms near the Yibo ancient gold mine.
Three hours later, Xie Sipeng, Xu Sheng and others, who wanted to turn the Yibogu mining area upside down, stopped their work and walked back to the wooden house.
Judging from their expressions, Cao Mo intuitively told him that they had locked down several key areas nearby.
The Chinese circle in Dracula Mo is only so big. Cao Mo doesn't want to offend all the people in this circle, so he plans to invite them to dine in the tribe. The fish and shrimp in the Lujiao River are also excellent.
In the past few days, Cao Mo also asked two cooks hired from the tribe to try to grow some vegetables in a clearing at the edge of the forest.
Although the growth is not satisfactory, there are several varieties with a relatively short growth period that are ready to be picked and eaten. There are still conditions for making a Chinese meal that suits Chinese tastes here.
Xu Sheng and Xie Sipeng were in a hurry to leave. On the one hand, the road was not easy to walk after dark, and they needed to rush back to Longta Town for accommodation. On the other hand, the nearby tribes did have places that were very similar to the rock formations of the Yibo Ancient Gold Mine.
, they want to seize the time to negotiate with the tribes over there and conduct sampling inspections to consolidate the results of this trip as quickly as possible.
Seeing that they were in a hurry to leave, Cao Mo stopped trying to persuade them to stay and sent them to the entrance of the tribe's village, saying, "Then I wish Mr. Xie that you will have a fruitful harvest soon..."
"What kind of equipment do you want to buy? You can look for it now. When you return to Draculamore in two days, you can come to me and sign a loan agreement. I will transfer the money directly to your company account." Xie Sipeng also patted it happily.
Cao Mo said over his shoulder.
They found that the conditions at the mine were too crude and the workers were quite lazy. After contacting the workers, they confirmed that Cao Mo's statement of providing equipment and technical services to the Felici family was true. The people responsible for the production, operation and management of the mine were all local black people.
But no matter what, Cao Mo's cooperation with the locals is still solid and reliable.
Furthermore, since they have not yet taken root in Longta, Xie Sipeng will not be in a hurry to go back on his promise to export.
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The $200,000 loan promised by Xie Sipeng is crucial to the early development of the mining area.
Cao Mo spent two days re-adjusting the list of equipment and materials that needed to be purchased in the near future, and also asked Lucy to contact relevant suppliers to inquire about the supply situation.
Two hundred thousand dollars is actually not much.
If you want to buy a commercial house in Xinhai City in 2004, you can only choose one outside the Second Ring Road.
Kanem's industrial products and mechanical and electrical engineering equipment all rely on imports, which are expensive. The equipment Cao Mo can purchase with this little money is quite limited.
Good steel must be used on the blade, and Cao Mo hopes that the blade can be put to use immediately to help him cut through thorns and thorns, so naturally all the equipment is purchased in cash.
If there are second-hand ones, choose second-hand ones as much as possible, after all, the prices are low.
For equipment that will take a month, two months or more to be shipped from China after full payment, no matter how favorable the price is, Cao Mo will not consider it for the time being.
In addition to the introduction of new machinery and equipment, the construction of supporting facilities in the mining area can be carried out immediately, and the scale of construction can even be increased.
After these preparations were completed, Cao Mo took Kabuga, Potu and others back to Dracula Mo and found Xie Sipeng, who had also just returned from Longta, to sign a loan agreement.
After the loan agreement was notarized, Xie Sipeng readily transferred US$200,000 directly to the account of Cao Mo Equipment Leasing Company.
The purchase of an excavator, a rock drill used to open holes in rock formations to place explosives, a medium-sized gravel sand making machine, a second-hand dump truck, a second-hand diesel generator and other equipment will be negotiated as quickly as possible
, are successively transported to Ibogu Village by the supplier.
Cao Mo also reluctantly bought a satellite phone this time.
Just like that, $180,000 was gone.
It is only when this money is spent that Ibogu Gold Mine looks a little like a mining company.
Applying for Kanem's driver's license and special equipment operation license is quite simple.
Go to Longta Town, find the relevant agency, pay the fee and get the application form, fill it out and submit it, make an appointment for the exam, and it will be issued soon.
The exam process is also quite relaxed; if you don’t want to take the exam, just give the examiner a small tip and you’ll be fine.
Not only Cao Mo, Kabuga, Potu, Pali and six other young people from Yibogu Village who have received primary education have obtained corresponding qualification certificates.
However, the training time that Cao Mo paid for them to receive from the construction site was actually not very long, and the operation was still a bit rusty.
Fortunately, after the equipment arrived, Cao Mo increased the production without thinking. He asked Botu and Pali to seize the time to familiarize themselves with the operation of the equipment and step up their studies on repairs and maintenance.
Cao Mo was also worried about operating errors and overturning a piece of equipment weighing seven to eight tons or even ten tons into the Lujiao River. It was impossible to ask a crane to help. Cao Mo couldn't bear the money, so he had to ask the old man to help.
Chief Felician came forward and mobilized the men, women, and children of the tribe to come and help.
New equipment was gradually shipped into the mining area and put into use. At this time, including the previous surplus, Cao Mo still had 70,000 US dollars in hand for the infrastructure construction of the mining area.
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When the new equipment is put into use, the effect is quite immediate.
Even though Potu, Pali and the others were still very new to the operation of the new equipment and were cautious, by mid-September, the daily output of the Ibogu gold mine had stabilized at 300 grams of pure gold, which was higher than before.
It has doubled.
In addition to equipment investment, although the daily consumption of diesel and other materials has also increased significantly, profits have increased even more.
In order to avoid the conflict between rock gold mining and placer gold panning, the placer gold panning operation location was relocated 200 meters downstream of the Lujiao River.
Cao Mo estimated that even if no new engineering mining equipment is added, once the mining area is initially constructed, various processes are further streamlined, and labor discipline is further strengthened, the daily output of pure gold should be stable at around 500 grams.
More importantly, in the riverbed placer gold deposits associated with rock gold mines, as the soil is dug deeper and deeper, the gold content gradually increases - of course, once the bedrock layer is dug, the placer gold will be mined out.
The Ibogu gold mine currently has the potential to continue to be developed. In the process, he continues to use profits to purchase equipment and expand production. The output value of the gold mine will be higher in the next year.
Cao Mo couldn't help but sigh at this time. Could it be that when people in the city saw others spending money randomly, they would say, "Your family runs a gold mine!"
An excavator is much more efficient, and with the addition of rock drills and dump trucks, the original gold mining team only needs to retain 30 people to maintain gold mining at the current stage.
Except for the seven or eight young people who have received primary education and are trained as specialized warehousing logistics management, equipment maintenance, etc., the remaining personnel have been temporarily incorporated into the infrastructure team.
The infrastructure team suddenly expanded to more than fifty people, and the progress of the mining area construction also increased rapidly.
Gold mining was still the most important task, and Cao Mo mainly left it to Kabuga, Potu, and Pali.
Overema, with the help of two other young men, Sam and Ed, was responsible for managing logistics and infrastructure.
Of course, Cao Mo had to learn most of the things first. He had to learn how to mess up the mortar, how to keep the stone wall vertical and horizontal when laying the stone wall, and then teach the workers below step by step - he was very tired.
Fortunately, there is a tradition of building wooden houses in the local area, and there are still a few young and middle-aged people in the tribe who can do carpentry. They are barely dexterous and can learn quickly.
Except for Lily, who is attending school in Katba, few people in the tribe have received intermediate or higher vocational education or a corresponding level of vocational education. This is a headache.
The settlements in Yibo Ancient Village are relatively scattered. The settlements near the old chief's house and the temple are probably the most concentrated settlements of the tribe, with only about 20 families. However, the tribe is actually not small in size, with a total of more than 2,000 people.
Felician and Owema, as former soldiers during the military government, did not receive much education themselves, but they still found ways to set up schools when they returned to their tribes.
In general, 30 to 40% of the younger generation of the tribe have received basic education, and more than 10% have received primary education - this is almost the level of education universality only found in the Lungta town area.
Among the more than 90 workers employed by the miners, the proportion of workers receiving basic education is still quite high, with more than 30% receiving primary education.
Compared with primary education in the country, there is still a huge gap between primary education in Kanem, especially in remote areas of Kanem.
However, generally speaking, if a large tribe of more than 2,000 people selects 30 to 50 people who have received primary education to receive vocational training, which is still quite simple at present, there will be no obstacles and they will grow quickly.
These people just didn't have the opportunity to receive a better education before, it's not that they have any intellectual defects.
However, when the local development and education are so backward, they can persist until they complete primary education, which shows that their families, their emphasis on education, and their own efforts are quite good.
Cao Mo had no capital or confidence before, so he could only worry about everything himself.
He had been idle in Draculamo for a long time, and he was young. He had just taken over the Ibogu gold mine, and he was very energetic. He managed to hold on for more than three months and was still able to endure the hardships.
Now that there was more money and the output of the gold mine was steadily increasing, Cao Mo hired two teachers from Longta Town and borrowed the tribe's school to give night classes to the employees in the mining area.
Although the investment of hoeing and raking in the east and west took away part of the profits that Cao Mo deserved, if he didn't want to make a fortune and leave, thinking about the long-term development of Yibo Ancient Village, some things should be done as early as possible.
Otherwise, when the mine wants to further add equipment and expand its scale, it will find that manpower will be increasingly stretched in terms of equipment operation and mine management.
However, from the beginning, he only used local people from managers to ordinary employees. When it reached a later stage, he thought of recruiting professionals from the country to forcibly replace Kabuga, Pari, Potu, Overema and others.
status, to take over the management of the mining area, Cao Mo knew without even thinking what kind of resistance and chaos would arise...
Of course, the cost of hiring professional management personnel from China is also too high.
For example, he is just an ordinary employee in Dongsheng, but Dongsheng Group dispatched him to Draculamo, and his salary, overseas allowance, food and accommodation subsidy, annual round-trip air ticket subsidy, and social security provident fund payment, etc., every year
The investment in him alone would exceed 200,000 yuan.
Dongsheng invests more than 300,000 yuan in overseas grass-roots managers like Guo Jian every year, while it invests more than 500,000 yuan in overseas middle-level managers like Yang Deshan.
If he really wants to hire professional management personnel from China, how much investment will he need?
Cao Mo plans to increase the monthly salary of Kabuga, Overema, and Lucy to 600 US dollars in two months. The combined salary of the three of them is only about 200,000 yuan a year.
Not to mention this income in Lonta, it is considered a gold-collar class in Draculamo, but the local employees are only descendants of well-educated colonists who can get such wages in European and American companies. Kabuga, Lu
They have no chance.
Social security, provident fund?
He will get angry with anyone from Kabuga, Overema, or Lucy who dares to mention this to him at this time!
Do you really think he is here to build socialism?