In addition to the fact that we are all brothers and sisters and have the responsibility to help each other in a foreign land, the current main investment of Chinese businessmen in Akwa is the gold mining industry.
The gold diggers and gold miners in Mangba suffered tragic casualties in natural disasters, which had a negative impact on Chinese businessmen's investment in the gold mining industry in Akwa.
To be honest, in recent years, the gold diggers and gold miners who have entered Akwa Mamba with the dream of getting rich are somewhat eager for quick success and have carried out almost predatory mining of local placer gold resources, causing considerable damage to the environment.
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In the past two years, Cao Mo has visited Mangba countless times. He has also visited Disujin River Valley three times to see the local placer gold mining situation. Four to five hundred excavators are densely distributed on the river beach that is intermittent and more than ten kilometers long.
, the soil with placer gold deposited on the river bed is dug out, and transported to a nearby placer gold machine for flushing and filtering, and the muddy water is also directly discharged into the Disujin River; in many places, the bottom of the dam is directly hollowed out, and no one thinks of backfilling.
It is unclear whether the collapse of the upper reaches of the Disujin River was due to this factor, but if someone seizes this point to incite it, things will become more difficult.
There have been no flights from Draculamo to Pemei Port in the past two days. Cao Mo frowned and pondered for a moment, then said to Xie Sipeng: "You inform Ade, you and I will set off now and rush to Mangba overnight. We are here."
On the way, contact Juan Mantar, Stari, Xiao Jun, and Abuja to see what Drake can do..."
"I'll just rush over there," Xie Sipeng said.
The Disujin River Valley placer gold field has nothing to do with Cao Mo or Yibogu Mining. Xie Sipeng has completely withdrawn his personal investment, but too many people are his old acquaintances, and there are even many people who are directly connected to him.
Incited to run to Akwa.
It was his duty to rush to Mamba urgently to meet Xu Sheng and the others.
However, he didn't think it was necessary for Cao Mo to rush there in person, nor did he think it was necessary to cause such a huge alarm all of a sudden.
Even if Cao Mo wants to express something, he can fully represent Yibogu Mining and Cao Mo, right?
Seeing that Zhou Han was also slacking off, Cao Mo said, "Do you still remember the day when the Steel Fist Brotherhood besieged the Taihua Industrial Park, what was the Jidam family doing and what kind of rumors were they spreading?"
Of course Xie Sipeng remembered the day when the Brotherhood of Steel Fist besieged the Taihua Industrial Park. The Jidam family spread rumors that Chinese businessmen were involved in smuggling and used large amounts of cheap smuggled goods to attack local merchants and factories, with the intention of prompting the Draculamore Police Department to dispatch the Chinese Mall.
Several business premises with dense concentrations of Chinese businessmen incited extreme national sentiments in Draculamore and Kanem, and provided an excuse for the Steel Fist Brotherhood to besiege the Thai-Chinese Industrial Park.
"Are you still worried that someone will take advantage of this?" Xie Sipeng asked.
"If Xu Sheng and others were not prepared in advance, the losses would not be small. Not only the Chinese businessmen would suffer losses, but the local tribes would also suffer losses. If Xu Sheng cannot handle these matters well, we will have to bear all the consequences." Cao
After Mo had a terrifying intuition that was close to telepathy, he was no longer able to think about people's hearts, which was beyond the reach of old foxes like Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan.
"..." Xie Sipeng's expression became more solemn when he saw that Cao Mo's worries were not limited to the gold miners in the Disujin River Valley.
After the C2 grade reserve assessment of the Wusang River copper-gold mine was announced to the outside world, it aroused an extremely strong response in Akwa, which was mainly positive and positive. At least when Xie Sipeng joined Yibogu Mining and contacted the local and central high-level officials in Akwa
During the process, there haven't been many unfavorable voices for Yibogu Mining, but he also knew very well that this did not mean that there was no such thing, or that it did not mean that there were no powerful coveters secretly.
The main reason is that Cao Mo spent a lot of resources in the early stage to plug all the loopholes that might appear in the law. While fully launching the construction of the Wusang River copper and gold mine, he also vigorously managed the relationship with local forces, but this does not mean that there are
Those who coveted strength gave up.
It has been three or four months since the C2 grade reserve assessment report of the Wusang River Copper and Gold Mine was released. Now Yang Deshan and others are still excited when talking about it. As Africa currently has the largest C2 grade reserves and a total resource value of over 100 billion US dollars, it is a super copper.
The covetousness and greed that gold mines can cause are absolutely beyond imagination.
Thinking this way, Xie Sipeng realized that he had ignored the possible negative impacts and consequences of the breach of the Disujin River Barrier Lake.
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Yang Deshan, Wendy Scarf and others who were in the industrial park called over and held a small meeting. Cao Mo, Xie Sipeng and Zhou Han set off under the protection of the convoy, crossing the Benin border overnight and rushing to the central and northern part of Akwa.
Mamba region.
On the way to the central and southern regions of Benin and Akwa, there were occasional showers, but when entering the northwest province of Akwa, the weather was fine.
As the largest river in Akwa, the Voltibo River crosses the northwest of Akwa.
Although the Voltibo River, which cuts through the national highway in central Akwa, is only six to seven hundred meters wide in this section, there is no bridge connecting it from north to south.
Cao Mo and the others could only park the car in front of the pier and wait for the ferry to cross the river.
Although the weather was fine as we entered the Northwest Province, the Voltibo River was turbid and the water level was much higher than in previous years, indicating that the disaster upstream may be much more serious than imagined.
The Disukin River, the Fane River and the Usan River further to the southwest are all tributaries on the north side of the Voltibo River.
Although Cao Mo and the others entered Akwa territory early in the morning and listened to the radio and learned that the Akwa National Disaster Relief and Emergency Department had launched disaster relief procedures for Mangba and other places in the northwest province, they still had no choice but to contact Juan Mantar or Cao Mo.
Mo’s understanding of this country and the Mangba regional government should not place too high expectations on the national and local disaster relief and emergency departments.
Otherwise, the local disaster relief and emergency department should have monitored the collapse and blockage of the upstream river channel and issued an alarm in time, instead of waiting for the barrier lake to be breached by the continuously accumulated river water.
North of the Voltibo River is the territory of Mamba.
As the most important iron and coal production base in Akwa and even the entire West Africa, Mangba’s position in Akwa is currently more important than Drake; Xinhai Gold took over the Fanye River gold mine from Ibogu Mining.
It is also located in Mangba, only four or five kilometers away from the Disukin Valley.
After crossing the Voltibo River, Cao Mo, Xie Sipeng, and Zhou Han rushed to the Fane River Mining Area first.
The Fanie River mining area was transferred to Xinhai Gold Industry more than half a year after Ibogu Mining took over.
Cao Mo had previously invested millions of dollars in camp infrastructure, and after Xinhai Gold took over, he invested even more than 40 million US dollars. It has not yet been officially put into production, but a modern mine has begun to take shape.
The water level of the Fane River has also risen, but the mine has invested a lot in infrastructure. If there is any impact, many trees inside and outside the mine have been damaged by wind and rain, and there are broken branches and fallen leaves in the drainage ditch;
The green saplings are swaying a lot here and there.
Several dormitory buildings have been built in the mine and offices have been put into use.
The West African branch of Xinhai Gold is currently co-located with the Fanye River Mine. The president of the branch, Zhao Xinquan, also serves as the director of Ibogu Mining on behalf of Xinhai Gold.
Not only did Xiao Jun and the rescue team from Drake rush to the Fanie River Mining Area in the early morning, Cao Mo also notified Xu Sheng on the way there to organize the gold miners affected by the flood to evacuate to the Fanie River Mining Area as close as possible
, instead of retreating to Mamba
Go to town.
Seeing Cao Mo, Xie Sipeng came over in a car. Xu Sheng, who was beaten by frost, accompanied Zhao Xinquan and Xiao Jun came over.
"Has everyone been evacuated?" Cao Mo got out of the car and saw two to three hundred pickup trucks and off-road vehicles in the parking lot on the east side of the dormitory area. He asked with concern, "How are our casualties? The rescue team entered Disu
Is the Jinhe River ready? How many assault boats have been mobilized?"
"The rescue team has arrived at the scene. Only three assault boats have been mobilized so far. Mr. Zhao and I have just returned from there,"
Xu Sheng has not recovered yet. Xiao Jun and Zhao Xinquan are responsible for organizing disaster relief, evacuation of personnel, and statistics of casualties and losses.
"Those who evacuated their equipment and manpower to safe areas in time are still staying in place; those who have evacuated here now are all whose equipment and camps were washed away by the flood. There are 367 people, each belonging to 120
It is clear that nine Chinese employees have drowned in a mine, and more than 70 people have not been contacted. Of course, the main reason is that satellite phones are limited and many roads have been washed away by floods. Most people should be temporarily unable to be contacted, not all.
Something happened." The huge property losses remain unchanged, and even if the number of subsequent deaths does not increase, the death of nine Chinese employees and investors in Akwa is still a terrifying figure.
"How are the losses among the local employees and the tribes living on both sides of the Disujin River?" Cao Mo asked again.
"We are sending people to do this work, but we don't know the specific situation yet," Xiao Jun said.
It was obvious that Xu Sheng was only thinking about themselves and did not even think about caring about the casualties of local employees. After Xiao Jun and Zhao Xinquan contacted him on the phone, they could only wait until daybreak to send people into the Disujin Valley to organize rescue before they could start counting.
Casualties of local employees.
In addition to projects included in the catalog open to foreign investment, more domestic investment projects in Akwa also strictly restrict the involvement of overseas capital. However, in placer gold mining, small mines smaller than 25 acres are not included in this list.
within limits.
Xie Sipeng, Xu Sheng and the others took advantage of the legal loophole of the Akwa authorities very early and divided the river beach in the lower reaches of the Disujin Valley into small pieces of about 25 acres.
In less than three years, more than 270 gold miners have poured into this small placer gold field, with as few as one excavator and as many as seven or eight excavators, or they have contracted multiple alluvial gold mines at the same time.
In addition to thousands of gold miners and Chinese employees who serve as translators, technical workers and assistants, the mine also employs more than 5,000 workers from local tribes.
In order to facilitate management and prevent local employees from collaborating with bandits, gold miners often force local employees to live in camps and accept unified management.
If there are so many Chinese employees drowned and missing, then the casualty data for local employees must be even more terrifying.
Xie Sipeng's face looked a little ugly.
The gold miners, whose facilities and camps were washed away, evacuated without hesitation. If they only think about the casualties of Chinese employees and their own losses, but turn a blind eye to the casualties of local employees, the local people will feel bad.
How much resentment and dissatisfaction arose?
Not to mention that this time the barrier lake bursts, the tribes in the lower reaches of the Disu River will definitely be severely affected. It is hard to say whether their anger will turn to alluvial gold mining.
These gold miners who have suffered heavy losses may no longer have the possibility of making a comeback and can only return home in despair, but everything will be borne by the Chinese businessmen who continue to stay in Akwa and develop.
"Where is Counselor Dong?" Cao Mo knew that the embassy had also sent officials from Peimei to rush over overnight, but he did not see the leader of the team, Counselor Dong Jianwei.
"Counsellor Dong went to see Mayor Mangba. I just got off the phone with Counselor Dong. He still has half an hour to arrive." Xiao Jun said...