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The back-end process equipment was debugged for three or four days before trial production was carried out in a hurry.
Mixing and grinding high-quality pozzolana with clinker can actually produce pozzolana cement with higher quality and grade. However, the production technical conditions that were hastily prepared in the early stage are still too rudimentary, and various numerical indicators can only barely reach the standards of ordinary cement.
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The Sika and Felician family building materials company has a designed daily production capacity of 300 tons, but this is considered from the capacity of the raw clinker crushing and grinding equipment and the generating unit.
However, in order to save costs, no loading and unloading mechanical devices were installed, and the connection between the various processes was dominated by manpower. Even in normal operation, it was impossible to achieve the designed production capacity.
On the first day of trial production, there were still too many things that needed to be adjusted and run-in, so 200 bags of qualified finished cement were filled, totaling 40 tons of cement.
This is far from the designed daily production capacity of 300 tons.
Of course, Cao Mo was not in a hurry.
On this day, at the building materials market in Draculamo City, ordinary cement had risen to US$320 per ton, and more than a dozen trucks had stopped at the Ibogu tribe and came to buy goods after hearing the news.
After six days of trial production, all aspects were gradually adjusted in place, but the daily production capacity was barely increased to 120 tons. This was mainly due to the lack of corresponding mechanical devices for feeding and unloading, and the manpower was still too low.
Now contact the equipment supplier to order the mechanical device for feeding materials. It will take two months at the earliest to arrive.
Cao Mo also did not sell all the cement he produced.
On the one hand, it is the basic construction of equipment in the front-end process of the cement plant, which will require hundreds of tons of cement in the future - this direct supply is equivalent to reducing an investment.
Cao Mo also immediately started the construction of hydropower stations upstream of the operation area.
He was trying to build the main body of the dam before the rainy season in June.
This will consume approximately 1,500 tons of cement.
Abacha certainly hopes to postpone the construction of the lower dam until after the rainy season ends in November.
As a result, the extra 1,500 tons of cement produced during this period could generate an excess profit of at least 200,000 to 300,000 US dollars during the peak period, but Cao Mo insisted on his opinion.
Expanding cement production is not that difficult. Just like the price of vegetables in Draculamo has been slowly falling as new suppliers come out, Cao Mo predicts that the craziness of the Kanem cement market will only last more than half a year.
, when the time comes, Kanem’s domestic production capacity will increase accordingly, and prices will gradually fall.
However, cement plants are energy-intensive enterprises.
Kanem's electricity supply is very scarce across the country, and industrial electricity prices are also quite expensive. Further expansion of its cement production capacity will inevitably suffer from serious savings in its scarce electricity supply.
The sooner they build a hydropower station upstream of the operation area and solve the power supply bottleneck of the cement plant, the sooner they can earn high profits no matter how the cement market in Kanem changes.
It is impossible for Cao Mo to delay the construction of the entire hydropower station for eight months for the sake of an additional profit of two to three million US dollars. If the cement plant can enter the low-cost operation period eight months in advance, the electricity cost savings alone will be absolutely far away.
More than this number.
Making quick money is not that easy.
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Although the construction of the dam project of the water-type hydropower station is not difficult, it involves the safety of the downstream operating area and the tribal residents along the river.
In the end, Cao Mo was ruthless. Through the consulate, he contacted the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation's branch in Cardiff, which was contracting the construction of a new natural gas power plant in Draculamo, and contracted the construction of the Ibogu Hydropower Station under the name of Felician Family Electric Power Company to them.
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Speaking of contracting, Cao Mo mainly wanted to ask China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation for technical checks.
In actual operation, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation only needs to send a construction manager and a few foremen to preside over the project construction and provide necessary construction equipment; the workers who will do the specific work can be directly transferred from the infrastructure team.
This cost was US$50,000 to 60,000 higher than expected, but even so, it was only through the coordination of the Consulate Counselor Yang Xu and the General Manager of the China Business Center Mo Wenjun that the CCECC branch in Cardiff reluctantly took over this small project.
The full name of China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation is China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation. In the 1960s, as the Africa Aid Office of the Ministry of Railways, it first entered Africa to build the Tanzania-Zambia Railway. It has developed step by step until today. It is currently the most powerful engineering contractor in Africa.
One of the merchants.
A small hydropower station with an annual power generation capacity of only 12 million to 15 million kilowatt-hours and a total investment scale of US$1.5 million can be built by any town-level construction team in China.
, it is indeed a bit wasteful to ask China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation to take action when it is placed in Africa.
However, this was Cao Mo's forced choice.
Of course, Cao Mo did not waste the resources of China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation. After the two parties signed the contract agreement, he directly invited the Chinese construction manager and foreman to the mine. On the one hand, he prepared for the start of the hydropower station, and on the other hand, he also asked them to guide the front-end processes of the cement plant.
construction construction.
Cao Mo originally didn't expect the hydropower station to start construction so early.
The main reason was insufficient initial financing, and the final investment scale of this hydropower station was nearly twice as high as he expected, and almost twice as high as the investment in the cement plant.
No matter how good the Ibogu gold mine is, it will be difficult to raise nearly 2.3 million US dollars in funds in a short period of time to build a cement plant and a hydropower station at the same time.
What's more, he also misappropriated US$400,000 in the early stage to hoard cement clinker.
The cement market broke out as expected, which suddenly solved the capital shortage dilemma he was facing.
Even though the current daily production capacity is only 120 tons of ordinary cement, the price of ordinary cement seems to continue to rise rapidly. Currently, the industry predicts that with the further shortage of domestic cement in Kanem, many projects cannot be abandoned halfway. Ordinary finished cement
The price has recently skyrocketed to US$400 per ton, no problem.
This also means that the additional 7,000 tons of clinker will be made into finished products and sold, and a maximum of US$2.8 million in excess funds can be recovered in two months - the daily surplus from gold mines and farms can cover the cement
The cost of daily operations.
This also means that in two months’ time, even if the investment in the basic engineering and equipment of the hydropower station is fully paid, the cement plant will be fully completed and mechanical loading and unloading equipment will be added. The Felician Family Gold Mining Company, Sika
and the Felician Family Building Materials Company and the Felician Family Electric Power Company will also have approximately $1.5 million in cash.
Cao Mo could even consider purchasing a complete set of rock gold mining equipment right now.
Only a small part of the rock gold reserves exploration of the Igubo Gold Mine has been carried out so far, covering an area less than the five square kilometers of the current operation area, and the depth of exploration is also limited, about 200 meters underground. However, in this five square kilometers area, 200
The rock gold reserves within a depth of 400 meters are 400 kilograms.
At the current international gold price, the total value of this excavation is approximately US$6 million.
This rock gold reserve cannot be considered high, after all, equipment investment and daily operating costs are not low, but it is still worth investing US$1.5 million to US$2 million in a complete set of mining equipment.
Although the current placer gold mining is quite satisfactory, and there is no need to invest in more equipment in the future, the placer gold reserves in the current operating area are very limited. After survey, it is estimated that there are about four to six million US dollars left. Based on the current mining
The pace can only be maintained for another eight to ten months.
In comparison, the potential for rock gold mining is much greater. After all, only a small area has been surveyed within the legal prospecting scope that Felician Family Gold Mining Company has obtained.
The gold reserves in other areas may be lower, and the mining difficulty may be greater, and additional equipment investment will continue. However, after all, there is potential that can be tapped to ensure that gold mining companies will continue to make profits in the next five to ten years.
produce.
While Cao Mo was focusing on the construction of the front-end processes of the cement plant, he was also focusing on the production of finished cement. He also had to prepare for the construction of the hydropower station with the manager sent by China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation. Half a month after the gambling party at the Lana Del Rey Hotel, Xie Sipeng
They showed up directly at Yibo Ancient Village without saying hello to Yang Deshan in advance; in addition to Guo Jian accompanying them, they also specially brought Song Yuqing over.
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"Mr. Xie, why did Mr. Yang come to this remote country at this time?"
There are more vehicles entering the cement factory area. The access road on the west bank of the Lujiaochuan River is wider than the township highway in Longta. Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan parked their cars directly in front of the Yibogu Cement Factory twenty days after they last met.
Come and find Cao Mo.
Cao Mo couldn't hide, so he could only lead them to a wooden house located between the cement factory and the gold mining area to drink tea.
"This is the agreement you made to borrow two hundred thousand dollars from me. Can you see if it's the original?" Xie Sipeng took out a document from his bag and handed it to Cao Mo.
Cao Mo took one look at it and asked pretending to be stupid, "Why, Mr. Xie wants to get the money back in advance?"
"..." Xie Sipeng remained silent, took the original agreement, took out a lighter and lit it directly.
"..." Yang Deshan said that he wanted to come together to discuss with Cao Mo. Song Yuqing had no way to refuse, but she didn't expect that the first thing after meeting was that Xie Sipeng directly burned Cao Mo's loan agreement.
Seeing the agreement gradually burnt into ashes, Song Yuqing was shocked. Xie Sipeng didn't plan to ask Cao Mo to pay back the money?
This is two hundred thousand dollars!
In 2005, I was able to buy a good commercial house outside the Second Ring Road of Xinhai City!
"..." Cao Mo remained silent, watching quietly as the ashes of the agreement were burned and blown away by the wind into the Lujiao River below.
"I will also write you a receipt for the repaid loan," Xie Sipeng said, "As long as you lend us the two extra sets of cement filling equipment you have for one month..."
“Mr.
I didn’t have much money at the time, so the filling equipment was cheaper, with a set costing more than 6,000 US dollars, so I bought two more sets. I also wanted to wait for two days to sell it at a good price. I didn’t expect it.
I haven't even taken the time to go back to Dracula Mo, but Mr. Xie and you all came to my door... What do you mean by borrowing it? Mr. Xie, wait for me for a while, and I will draw up an equipment sales agreement. These two filling equipments will be sold to me.
Give it to Mr. Xie!”
It doesn't matter whether it's renting or borrowing. The key is that the filling equipment that cost six thousand dollars a set half a month ago is now sold for one hundred thousand dollars a set. Cao Mo didn't even blink. Guo Jian, who was sitting aside without saying a word,
My eyelids twitched: Is this how you make money?
Cao Mo quickly drew up an equipment sales agreement, signed it with Xie Sipeng, and asked Kabuga to take out the two filling equipments from the warehouse.
The filling equipment is not large, the structure is not complicated, and the normal selling price is limited. It mainly uses air negative pressure to quickly fill the ground finished cement into bags.
Cao Mo had the two filling equipments loaded into the two pickup trucks brought by Xie Sipeng and others and tied up. He didn't ask them what they were doing during the whole process. At the end, he just said to Song Yuqing: "Sister Yuqing, I'm going back to Dracula tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."
Mo, if you want to visit Yibo for a day or two, we can go back together tomorrow and the day after."
"Um!"
Song Yuqing was confused and pulled by Yang Deshan from Dracula to Yi Bo Gu Lai, but she understood at this time.
If she didn't want to get involved in Xie Sipeng, Yang Deshan's affairs, it would be best for her to stay with Cao Mo.
"This is our respect for you." Xie Sipeng also simply pulled Yang Deshan up. Guo Jian stood up and left.
"It's easy to talk, just let Mr. Xie let me win some money next time in the poker game." Cao Mo sent Xie Sipeng off with a smile, and Yang Deshan and the others left...