The "surprise" that Qi Zheng gave to Tian's father in the Philippines is destined to take a considerable period of time to be excavated.

Therefore, after Tian's father appeased the employees who stayed in the Philippines, arranged to increase investment, and restarted the construction of the mine and refinery, he and Qi Zheng set off to return to China.

In the first-class cabin of the return flight, when talking about Tianhua Mining's metal mining business, Tian's father sighed: "As a mining company, although mining gold and silver ore sounds tempting, in fact, mining base metals such as iron, nickel, aluminum, and copper is more socially influential. Compared with nickel ore, I actually hope to make a breakthrough in copper ore. ”

Qi Zheng was stunned for a moment, thinking of the "big gift" prepared for Tian's father in China, and thinking that could it be that Tian's father had "mind reading"?

But Tian's father only sighed for a while: "Unfortunately, it is not easy to obtain copper resources." ”

Among the world's non-ferrous metals, copper ranks second only to aluminum in terms of production and consumption. It is most widely used in the electrical, power transmission and electronics industries.

However, China's copper resources are extremely scarce, with a self-sufficiency rate of less than 30%, and it is expanding year by year, so it is also the largest copper importer.

Copper ore resources are very similar to iron ore resources and belong to oligopoly in the world. As the largest consumer of copper and iron resources, China has always had a weak voice in the world. It is a very common phenomenon for copper exporting countries to "sit on the ground and start the price" brought about by the economic phenomenon of "natural monopoly" of foreign copper resources.

Qi Zheng blinked and said, "Among all the countries in the world, the countries with the largest mineable copper reserves are Chile and the United States. The concentration is high, and even if you want to gain the pricing power of some of the world's resource mineral products through mergers and acquisitions, you will inevitably be obstructed by the international resource commodity oligopoly. It would be nice if it could be solved domestically. ”

Father Tian shook his head helplessly and smiled: "The company's domestic business also has copper mining, I couldn't be clearer. Most of the domestic copper ore reserves, burial status and ore grade are congenitally insufficient, the production cost is high, and the competitiveness in the international market is poor. It's hard!"

Qi Zheng was silent, and then said to Father Tian: "Uncle, do you know that our Jiagu is engaged in large-scale development in Mongolian Province?"

Father Tian was stunned, and immediately reacted: "Oh, I know." I've heard Xiao Wei say, it is said that you are going to manage and develop two big deserts? By the way, are you really sure?"

Qi Zheng smiled: "Of course, we have already had a good start. ”

Father Tian said with a look of fascination: "That's really good! This is the foundation for the benefit of the country and the people, not to mention anything else, once this feat is completed, basically no one in the country can move Jiagu." ”

Qi Zheng smiled, this is true, but what he wants to say is not this: "...... When we were surveying the water source in Mongolia Province, we found a copper mine, and the news has not yet been revealed. I think let's let Tianhua Mining develop it. ”

After a pause, Qi Zheng added with a smile: "It's just a dowry gift for my uncle and aunt." ”

"Hmph!" As soon as he heard about the dowry, Father Tian glared at Qi Zheng angrily.

Although he knew that this son-in-law would not be able to run, when he thought of the "cabbage" that he had worked so hard to raise for so long, he was about to be arched by the "pig" in front of him, even if he was satisfied with this "pig", Tian's father was deeply unhappy.

As for the copper mine, because Qi Zheng said it lightly, Tian's father only thought it was a small mine, and it was not surprising that Tianhua Mining also had two of such small copper mines.

As for the big mine, Father Tian never thought about it. Mining operations require great perseverance and financial resources, and it is more difficult to find a large copper mine than to ascend to the sky, especially in China, where the probability of success is very low.

Seeing that the old man's face instantly straightened, Qi Zheng sneered, and he didn't explain for a while.

......

After returning to the company, Tian's father couldn't help but smile when he thought of this.

Although he didn't give Qi Zheng a good face at that time, he was actually satisfied in his heart, at least it proved that this kid did have a heart. If his daughter can find such a person to entrust, he can rest assured.

Shaking his head and smiling, he first asked the company's employees to apply for relevant prospecting licenses, and then arranged for the newly formed exploration team to go over to explore.

Yao Quan is the captain of the exploration team of Tianhua Mining, because the exploration team has not made any contributions since its establishment, so that he holds his breath in his heart, thinking about finding a big mine one day, raising his eyebrows.

On this day, the chairman arranged for him to lead a team to explore a copper mine, although it is a pity that the goal has been set, but the company can increase mineral reserves, how can it be regarded as a good thing, and he gladly accepted the order.

After seven days and seven nights of bumpy driving and a full day of trekking, the exploration team finally reached its destination.

"From a distance, it looks like a person asking for food, and up close, it looks like a refugee, but if you look closely, it turns out that it is looking for mines. Yao Quan's self-deprecation made everyone laugh, but it vividly described the hard life of miners.

With no water, no electricity, and no roads, can we not be bitter in the barren mountains and mountains to seek minerals? But this is the case with everyone who is engaged in resource exploration.

This exploration has been calculated, after all, the scope and target of exploration have been delineated, not blindly exploring, I don't know how much work has been saved.

"Boss, is there really a mine here? This doesn't look like geology that can form copper deposits?" asked one of the team members.

Yao Quan rolled his eyes, "For us prospecting, nothing is impossible. Who knows what's underground? Don't make any assertions until you've explored in detail!"

That being said, Yao Quan looked around and muttered a little in his heart, this really doesn't look like a place with copper mines, otherwise it should have been explored a long time ago.

But existence is reasonable, and the chairman said that there are mines here, which proves that there is a certain amount of exploration.

Because the approximate scope is delineated, and it is well known that there is a copper deposit, the progress of exploration is very fast.

A week later, one of the teams discovered a large zone of porphyry-type copper mineralization in the middle of the foothills on the western side, which immediately attracted the attention of the entire exploration team.

Yao Quan decisively mobilized all the others to the western foothills of the mountain and began to focus on the western foothills of this mountain range.

Everyone was originally muttering in their hearts, thinking that there were no mineralization conditions in this area, and that it would be more difficult to find mines, but now the facts are slapped in the face.

But for a prospector, there's nothing more exciting than finding a mine. Even if their cognition is broken, their confidence is still boosted.

Yao Quan also happily instructed everyone to conduct a tentative perforation survey, and then ...... See the mine!

Yao Quan's mouth opened wide in shock, and as more investigation took place, his open mouth could no longer be closed completely.

But no one in the exploration team laughed at the captain's gaffe, because everyone was dumbfounded.

Yao Quan trembled, my God, where did the chairman find such a fairy mine?

......

After another week or so, a preliminary survey was sent to Tian's father's office.

Father Tian was a little surprised, yo, this progress is very fast, it seems that it is a small mine.

He took a sip of his tea and opened the information.

"Poof......

A sip of tea squirted out.

Tian's father stared at the survey data in his hand, and saw that it was written: "The preliminary proven copper metal amount is more than 0 million tons, and it is very likely to be the largest copper mine in China......"

I made a slot, Father Tian almost burst into foul language, Qi Zheng, this bastard boy, do you know how big a ...... "dowry gift" he sent?

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