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The equipment in the back-end process was debugged for three or four days, and the trial production was promoted in a hurry.

Mixing high-quality volcanic ash with clinker can actually produce higher quality and grade pozzolana cement, but the production technical conditions for hastily prepared in the early stage are still too simple, and the numerical indicators can only barely reach the standard of ordinary cement.

The Sika and Fellician family building materials company has a design capacity of 300 tons per day, but this is considered in terms of the capacity of the clinker crushing and grinding equipment and the generator set.

However, in order to save costs, there is no installation of feeding and unloading machinery, and the connection between each process is mainly manpower, and even if it is operated normally, it is impossible to achieve the design capacity.

On the first day of trial production, there were still too many places to adjust and run-in, so 200 bags of qualified finished cement were filled, totaling 40 tons of cement.

This is not half a point short of the design daily production capacity of 300 tons.

Of course, Cao Mo is not in a hurry.

On this day, in the building materials market of Draculamo City, ordinary cement has risen to 320 US dollars a ton, and more than a dozen trucks have been stopped in the Ibogu tribe who have rushed to buy goods after hearing the news.

After six days of trial production, all aspects have been adjusted in succession, but the daily production capacity has barely increased to 120 tons, mainly due to the lack of corresponding mechanical devices for feeding and unloading, and the manpower is still too poor.

Now contact the equipment manufacturer to order the mechanical device of the incoming material, and the earliest will not be available until two months at the earliest.

Cao Mo also did not use all the cement produced for sale.

On the one hand, the construction of the equipment foundation in the front process of the cement plant, and the subsequent need for hundreds of tons of cement - this direct supply is equivalent to reducing an investment.

At the same time, Cao Mo immediately started the construction of a hydropower station upstream of the operation area.

He wanted to try to build the main body of the dam before the rainy season began in June.

That's about 1,500 tons of cement.

Abacha certainly wants to delay the construction of the dam until after the end of the rainy season in November.

In this way, the extra 1,500 tons of cement produced during this period can sell an excess profit of 200,000 or 300,000 US dollars at the peak, but Cao Mo insisted on his opinion.

Cement expansion is not a difficult thing, just like the price of vegetables in Draculamo, with the new suppliers coming out, has been slowly falling, Cao Mo expects that the madness of the cement market in Kanem will be more than half a year, and then the domestic production capacity of Kanem will be increased accordingly, and the price will gradually fall.

However, cement plants are energy-intensive enterprises.

Kanem's national power supply is very scarce, and the price of industrial electricity is also quite expensive, and the further expansion of its cement production capacity will inevitably be seriously saved by its scarce power supply.

The sooner they build the hydropower station upstream of the operation area and solve the power supply bottleneck of the cement plant, the more profitable they will be able to sit on and reap the high profits no matter how the cement market in Kanem changes.

Cao Mo could not have delayed the construction of the hydropower station for eight months for the sake of an additional profit of US$2 or 300,000 – if the cement plant could enter a low-cost operation period eight months earlier, the electricity cost savings alone would definitely be far more than that.

Making quick money isn't that much.

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Although the construction of the dam project of the hydroelectric hydropower station is not difficult, it involves the safety of the downstream operation area and the tribal residents along the river.

Cao Mo was ruthless in the end, and through the consulate, he contacted the Zhongtu Group branch in Qatar, which was contracting the construction of a new natural gas power plant in Draculamo, and contracted them the construction of the Ibogu hydropower station under the name of the Felician family power company.

said that it was contracting, and Cao Mo mainly wanted to find the China Earth Group for technical checks.

In practice, China Earth Group only needs to send a construction manager and a few foremen to preside over the construction of the project and provide the necessary construction equipment, while the workers who do the specific work can be directly transferred from the infrastructure construction team.

This is an increase of 50,000 or 60,000 US dollars compared with the estimate, but even so, it was the coordination of Yang Xu, Counselor of the Consulate, and Mo Wenjun, the general manager of the China Business Center, that the branch of the China Earth Group in Qatar reluctantly took over this small project.

In the 60s, as the Office of the Ministry of Railways to Africa, China Civil Engineering Group Co., Ltd. first entered Africa for the construction of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway, and has developed step by step to today, and is now one of the most powerful engineering contractors in Africa.

A small hydropower station with an annual power generation capacity of only 12 million to 15 million kilowatt-hours and a total investment of $1.5 million can be put up by a random township-level construction team in China.

However, this is also a choice that Cao Mo can't wait for.

After the two sides signed the contract, they directly invited the Chinese construction manager and foreman to the mine, on the one hand, to prepare for the start of the hydropower station, and on the other hand, to guide the construction of the cement plant.

Cao Mo didn't expect the hydropower station to start construction so early.

The main reason is that the initial financing is insufficient, and the final investment in this hydropower station is nearly twice as high as he expected, and almost double the investment in the cement plant.

No matter how golden the Ibogu gold mine is, it will be difficult to raise the nearly US$2.3 million needed to build the cement plant and the hydropower plant at the same time in a short period of time.

What's more, he also embezzled $400,000 in the early stage for the hoarding of cement clinker.

The cement market broke out as scheduled, which suddenly solved the dilemma of shortage of funds he was facing.

Even if the current daily production capacity is only 120 tons of ordinary cement, but the price of ordinary cement seems to continue to rise rapidly, the industry is predicting that with the further shortage of domestic cement in Kanem, many projects can not be abandoned halfway, the price of ordinary finished cement has recently skyrocketed to 400 US dollars a ton without a problem.

This means that the additional 7,000 tonnes of clinker will be sold as a finished product, and the excess funds of up to $2.8 million will be recovered in two months – the daily surplus of the gold mine and the farm can cover the cost of the daily operation of the cement.

This also means that in two months' time, even if the infrastructure and equipment of the hydropower plant are paid in full, the cement plant will be enough to be built and mechanical loading and unloading units will be added, and the Felician family gold mining company, Sika and Felician family building materials company, and the Felician family power company will have about $1.5 million in cash.

Cao Mo can even consider directly entering a complete set of rock gold mining equipment now.

The exploration of rock gold reserves in the Igubo gold mine has only been carried out in a small part at present, covering an area of less than five square kilometers of the current operation area, and the depth of exploration is also limited, about 200 meters underground, but there are 400 kilograms of rock gold reserves in this five-square-kilometer area and at a depth of 200 meters.

At the current international gold price, the total value of this mining is around $6 million.

This rock gold reserve cannot be considered high, after all, the equipment investment and daily operating costs are not low, but it is also worth spending 1.5 million to 2 million US dollars to invest in complete sets of mining equipment.

Although the current placer gold mining is quite satisfactory and there is no need to invest more equipment in the future, the current placer gold reserves in the operation area are very limited, and it is estimated that there are about four to six million US dollars left, which can only be maintained for another eight to ten months at the current mining rate.

The potential for rock gold mining is much greater by comparison, as only a small area has been surveyed within the legal prospecting area that the Felician family gold mining company has already acquired.

Other regions may have lower gold reserves, more difficult to extract, and continue to invest in additional equipment, but there is potential to be tapped to ensure that the miners will continue to generate profits over the next five to ten years.

Cao Mo stared at the construction of the front process of the cement plant, the production of finished cement, and the manager sent by the China Soil Company to prepare for the construction of the hydropower station, and half a month after the gambling at the Lana Dere Hotel, Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan did not greet each other in advance, and appeared directly in Yibo Ancient Village; in addition to Guo Jian's entourage, they also specially pulled Song Yuqing over.

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"Why did Mr. Xie and Mr. Yang come to this poor country at this time?"

There are more vehicles entering the cement factory area, and the sidewalk on the west bank of the Lujiaochuan River is wider than the township-level road in Longta.

Cao Mo couldn't hide, so he could only lead them to a wooden house between the cement factory and the gold mining area to drink tea.

"This is the agreement you borrowed $200,000 from me before, can you see if it's the original?" Xie Sipeng took out a document from his handbag and handed it to Cao Mo.

Cao Mo glanced at it and pretended to be stupid and asked, "What's the matter, Xie always wants to get this money back in advance?"

"......" Xie Sipeng was silent, took the original agreement, took out a lighter and lit it directly.

"......" Yang Deshan said that he would come over to discuss with Cao Mo together, and Song Yuqing had no way to refuse, but he didn't expect that the first thing after the meeting, Xie Sipeng directly burned Cao Mo's loan agreement.

Watching the agreement gradually burn into ashes, Song Yuqing was shocked, Xie Sipeng didn't plan to ask Cao Mo to pay back the money?

That's $200,000!

In 05 years, you can buy a good commercial house outside the second ring road of Xinhai City!

"......" Cao Mo didn't make a sound, quietly watching the agreement finally burn the ashes, which were blown away by the wind into the Lujiao River below.

"I will also write you a receipt that has been repaid," Xie said, "as long as you lend us the extra two sets of cement filling equipment for a month......

"Mr. Xie is so powerful, can this let you know?" Cao Mo pretended to be surprised and said, "I expected that after the bill was passed, the price of Kanem cement would skyrocket, and cement production equipment would inevitably become a hot supply, but at that time, I didn't have much money in my hand, so the filling equipment was cheaper, more than 6,000 US dollars a set, so I bought two more sets." I'd like to wait for two days before selling it for a good price. I didn't expect that I hadn't found time to go back to Draculamo, but Mr. Xie, you came to the door...... What do you want to borrow, Mr. Xie will wait for me for a while, I will draw up an agreement for the sale of equipment, and these two filling equipment will be sold to Mr. Xie by me!"

It doesn't matter if you rent or borrow, the key is that half a month ago, a set of filling equipment for 6,000 US dollars, and now it is directly sold for 100,000 US dollars, Cao Mo even blinked, and Guo Jian, who was sitting on the side without saying a word, couldn't help but jump: How is the money earned?

Cao Mo quickly prepared the equipment sale agreement, signed it with Xie Sipeng, and asked Kabuja to take the two filling equipment out of the warehouse.

The filling equipment is not large, the structure is not complex, and the normal selling price is also limited, mainly using air negative pressure to quickly fill the finished cement into the bag.

Cao Mo asked people to put the two filling equipment on the two pickup trucks that Xie Sipeng brought over and bundled them, and he didn't ask them what they were doing during the whole process, but just said to Song Yuqing: "Sister Yuqing, I will go back to Draculamo tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, if you play in Yibo for a day or two, we will go back together tomorrow and the day after tomorrow." ”

"Hmm!"

Song Yuqing was confused and was brought from Dracula Mora to Ibogu by Yang Deshan, but she understood at this time.

If she doesn't want to get involved in Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan's affairs, of course it is best for her to stay here with Cao Mo.

"This is our love for you. Xie Sipeng also simply pulled up Yang Deshan and Guo Jian to stand up and leave.

"It's easy to say, just let me win some money next time. Cao Mo smiled and sent Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan away......