Song Yuqing and Guo Jian looked like each other, which was naturally the situation that Cao Mo was most willing to see.

However, putting aside that momentary impulse, he didn't have the heart to win over Song Yuqing, and it was impossible for him to let Song Yuqing look at him now.

When he really calmed down and thought about it, he really had to have something happen to each other with a married woman because of their physiological needs, and things might become a mess.

Xu Sheng, Xu Ling's uncle and nephew did not stay in the hotel, so they lived directly in the room reserved for Yang Deshan on the third floor.

Cao Mo downloaded a bunch of materials, only slept for three or four hours, and when she heard Kabuja coming, she got up and took Lucy with her and rushed to a second-hand car dealership on Kent Street.

In two days, he spent $4,000 to pick up a Toyota pickup truck, purchased uranium saws and other small tools and a batch of wearing parts, not only spent all the gold mining income in the past month, but also pasted his salary and subsidies for these two months, and on the third day, he drove the pickup truck and pulled the small stone crusher, sand making machine, chain saw, and a batch of vulnerable parts that had been transported to Draculamo and rushed back to Longta.

Stone crushers and sand making machines arrived, and the previously interrupted mining of rock gold was continued.

The manpower of the gold mining team is still rich.

After taking over the gold mining team, in order to reduce unnecessary personnel, Cao Mo did not hire any more women from the tribe except for two cooks.

Even so, there are more than 50 young adults in the gold mining team.

The two sets of processes were launched at the same time, and the main manpower was still wasted on soil and stone excavation and transportation.

This was a job that could have been completely replaced by an excavator and a dump truck.

With the rise of the crude oil market, Kanem's investment in infrastructure has also expanded year by year in the past two years, and Draculamo cannot find a spare second-hand excavator to purchase, and the CIF price of a brand-new excavator is 60,000 US dollars or 70,000 US dollars, which is not what Cao Mo can afford at this time.

Fortunately, the gold mining team had abundant manpower, and even so, he was not able to use enough of these young men.

Cao Mo did not want to make trouble, but organized more than a dozen remaining personnel to build infrastructure, continue to widen the road from the gold mining point to Yibo Ancient Village, level the land on the periphery of the operation area, and build more wooden houses.

The newly purchased chain saw, as well as a second-hand planer saw purchased from the town of Lonta, came into play at this time, sawing down the trees that blocked the widening of the riverbank day by day, which was much more convenient than before, and could also saw some planks for the construction of the mining area.

It is not an easy task to use traditional blasting methods to break the rock and extract the rock, first using steel drills to dig holes one or two meters deep in the hard rock layer.

Fortunately, a few of Owema's men are familiar with this process, and blasting ten or twenty tons of rock a day is not a problem.

In the early stage, there are still many places where the connection is not smooth, and the employees have explained again and again, and the simple operation is still not proficient enough.

Cao Mo didn't dare to rush it, and hoped that everything could be carried out step by step.

The small sand making machine is used in conjunction with the stone crusher, and the daily ore processing capacity is also intentionally controlled at about ten tons. This is also more than ten times higher than the daily output of the gold mining team in Ibogu Village, which can be regarded as allowing the villagers of Ibogu to see the magic of industrial equipment.

The combination of rock gold mining and placer gold panning soon stabilized the daily output at 123 grams, and within 10 days, Cao Mo had accumulated more than 1,000 grams of sand gold in his hands.

This time, Cao Mo smelted sand gold, and improved it according to Xie Enpeng's instructions.

After adding borax to remove impurities, some fine black slag will be left at the bottom of the mold, and he collects them.

According to the information downloaded from the Internet, these fine black slag are part of the product of the chemical reaction between the placer gold impurity and borax.

Cao Mo crushed the small black slag on the polished smooth stone slab, and sure enough, as Xie Sipeng said, the black slag was wrapped in some extremely fine gold grains, and it was weighed together, and a total of six or seven grams of fine gold grains were wrapped in the black slag after two smelting.

There are more than 1,100 grams of gold ingots smelted twice, and the loss of six or seven grams of gold grains may seem insignificant, but the cumulative benefits are still quite a considerable number.

Cao Mo communicated with Xie Sipeng, and he also had a meal at a seafood restaurant on the shore of the strait, and he benefited a lot, which also proves from the side that Xie Sipeng has indeed been immersed in this industry for many years and is really an expert.

Of course, Xie Sipeng confided many secrets in this industry, and his purpose is to participate in the development of gold mines in the ancient village of Yibo.

This is unacceptable to Cao Mo at this time.

He didn't want Xie Sipeng to be too "enthusiastic", nor did he want the Yibogu gold mine to be too eye-catching, so Cao Mo decided to divide the gold produced in the future into two.

Some of them are sold directly to the local gold shops in Lonta and exchanged for local currency, so that it is convenient to purchase diesel and other materials directly from the town of Lonta to supplement the mine's consumption, and there is also to pay wages to the workers of the gold mining team, Kabuja, Lucy, Porto, and Parry, and not forget to pay dividends to the old chief Felician.

The other part is to ask Kabuja or someone to take it to Draculamo on a regular basis, ask Xie Sipeng to exchange it into US dollars, deposit it into his company account, and prepare for the next step of purchasing imported equipment......

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Even if it is not possible to purchase large-scale equipment for the time being, the daily output of the gold mine is stable at about 130 or 40 grams, but Cao Mo is still not satisfied.

Cao Mo worked in the machine repair workshop in Dongsheng for two years, and also studied with a college degree, and did not stop learning when he went to Draculamo, but he did not have any experience in management.

Many of the management methods he implemented in the mine were based on gourd painting and copying the management of Dongsheng machine repair workshop.

Of course, even if he is a workshop director in China at this time, he may not be qualified, but even if some equipment is added to the Yibogu Gold Mine, it may not be better than the "workshop", and Cao Mo is more than enough to manage.

Cao Mo can see that there are still too many deficiencies in the gold mine, and he is also learning while promoting improvement, and even spurring Kabuja, Botu, Pari and others to follow suit.

So far, it's been going well, but it's mostly due to his terrifying instincts.

He usually does not need to maintain any unnecessary nervousness, and can accurately grasp the thoughts and emotional changes of employees at any time, which makes him manage and control local employees like a fish in water.

This time, Owema came back from Draculamo, and he was more willing to cooperate at work, and many things went more smoothly.

The old chief Felician supported him behind him, and Ovima, who was usually second only to the old lord in the tribe, was willing to cooperate, which made it much easier for Cao Mo to implement some work and labor management regulations that the locals were still very unsuitable for in the mine.

Otherwise, just dealing with the relationship with the local employees, and worrying all day about whether the employees may eat inside and out, is enough to make him emaciated, and it is impossible for him to have too much spare energy to take care of at all.

And if the vigilance is too strong and he can never integrate into the local tribe, haggard mental strength is one thing, and more importantly, Cao Mo will also have the mind to take a handful and leave, then it is impossible to have the idea of continuous investment, continuous development of the gold mine, and the scale of the scale.

The latter, the later development of the gold mine and the exploitation of potential, are precisely the most deadly.

Cao Mo really calmed down, especially after managing the gold mine for a period of time, thinking that he was right not to engage in further cooperation with people like Xie Sipeng, and even resolutely not to cooperate with Yang Deshan and Guo Jian.

Otherwise, it will be difficult for the future development direction of gold mines to be divided and conflicted......

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In August, even if the new equipment is not yet able to be purchased, the daily output, calculated in full gold, has slowly risen to a stable level of about 1670 grams.

Compared with the scale of gold mining in Yibogu Village that used to be only six or seven grams per day, in just two months, the output has increased by more than 20 times, which is still a miracle in the eyes of the villagers of Yibogu Village.

Without counting the depreciation of equipment, the output of more than 40 grams of gold per day can be exchanged for 500 US dollars, which is almost enough to cover the daily costs.

This has the lowest proportion of labor costs, and when converted every day, including the "high salary" that Cao Mo promised to Kabuja and Lucy, it is only about 150 US dollars.

The alternating use of two second-hand diesel generators, plus several other small equipment, consumes more than $100 of diesel per day, and the price of diesel is still ridiculously high in Kanem, which has no refining capacity, even in Africa's largest oil producer.

The loss of equipment and materials, the continuous purchase of some tools, small equipment, and the purchase of food and vegetables from the tribe, and the provision of two working meals for employees also cost about $150 a day.

Of course, after deducting the old chief's dividends, he can have a gross profit of almost eight or nine hundred dollars a day, which is quite terrifying compared to his meager investment.

In addition to asking Kabuja to carry 500 grams of gold ingots to Xie Sipeng every ten days and convert them into US dollars and put them into the account of the equipment company, Cao Mo also has a part of the output beyond covering the daily costs, which is about 4,000 US dollars every ten days.

Quite simply, in order for equipment such as excavators to enter the field and mine some gold to the tribe, it needs to be further widened.

Cao Mo didn't want to wait for the purchase of the excavator and then do it step by step.

More importantly, he didn't have the idea of taking a handful and leaving, and if he wanted to really make the Ibogu gold mine bigger, the construction of the mine area could not save money.

Otherwise, it would be much easier and less expensive to build a two- to three-kilometre-long improvised dirt road for excavators to pass through through the dense forest, bypassing towering trees and rough terrain, than to build a relatively straight, gravel-paved road along the banks of the Antler River.

The construction of a new road is conducive to the development of the whole tribe to the north.

In addition, there is an advantage to developing in Kanem, that is, small and medium-sized enterprises that work directly with the tribe do not have to think about paying taxes at all.

In Kanem, as in the Lunta region, the management of enterprises in the township area is relatively formal, and the small and medium-sized factories built far away from the towns and directly in cooperation with the tribes below are taxed and paid by the local tribal leaders.

These taxes are not the turn of the district city hall to reach out, what does it have to do with the state government and the federal government?

Otherwise, the federal government and state government of Kanem would not be so indifferent to the construction of local municipal people's livelihood.

At noon in early September, Cao Mo lived on the balcony floor of a wooden house that had just been built for him in the mining area, thinking that after two more months, he would be able to buy his first excavator.

In the past half a month, Cao Mo also specially found a construction site with an excavator in Longta, paid a certain fee to the other party, and Botu and Parry took three or four young people who were willing to learn every day to train for half a day.

But Lily, who didn't want to take advantage of the vacation to run back to the ancient village of Ibogu, ran all the way to the mining area at this time, saying that Guo Jian was going to visit the mine with many people, and at this time he was invited by the old chief Felician to stay in the village for tea.