For the registration of the Felician family gold mining company and the West African Mining Equipment Leasing and Technical Services Company, Lucy has contacted the accounting firm, and only needs to submit the relevant documents and fees.

There is still no progress in the purchase of small stone crushers and sand making machines in Draculamo, but Lucy has contacted a domestic manufacturer.

The other party agreed that Cao Mo would make a payment here, and immediately go through the customs clearance and delivery procedures as soon as possible.

The other party is quite optimistic about the future development and market of Africa, and when they heard that they were interested in selling their products as an agent, the two small equipment were also given a great discount, including the freight, only 7,000 US dollars.

This is within Cao Mo's budget.

Cao Mo went upstairs and went to the room to check on the Internet, and the equipment manufacturer contacted by Lucy happened to be located in Xinhai City, mainly engaged in industrial machinery manufacturing, and the scale was quite large.

If they hadn't purchased foreign products in the name of agent sales from the beginning, most of the small-scale overseas orders would have been ignored.

Diesel generators, water pumps, oxygen guns, welding, cutting, batteries and other equipment, hardware, water pipes, aluminum alloy and other accessories and profiles are all purchased directly in Draculamo City, and then transported to Yibo Village by car.

In addition to the registration of the company, the purchase of equipment and materials in the early stage, the printing of a pile of materials, and the lending of a large pile of books on gold exploration, equipment maintenance and repair, and infrastructure construction to the Dracula Municipal Library, the three days passed in a hurry.

This time, Cao Mo specially brought Lucy to Ibogu Village.

The new gold mining company is not complicated in terms of personnel and division of labor, at least it is much simpler to operate than the machine repair workshop where Cao Mo spent two years in Dongsheng Group.

However, it is much more difficult for him to want the villagers of Yibogu Village to overcome all kinds of inertia and develop good habits of obedience to the labor discipline inspection committee and management, and to strengthen their studies and skills training in their spare time.

He personally came forward to deal with many things, and the effect may not be good.

Defeating razing is a method that our ancestors are accustomed to.

And since Cao Mo has recruited both Lucy and Kabuja, even if Lucy wants to stay in Draculamo for the time being, he must create an opportunity for her to participate in the management.

There are some things that a tough local woman can do more effectively than a big man.

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After four or five days of widening, weeds and bushes have been cleared, it is much easier to walk, but the road is still narrow and muddy, and the next step is to pave the fine sand and gravel left over from gold mining to further widen it.

The car with the equipment still could not drive directly to the gold mining point, so Owema had to carry the heavy equipment to the gold quarry.

The workers of the gold mining team are good enough to be physically strong.

An old-fashioned small diesel generator, with a gross weight of 2450 kilograms, was carried by four people from the tribe to the gold quarrying shed with bamboo poles, and the road was three or four kilometers away without panting.

On the basis of the stone floor that Kabuja led people to do two days ago, Cao Mo personally took Kabuja, Botu and others to install and debug the equipment, and pulled up the simple lighting lines.

This time it was busy, and it was dark.

At this time, the diesel engine was started, and the incandescent lights in the shed, equipment room, warehouse, and small square were instantly lit up, and many workers and villagers who came to see the excitement all let out a cry of surprise - many people had never seen a diesel generator in their lives, and thought that the electric lights in Longta town would turn on as long as they were connected to the wires, but they did not know where the electricity came from.

"I don't know when or when Ibogu will be able to use electric lighting...... "The old chief Felician leaned over and said with emotion when he saw the situation in front of him.

If he hadn't taken out the meager profits from the gold mines, but enjoyed himself, the old chief Felician would have been able to live better than most people in this world, but when he returned to the tribe, repaired the temples, built the school, and widened the way for the tribe to connect with the outside world, his own life was much simpler than that of the leaders of other tribes.

However, the backward and poor development environment in the Lonta region, and the fact that the old chieftain Felician was the target of the repression and supervision of the sixth military junta of Kanem two years ago, he was limited in what he could do for the tribe.

Given Longta's poor regional finances, it is impossible to invest in a large thermal power plant and build a grid to support it in just a few years, but Cao Mo feels that building a small hydropower station in the upper reaches of the Lujiao River, where the flow of water is relatively stable, is short and small, and enough to supply the electricity needs of Ibogu and several nearby tribes.

However, Cao Mo did not say it.

Even the investment of a small hydroelectric power station in Kanem is only $100,000, which is a frighteningly large amount for the ancient village of Ibogu.

Lucy stayed in the village of Ibogu for two days, and then Botu drove her back to Draculamo on a motorcycle.

Lucy is currently the cook of the West African branch, and Song Yuqing and they count on her for three meals a day; Lucy is not in Draculamo, and Song Yuqing can only eat bread every day to survive.

Of course, there is no need for Lucy to stay in the villa all day in the future, in addition to staying in Draculamo on weekdays to do her job as a cook and help Cao Mo take care of Draculamo's affairs, she will come to Yibo Village on weekends to be responsible for salary settlement, warehousing materials in and out of inventory sorting and other work.

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In the next two days, Cao Mo took Kabuja, Botu, and Pari to try to make a gold placer machine.

Gold placer is a kind of gold mining equipment that has been explored by domestic gold diggers on the basis of many years of practice, which is mainly used for panning riverbed placer gold.

The structure of the placer metal machine is not complicated, and the main body is a steel yarn filter that drives the multi-layer holes to gradually shrink by the vibrating pump.

When panning the gold sand of the riverbed, the bottom mud of the riverbed containing fine sand gold is dug out and transported to the surface steel filter screen, while rinsing with clean water, the steel yarn filter screen is vibrated at the same time, and the large particles of stones left on the filter screen are directly washed away, and the fine sand and muddy water mixed with gold sand will leak from the holes of the steel screen to the second layer to remain.

After the multi-layer steel wire mesh is washed and filtered, the fine sand particles are left mixed with the sand gold.

The bottom layer is a plastic plate, which is made of a gold-absorbing blanket made by cutting fine grooves with a knife.

The grooves of the gold blanket can adsorb the tiny gold placer as well as the finer sand particles for further filtration and separation.

The last step is to take it to the gold panning bucket for panning, and you can get pure gold sand.

In the past, the tribe mined rock gold, which was less productive but more stable.

If rock gold wants to be mined on a large scale, the equipment investment is too large, but as long as there are streams and rivers near rock gold, it will usually be associated with riverbed placer gold mines.

Placer gold, named because it is as fine as sand, itself is weathering, erosion and exposed rock gold, washed out by streams and rivers, and deposited in the soil of nearby river valleys, river beaches and river beds for a long time.

There is a tributary of the Lujiaochuan River near the gold mining point, and a large bay turns south to form a valley about five or six hundred meters long on the west bank of the river.

Judging from the data, this kind of valley topography is the most conducive to the deposition and enrichment of placer gold.

The tribal villagers are not unaware of the gold sand hidden in the valley, but the density of gold sand reserves in the valley soil is far lower than that of rock gold.

In particular, the density of gold sand and gold grains is high, and it settles in the soil year after year, which makes the gold sand content of the surface soil even lower.

Although the gold sand content of the soil near the bedrock layer will be greatly increased due to subsidence and enrichment, does the tribe have the ability to excavate the deep gold-bearing soil at a depth of more than ten meters or even tens of meters to be washed?

There is no placer gold machine this convenient simple equipment is the fatal point, just take the sandalwood disc gold panning equipment, how much gold sand can be washed out in a day?

Of course, even if Cao Mo made a simple placer machine, there was no drainage and excavation equipment and facilities, and it was unrealistic to want to excavate the river and valley on a large scale.

Not to mention digging a pit ten or twenty meters deep to take out the gold-bearing soil at the bottom and wash it - the river water has already soaked in.

However, there is a slope of nearly 20 meters wide between the existing gold mining site on the west bank of the Antler River and the valley and beach of the Antler River.

In addition to the deep rain erosion, the slope is full of fine gravel and sand that has been shaken down by the blasting rock in Yibo Ancient Village over the years, and there must be a lot of gold grains and gold grains that have been shaken down in the blasting.

This sloping land, which connects the river beach valley with the unmistakable rock and gold veins, is also located above the river bank, allowing the earth to be excavated directly by hand without drainage.

No excavators, shovels, shovels, pickers and trolleys, and still work?

Cao Mo made the gold placer machine for the first time, but he didn't think of using excavation equipment, directly from this small piece of slope, digging the soil with manpower, and then transporting it to the placer gold machine to filter the gold panning.

Cao Mo had previously confirmed that this sloping area contained gold placer, but could not confirm the gold content.

Stone crushers and sand making machines can be transported to Draculamo in a month at the earliest, and the traditional rock gold mining methods are too time-consuming and laborious, so they must be suspended first.

During this time, Cao Mo couldn't raise so many people in vain without output, so he thought about making a placer gold machine, and asked Owema and Botu to take the hands to dig the soil from the slope and send it to the placer gold machine for washing.

Even in the future, he will give priority to the purchase of excavators to expand the mining of placer gold......

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It took two days for Cao Mo to explore the first gold placer mechanism, in fact, the gauze mesh, the vibrating pump and the switch box are all compatible, and he welded the machine tool shelf for wiring.

It took two days, Cao Mo was a little embarrassed, went to Draculamo to work as a small white-collar worker, lost a lot of the skills learned in the machine repair workshop, and was very unfamiliar, but Kabuja, Porto, and Pari were adored with a face, and I really didn't expect to be able to even get any work.

Owema's temper was also smoothed out, Cao Mo did everything in the mine himself, and taught Botu and Parry how to operate, no matter how he looked at it, it seemed that he had come to serve the Felician family enthusiastically, unlike the colonists he had in his impression of being pot-bellied and knowing how to enslave and oppress local hired labor.

The next two days were spent on the wire erection underneath the slope and the work platform cleared there.

This is also to shorten the process of manual soil transportation as much as possible, so that the water pump can pump water directly from the Antler River to flush the mineral soil.

Everything was ready, looking at the first cart of mineral soil transported by the trolley, which was sent from the height of the steps into the feeding port of the placer machine, Cao Mo's hands were sweating.

The gold placer content of the shallow soil is too low, not to mention that the first car of mineral soil will not produce anything, and ten cars and eight cars can't see it, Cao Mo has to pretend not to care about pointing to Botu and Parry to operate the water gun.

The Internet is really a good thing, and the relevant details can be found, but Cao Mo doesn't want to show his timidity in front of the gold mining team employees.

He had practiced with Botu and Parry a few times before, and now he will directly hand it over to them to get started, and he will stand aside to "guide", in fact, he is also secretly observing, and if there is any deviation, he can correct them at any time.

It would seem like everything was under his control.

The ore was constantly poured into the feed port, and there was no feeling, and after the seventh and eighth cars of ore were loaded, the bottom layer of the gold absorbing blanket was obviously attached to a layer of gold shiny things.

This is where the placer comes in.

Purely by manual washing, thirty or forty people can not wash seven or eight truckloads of mineral soil in a day, but it only takes five or six minutes to get on the placer gold machine and water pump; before there is no excavator, the vast majority of people only need to be responsible for digging and transporting soil.

"It's gold, it's gold!" Portu shouted excitedly, and the water gun was crooked, nourishing Cao Mo's body.

"What's so strange about this, what a bastard, wet me. Cao Mo scolded with a smile, and told Botu to quickly take the water gun and spray him, it doesn't matter, don't wash away the little gold dust that was finally absorbed on the gold absorbing carpet.

This is the beginning, such a little dust gold may not be able to make up half a gram.

And from the fact that Botu was so excited, Cao Mo felt that Botu was by his side during this time, and it was estimated that no one would say anything depressing in front of him.

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Cao Mo suppressed the excitement in her heart, pretending to take it for granted and didn't care.

Although the whole process is very simple, Cao Mo still repeatedly looks at the connection of each link, and if there is an incorrect operation, he steps forward to correct it, and also teaches employees a few commonly used Chinese by the way.

The process of gold dust mining is also simple, that is, the gold placer is put into the sandalwood gold panning plate, placed in the water and gently shakes the gold panning plate, so that the sand falls from the gold panning plate into the bucket, and the gold panning plate is relatively pure, and can even be directly sold as gold sand gold.

When twilight was approaching and everyone was finished, Cao Mo walked back patiently and watched as Botu weighed the little placer gold he had earned in the day, and handed it to Kabuja to lock in an old safe.

There were a lot of gaps on the first day.

After reminding me for several days, the phenomenon of late arrival and early departure and random entry and exit in the middle of the road still cannot be prohibited.

Kabuja wanted to catch the typical, grabbed the two and punished them, and almost had to fight, but Owema knew that he was at a loss, and scolded and pulled the two who caused the trouble away, but he also had no way to solve the problem of arriving late and leaving early.

The gold mining team is all tribal villagers, and they are still accustomed to treating the gold mining team as a cultivated land and dense forest near their residence, and they have not formed a strict labor discipline.

Except for Kabuja, Owema, Portu, Parry, etc., fortunately, Cao Mo did not officially disclose the salary policy beforehand. He held a small meeting, then gathered all the workers, and announced that in the future, their original wages of 1,500 naira (five dollars) a week would be basically guaranteed that they would not be late, leave early, do not slack off in the middle of the work, and obey the management, and that they would be rewarded with an additional 1,500 naira a week.

That is to say, every worker who works honestly for a month can get a high salary of 40 US dollars and 320 yuan.

It's just this, and it's been delayed for a while.

Neither Botu nor Parry understood the problem of the elevation of the pump, and tried to move the placer closer to the slope in order to shorten the distance of transporting the soil back and forth, but delayed a lot of time.

The road between the slope and the placer gold machine, because Owema did not pay enough attention to it before, led people to repair it very sloppily, and some of them even took people and cars into the ravine, but fortunately people had nothing to do.

At the end of the day, fifteen grams of placer gold were collected in one day, far from leveling the cost of a day, let alone the equipment investment in the early stage, but the members of the gold mining team were very encouraged.

After all, this is twice as much gold as they had mined before.

After three days, the process gradually smoothed out.

Compared with the tradition, there is nothing complicated about the new gold placer mining, and even if the members of the gold mining team are not very educated, they are still young men with flexible minds and industrious hands and feet in the tribe, and they are selected by the old chiefs Felician and Owema.

Since then, the amount of gold mined per day has been almost stable at more than 30 grams.

Although this has not yet reached Cao Mo's expected goal, it can barely cover the cost.

Half a month later, Cao Mo continued to buy diesel and other materials, and the small amount of cash was about to bottom out, and at this time, the placer gold also accumulated 500 grams.

Cao Mo took out the placer gold from the safe, adsorbed it with a small amount of mercury, put it in the tongs pot, and then he took out the hyperbaric oxygen gun and smelted it into gold water.

In the middle, when you see the gold water foaming, add some borax to remove impurities, and wait until the sand gold completely turns into red gold water, and pour it into the long mold groove as quickly as possible. The mold groove is coated with a layer of oil in advance, and the gold water is poured into it, and it is immediately formed, red, and cooled naturally for a while, and then put it in cold water to continue cooling.

These processes are described in detail in the information, but the first time Cao Mo operated it himself, his hand holding the hyperbaric oxygen gun couldn't help but tremble a little.

Five hundred grams of sand gold, with a large amount of impurities removed in the middle, and finally smelted into a fairly pure gold bar, about less than four hundred and sixty grams.

This is the output of the gold mining team in the past half a month.

At the end of June 04, the international gold price was only $3,890 per ounce, and the value of a 460-gram gold bar was only about $5,000.

To tell the truth, even if more than half a month of 5,000 dollars is a pure profit, it is not a windfall at all, and so much output, after deducting the cost of material consumption, equipment depreciation, labor salaries, etc., there is almost no profit at all.

The kind of nouveau riche who finds gold and becomes a young model overnight is not happening here, but it represents a good start.