"Just a kilometre or two to the east of us, nine times out of ten is a huge diamond mine. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Guan Xingquan is too lazy to ask here, Zhang Nan is what he says, and he has long been accustomed to the supernatural ability of this magic stick.

It's close to the border, and to the north are nature reserves designated by each of the three countries, and although the reserves are separated, the three countries cooperate with each other in terms of management, so it's relatively normal for small planes to fly over each other's airspace, and no one cares.

It would be noon on the 18th, Zhang Nan and Guan Xingquan were chatting in the courtyard of the camp, and when they saw a "Double Otter" plane flying from the north appearing in the air, they knew that Xie Jianliang was coming.

Yesterday, the mining experts were working in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana, and as soon as they received Zhang Nan's instructions, they took the plane sent by the company from the northern mining area to South Africa.

As soon as he got off the plane, Xie Jianliang said directly: "Boss, where is there a diamond mine?"

This guy is also anxious enough, Zhang Nan said with a smile: "It's just behind you, not far, you can get there by walking." ”

Although it is close, it is not in a hurry to settle down at this time, let him settle down first.

Xie Jianliang was in Canada before, but a month ago he went to Botswana to participate in the No. 2 mining area survey, and he happened to be arrested by Zhang Nan.

Dean and the others left a jeep and a small truck, enough for Zhang Nan and his group to hunt and kill time.

When you "have had enough" and leave, just leave the car in the hunting ground, anyway, it's not a new car, it's not valuable, and it can be used as a means of transportation for the guards.

Wait for lunch to see the place.

When he got into the car, Guan Xingquan said, "Due east?"

"Yes. Qiu Bo, drive 5 kilometers to the east, don't deviate from the direction. ”

The driver said he understood.

Zhang Nan is very clear about his current location, and Martin and others have clearly pointed it out to him on the map before.

Guan Xingquan and others know the specific location better, this is an African wasteland, if you don't understand the original coordinates, you have to be blind if there is a situation!

Off-road vehicles and high-chassis pick-up trucks can drill around in the wasteland, just slow down and don't fall into the ditch. In just two kilometers, Zhang Nan saw more than a dozen springboks, and yesterday in the north of the hunting ground, which is about 20 kilometers away, a group of giraffes were also found.

More than 300 square kilometers of new hunting grounds, the north is next to the nature reserve, even if the previous hunting owners are a little unrestrained, the animals in the nature reserve will continue to enter the hunting area and become their own wealth.

Zhang Nan doesn't look down on the wealth on the ground, it's a big deal to hunt by himself when he has time, and as for opening up, forget it - what he likes is the wealth underground!

Qiu Bo will never deviate from driving, and he will arrive soon.

It is said to be a subtropical grassland, but in fact, there is not only grass on the surface, and the woody plants mainly shrubs cover almost half.

Get off the car, the surface and quite a bit of bare dirt.

As soon as Xie Jianliang jumped out of the car, he grabbed a handful of soil, took a few glances, and found nothing special.

Zhang Nan got out of the car and stepped on the ground under his feet, and said: "It should be down there, this is the center, Jianliang, you stay here for a while, I will let someone get the smallest drilling rig here in South Africa."

Don't get a diamond gimmick, and start working when our own workers from the north arrive. The south side is bounded by one kilometer from the highway, and when someone sees it, they use the name of drilling water wells, and take away the problematic cores, leaving no traces. ”

Xie Jianliang carefully looked at the hunting ground and the nearby map before eating, and when he heard this, he immediately said: "Boss, then this place is 1.5 kilometers away from the drilling boundary." ”

His subtext was: Boss, don't tell me this mine is comparable to the Lake Gera mining area in Canada!

A Glasee mine has already given De Beers a headache, a proper top-of-the-line mega mine!

Zhang Nan didn't answer directly, but gestured around and said, "1.5 kilometers to the north, and one kilometer to each in the east and west." You don't need to fight too many cavings, just a dozen or twenty are enough.

As soon as we find a kimberlite with drilling, we don't need to know the reserves and size, and we will have to wait at least six or seven years for this mine to start.

Also, if there is really high-quality groundwater, it will be turned into a well, which will be used in the future. ”

Xie Jianliang said that he understood - whatever the boss said, don't ask too much.

Besides, he has not been in the "Xingchen Group" for a day or two, and understands that this will be because of the strong intervention of the boss, the international diamond market is temporarily saturated, and he is still wrestling with De Beers on his side, and the output is too large all of a sudden, but the supply will exceed demand.

A few days ago, on the way to the hunting ground, Dean asked Zhang Nan to look at the map where the hunting ground was located, and Zhang Nan found that the South African side of the border between the three countries was either a nature reserve or a private hunting ground, and he was in a good mood immediately!

It's too good to be true!

Because when chatting with retired Xiang Zhangsheng in his last life, he said that after 2010, De Beers, the former world diamond hegemon, had only 6 diamond mines in South Africa, one of which was in the Venetian Grove diamond mine near the border of Botswana and Zimbabwe, accounting for more than 8% of De Beers's diamond mine production in South Africa!

There are computers, and there are satellite maps - just 20 kilometers directly south of the border between the three countries, there is a huge "scar" on the surface!

Based on the T-shaped border line of the three countries, the location of the diamond mine is extremely simple.

This is the Venetian forest mining area, the "scar" is nearly 6 kilometers long and almost 5 kilometers wide, and it is a huge rectangle on the satellite map!

Xie Jianliang said that since the peak of production, the mine has nearly 1,000 employees, and the annual production of diamonds is at least 1.5 tons, most of which are gem-quality!

Not carats, not grams, not kilograms, but tons!

Just under the land where Zhang Nan is standing, there are 12 diamond-bearing kimberlite pipes discovered by De Beers, which are named the Venetian Forest Cluster.

The most crazy thing is that in this nearly 30 square kilometers mining area, only two rock pipes, K1 and K2, were in production at that time - even if you count from 2010, both of them will be able to flourish for at least 25 years!

Two pipes alone account for the vast majority of De Beers' diamond production in South Africa!

As for the other rock pipes, although they are relatively small, they are distributed from the existing mining area all the way to the north, and they are less than 2 kilometers away from the national park, which means that all the rock pipes are now within the more than 300 square kilometers of land that Zhang Nan bought.

Two rock pipes of 30 square kilometers?

The "peace" mine is not so exaggerated.

The kimberlite pipes are not so large, because the situation here is different from the mining areas in Canada, because many of the pipes have multiple magmatic intrusions, resulting in a variety of kimberlite-type mining operations encountered here, and as a result, the mining area is like a mixture of two different types of diamond mines in Zimbabwe and Canada.