There is a lot of gold in Alaska, and in his previous life, Zhang Nan also watched some documentaries about the miners panning for gold in Alaska, and had a little understanding of the rich gold resources there. However, the winter in Alaska is long and cold, and the gold mines can be mined for a relatively short period of time each year, and even when they do, they are still in a hurry like a war.

Gold mining requires water, and water freezes.

But there will be a problem: the United States is a big gold producer, in the previous life it would have been ranked second or third in the world, and according to the United States, Nevada has the largest gold production, more than N times that of Alaska.

In the 21st century, Nevada's annual gold production is properly more than 100 tons, and the output is rising, and it should be as fast as 200 tons a year around 2010, accounting for more than 7% of the gold production in the United States!

This should be in the middle of the largest "gold wave" in the history of the United States, whether it is the total production, peak, or duration of the "gold tide" far more than any "gold wave" in the history of the United States, Zhang Nan remembers that it seems that in the past 20 years, more than 2,000 tons of gold have been produced, nearly 2,500 tons of gold, and at least more than 2,500 tons of mineable reserves.

This will Nicole say that there is not much gold in Nevada, you are teasing me!

But this brainstorm...

", I thought about enclosing territory outside the United States before, but I didn't pay attention to the mines in the United States, is there a variable?...

Dig out your mind and think slowly...

"What's that big belt of gold called?

Mulin, no! What is Lin... It's supposed to be what a forest..."

No one will bother him, it can be seen that Zhang Nan is thinking about things, according to the usual experience, generally after this situation, there will be either big troubles that shake the sky and the earth, or there will be great things.

Other men waited, Zhang Nan was hollowing out his thoughts, and after a while...

"Carlin, is there a town called Carlin in Nevada?"

Zhang Nan had already thought that the huge gold belt was near a town called Carlin, not just a place, it was a large super terrifying gold belt, known as the Carlin Gold Belt, which was one of the largest gold mining areas found in the world!

The Carlin gold mine was not only large, but it was said to be structurally very special, and similar types of gold mines discovered later were named Carlin gold mines in any country.

Zhang Nan knows so much?

He's not much of a gold mining expert.

There is a very famous Sui-Chang gold mine in Jiangnan Province, which can be regarded as a tourist area, and the gold mine museum was visited when Zhang Nanna was nearby. There are descriptions of various types of gold deposits in the museum, one of which is about Carlin-type gold mines.

Some professional terms Zhang Nan will not pay attention to, but remember that an important feature of this Carlin-type gold mine is large, super large!

Everyone in the restaurant was confused by the boss's sudden question, and they couldn't answer it at all, and it was estimated that the small town of Carlin was too small, even if he was an American geography expert, he generally knew the names of counties or slightly larger cities.

There is no concept of "village" in this place in the United States, and the gathering place of several families can be called a town, and it is impossible to remember the names of all the towns in the United States!

American "locals" don't know, let alone guys from China and Russia, but Nicole asked: "How to fight?"

"I don't know, it's called Carlin. ”

Catch the blind!

Ask Tom to ask the bodyguards outside if anyone knows about Carlin, but unfortunately even the only guy from Nevada has never heard of such a town.

Let's flip through the map, hopefully the town isn't too small to be found on the map of Nevada.

Las Vegas is hundreds of thousands of people, not only casinos, but also schools, and this bookstore is also indispensable, so they immediately sent people to buy it.

Others didn't ask why, but Nicole asked if there was anything wrong.

"It's in a similar situation with our diamond mines. ”

Needless to say, my own woman understands that there will probably be a big gold mine.

Nicole still doesn't understand, Zhang Nan is not thinking of "one", but a large piece!

Soon the map of Nevada came, or a lot of traffic maps, teaching wall charts, and tourist atlases, and a group of people began to slowly and carefully flip through them, and they didn't let go of similar-sounding place names.

It didn't take long for Eliza Korikova to find one, which was on the side of Route 80, which crosses north-central Nevada.

According to the map, this small town of Carlin is about a few dozen homes at most, and is strategically located in arid north-central Nevada, right at the confluence of two small rivers called the Humboldt River and the Maggie Creek.

In arid regions, water is precious.

There is no water source at all in the vicinity of this large stretch of road thirty or forty kilometers to the west of the town, and the nearest settlement is more than 40 kilometers away, and although the road to the east is along the Humboldt River, the nearest settlement to Carlin, Elko, is also more than 30 kilometers away from the town.

Because of its unique location, the small town of Carlin is marked as one of the more important supply and recuperation points on Highway 80, which is very important for people who drive in arid, low-population areas, otherwise they will die!

Zhang Nan looked at it for a while, felt that it was quite similar, and said: "car1in, Carlin, there should be ** here." Let's see if there's a Carlin in other places..."

As he spoke, his eyes focused on the left side of the map marked about seventy kilometers from Carlin, where there was also a town called Bart Mounting.

The town was obviously much larger than Carlin, at least there was a high school, which was marked on the map, and there was a small airport a few kilometers away.

There are airports everywhere in the United States, and the same is true in the West, but don't expect the airports near the small settlements in the West to be as tall as they are, many of them have a sandy runway, and there are not even a tanker plane.

"Bart Mounting, alright, don't look any further, this is what I'm looking for. ”

Zhang Nan interrupted the others' work, and he was already able to determine that it was this town.

When a buddy who played basketball as if he had made a joke in a museum came to the United States, the American people named the Golden Town after him.

Bart Ear, easy to remember, very good.

I made a phone call to the CEO of a subordinate mining group, and through him, I found a senior engineer named Jacques Cortez, who was very familiar with the gold resources in the United States.

“… Come to Las Vegas immediately, I have something to ask you, it has something to do with the profession you are familiar with, and my butler will contact you. ”

……

After dinner, Zhang Nan met Jacques Cortez, who was in his 50s and had arrived from Sacramento, California, along with one of his assistants.

Tom had already told him on the phone about the distribution of gold mines in the West, and Jacques Cortés brought the information he needed, as he didn't know exactly what the boss was asking about.

Soon Zhang Nan understood what the problem was.

“… Boss, as far as I know, there was a gold discovery in northern Nevada in the late 60s, but that was only a preliminary survey by the mining company, the scale of the exploration is small, the ore taste should be relatively low, and the estimated reserves may be relatively small..."

Well, people have found out a long time ago, but they didn't take it seriously many years ago. Perhaps it was in the late '80s or early '90s that the company began to invest heavily in the area before discovering the giant gold belt, and then spent another 20 years or so extracting more than 2,000 tonnes of gold.

But the question is, now that the town of Carlin is still unknown, and there is no such thing as a "Carlin-type gold mine", how could the company that had advanced exploration miss such an opportunity to make a fortune?

It's like robbing a tomb, just because the last shovel is missing, and the result is unknowingly missing the treasure, and the owner himself doesn't know it.

"What about that company?"

Jacques Cortés shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's gone." Its boss suffered a lot of losses on Black Monday in '87, only to be hit by a car on his way out, died, and the company was mortgaged to the bank to be sold, which has also attracted attention in the American gold industry. ”

Zhang Nan went on a wild spree on "Black Monday", a butterfly gently fanned, bringing a super gold mine to "fan gone", it should still be under the ground in Nevada!