“... In the past two years, it is impossible to count how many people are looking for diamond mines in the northern part of Canada, but this year alone, there are more than 20 new diamond search companies in the Northwest Territories, many of which are subordinate or affiliated companies of the Big Four. ”

De Beers, Rio Tinto, BHP, Billiton, no less.

Headquartered in South Africa, De Beers has the largest diamond business of the four – so why are the other companies called "giants"?

Because they are integrated mining companies, the diamond business is only a small part of the company's business.

For example, Rio Tinto was founded in Spain as early as 1873, and now its group headquarters is in the United Kingdom, and in the last two decades, it has merged with several influential mining companies in the world, mainly engaged in metal mine development.

The headquarters of these two companies are in Melbourne, and the oil and iron ore business comes to everything, and Zhang Nan also knows that these two companies will merge in more than ten years to become the world's largest mining group company!

In terms of company size, Zhang Nan's Xingchen Group cannot be compared with the latter three mining giants, and even De Beers cannot be compared with the tens of thousands of giant groups playing oil and metal mines.

"Did they find out?"

Hearing the boss's question, Davis said with a smile: "Except for us, everyone else has not found any valuable diamond mines in Canada, including several giants, each of which has lost more than the other."

Now that the price of wasteland in the entire northern region has risen by 30%, I estimate that there will be people who will follow suit. ”

Zhang Nan smiled, "There will always be people who follow the trend and want to get rich, let them find it slowly, Canada is so big, it is not necessary for someone to be lucky." ”

I just delineate the results of other people's exploration for 30 years, but as I said, Canada is big enough, let alone 30 years, there will be omissions in 300 years of exploration, and it is not necessary that someone will really discover new diamond mines.

Anything is possible, and even the survey team of his own company found a kimberlite pipe group that Zhang Nan did not know about more than 130 kilometers outside the land he bought in the extremely inhospitable Nunavut region this year.

The discovery process was quite accidental, because the seaplane malfunctioned, and then made a temporary forced landing in a small lake area. While waiting for rescue, the idle and stupid prospectors found kimberlite on the edge of the island waiting on the shore - the first pipe was found, and most of this pipe was still under the surface of the water at a depth of two or three meters.

It doesn't matter where the shallow water is, if you want to mine it in the future, you can build a cofferdam.

The forced landing became a good thing, and when the repair personnel and spare parts transported by the rescue plane arrived, they simply camped nearby and explored for several weeks, and finally found 7 large and small drill pipes.

Let's buy a site.

The trade secret, not in the name of Xingchen Group, but one of several short-headed companies that had been registered for a long time, bought nearly 100 square kilometers of land mineral exploration and mining rights.

Northern Canada is good, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of uninhabited wasteland are everywhere, and prospecting really depends on luck!

Obviously, God is very good to Zhang Nan who is coming back again.

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An hour and a little after the flight, the Gera Lake mine came into view. The "double otter" landed directly on the ice, which was the most convenient way to go to the already built airfield.

It's very distinctive, I don't know which designer came up with it, and the roofs of almost all the buildings in the mining area are made purple.

From a celestial point of view, after last winter's overtime transportation and summer construction, the mine has become extremely large-scale.

The convoys continued to arrive, and the mine was still producing despite the severe cold, even in the freezing conditions of minus 40 degrees at night.

Just now in the air, Zhang Nan saw that the first huge diamond pit had been dug down two steps, and the diameter of the pit mouth was almost 1 kilometer!

This is the No. 1 pit, the one discovered by Xiang Zhangsheng at the beginning, and it is also the largest one exposed on the ground so far.

"The latest discovery of the giant tube in autumn is 50 meters south of the island, reaching a diameter of 1.1 kilometers. ”

It was Xiang Zhangsheng who spoke, this guy is also a man of God, and he ran to Canada from Africa, and he had to go to Australia in a few days.

He likes to run around, and Zhang Nan is also happy to have such an engineer under him who is not afraid to fly all over the world.

As for the newly discovered rock pipe, it's an added surprise: there are more than a dozen more on the ground!

This will Zhang Nan said to Xiang Zhangsheng: "How deep is the water?"

If there is a water depth of 20 meters, then you have to dig a tunnel, and you have to do waterproofing, not to mention the high cost, but also dangerous.

"It's okay, 3 to 5 meters, you can build a cofferdam, but the cost will be higher than these on land. ”

This group of people is in the conference room of the office building, and the heating of diesel fuel is very sufficient, and Zhang Nan is not willing to drink the northwest wind outside.

I am a southerner, although the wet cold is more uncomfortable than the dry cold, but the dry cold is over minus 35 degrees, this taste is really not something ordinary people can bear!

After a casual meeting, I inspected the entire mining area: two hundred meters to the west of the pit was the beneficiation workshop, and the machines roared and did not stop for a moment. The office area is 100 meters to the south, and the residential area is next to the office area, and there is a grocery warehouse next to it.

As for the oil depot, it is much farther away, a kilometer to the southwest - the purple roof that Zhang Nan saw from the air is actually an indoor oil depot, and there are six giant oil tanks in addition, like an oil refinery.

Purple, it seems that the people who manage fuel on American aircraft carriers are wearing purple vests?

Zhang Nan also met several Indians, representatives and technicians of the Manu-Jayin family here, and wanted to laugh when he saw them looking like they were frozen into dogs.

When talking to Xiang Weirong, he teased Ah San who was dressed as a bear, "As soon as the heat wave in India arrives, it can reach 50 degrees, and you have to add seven or eight degrees under the sun, and here it is minus 40 degrees. ”

Of course, the Indians are not on the sidelines, and Davis is one of the core figures of his own interest group, and of course he has no problem hearing these words.

Davis said: "These Indians are fine in the summer, but in the winter, they hide in the dormitory or office and don't come out, and they can freeze to death at any time! Last year, there were more than a dozen in the mining area, and even if there is a new batch this year, there will only be 5 of them, and they will probably be afraid of freezing."

Moreover, these guys are really lazy and unreliable. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Nan said: "The red-headed Ah San is like this, it's best not to come." If you don't want to use their channels to process and sell low-end products, you are not interested in dealing with them.

But at least so far, it's been a good time to work together and benefit from each other. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Nan said to Xiang Weirong: "How about we go to India again after New Year's Day, play for half a month, and go tiger hunting."

When the time comes, Brother Guan should also come back and go over there to play. ”

Xiang Weirong had heard about the tiger hunt and was also interested in it - this activity is not something that ordinary people can enjoy.

Then go and decide to go to the South Asian subcontinent near the Arctic Circle to scourge the wildlife over there.