After three months of arduous negotiations, Kingdom Mining Co., Ltd. won the complete mining and operation rights of the Carrara Iron Ore Project.

The original boss was still very discerning, and chose to buy shares at a discount and became a minority shareholder of Kingdom Mining.

Because the conditions offered by Chuluo are too scary, Kingdom Mining will directly invest no less than 5 billion US dollars to mine this mine.

And this investment will be realized over a period of three years, including major investments such as the construction of infrastructure such as mining concentrators and railways to transport iron ore.

This kind of large-scale operation, the original mine boss knew that he had met the big boss, and he had to rub it off anyway.

Relying on the landlord, the new company with a total asset investment of $5 billion, with a capital of $250 million in the mine, has a hard 8% stake.

Of the remaining 92%, Chu Luo still accepted Liu Ruoyi's kindness and accounted for 42% of the shares in the form of loans, and Liu Ruoyi's offshore investment company accounted for the remaining 50%.

It is equivalent to Chu Luo becoming a major shareholder with the 2 billion invested in the early stage and the future personal manpower investment. He also became the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Kingdom Mining.

It turned out that the mine owner had become a vice president to help him get some local connections. The two of them turned into one of Australia's mining tycoons after Liu Ruoyi's capital injection.

And considering that the Carrara mining area is not only the iron ore mine of Kingdom Mining, there are at least tens of billions of tons of reserves distributed in dozens of mines, large and small.

Therefore, Chuluo's iron ore transportation railway is not only for its own family, but is ready to talk with other bosses, if they are willing to use Jinda railway transportation in the future, they can now negotiate a framework transportation contract.

Although it is unlikely that the toll will be more expensive than the road freight, it will not be charged at cost. If he can receive about half of the road freight, Chu Luo is quite satisfied.

Because in this way, the total amount of railway transportation in the future is the potential scale of 10 billion tons, and the income of the future transportation cost difference is calculated according to the road transportation difference of 3 US dollars a ton, and half of it is 15 billion US dollars!

Although the freight discount period is as long as several decades, according to the current production capacity, Carrara plans to plan the first phase of the project of 50 million tons in the future, and the second phase of the project is 100 million tons, so it will take decades to mine it.

The railway part Chuluo decided to build according to the Daqin Railway as a template, and the annual transportation capacity of the future peak design capacity will not be less than 300 million tons!

Of course, this is calculated according to the 10,000-ton special train method, and 8 to 10 10,000-ton heavy-haul trains are opened a day.

Of course, if you want to increase the capacity, through scheduling optimization, it is also possible to run 12 heavy-duty trains of 10,000 tons a day, the key is to increase the number of locomotives and the loading and unloading capacity of both ends.

At present, considering the design speed of 80 kilometers per hour, the whole process of unilateral operation is about 3 hours, if the loading and unloading speed of both sides can keep up, a train can be opened in 2 hours, and about 5 to 6 locomotive groups can be turned.

This will increase the purchase cost of locomotives, but with such a large capacity demand, this equipment increase is nothing.

Chu Luo got the money from Liu Ruoyi and found a way to solve the problem, and devoted himself to his career as a mining tycoon.

This kind of business is more than ten times more troublesome than Liu Ruoyi's financial operation, which is one of the reasons why Liu Ruoyi insisted on letting Chu Luo's shareholding be as high as 42%.

Without a trustworthy person like Chu Luo to operate this kind of thing, Liu Ruoyi would definitely not devote himself to this kind of career.

In her opinion, although it is good to make a lot of money by doing this, but with the urine sex in Australia, there is no competent person to do it, and I am afraid that this thing will not be able to be done in seven or eight years.

Australians, who are tired for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, will not work overtime to repair railways and mines.

To put it bluntly, relying on the local Australian workforce, this matter will not be done for ten years.

Fortunately, Liu Ruoyi knows that in recent years, Australia has been relatively relaxed in the introduction of external labor, especially this kind of mining and railway construction, and almost no locals are willing to do it.

Chulo's first mine has already brought in thousands of workers, including hundreds of heavy-duty mine truck drivers for transport teams.

Now there is a large mine dozens of times the scale, and the number of workers alone will increase by thousands, which is still a skilled worker with experience in the operation of mining equipment!

However, for the rich Chu Luo, people have never been a problem, with the current salary standard in Australia three times higher than that in China, Chu Luo can recruit several times the number of talents needed in the mainland!

The first phase of negotiations with CRCC has been completed, and CRCC's construction exploration team has been dispatched to investigate the geology of the planned route and survey the topography to lay a solid foundation for the design.

According to Chuluo's requirements, it will be completed and opened to traffic within 3 years, which is a bit tight for railway construction, mainly because of the construction in a foreign country, and there are many unpredictable factors.

If in the mainland, this construction period is completely out of the question, and the first phase of the Daqin Railway construction project of 400 kilometers of railway will only be completed in 3 years!

Just these two more than 100 kilometers of railway, if there are no unexpected factors, such as land requisition, such a bullshit thing, you can do it in 2 years!

Of course, the time for exploration and design is indispensable now. The three-year construction period given by Chu Luo is relatively basic.

Chulo's Australian partner, Kroman Leckie, is a descendant of German immigrants who is very discerning but also quite easy to get along with when things are clearly explained.

At the moment, the local state government is running the issue of land ownership of the railway, most of the land in this state is state-owned, and the iron ore railway passes through under the management of the state government, according to the current mining incentive policy, Leckie knows that he should be able to get a lot of concessions.

As the vice president of Kingdom Mining, the fight for this preferential policy naturally falls on Lekki's head.

According to the preliminary planning estimates, the more than 200 kilometres of railway cover an area of about 60 hectares, which could cost $50,000 per hectare at the usual price of the mine's barren land, which is more than $300.

If this part of the fee can be reduced, it will be enough to build a workshop for hundreds of miners.

This is a good thing to boost the local economy, and Leckie approached the relevant head of the state government, and Balabala talked about the demands of Kingdom Mining for a while.

However, policy is policy, and it is obvious that Leckie's relationship with the head of the local department is not in place, and after a few words of prevarication, he can only leave in a huff.

Back at Jinda Company, when he talked to Chu Luo about this, Leckie was still quite angry, why is it so difficult to have a good policy?

"Leckie, you can talk to Councillor Bailey White about this, he will strongly support the development of the mining industry," Chu Luo said with a smile.

"As mining professionals, we have always been very supportive of Congressman Bailey White's candidacy, and it's up to our own people to do this kind of thing, right? Let's visit Councillor Bailey White another day. ”

Fortunately, Chu Luo's school in London has a very clear understanding of the British way of playing, Australia is in the same vein as the British way of playing, and Chu Luo's election expenses are not small every year, and he has found a lot of friends in the Australian parliamentary class.

Among them, Bailey White is still an alumnus of Chuluo, and this relationship with the reasonable nourishment of money quickly became close, especially now that Chuluo is rising, he has bought such a large mine and is ready to invest billions of dollars in development.

Not to mention a state legislature, even a congressman will look at Chu Luo differently.

After all, this is a very capital-friendly society.

"Understood, Chu, you are a good partner. Leckie smiled.

Although he is German, he is not old-fashioned, otherwise he would not have made hundreds of millions of dollars. It's just that his background is a little lower, he has a diploma from a local university in Australia, and his alumni relationship is not strong, and he was lucky to find iron ore with the prospecting rights in this area that his ancestors took down.

That's how it broke out in one fell swoop.

Now the foundation is obviously not stable, and it is sometimes inferior to outsiders like Chu Luo.

After all, the Chu family has been doing this kind of thing for three generations, and a rich generation like Leckie obviously does not have this condition.

However, it doesn't matter, Leckie feels that he can still learn, he is only in his forties and has a lot of time to learn how to be a rich man.

This is also the way he did not directly take the money and leave, but chose to take part of the money and then leave a part of the shares, which is just the right way to squeeze into the upper class.

The current Chu Luo happens to be one of his guides.

When the exploration team of China Railway Construction rushed to the Carrara mining area, the preliminary things were put in place, and the personnel were in place, and the work could be carried out immediately.

In order to rush the construction period, Chu Luo did not save at all in the exploration work, and directly let 5 groups of exploration teams, and carried out exploration work at the same time.

In the wilderness of Australia, whether there is a road or not, you can run well, and you can climb mountains and wade through water.

The exploration team of China Railway Construction has obviously not encountered such a high treatment, and the team leader Zhu Shihe is not only shocked by the strength of Kingdom Mining, but also feels very excited.

He is a person who knows the goods, this water Unimog off-road, looking at the trident sign on it, he knows that it is not cheap, which means that Jinda Mining is not bad at all, and the matter of building the railway is serious.

No matter how cheap the price of more than 200 kilometers of railway is, at least it is a big order of more than 10 billion 20 billion, and with this big order, many brothers will have solved the problem of eating for at least 2 years.

What's more, this is to break into the international market, and in the future, these mining tycoons may not have the demand for a second or third railway.

So as soon as Zhu Shihe came to Australia, he directly went to the front line to survey the front line, and even repairs were exempted. An extra day would be a waste for him.

What's more, this exploration contract was originally billed by kilometer, not by duration.

Chu Luo still knows the working habits of the mainland very well, and knows that these people are sincere in their work, so he does not interfere with their work, but just asks the staff around him to equip the daily necessities of the survey team with one catty of vegetables, half a catty of beef and half a catty of chicken per person.

These are even a little bit of his heart, to provide benefits for these honest people.

Although it is not worth a few dollars, but this heart, Zhu Shihe and others are obviously very moved, although he understands that the big boss here is actually born in the mainland, but after all, this is abroad, and people really have no obligation to do more.

After the contract stipulates the cost of each kilometer of survey, it stands to reason that you have to pay for the transportation expenses and tools, not to mention the living allowance.

The kindness of Chu Luo's side was completely beyond everyone's imagination, although he had no special motives in his own right.

But Zhu Shihe and these people can't think like this, they have provided everything that should be done and what should not be done.

The next exploration work should not only be completed quickly, but also completed well, without omissions, and consider the cost savings of the other party as much as possible.

Before they came, they already knew that Australian land was not very valuable, so bridges and tunnels were time-consuming and labor-intensive, so they should avoid them as much as possible.

Chu Luo didn't expect that his kindness would have an unexpected effect.

This exploration team completely treats this as their own business, not only working day and night, but also trying their best to make more measurements, more explorations, and calculations during the day.

Chu Luo fueled the car and also provided a miniaturized diesel generator, for these men who eat and live in the wild, this time the external conditions are very good, not to mention that the living materials can be supplied every day, without any worries.

In this case, the exploration work was completely beyond Leckie's understanding.

Yes, for the supply of the exploration team, every day Kingdom will arrange a special person to be responsible for purchasing and transporting it, and communicate the joint location on the local map in advance, and Lecky will see that the area that has been explored is increasing at an incredible rate.

"Oh God, Chu, are your compatriots really serious prospecting, their speed is too fast" One day, Leckie met Chu Luo in the company and sighed.

"I swear, when I saw Rio Tinto and they were building railway exploration, it wasn't even a third of the current speed!"

Leckie has worked in the mining industry for more than 20 years, and he is indeed well-informed, and the two generations of his family were born in the mining industry, so he would seize an opportunity with his own experience to raise millions of Australian dollars to win the exploration rights of the Carrara mining area, thus giving Leckie the opportunity to make a fortune of hundreds of millions today.

When Leckie was not yet developed, he was working for Rio Tinto.

"Leckie, times are different, and now the exploration technology is also changing with each passing day, and the computer is much better than the previous manual calculation. Chu Luo was not surprised by this.

"What's more, we Chinese are the most industrious people on the planet, and there is no one. ”

"If you know that they work more than 12 hours a day, get up at dawn and don't work until dark to start another round of calculations, at least fifteen or sixteen hours a day, you know that this speed is nothing at all. ”

"Ah, it's terrible, if every one of you were like that, I swear you'll be a superpower in a few years' time. ”

"Hehe, although not all of us are so desperate, but believe me, most of us are working like this. Therefore, Lecky, our Kingdom will shine in a very short period of time and become a miracle in the history of Australian mining development. ”