Chapter 331: Kamchatka Gold Mine
"Oh, hello beautiful young lady. Pavlov shook hands with Xu Zijiao with a smile and said, and then saw the heavily armed Russian soldiers jumping down from the helicopter, and quickly looked around, especially when he saw the two yellow people who came out of the house, he immediately looked at the two.
Jiang Lang and Yulia were the last to come down, Zhou Xiao and Li Meili they didn't talk to Pavlov's old man, they didn't know Russian, and Pavlov didn't know English, let alone Chinese, and only Xu Zijiao could communicate with him, several soldiers rushed over, and two yellow gold diggers from the East China Sea came to discuss cooperation with Pavlov.
"Hello Mr. Pavlov, I'm Jiang Lang. Jiang Lang got off the plane, and Pavlov was also very fluent in Russian, and anyone who drove a helicopter to your house couldn't even have a conversation, and he would be depressed.
"Mr. Jiang, I finally met you, and you are welcome to Kamchatka. Lunch is ready, let's eat first, and we'll talk after lunch. Old man Pavlov shook hands with Jiang Lang with a smile, and then beckoned the group to go to the staff restaurant, after all, Jiang Lang and they came a bit more, and only the staff restaurant could accommodate them.
"I don't think the mine has been working for a long time, right?" Jiang Lang greeted his two compatriots and asked Pavlov.
"Yes, there have been no workers for almost ten years, and the local workers are too reluctant to come because of the low wages, and you can see this mine, I can't give a higher salary, otherwise I will lose money. I'm different from Mr. Jiang, I heard that your Anadyr mine pays the workers 50,000 yuan a month?" Pavlov couldn't believe Jiang Lang's generosity, wouldn't he lose money?
"Yes, you know, Anadyr is not as good as Kamchatka, so you can't recruit high-paid workers. Jiang Lang is very helpless, this is an unsolvable problem, giving 50,000 rubles is already equivalent to the salary of banks and government departments, and ordinary workers can get 20,000 yuan is already considered a high salary.
Even through the observation of this period of time, no overtime is only part of the workers, under the high salary of 50,000 monthly salary, Russian workers who can accept overtime are also very large, but at the beginning of the encounter with some lazy people, now with the increase of the base, more than half of the workers in the Anadyr mine, the continuous working time is more than 12 hours, and now two shifts are implemented, the same as most mines in the country, Russian workers have not made any trouble.
Although the lunch is simple, but the amount is enough, a large plate of crabs can be eaten casually, wild boar and fish are served in a pot, Jiang Lang asked his wife to eat it too, but the old lady smiled and asked Jiang Lang and the others to eat well and went to work again, their children are not here, but in Moscow.
Even if he is an old man who is 70, Pavlov can still drink with Jiang Lang, and then Jiang Lang chatted with him, only to know that this is a strange old man, and at the same time, this gold mine is also his heart disease over the years.
When he was young, at the age of 34, he was sent by the state to serve as a senior manager of the country's billions of investments, the only gold mine in Kamchatka, the natural conditions of this mine are extremely poor, no man's land in the north of Kamchatka, no roads, five months a year by water, usually in and out by helicopter, more than 500 workers in the mining area, because of the construction of this mine, a small town was born - Maniray, when Kamchatka did not have a full-scale gold mining, his output was the whole of Kamchatka.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 90s, after several twists and turns, the gold mine became his personal asset, and then the workers scattered, and no one was nostalgic here, because the conditions were really not good, the Russians did not come to work, there were originally Ukrainian workers, but after a few years, the Ukrainians did not come, the ruble is now depreciating sharply, the mine has long been stagnant, the reserves according to the last exploration data and exploitation data, there are still 1535 tons, and there is a huge amount of oil and gas underground, but now everything has long been stopped, because no one wants to work here.
Jiang Lang felt that his boss was really a tragedy, there were a lot of resources, and he couldn't recruit workers, after lunch, Jiang Lang turned around in Rong District, tens of thousands of square meters of Rong District can see the glory of the year, 7000 cubic meters of oil storage tanks have six, hundreds of large machinery and equipment, dozens of tracked personnel carriers, all kinds of cars, The boat was abandoned, and in Jiang Lang's opinion, most of them were estimated to be completely scrapped, Pavlov was quite realistic, admitting that most of them were indeed rusty and rotten in the camp because no one maintained them, but there were still 52 bulldozers that he maintained when he was fine, and those could be used, okay, these are assets that can be used, for traditional gold diggers, but Jiang Lang really can't use them.
The camp can accommodate 700 people, there are three resorts and more than a dozen representative offices throughout Russia, and there is a 1,200-square-meter office building on the mine, but this area is larger than the area of France, and now only Pavlov and his wife, as well as an old man who is also an accountant, are still there, and I have to say that this is his sadness.
"Mr. Pavlov, do you sell this mine including all the assets underground? You know, I am not a pure gold digger, my main business is coal and crude oil mining, when you contacted me in the spring, I was deploying the Anadyr mine, and now I have time to come and see after everything is normal over there, of course your rights and interests should be protected, but I don't want you to ask too hard. Standing in front of a bulldozer in the camp, Jiang Lang looked at the tall iron bump and smiled, and at the same time waved his hand to Chen Ziping who was following him, he quickly handed over the box in his hand, Zhou Xiao and Li Meili did not follow over to check, but checked the mine's reports and production records on the accountant's side, only Chen Ziping Although he didn't understand Russian, he also couldn't understand what Jiang Lang and the old man were saying, but after all, he was going to manage this mine in the future, so he was interested in continuing this area.
"Mr. Jiang, there is oil and natural gas in this underground, if you can mine it at will after you take over, you have the final say, but I don't know if there is coal, there should be, but no one can say how much there is in reserves, we only explored the gold mines here, and after discovering oil and natural gas, we have been mining for more than ten years, and then the workers are gone, and we can only stop.
In terms of price, I don't discriminate equally, 420 billion rubles, the property rights of this 630,000 square kilometers of land are yours, and you can do whatever you want on it. ”
"Oh, Mr. Pavlov, your price will scare all the investors away, forget it, you can talk to my lawyer later, I'll take a look at the reserves here. Jiang Lang said with an exaggerated expression, and at the same time opened the box, took out the hand-held prospector, installed a drill bit, and pressed the switch directly to the ground, and the drill bit nearly a meter long went directly into the ground, Jiang Lang quietly waited for the exploration results, although this is simple, but it can provide Jiang Lang with sufficient reference, so that he can make up his mind to buy here.
420 billion rubles, about 13.2 billion dollars, is really not too expensive in terms of area, but after all, it depends on where it is, and it is really not cheap here, even if you have thousands of tons of gold reserves.
Gold reserves are just reserves, and there is no point in not digging them out, only people are meaningful. There are many difficulties in mining this place, and there may be permafrost under the skin, such as digging it out this year, and then shoveling it away after it melts away, and then mining a little more next year, and then turning a little bit more, before you can see the gold. The area of this mine is very large, so large that it spans Kamchatka and Magadan Oblast, occupies half of the northern part of Kamchatka Oblast, and one-third of the eastern Magadan Oblast, and there are many volcanoes in the territory, and there are many volcanoes like Mount Fuji here, and the scenery is much more beautiful than Mount Fuji, but there are too few people here, and there are only more than 300,000 people in the entire Kamchatka Oblast, and more than half of them live in Petropavlovsk, the capital city, and the entire gold mine is actually located in the south of Chukotsi, close to the Chukotsika Autonomous Region.
Even Jiang Lang suspected that the two East China Sea people who came over couldn't afford such a big investment, and the gold diggers with this economic strength in China could be counted in a slap, but Jiang Lang had never even heard of these two people, so he knew that they were either their agents, or they came over to try their luck.
As for the Japanese that the old man said before, they have already withdrawn, and they are too lazy to come again, the environment is too poor, and the price is not suitable, why are you here?
There are a lot of gold (gold ore) in this mine, but no gold digger will choose this mine, there is really no need, because the investment cycle is long and laborious, so people who have seen this mine for more than ten years have given up, even if they have some ideas, they can't afford it because of the price. Private small groups can make a lot of money by digging placer gold directly, and the speed of gold mining is fast, so why risk coming here to invest.
Tens of billions of dollars are just to buy the rights and interests of gold mines, and if you buy them and invest them, it will be a huge expense and too risky.
Such a large mining area, the camp is still built by the sea, from the snow mountain down the mouth of the Lurenna River estuary is the camp, can live 700 people in Manilei Town, but now there are only 3 people, so Jiang Lang has to sigh the old man's insistence, I just don't reduce the price, you can buy if you want to, if you don't buy the gold mine or my own.
Ten minutes later, Jiang Lang put away the hand-held prospector, and had a number in his heart, I am afraid that due to the limitations of the exploration technology of the year, there is actually not a lot of gold reserves here, and what makes him even happier is that other metal minerals are also not low, but if Jiang Lang builds a mine in the future, it will definitely be built here in Manire, and it is completely possible to build a mine in Parana in the south, and Parana also has an advantage that there is an airport runway, and the climate is a little warmer.
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