The bidding was over, Tang Ming and Cornelia did not stop here, and drove to the mining company.

Now the mining company has swelled to forty or fifty people, these people are all stilwelled from the mining company where he used to work, and the entire company is basically all his people, but Tang Ming is not worried about anything.

First of all, he believes in Stilwell's work ethic, secondly, the company's finances are in his hands, and he is not afraid of what Stilwell is doing, and finally, this company belongs to him, he has 100% equity, and he can fire Stilwell and kick him out of the company at any time.

As soon as Tang Ming saw Stilwell, he told Tang Ming a good news, the prospecting rights around the alpine pastures have been applied, the time is five years, including the alpine pastures, the Angolo Mountains include an area of 1,000 square kilometers, such a large area is equivalent to 250,000 acres, and the prospecting rights of some pastures around the alpine pastures have also been applied.

After applying for the prospecting rights, the matter of Opal was basically settled, and he no longer concealed the discovery of Opal in the ranch, and told Stilwell about it.

After hearing this, Stilwell couldn't close his mouth in surprise, he had already guessed that there must have been any minerals found in the ranch, but he didn't expect it to be opal, which is more expensive than ordinary minerals, and at the same time he was also very excited, if he could really find an opal vein, then the value of the mining company would double and rise, so he immediately said: "Boss, I will contact the exploration company now to explore the place where the opal was found." ”

"Hmm. Tang Ming nodded and said, "But there is one thing I want to tell you, even if I find the Aobao vein, I will not necessarily mine it, you have to be prepared." ”

Hearing Tang Ming say this, Stilwell was a little disappointed, but he thought of the value of the ranch, and he understood that the mining industry is a very polluting industry, if mining is carried out in the pasture, it may cause a devastating blow to the ranch environment, and the reserves of Opal even if there are more will be harvested one day, if the environment of the ranch is not destroyed, it will always be able to produce the best beef and mutton.

However, as long as an opal vein can be found, even if it is not mined, it is of great benefit to the mining company.

Tang Ming stayed here for a while, then left with Cornelia, and they returned to the villa on the Gold Coast and drove back to the ranch in a helicopter.

At the door of the villa, he met Mike getting out of the car, he had just returned from the court, Tang Ming asked, "How is it?" ”

Mike smiled: "Boss, there's no problem, White's family can't hold it anymore, and I don't know if there will be money for a lawyer next time." ”

The case of White's family accusing the ranch of intentionally harming White has been tried twice, and today is the third time, Mike appeared in court on behalf of the ranch, and Tang Ming hired seven or eight lawyers, so it was fought three times, and there was no suspense at all, and White's family lost completely.

Tang Ming smiled and didn't speak, if he could still lose the lawsuit in this situation, then the lawyer would be in vain.

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The exploration company's men soon moved into the ranch and began to dig holes around the lake to survey the geology.

Tang Ming stood in the villa and listened to the rumbling explosion not far away, and decided in his heart that even if he found a super ore vein, he would definitely not mine it.

After several days of exploration, the original ore of Opal was finally found less than ten meters below the soil layer by the lake, Tang Ming was very happy to get this news, whether it was mined or buried in the ground, it was a fortune, no one thought that he had more money, and Tang Ming was of course no exception.

And he doesn't need modern technology to mine opal, he can find some animals to mine, such as pangolins, as a hole-making expert in the animal kingdom, there is no problem at all with mining opals, but there are no pangolins in Australia, and it just so happens that he is going to return to China in the near future to find a few pangolins in China to bring back.

After more than ten days of surveying, the places around the lake were surveyed, and Tang Ming asked them to stop and send the people from the exploration company away.

Stilwell came to Tang Ming with a report on the reserves of the ore vein, and said to Tang Ming: "Boss, from the current exploration situation, the reserves of this ore vein are amazing, and the number of detected has exceeded 100 million carats, of which 70% can reach gem quality, which can be called opal, of which 5% is black opal, 23% is fire opal, and the rest are white opal, and the value of the entire vein is estimated to be between one billion Australian dollars and three billion Australian dollars." ”

Opal is similar to domestic jade and jadeite, the price of each opal is different, it needs to be judged according to the type of gemstone, quality, background color, color, size, weight, etc., maybe a fingernail size opal can be worth tens of thousands of Australian dollars, and a fist-sized opal is only worth a few hundred Australian dollars, generally speaking, black opal is the most expensive, and white opal is the cheapest.

For example, Tang Ming found a few opals at the bottom of the lake some time ago, one of which belongs to the black opal, which is very beautiful and can be worth twenty or thirty thousand Australian dollars after cutting.

"Between $1 billion and $3 billion. When Tang Ming heard this number, he repeated it in disbelief.

Stilwell nodded and said: "Yes, this is still the exploration of the ore vein reserves, if you count the reserves that have not been explored, the value is even more amazing, of course, this is only a preliminary estimate, the exact number still needs to be mined to know, but the error will not be too big." ”

Although Tang Ming knew that the Opal vein was very valuable, he didn't expect it to be worth so much money, the money was completely picked up for nothing, and if the rancher got the news, he didn't know if he would vomit blood.

If it weren't for the fact that the pasture was too important, he would have had an urge to mine it now.

However, Tang Ming quickly restrained his impulse and said to Stilwell: "This matter will end here, I have decided not to mine this vein." ”

"Yes, boss. Although he was already prepared in his heart, when he heard Tang Ming's words at this time, Stilwell was still a little disappointed in his heart, but he quickly adjusted his mood and asked, "Boss, what should the mining company do now?"

Tang Ming said with a smile: "You are the director of the mining company, I will leave the mining company to you, and everything is up to you." ”

Stilwell was very excited, knowing that Tang Ming would no longer meddle in the affairs of the mining company, and it would be his turn to call the shots in the future mining company, so he said loudly: "Okay, boss, I know what to do." (To be continued.) )