The coal and iron resources in the two major mining areas cannot be mined, and Panshi Iron and Steel Company can only use the coal and iron resources in the Salween Federation at this stage. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Within the Salween Federation, the northwestern part of the Shan State Republic and the eastern part of Mandalay are the most abundant in coal and iron resources, which is why Long Zheng placed the Panshi Iron and Steel Company in the Panshi Kingdom. In addition to having a small tax burden, the Rock Kingdom is also located next to these mining areas and has the power of water transportation for easy transportation.

Of course, the coal and iron resources in the Salween Federation are not enough to support the continued growth of Panshi Iron and Steel Company, with a huge capital of 50 billion US dollars, Long Zheng has set his sights on the Hammersley iron ore area.

Due to the backward exploration technology and insufficient investment funds, the Hamersley iron ore area in 1996 was only one of the world's large iron ore mining areas, and only seven iron ore deposits of different sizes have been discovered.

Only Long Zheng knows that there are far more than seven iron deposits in the Hamersley iron ore area.

Australia's Hammersley Iron Ore District is located in the Pilbara region of northern Australia, with an area of 80,000 square kilometers of iron ore.

Twenty years later, in 2016, more than 109 iron ore deposits of different sizes have been discovered in the Hamersley iron ore area, and many individual iron ore deposits are more than one billion tons.

The Hammersley iron ore district consists of banded iron ore layers, shale, dolomite and flint. The Upper Formation of the Burgida Formation, 215 m thick, consists of banded iron ore layers, shale and flint. The Middle Formation Brockman Formation is the most important, with a thickness of 460 to 670 meters, the largest and richest iron ore, and the rich ore body contains 50 to 62 percent iron.

Twenty years later, in 2016, the proven iron ore reserves in the Hamersley iron ore area reached 32 billion tons, of which 24.9 billion tons were rich in iron ore. The proven iron ore reserves in the Hammersley iron ore area account for more than 90% of Australia's total reserves, and the production accounts for about 95% of Australia's production. In addition, there are jasper ferroids containing more than 30% iron in the Hamersley iron ore area, with a potential resource of 6.4 trillion tons and can be extracted.

Panshi Steel's acquisition of the Hammersley iron ore area went far more smoothly than Long Zheng expected.

The Hammersley Iron Ore Mine is located in the northwest of Western Australia, Australia, south of the Fortis Hill River, stretching more than 250 kilometers from the source of the Robbie River to the east, and is a broken block-like mountain range.

There are few plants here, there are no people, and to put it simply, it is a barren land.

Australia is a vast and sparsely populated country, with developed agriculture and animal husbandry, and abundant natural resources, and is known as "the country riding on the back of sheep", "the country sitting on a minecart" and "the country holding ears of wheat". Other countries regard the right to explore resources and the right to exploit resources as a treasure, but Australia does not value them very much.

Because Australia is not only sparsely populated but also easy and prosperous, a deserted place like Hamersley has almost forgotten not only the Australian people, but also the Australian government.

If it weren't for the seven iron ore areas that have been discovered, the Hamersley area would be of no value to the Australian government.

For $30 billion, Longzheng not only acquired the ownership of seven iron ore deposits from the mining company that controls the seven iron ore deposits, but also obtained the resource exploration rights and resource exploitation licenses for 80,000 square kilometers of Hamersley land from the Australian government.

At the same time as the 80,000-square-kilometre resource exploration rights and resource exploitation permits of 80,000 square kilometres of land in Hammersley, there was also a 100-square-kilometre land ownership centered on Port Hedland. It seems that Long Zheng has made a big bargain, 30 billion US dollars to get so much, but for the Australian government, it is really a sure profit, Australia is vast and sparsely populated, human resources are high, even if you know that the Hammersley area is rich in minerals, Australia has no way to develop this area. It's not that there is no money, it's not that there is no technology, it's that no one wants to work in that barren land, even though the wages paid in Australia are already very high in other countries.

Since there is no way to develop it by itself, it is also a good way to sell it to Long Zheng and let Long Zheng prepare funds and organize manpower to develop it, and the Australian government also receives a huge income of 30 billion US dollars at one time.

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On the pretext of personal safety, Long Zheng led more than 5,000 men of the 1st Division of the Wehrmacht Army to Port Hedland, along with engineers from the Panshi Iron and Steel Company and 25,000 workers recruited from the territory of the Federal Republic of Salween. In the near future, these men will be led by engineers to expand Port Hedland and build a railway connecting Port Hedland to the Hammersley Iron Ore Mine, as well as build a large steel plant with an annual capacity of 30 million tons of steel in the immediate vicinity of Port Hedland.

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Through Long Zheng's money offensive, the FIBA Federation selected the Salwyn Federal Men's Basketball Team as one of the teams participating in the Olympic men's basketball qualifying tournament on the grounds that "basketball is the basketball of the world, and the new country is also a part of the world basketball".

1996 marked the centenary of the modern Olympic Games, and the XXVI Summer Olympic Games, held in Atlanta, United States, from July 19 to August 4, brought about a reunion of the Olympic family. The dates for the Olympic basketball tournament are from July 20 to August 4, while the dates for the Olympic men's basketball qualifiers are from June 18 to June 24.

Because there are no professional basketball players in the Salwyn Federation, in order to prepare for the Olympic men's basketball tournament that began on June 18, Long Zheng launched a huge basketball trial in the Salwyn Federation to select the players of the Salwyn Federal Basketball Team.

The selection competition is divided into a preliminary stage and a final stage.

The final stage started on June 1 and ended on June 10, with a total of 20 teams participating, namely the 1st Division of the Defence Force, the 2nd Division of the Defence Army, the 3rd Division of the Defence Army, the 4th Division of the Defence Army, the 5th Division of the Defence Army, the 6th Division of the Defence Army, the Defence Force Navy, the Defence Force Air Force, the Federal Police, the Kachin State Regional Team, the Wa State Regional Team, the Warbang Republic Regional Team, Shan State Regional Team, Republic of Kayah State Regional Team, Republic of Kayin State Regional Team, Republic of Mon State Regional Team, Panshi Kingdom Regional Team, Capital Salween Regional Team, Mergui Special Economic Zone Regional Team, and Ko Dong Special Economic Zone Regional Team. The pre-selection phase is organized and selected by each region, as long as a regional team can be formed by the end of May. (To be continued.) )