Arguably the world's largest IOCG vein along the Pacific coast of the Cordillera Mountains, this belt stretches for more than 6,000 kilometres from north to south along the western foothills of the massive Cordillera Mountains, creating two of the largest copper producing areas on the planet.

One of them is the Daping Valley near Los Angeles in North America, and the world's largest copper producing region is also located on this IOCG vein belt, which is the IOCG vein belt in Peru-Chile.

Together, Chile and Peru account for almost 40% of the world's proven copper reserves, with the former having nearly 210 million tonnes of proven copper reserves and the latter approaching 70 million tonnes.

Of course, in this huge IOCG vein belt, the real reserves of copper far exceed the reserves that have been detected by mankind, and many copper resources are buried deep under thousands of meters of rock formations, and with the current exploration technology of mankind, these precious non-ferrous metal resources cannot be detected.

Just like the last time Tang attacked BHP's Esgundida copper mine, under the deep rock layers of the world's largest open-pit copper mine, there are copper resources larger than the proven reserves of the Esgundida copper mine, and of course, those coppers have also directly created the world's largest copper mine in Argentina - St. Lawrence Copper Mine.

In the international mining industry, copper mines with copper reserves of more than 500,000 tons can be called large-scale copper mines. Anglo American's five copper mines in Chile not only have more than 500,000 tons of copper reserves, but three of them have an annual output of more than 500,000 tons, so it is absolutely no problem to wear the hat of a world-class copper mine on the heads of these five copper mines.

Although Anglo American had been acquired by Tang, Tang did not want to keep the five copper mines. The main reason is that these five copper mines are relatively high altitude, and the mining cost is relatively large, plus Tang Feng is preparing to reintegrate the Anglo American Copper Mine under the name of Anglo American Group and the St. Lawrence Copper Mine under the name of Tang Mining. Therefore, Tang Feng planned to make a move on these five copper mines.

Tang Feng does not have high requirements for the quantity of copper ore, but it is very tight on the quality card. If Tang has two super copper mines of the same level as the St. Lawrence Copper Mine, then Tang Feng will undoubtedly become the world's largest copper supplier.

Sometimes a large number of copper mines is not necessarily a good thing, at least it increases a lot of operating costs, and Tang Feng itself does not want to see copper mines with insufficient reserves. Therefore, Tang Feng plans to build a truly world-class copper mine near Arica.

Of course, this copper mine is made up of copper ore resources plundered by Tang Feng from Anglo American and the two copper and gold mines under the name of Barrick Gold.

Barrick Gold's two copper and gold mines in Chile are not small in scale, but since they are already opponents, Tang Feng doesn't mind taking those two copper and gold mines over easily.

There are seven world-class copper mines, even if each of them only moves half of the copper reserves, then the reserves of the newly formed copper mine will definitely not be smaller than the St. Lawrence copper mine, if you move some unproven copper ore from deeper rock formations, then it is a sure thing that the copper reserves of this copper mine exceed the St. Lawrence copper mine.

Tang Feng's idea was simple. After the integration of Anglo American and Tang Mining's copper resources, the new Tang Mining Copper Company will have these two copper mines under its name. There is no need for more, as long as these two copper mines are done well, I dare not say that it will surpass the Chilean national copper industry to become the world's first, but it is estimated that it is not far behind.

And just two copper mines, both management and operation, are much more convenient. This is what Tang Feng wants most.

It was with this idea in mind that Tang Feng arrived at Arica the day after he arrived. He rushed to the mining area more than 20 kilometers east of Arica.

The survey of this triangular desert, which covers an area of nearly 150 square kilometers, after a month and a half of discussion procedures by Chile's "Committee on Foreign Investment". In the end, it was taken by Tang's Mining.

With the right to survey, the mineral resources on this land are basically equivalent to being obtained by Tang Mining, so Tang Feng did not hesitate to start the star core and began to condense the scattered copper resources near this land, and at the same time transported the seven world-class copper mines in the south.

I have to say that Chile is really a natural treasure, because when Tang Feng opened the vein condensation function. Only then did it turn out that there were actually dozens of small copper veins under this desert. Just by condensing these small veins, it is enough to form a large copper mine with reserves of more than five million tons on this land.

As for the situation of the seven copper mines, Tang Feng really guessed it. With the exception of the Los Blonces copper mine, where no new copper resources have emerged, new copper veins have been discovered in deeper rock formations beneath the other six copper mines.

Of course. These copper veins are buried very deeply, mostly in rock formations of 4,000 or even 5,000 meters or less. However, the copper reserves buried deep in the rock formations are very large, almost the same as when Tang Feng transported the Esgundida copper mine. Even if Tang Feng does not carry those copper resources in the upper layer, only with these deeply buried copper resources, the reserves of this new copper mine will definitely exceed that of the St. Lawrence Copper Mine in Argentina.

Because of the need to carry out ore vein condensation and ore vein transportation, Tang Feng had to stay in this place where birds don't poop and chickens don't lay eggs for a full seventeen days, it takes seven days for the fourth-level star core to condense ore veins, and it takes ten days to transport the seven copper mines. During these seventeen days, Tang Feng almost measured the entire desert with his footsteps during the day, and at night Tang Feng didn't even go back to Arica, which was nearly twenty kilometers away, and lived directly in a tent, and finally completed the work.

Tang Feng knew the hard work, but Tang Feng's behavior fell on John. In Mackenzie's eyes, that's incredible.

It's no wonder that the outside world is rife with rumors that this new tyrant has a miraculous and almost demonic prospecting ability. Mackenzie was somewhat unconvinced. But this is more than half a month, John. Mackenzie followed Tang Feng almost all over this desert, and Tang Feng's every move, John. Mackenzie almost saw it.

Not to mention anything else, the professionalism of the new boss alone is not something that ordinary people can have.

And after Tang Feng finished the "survey", he immediately said to John. Mackenzie issued a request for reconnaissance and logging, and personally selected four positions, and then Tang Feng left a sentence of "You can just watch and do things in the future", and Shi Shiran left Chile. (To be continued.) )