Chapter 562: Vale's Invitation
Tang Feng left Chile and did not go back to the United States directly, but flew directly to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, of course, Tang Feng did not go to Rio de Janeiro at this time to watch the Olympic Games, although Tang Feng likes sports very much, and he also likes to watch the Olympic Games, but because of the delay in Chile for seventeen days, when Tang Feng arrived in Brazil, the Olympic Games have been over for several days
However, he couldn't go to the scene to watch the Olympic games, and Tang Fengdao was not disappointed. The main purpose of Tang's visit to Brazil this time was to inspect Anglo American's three iron ore projects in Brazil.
As the world's fourth-largest iron ore supplier, the former Anglo American still owns several very important mines in iron ore projects, such as the Minas Rio Tinto iron ore project, which Anglo American has invested $8.8 billion, as well as the Amapá iron ore mine in Brazil, and of course, the LLXMinas-Rio iron ore project in a joint venture with the Brazilian logistics group LLX.
Anglo American is the world's fourth-largest iron ore supplier, and in addition to its controlling stake in South Africa's Cooper Mining, the most important support is these three iron ore projects in Brazil. As the new owner of Anglo American Group, Tang naturally wanted to know about the situation of these three iron mines.
All three iron ore projects have only been invested in recent years by Anglo American, which previously had its main source of iron ore from South Africa's Cooper Mining. However, as these three iron ore projects begin to build production, sooner or later these three iron ore projects will surpass Cooper's iron ore production.
Among other things, Anglo American holds 99% of the shares of the Minas Rio Tinto project, which is located in the famous iron quadrangle region of Brazil, and the iron ore reserves alone exceed one billion tons, which is a veritable giant iron ore mine.
The most critical thing is. This iron ore mine is two iron ore projects closely linked to the LLXMinas-Rio iron ore mine. In fact, in terms of overall names, these two iron ores belong to sister mines. However, the former is owned by Anglo American, while the latter, Anglo American only holds 49% of the shares, and LLX occupies 51% of the iron ore project.
However, both iron ore mines revolve around the construction of the Brazilian port of Super Açú, which is a Chinese investment. The main purpose of Brazil's mega industrial parks and ports is to provide China with sufficient mineral resources.
Although Tang Feng has immigrated to the United States now and has a U.S. passport, Tang Feng does not regard himself as an American in his heart. After all, he was born and raised in Huaxia, and Tang Feng actually regarded himself as a Chinese person deep down.
Huaxia is short of iron ore, which is a well-known thing, so Tang Feng intends to give Huaxia more help in this regard. Tang also currently owns a 5% stake in Bolivia's Mutong iron ore mine, which is a huge iron ore reserve, if combined with these three Brazilian iron ore projects. Then it alone can provide no less than 30 million tons of iron ore to China every year.
The railway that is being built in Bolivia will take at least two years to be repaired, and now that he has the Minas Rio Tinto iron ore project, he can transport his own part of the iron ore from the Mutong iron ore mine to the port of Açu through the Brazilian railway, and then leave the port from here.
As a mining company that has invested more than $10 billion in iron ore projects in Brazil, Tang would not object to such a request to the Brazilian government. After all, 10 million tonnes of iron ore is transported from the Mutong Iron Mine through Brazilian railways every year. This amount poses no threat to Vale.
Of course, if Vale dares to stand up and make trouble. Tang Feng didn't mind giving Vale a ruthless blow.
However, it is clear that Vale's top management has maintained enough respect for Tang, because on the fifth day of Tang's arrival in Brazil, he received a letter from Vale's CEO and Executive Director of the Board of Directors, Chuck Brown. Murphy personally sent an invitation to Tang to attend a reception at Vale's headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, and the people who are said to have attended the reception. All are mine owners who own large iron ore mines in Brazil.
Although Tang Feng is not obvious, for some world-class large mining companies, Tang Feng is not an invisible tycoon at all, and some of Tang Feng's information, these large companies know very well. And Tang Feng has been a brilliant record over the years. It also made these big mining companies jealous of this young mining tycoon.
BHP Billiton is not to mention, the world's largest mining company has suffered a big loss at the hands of Tang Feng, and it has not eased up until now, and Anglo American is even more unlucky, because Tang Feng was offended so badly, and it was swallowed by this unreasonable young tycoon. Therefore, the remaining big mining companies do not dare to provoke this young man at all, for fear of making this young man unhappy and turning their own company into a tragedy of the second Anglo American group.
Therefore, whether it is Rio Tinto or BHP Billiton, they are now respectful of Tang, and Vale is no exception. For Tang Feng, a tycoon who is harmless on the surface but is actually more ferocious than the most ferocious crocodile, suddenly comes to Brazil, can the top brass of Vale not beat the drum in their hearts?
In any case, not only could this person not be provoked, but he also had to be careful to respect him, so as not to provoke this young man to fight.
The high-level leaders of Vale have a deep understanding of Tang Feng, not to mention anything else, just the miraculous rise speed of Tang Feng in the past two years is enough to make these high-level executives of Vale shocked.
Two years ago, this young man was still a working boy, but two years later, this young man's net worth is much richer than that of most people in the world. Even Vale's current market value is less than one-fifth of the young man's net worth, and the most important thing is that behind this young man stands a group of forces that no one wants to offend.
Whether it is the three major families in the United States, or the richest man in Argentina or the gang of oil diggers in the Middle East, they are not something that ordinary people can afford to provoke, not to mention, behind Tang Feng there is a future president of the United States and a bigger China!
For Vale's overtures, Tang Feng naturally would not refuse. Tang Feng is not a madman, not a fool who will do whatever he catches. Tang Feng believes that people don't offend me, I don't offend people, and since people show favor to themselves, Tang Feng will never refuse such kindness.
After all, there are many friends and many roads, and Tang Feng is still very clear about this most basic truth. (To be continued.) )