Africa, the only place in the world other than Antarctica, has not yet entered full development. Women's land. As the second largest continent in the world in terms of area and population, Africa has many resources waiting to be tapped, among which mineral resources are undoubtedly one of the most important.

Africa can be geographically divided into five regions, that is, east, west, south, north, and central, and Tang Feng's destination this time is southern Africa.

Because in dozens of countries in southern Africa, there are the world's richest reserves of gold, platinum and natural diamonds, and the reserves of other mineral resources are also very large, such as uranium mines, which Tang Feng has always valued very much.

Of course, Tang Feng has only one destination for this trip to southern Africa, and that is South Africa, the second largest economy in Africa and a country known as the "Rainbow Country"!

Located at the southernmost tip of the African continent, this country is blessed with a unique blessing and is loved by God and his old man. In this country, there are many precious mineral resources, and many proven mineral resources are in the forefront of the world.

In this country with an area of less than 1.22 million square kilometers, more than 70 kinds of minerals have been discovered and mined, among which gold, platinum group metals, manganese, vanadium, chromium, silicon, aluminate reserves rank first in the world, and the country also has the world's fourth largest uranium reserves.

Tang Feng is not interested in other minerals, he is interested in gold, platinum group metals, natural diamonds and uranium.

Before Tang Feng became the owner of Newmont Mining, he had told Gorman that the main focus of Newmont Mining's next work would shift to the exploration of precious metal deposits such as gold, but in this world, except for those areas with extremely harsh conditions, precious metal mines in other regions have basically been surveyed. If you want to find a few more precious metal mines with large reserves, the difficulty is not ordinary.

But with Tang Feng here, none of this is a problem, the existence of the star core can make Tang Feng possible many impossible things!

South Africa has proven gold reserves of up to 36,000 tons, accounting for 40% of the world's proven reserves; The reserves of platinum group metals are as high as 12,000 tons, accounting for almost 88% of the world's proven reserves; As for natural diamonds. That is, diamonds, although South Africa's reserves are not the largest in the world, but the diamonds produced in South Africa are the best in the world; Of course, as an important source of energy for the star core, uranium has more than 340,000 tons of reserves in South Africa!

Four of the world's top 10 gold producers are headquartered in South Africa, such as Anglo American's subsidiary Anglo Asanti, the world's third-largest gold producer is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa. There are also Jintian Company, Four-Petal Leaf Gold and Harmony Gold. It is worth mentioning that the world's ninth-ranked four-petal leaf gold was actually spun off from Jintian, and although the two companies are now two independent companies, the relationship between them is inextricably linked.

The main gold mines of the four major gold producers are in South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe, although the other four gold producers, which are the top eight gold producers, also have significant gold mines in each of these countries.

However, compared to South Africa, whether it is Botswana or Namibia or Zimbabwe. The reserves of precious metals are far less than in South Africa, as in South Africa. There is a world-famous precious metal ore belt, to be exact, a veritable "gold arc".

This gold arc is an arc-shaped vein with Johannesburg as the center and two wings extending to the southeast and southwest respectively, with a total length of five kilometers.

Geologically, this famous gold arc is part of the famous Witwatersrand gold-uranium conglomerate deposit. This super-large gold-uranium deposit is produced in the bottom conglomerate and carbonaceous rock formations of the Wertwatersrand of the Paleoproterozoic.

Beneath the unconformity of this land is the Archean greenstone, in which the mineral-bearing Randist distribution covers an area of about 400 km long and 200 km wide. The average thickness of the whole sediment is about 7,500 meters, mainly composed of conglomerate, quartzite, carbonate rock and slate, the sedimentary age is between 2.6 billion ~ 2.3 billion years, and it is subject to slight regional metamorphism, forming an open basin structure, surrounded by the granite-greenstone belt of the Archean.

There are seven major gold fields in this vast area, with 35 major gold mines and an average depth of nearly 300 metres. Among them, there are several mines, each with an annual output of 10~30 tons of gold, and the mining depth is more than 3000 meters, but there are still gold ore bodies in the lower part. It is estimated that the entire "Land" gold mine has accumulated production of more than 40,000 tons, and still retains more than 20,000 tons of gold resources. [

Of course, although such a large area belongs to the Witwatersrand Gold-uranium conglomerate deposit, the most concentrated area of gold is still the five-kilometre-long gold arc with undiscovered depth. On this gold arc, there are three deep shafts of the world's most famous Siwiz mine, of which the Mponig world-class gold mine is currently the deepest mine in the world, and it is also one of the largest and highest-grade gold mines.

The Mponig Gold Mine is located in the northwest corner of the Vitwartsrand Basin and is a Rand-style paleoconglomerate-type gold-uranium deposit. There are two main horizons in the zone: the Ventersdorp contact conglomerate and the carbon main layer, with veins approximately 1m thick.

With an average grade of 11 g/t gold, the Mponig mine has been drilled to over 4,350 metres, making it the deepest mine in the world to date. The total length of the tunnels in this mine alone is as high as 370 kilometers, and the depth is ten times that of the Empire State Building in New York, USA, which is a wonder of the world.

The Mponig Gold Mine is one of the three main mines in the Siwiz Gold Mine, the main gold mine nominated by Angruashan, along with the Savuka Gold Mine and the Tautona Gold Mine, both of which have been mined to depths of more than 3,500 metres.

The eight major gold producers currently targeting Newmont Mining are based on the precious metal deposits in the Witwatersrand Gold-Uranium Conglomerate deposit, where all eight gold producers own very important gold deposits.

Since you dare to take action against Newmont Mining and make Lao Tzu very annoyed, then okay, Lao Tzu will take advantage of the fact that you are fighting flawlessly in the international gold market and taking care of the rear, and ruthlessly copy your back road and give you a broken hand!

Tang Feng's intention is very simple, aren't you looking forward to the price of gold coming back? Well, Lao Tzu will give you more strength, Lao Tzu will first take away all the gold at the bottom of your mines, and after a year and a half, you will find that there is no gold under the mine, then the price of gold will naturally rise (to be continued). )