Many people may not know that the Rocky Mountains that run through western North America were once a shallow sea zone 200 million years ago, but about 140 million years ago, when the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate collided violently, the famous Laramie Orogeny was formed, and then a huge folded mountain system - the Rocky Mountains was formed in the western part of North America.

The intense orogeny has made the entire Rocky Mountains basically composed of igneous and metamorphic rocks, and this rock mass has also made the Rocky Mountains extremely rich in mineral resources. Among them, gold is the most famous mine in the entire Rocky Mountains.

At the northern end of the Rocky Mountains, a large mountainous area where Alaska meets the Yukon province of Canada in the United States, a large number of gold producing areas were discovered in the late nineteenth century, attracting more than 100,000 gold miners to the area, which also contributed to the unprecedented prosperity of the region. Today, more than 100 years later, there are still many gold diggers in this area, and many of the world's major gold companies have their own gold mines in this area.

The resettlement site of this new gold mine chosen by Tang Feng is located in this area, but Tang Feng did not choose to be in the Rocky Mountains, but chose to be in the west of the Rocky Mountains. To be exact, it is an island located in the Alexandria Archipelago - Gravina Island.

The Alexandria Islands, located off the southeast coast of Alaska, are an archipelago of more than 300 miles long, with about 1,100 large and small islands, arranged in a northwest-southeast direction as a whole. The islands have an irregular coastline with deep straits formed between the islands.

In fact, geologically speaking, the entire Alexandria Islands are actually part of the Rocky Mountains, so there are also many people who work in gold mining on some of the islands of the Alexandria Islands. On islands such as Admiralty, Douglas, and Duke, there are gold mines.

Gravina Island, chosen by Tang, is a small island located at the southern end of the Pressure Hill Islands and east of Prince of Wales Island. The island is irregular in shape and looks more like a chicken's paw and is about 34 kilometers long. It is about 15 kilometers wide and has a land area of 245 square kilometers.

The island is home to a wide variety of wildlife and vegetation, but is inhabited by a mere 50 people, most of whom live near Kechikan Airport and in a small port north of the airport. Because the island is separated from the municipality of Ketchikan by a strait about 200 meters wide, there was a plan to build a 223-meter-long Gravina Island Bridge to connect the Alaska mainland more than a decade ago, but due to the inability to implement the funding costs, the Alaska government finally chose not to build the bridge, but the island has Ketchikan International Airport.

The island has mountains and water, and the climate is much better than those farther north. Crucially, the island is not very high, and there are two mountain ranges, between which is a deserted clearing where the Bosvich River runs through it, and it is almost a natural place where placer gold and vein gold are formed.

The most important thing is that after Tang Feng chose this island, he hired relevant investigators to investigate all the circumstances of this island. Although the most specific situation has not yet been fed back, Tang Feng has already understood some basic situations.

Otherwise, Gravina Island is indeed the obvious choice to house this gold mine. Because the island was surveyed by three different gold companies in the twenties, fifties and fifties of the last century, the first of which was a private survey in the twenties, not a professional survey team of gold companies. After all, the natural conditions of this island are still very good, with the most basic conditions for producing placer gold and vein gold. However, according to the investigation, none of these three surveys were successful, so no survey team has been surveyed on the island since. This information. In fact, it can be found in the Geological Archives Museum in the city of Ketchikan.

At first, the island was uninhabited, but later the city of Ketchikan built the Ketchikan International Airport across the Strait due to the terrain constraints, and built a pier on the island of Gravina across the Channel. This has given the island a permanent population of dozens of people.

In fact, these known circumstances alone were enough for Tang Feng to decide to put this gold mine on this island, and not only that, Tang Feng also decided to pay for the purchase of about two-thirds of the land in the central and western parts of this island.

Not to mention that the mining environment in the United States can be said to be the best country in the world, because the relevant laws in the United States stipulate that the mineral rights in private land are part of the "full property rights" of the land, and the "full owner" of the land enjoys the ownership of the mineral deposits in the land. In the U.S. property rights legal system, private real estate owners have the upper hand over miners, and even if the land originally belonged to the federal government, the federal government is not allowed to take advantage of the laws and precedents.

This is determined in accordance with sections 209 and 316 of the Federal Land Policy and Administration Act of 1976. The law clearly states that if a private owner purchases the surface land transferred by the federal government, and the Federal Bureau of Land Management "cannot determine that the land has a known mineral value", or if the land transferred by the federal government to a private person has various surface and underground ownership of the land, the private owner can request the "Federal Land Administration" to publicly issue a "Statement of Exemption from Interests" on the land at issue, clarifying the ownership of the property rights, and relinquishing all levels and types of mineral property rights on the land. In other words, if the U.S. federal government had sold a plot of land to a private private owner in the past because it could not find coal and issued a "Waiver of Interest", even if shale gas was explored, the government would not have gone back on grabbing the profits of private owners.

To put it bluntly, if you buy land in the United States, as long as you have a way to get the U.S. government to issue you this "Disclaimer of Interests", then congratulations, you have obtained all the property rights on this land, including the minerals buried underground.

Just as Tang did when he bought the ranch in Beaumont, Tang had the Federal Bureau of Land Management issue a "Statement of Exemption of Interest", and at the same time, after obtaining all the property rights to the 21 old oil wells, the exploitation of that oil field would require much less formalities and nonsense.

Therefore, if Tang really wants to buy this land, the event will definitely be able to get the U.S. government to issue this certificate. When Tang Feng is mining this gold mine, he will have a lot less trouble! (To be continued......)