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Pan Wuzhi suddenly came to West Africa to seek iron ore development, which is really a fool.

Although Fan's Investment Group made a move in Australia, got the iron ore project, and occupied the blank space between the two major mining companies, Fan Wuxi's heart was not very down-to-earth, and he always wanted to open a few more mining areas, and he had some confidence in his hands.

West Africa, a corner that has been almost forgotten by the world, but is rich in iron ore resources, attracts the attention of Fan Wuxi, and if the negotiations go well, he intends to invest about five billion dollars here in order to open a drinking ore mining and transportation route.

West African countries are rich in iron ore resources, and Fan Wuzhi remembers very well that the iron ore reserves of Guinea in West Africa are as much as 15 billion tons. There are not many that have been discovered, but there are many of them. It is worth mentioning that the iron ore here contains 60 to 80 percent iron, and the ore body is shallow and rich, with high grade.

Today's ore exploration technology has advanced a lot. After the scope of prospecting is expanded, I believe that many new mining areas can be explored, and Fan Wuzhi vaguely remembers it. There is a magnetite deposit of tens of billions of tons in the north of Sierra Leone, and the iron ore reserves of other countries such as Libya, Romeroon, and Kottawa are also very considerable, which are all worthy of attention.

Up to now, the world's multinational companies have successfully deployed global minerals, and the rest of West Africa. This is an uncultivated treasure, and more importantly, Fan Wuxi rushed early this time. When no one else reacted, he was the first to come here and come to discuss business in person.

Under the role of the world's iron ore monopoly group, the asking price of the three major mines has been rising, accounting for more than 40% of China's imports of Australian iron ore, and the price has risen even faster, and the price per ton has been higher than that of Indian ore by five US dollars, and ten US dollars higher than that of Brazilian mines that are farther away.

Although Fan Wuxian is also one of the three giants of Australian iron ore, at this time, the iron ore production of Fan's Investment Group in Australia has not yet met expectations, and Fan Wuxian is worried that the Australian government will have a certain impact on his iron ore price strategy, so he feels that he can't hang himself from a tree and open minerals in other regions such as West Africa to balance international mines, so as to enhance the competitiveness and voice of Fan's Investment Group in the iron ore industry.

It is also common sense to monopolize the iron ore industry in a region, which is obviously due to fierce competition, mainly because a large mining area cannot be explored overnight, when this is confirmed. Everyone will crowd to this piece of ore feast, who can gnaw a piece of meat, is a suspense, such as Fan's Investment Group, which was not originally a giant in the iron ore industry, new enterprises want to participate in the local mining industry, obviously have to cross a lot of obstacles.

The mining areas in West Africa have not been in the eyes of major ore giants for a long time. The main reason is that the infrastructure here is backward. Mining is hampered by poor infrastructure, and the need to build infrastructure such as ports, roads and railways is a significant expense.

Therefore, Fan Wuxian calculated that it would not cost much money to mine properly, but if he wanted to transport iron ore, he would spend $4 billion to $5 billion to build mines, ports and railways in Guinea and Liberia.

Fan Wuxian took a fancy to the Simandou iron ore mine in Guinea, and the timing of his coming over was just right, and the mining rights here have not yet been sold. If Fan's Investment Group obtained the right to open the mine in the Simandou mining area, and then started drilling and other preliminary operations, and then launched it when the time came, it would be a very good thing.

The Simandou Mine Project is located within 6, 900 kilometers away from the coastal area, and the construction of railways and ports not only occupies a lot of money, but more importantly, time, Fan Wuzhi predicts, even if it goes well. It would be nice if the Simandou project could be officially commissioned in two years' time.

Of course, there are other issues with the opening of iron ore mines in West Africa, such as political stability, local taxation, and human resources.

However, Chinese enterprises also have certain advantages in opening African mining industries, which directly come from the good image of Chinese enterprises in Africa in the past. China and Africa have close economic and trade exchanges and the so-called traditional friendship, which Fan Wuxian has now deeply realized.

Fan Wuzhi also considered that if it can be said that the mainland government can implement the policy of enjoying tariff-free export treatment to China for most products of African countries, then the exchanges between China and Africa at the level will be smoother, creating good conditions for Fan's Investment Group to open West African mining.

It is true that it is impossible for the Zhongdian government to do anything that harms the public and private interests, and Fan's Investment Group must have something to return to be able to promote this, but Fan Wuxian also knows very well that the trade volume between China and Africa is just like that, but his importance to the central government is self-evident, and the high-level will definitely sell this face.

With this kind of thinking, Fan Wuxi's request to the other party's group is to reduce the other party's conditions as much as possible and facilitate his own purchase of mines, no matter what, as long as the other party's conditions are not too outrageous, this matter can be negotiated.

In fact, Fan Wuxian also has a great advantage this time, the most important thing is that no one cares about West African ore at present, and they don't take this thing seriously, after all, it is too easy to mine and difficult to transport, so it can only be sold cheaply, and there is no high luxury.

But what Fan Wuxian wanted was not just to buy some ready-made iron ore, his intention was to open the entire mining area.

Because of this, although Fan Wuxian watched the lion and the elephant in the same 6 Qingtong, he always had many things in his heart.

6 Although Qingtong is not deeply involved in the world, the natural sensitivity of girls makes her feel that Fan is not sick and has a lot of worries.

After a day of shopping, the expert group contacted Fan Wuxi, saying that there were some big differences between the two sides, for example, they were not very concerned about the price, but hoped that Fan's Investment Group could invest in the construction of a processing plant shared by both parties, and they would be responsible for the design, construction and operation. Raising the taste of iron ore from 60 percent to 70 percent, but the investment in their processing plant is more than a hundred times that of similar enterprises in China, which makes the experts feel very much

After hearing the news, Fan Wuxi was also a little surprised, his intuition was that he thought that the other party wanted to take advantage of this processing plant, but when he thought about it carefully, it didn't feel like it, because their mine was too cheap,... Sichuan Pan business owners are not leaders of state-owned enterprises in the mainland. They can sell Kuangyuan Jiege more expensively, and there is no need to go through the trouble of making a high-priced processing plant to achieve it, which is actually a solution that makes everyone uncomfortable.

So Fan Wuxi found someone who was familiar with the local situation to ask what was going on.

It didn't take long for things to be inquired about, it turned out that their iron ore has a high titanium content, it is more than eight percent, if there is more titanium, when making steel, it will make the boiler explode, they explained, the new processing plant can just reduce the titanium content, so that the ore can be safely smelted, and there is another important point. If it is not processed here, it is not easy for the government to deal with it, because the government here restricts the export of primary products, and because of the high cost of freight, it is extremely necessary for them to set up a processing plant to remove impurities from the ore.

After figuring out this matter, Fan Wuxi's experts carefully calculated, and felt that after the total price of the project was cheaper, even if the processing plant was sky-high, it could still make a lot of money after comprehensive accounting, so there was no complaint about the matter of this processing plant. Enough to mine yourself for a hundred years.

So everyone came to an agreement, and both parties were happy.

Fan Wuxian carefully calculated, even after processing, the iron content of the iron ore here is controlled at about 70%, and the offshore cost is less than 20 US dollars per ton, which should be the best iron ore he has seen so far. The imported Australian mines and Brazilian mines have not reached such a good level

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In fact, Africans have another concern, which is also a problem encountered in negotiations with Chinese companies in the past. China is a country with foreign exchange controls, and it is difficult for domestic companies to remit their investments abroad, and the government needs a strict review process, and it is very likely that these overseas investments will not be approved.

Moreover, buying mines abroad is not an investment supported by the state, so the investment of mainland enterprises must be realized in other ways, and the main alternative is to replace investment with trade, which is very troublesome.

On the contrary, if it is a foreigner, it is very simple, Fan Wuxian sometimes thinks of this policy, and it really feels that the government is forcing everyone to immigrate.

A common way to do this is to take the trade channel. In the end, the parties unanimously agreed that the L/C would be a revolving long-term letter of credit, which would be opened repeatedly and not actually executed, and the other party would use the mainland joint venture company to take out overseas loans to solve the capital problem, and the other party would not need to invest, but would be able to communicate with the local banks for the purpose of providing loans to mainland enterprises.

In this way, because the contract price is particularly low, less than sixty percent of the domestic iron ore price, and to the shore price, due to the tight supply of iron ore, so how dare the bank open the certificate, and I wish you did not redeem the bill, as long as the bank is one day late, the bank can sell your ore at a high price to make a profit, and earn you two percent of the issuance fee in vain, but if you do this, it is equivalent to the investment is the issuance fee and the issuance guarantee, but there is such a cheap iron ore, the bank will definitely rush to open the certificate, so the guarantee is very low, In this way, it is equivalent to completing the things that need to invest billions of dollars with very little money, and can magnify the capital tenfold, in an economic society like China, where funds are tight and capital is king. It's extremely tempting.

But Fan Wuxian always felt that something was wrong. If only it were that simple. Africans just get a processing plant. Most of the iron ore is given to itself almost for free, how to say it is unreasonable, Africans can't all be fools, right?

Although the other party seems to have shown great enthusiasm for the Chinese, Fan Wuxian has never believed in the friendship that arises from the battle. Especially for these foreigners, the so-called non-our race, their hearts must be different, and they are talking about these black-skinned, white-skinned or red-skinned guys.

I think that whether it was the big brother at the beginning, or the comrades and brothers later, they all broke up in the end and turned their faces, these people are unreliable, can you still count on these black-skinned ghosts who look more different?

No matter how Fan Wuxian thinks about it, he feels that this matter is unreliable. So he instructed his legal and technical experts to study the contract carefully, and at the same time, he also mobilized his own intelligence department to find out the old bottom of these black devils through the intelligence channels of Americans and Europeans.

At the same time, Fan Wuxi also felt that although the environment of this place was good, there was always an indescribable weirdness, and the impression that these black-skinned ghosts brought to him was also very treacherous.

Sure enough, in the fierce bargaining negotiations that followed, the relationship between the two sides was no longer so friendly, and the members of Fan Wuxi's negotiation team gradually showed the embarrassment of their situation, and the most important thing was that they did not agree to sign the contract now. Wanting to leave this place was a problem, not to mention the high cost of the hotel every day, because the other party sent a convoy to pick them up at the beginning, so they did not come by car or plane. How to get there?

It's a man-eating lion outside the hotel! The rich people who come here bring their own transportation, and they will not be pulled by people by cars at all, so their task now is how to get out of here. Then go to the big city and look back and see how things should be handled here.

Originally, the other party asked Fan Wuxian to sign the contract immediately, but such a quick thing, a good thing came too easily. It is always something that people are very worried about, especially Fan Wuxi feels that there are some problems here, and the experts have never encountered such an easy negotiation, and everyone thinks that they need to think about it carefully.

But it is really not so easy to leave here rashly, Fan Wuxian thought about it for a while, and found a reasonable reason, saying that they asked to meet the local lawyer before signing the contract, and they wanted to hear the lawyer's true opinion, so they wanted to go into the city.

This reason is very legitimate, so the other party has no reason to refuse Fan Wuxi's request, so the other party arranged a car to send them into the city.

When the car drove out, looking back at these world-class golf hotels, Fan Wuxian suddenly had a feeling that he had been released from the cage, and then looked at the lions and hippos walking around. It doesn't feel like a beautiful place anymore.

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