On New Year's Day in 1998, it was already the third day of the lunar month, and there was already a little bit of New Year's breath in the remote Wenqu County.

Chen Guan and his entourage first went to the exploration team of the 14th Golden Detachment to check the exploration data at the station in the county seat.

The task undertaken by the gold unit of the armed police is to prospect for ore and protect the mine, and the Sangyuan and Linguan mining areas are only mined after the gold unit has been explored.

Sangyuan and Linguan mining areas are the country's large-scale gold producing areas, and their reserves and production volume rank second in the country. The mining area of Tonghua Town, Mingshui County, is only the remnant vein of the Xiaoqinling Mountains where the mulberry garden and Linguan mining areas are located. The Yangshan Gold Mine, a subsidiary of Jinyangshan Mining Co., Ltd., can mine such high-grade gold ore, which is also an easy number. However, the grade of 200 grams of Yangshan gold mine is not too high, and almost all of the state-owned mines in the Sangyuan mining area and Linguan mining area have mined high-grade ore of 1,200 grams per ton, or even 2,000 grams of ore, which is simply a gold lump!

The 14th Gold Detachment only began prospecting in the Wenqu area in the second half of this year, and as a result, gold ore veins were discovered in Yangshan, Liujiaping Township, southeast of Wenqu County.

Guo Zhanshan came twice, but he couldn't see the prospecting data of the 14th Gold Detachment. The reason is simple, during the prospecting stage, that information is kept secret.

Led by Song Boren, deputy mayor of Longnan City, and leaders of Longnan Geology and Mining Bureau, Chen Guan and his entourage saw the existing exploration data in the Yangshan mining area very smoothly.

The exploration has not been finalized, and the data can only be partial. However, the exploration data of the armed police gold force are the most authoritative information, which is the basis for mining, and this incomplete information can already be seen whether there is large-scale mining value in the Yangshan mining area.

Gao Gong, chief engineer of the 14th gold detachment, said that from the current exploration situation, the anomalous area of Yangshan gold mine is about 210 square kilometers, and only less than 60 square kilometers are currently explored, and the focus is on Gaolou Mountain at an altitude of 2,100 meters. This mountain is called Jinzi Mountain by the local people, and the famous geologist Li Siguang calls it the "treasure zone". Judging from the exploration of Gaoloushan, the gold reserves should be about 15 tons, and the long-term planning should be about 55 tons. In addition to gold, there are associated silicon, manganese and other minerals.

The secretary of the Wenqu County Party Committee immediately said that Gaoloushan is less than an hour away from Wenqu County, and you can go to the scene to check it out after lunch.

After the senior engineer introduced, Chen Guan began to check the detailed information, and he looked very seriously, silently calculating in his heart while watching.

Jiao Tiande is an engineer, Guo Zhanshan is the boss of the mine, and Chen Xuezhi has been following his son to open the mine for two years. Even Guo Yun is carefully checking the information.

Looking at the information, I actually saw one o'clock at noon.

Chen Guan arrived in Guangyuan at 7 o'clock in the morning, had breakfast in Guangyuan, drove all the way, and when he arrived in Wenqu County, it was more than 10 o'clock. Therefore, when Deputy Mayor Song Boren reminded them that it was time to eat, several people really had their stomachs growling.

Wenqu County should be regarded as an absolute remote and impoverished area, but in order to welcome Chen Guan and Song Boren and other leaders, the county has prepared a very rich meal, and the main dishes are roasted bracken nettle pig tsamba, hand-grilled mutton, Xiahe hoof tendons and other famous dishes of Gannan, and the snacks are Tibetan buns, multi-food combinations, artichoke dough, rolling soup gnocchi, and finally a bowl of fragrant and delicious bean curd noodles per person.

After eating, Chen Guan felt that it was hard to go up the mountain, so he asked Guo Yun to stay in the county seat and wait, but he didn't expect that this girl's spirit was still very high, so she had to follow her.

This time, Chen Guan did not let Deputy Mayor Song Boren and the county leaders follow, but only let the senior engineer of the 14th Gold Detachment and Director Feng of the Geology and Mining Bureau accompany him, drove two cars, and drove to the Chaoyangshan mining area.

Chen Guan asked the senior engineer to follow, and let the senior engineer lead the way to check the exploration point specifically.

Jiao Tiande and Guo Zhanshan are both masters of mining, and after reading the information and the situation of the exploration site, they can judge the prospect of the Yangshan mining area.

It's Chen Guan and his son, because they have been mining for two years, they are also experts!

As soon as Chen Guan and the others left, Song Boren, deputy mayor of Longnan City, Su Minghua, secretary of the Wenqu County Party Committee, Chu Moushan, county magistrate, and Tong Ming, deputy county magistrate in charge of industry, got together to study how to negotiate next.

When Gannan contacted Guo Zhanshan and them, he said that he was willing to sell the prospecting rights and mining rights of Yangshan Gold Mine, asking for 500 million yuan. In fact, this is a sky-high asking price, waiting for Chen Guan to sit on the ground and pay back!

proposed 500 million, which was said by the Wenqu County Geology and Mining Bureau, and it was not seriously demonstrated at that time.

Wenqu County is so poor, not to mention 500 million, it is really Chen Guan who can give 100 million profitably, and he is satisfied.

The reason is very simple, 500 million is equivalent to 5 tons of gold, which is an absolute sky-high price, and no investor will be stupid enough to invest in such a remote place with such a large sum of money. You must know that this is just a prospecting right and a mining right, and when you really start mining, all kinds of taxes and management fees must be handed over to the local finance.

In a mining area as large as Sangyuan and Linguan, whether it is a large state-owned mine, a provincial state-owned mine, a local state-owned gold mine, a collective gold mine, or a private gold mine in the past, which one has ever paid this kind of money? State-owned mines occupy resources free of charge, and do not even pay management fees except for taxes. Private gold mines are less fortunate than state-owned mines, and they have to pay management fees to townships and villages, and those in state-owned mining areas have to pay contract fees.

Song Boren said to Su Minghua: "Have you found it? The real master of the investor is Chen Guan, the son of Chairman Chen. He doesn't speak, and everyone else doesn't dare to speak, even if he speaks, he has to look at his face first! ”

Su Minghua nodded, saying yes, and he saw it.

Song Boren said: "Since this Chen Guan is in charge, the reception at night will be upgraded to a higher level." After eating, arrange a national song and dance party. The small ones highlight the characteristics of our White Horse Tibetan song and dance. Young people, like to be lively, if he thinks that we have cultural characteristics here, and the people are warm and kind, and simple, this matter may be more certain! ”

The county magistrate, Chu Moushan, said: "No problem, I'll let the Cultural Bureau make arrangements in a while." Mayor Song, you don't know, Longnan itself is poor, and Wenqu is the most remote and poorest county in Longnan. We look forward to investment, and our eyes are going to be green! This time, if Jinyangshan Mining Co., Ltd. can reach an intention, sign a contract, and give us 100 million, then we can build all the roads leading to Longnan, Guangyuan, and Jiuzhaigou in Wenqu County into asphalt roads. If we can give 200 million, we can build hydropower stations on the Baishui River and Baima River and integrate them into the Great Northwest Power Grid. If you can give 300 million, after the Yangshan gold mine is mined, you can also build a series of ferrosilicon plants, manganese steel factories and other enterprises. In that case, Wenqu County's finances will turn over at once. Wenqu County, which was remote and impoverished in the past, is about to become a shining pearl of Gannan! ”

Song Boren laughed when he heard it, and said Don't think it's so beautiful, the key is to see if you have the ability to keep people to invest and let people pay you money!

If Jinyangshan Mining Co., Ltd. does not come to invest, in another 10 years, I don't know if there will be investors to invest here!

The county magistrate Chu Moushan said well, the ordinary people of the Wenqu County Party Committee and Government are looking forward to investment, and their eyes are green!

Driving between the mountains and rivers of Wenqu, Chen Guan really had a deep shock: this place is so beautiful!

There are two rivers and eight rivers in Wenqu County, the peaks and peaks in the territory are undulating, and the mountains and rivers are beautiful. If it's spring, it's really the river flowing around Fangdian, and the green mountains faintly carrying water.

An hour's journey is not long, Chen Guan and they arrived quickly,

Yangshan mining area belongs to Shishiping Township, Wenqu County.

When Chen Guan and the others arrived, the cadres of Shishiping Township were also waiting.

The destination must be Gaolou Mountain!

Although Jiao Tiande has been working on the Yangshan mine, after all, he is old and has a hard time going up the mountain, but he has to let him go up. There was no way, Chen Guan asked the township cadres to prepare a rope, tied it to Jiao Tiande's waist, and got him a wooden stick to hold ontowards, and walked in front of him, holding the rope and pulling Jiao Tiande away.

This is to see the exploration point, that is, to see the ore vein, not to climb the mountain, no need to climb to the top of the mountain. In addition, there are senior engineers leading the way, so there is no need to take detours, which saves a lot of energy!

The senior engineer led Chen Guan and them to a prospecting site where the veins could be seen in the open air.

Here, the ore line on the rock wall can be seen, and the fighters of the exploration team of the gold detachment dug into it to a depth of about 3 meters.

Chen Guan, Jiao Tiande, Guo Zhanshan, and Chen Xuezhi stood in front of the rock wall and looked at it carefully, then entered the shallow mine with a flashlight and carefully inspected it again.

Guo Zhanshan found a little crushed ore in the cave, took out the small hammer and small bowl he carried with him, knocked it for a while, knocked the crushed ore into powder, put it in the bowl, walked out of the cave, took out two bottles of mineral water, began to pour water into the bowl, and began to pan for gold.

This is the most common method of testing ore grade commonly used by gold miners.

Chen Guan, Jiao Tiande, and Chen Xuezhi all followed, standing beside Guo Zhanshan, watching his movements. Including senior engineers, Director Feng and cadres from Shishiping Township, they all surrounded and watched Guo Zhanshan's movements.

In this way, every time they go to an exploration point, Guo Zhanshan, Jiao Tiande, and Chen Xuezhi have to do the same, take a bowl, pick a little broken ore and knock it into pieces, dig it, and take a look.

Director Feng of the Wenqu County Geology and Mining Bureau and the cadres of Shishiping Township wanted to know the results of Guo Zhanshan, Jiao Tiande, and Chen Xuezhi using bowls to pan for gold, but these three people were all older and very calm, so they didn't say anything at all, which made them confused and couldn't figure out what the attitude of Guo Zhanshan and the three of them was!

It wasn't until it was dark that Guo Yun couldn't walk anymore, and he sat on the stone on the side of the road and didn't want to get up.

Sitting in the car, Guo Zhanshan and Jiao Tiande said to Chen Guan: "This is much larger than the mining area of Tonghua Town, and the grade is at least 20 grams or more, which can be done!" Make up your mind! ”

When Chen finished looking at the exploration materials of the Golden Fourteenth Detachment, he already had a plan in his heart. He only replied to Guo Zhanshan and Jiao Tiande with one word: "Dry!" ”