The four of them were together, except for bragging and farting to talk about business, and now they were focusing on the small leaf red sandalwood and the pile of gold and silver coins.

"The bumper will definitely be saved for the auction, and we've invited more than twenty Jewish billionaires and Middle Eastern royalty, remember Afif? The guy who bought our "Sunset in Montmarjou", he is also interested, and he is waiting to make a lot of money during the spring auction. ”

"The processing of gold and silver coins is divided into two channels, one is to sell privately, and the other is auction, and the gold and silver coins that go to auction are either of poor quality and lower price, or the best quality is sold at a higher price. The gold and silver coins in the middle, we are secretly selling. ”

Qin Shiou nodded and said that this is very good. He doesn't care much about the auction business now, because the fishing farm has begun to generate income for him, and Butler's income is more than 10 million US dollars a month, and these seafood transformed by Poseidon Energy can be called a huge profit!

Talking about business, Billy said that he also hopes to find a wreck, and his men analyzed the shipwreck information and found a transport ship sunk in Somali waters, which was an early Spanish treasure ship, and the ship was made of crude gold ore, if it could be salvaged, it would definitely make them rich overnight.

"We've been getting rich overnight." Brandon laughed.

Qin Shiou was more concerned about how much gold there was in that boat, so he asked.

Billy stretched out a slap, and Qin Shiou exclaimed, "Five tons?!" ”

According to the current gold price, a ton of gold is worth about $40 million, which is less, and five tons is $200 million. No wonder Billy says they'll get rich overnight!

Billy gave him a blank look and said, "What five tons?" It's a thousand tons! ”

Everyone gasped, and little Blackkra shook his shoulders vigorously, "Fake! A thousand tons? What the hell are you doing with five fingers on a thousand tons?! Are you sure you're not mistaken? A thousand tons of gold? More than $40 billion?! ”

A thousand tons of gold is indeed terrifying. You know, before the 19th century, because the level of gold productivity in human society was very low. In the thousands of years of history before that, humans produced less than 10,000 tons of gold, such as only 200 tons in the 100 years of the 18th century......

It was not until the 19th century that a series of gold discoveries led to a significant increase in gold production from then on, especially in the 50 years of the second half of the 19th century, when gold production exceeded the total of the previous 5,000 years.

Today, the world mines about 2,600 tons of gold every year.

However, a thousand tons of gold reserves are still terrifying!

Billy then shattered their illusions: "I'm also Fack, brothers, are you listening to me?" Yes. A thousand tons, but that's not purified gold, but coarsely purified gold ore! It's ore! ”

In this way, Brandon breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I'll just say, a thousand tons of gold, that's too terrifying, there's no need to fish for a thousand tons of gold ore, right?" Crude extraction? To what extent has it been extracted? ”

He was a banker, and the bank had to reserve gold, and all the banks in Canada did not have a thousand tons of gold combined.

Gold ore isn't really worth much. As we all know, South Africa is a traditional gold producer, but at present, one ton of gold ore in South Africa can be refined into an average of 4 grams of gold. Some high-grade tonnes can be refined into 10 grams of gold, and low-grade tonnes can be refined into 2 grams of gold. None of the vaults below 2 g/t have mining value.

If these ores are just raw ore, then even if the grade is high, a thousand tons is only ten kilograms of gold. That's just too little.

Qin Shiou didn't know much about this aspect, and there were no gold mines in Canada. The environment in which he usually lives is not in line with this, so he asked Brandon. What's going on with gold ore.

Brandon explains: "Gold ores are those ores that contain gold elements or gold compounds that can be beneficiated to become high-grade gold concentrates or gold ores, and gold concentrates need to be smelted to become fine gold and gold products. ”

"Is there any ore with a particularly high gold content?" Qin Shiou asked.

Brandon nodded, "Yes, there are two kinds, the first is the best gold mine, they are from meteors. Some meteors contain gold, so when passing through the Earth's atmosphere, the meteors and the atmosphere produce strong friction and violent oxidative combustion, causing many impurities to be consumed in the process. ”

"You know, gold is very stable, even at high temperatures, it is difficult to react with other substances, so because the temperature is very high when passing through the atmosphere, which is higher than the melting point of gold at 1063 °C, so when it lands, it will become a liquid flow state, attach to stones or sand and finally cool down to become the best gold ore."

Billy shook his head and said: "The gold content of this gold mine is close to 100%, which is very rare, and once discovered, it will become a treasure in the private collection of the people, or become a treasure of the town." Of course, the gold mines on the ship are not of this kind, otherwise I would have ignored the armed forces of Somalia and would have gone fishing a long time ago! ”

Qin Shiou motioned for him not to speak yet, and continued to ask Brandon, "And then?" What does another high-quality gold mine look like? ”

Brandon continued: "That's the gold crystal mine, which was formed about 400 million years ago during the Paleoproterozoic orogenic period of the Precambrian Proterozoic. ”

"This gold ore also comes from meteors, but it is not gold that is refined, but large meteors that explode when they pass through the atmosphere due to excessive temperature, uneven heating, and different internal composition of meteors, and different melting and gasification points."

"After the explosion, the meteor fragments continued to burn, and the impurities were obviously more likely to burn, and the particles left behind were rich in gold. These gold mines are often close to the natural crystal state of gold, showing equiaxed crystal systems, cubic centric lattices or semi-fluid forms, which are also very precious, and can be easily refined to become red gold! ”

Qin Shiou looked at Billy, and Billy shrugged and said, "What are you doing with me?" The ore in the shipwreck is not the best of this kind either. ”

In this way, Qin Shiou was discouraged and said, "Then do you know how far the rough extraction has been?" ”

Billy said aggrievedly: "Most of the documents at that time were lost, where do I go to determine the specific information?" However, these 1,000 tons of gold ore must be able to refine at least one or two tons of gold, otherwise there would be no need for Spanish treasure ships to transport them! ”

One or two tons of gold can also be, the value is not lower than the impact angle of the small leaf red sandalwood, you can't be too greedy, you can't be ambitious.

Thinking so, Qin Shiou patted Billy on the shoulder and said, "OK, man, then let your people do the work and dig it out." ”

The ratio smiled awkwardly: "I'm sorry, Qin, you have to come forward first." (To be continued......)