Episode 130 Super Large Deposits

On the table is a huge "Ming Empire Mineral and Energy Distribution Map", and the bottom sign is "Ming Empire Minerals and Energy Ministry Supervision and Drawing". Xiang Xiaoqiang pressed his arms against the edge of the table, concentrating on a "bird's-eye view" of the huge map. Zheng Gongyin stood behind, looking at him attentively and suspiciously.

Zheng Gongyin has a "Zhengshi Mineral Exploration and Mining Co., Ltd.", which mainly mines non-ferrous metals. The so-called non-ferrous metals are all metals except ferrous metals, that is, iron. In later generations, China regarded manganese and chromium as ferrous metals, but at this time, the Ming Dynasty was regarded as non-ferrous metals.

Zheng's minerals mainly mine tungsten ore, manganese ore and copper ore, and also mine other associated non-ferrous metals, which is also relatively large among many mining companies in Daming. But the mining industry is a very technically specialized industry that requires huge investment, and mining companies are not the main business of the Zheng family's business, so it cannot compete with those specialized mining companies. Coupled with the Great Depression, Zheng's Minerals has been losing money all these years.

Jung Kyong-in was trying to sell it, and the world economy was slowly starting to improve again. Moreover, after the Nazis came to power in 33 years, the situation in Europe became more and more tense year by year, coupled with the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in October 35, the Ming and Qing wars in early 36, the Ming-Dutch Nanyang War, and now the tense situation in Spain.

So now as soon as he told Xiaoqiang that he had a few good mine sites, Zheng Gongyin's greed was immediately suspended. Xiang Xiaoqiang asked to see the mineral map, and he immediately sent someone to retrieve the big map from his own mining company, please look at Xiaoqiang.

Now, under Xiang Xiaoqiang's eyes, there are all the mineral deposits that the Ming Empire has discovered at this time. As long as it's been discovered, it's all on it.

This picture gave Xiang Xiaoqiang the first feeling - sparse. It is much sparser than the marks on the Chinese mineral map in my memory and later generations. In other words, most of the mine sites that have been discovered in China in later generations have not been discovered in the current Ming Dynasty. Of course, it is not excluded that this picture is relatively large and sparse. But even so, there are still far fewer marks on it than in later generations.

Xiang Xiaoqiang first looked for the number one war metal - iron ore.

However, only two of the three largest iron ore belts in southern China are marked on the map. One is the Daye Iron Ore Belt in Hubei, and the other is the Wuhu-Ma'anshan-Nanjing Iron Ore Belt. Both of these are traditional mines that have been mined for thousands of years. Xiang Xiaoqiang searched again and again, and only found some scattered small and medium-sized iron ores in other places.

His heart was pounding, and he felt his blood boiling.

- Panzhihua.

The super large iron and titanium ore discovered in China in the thirties of later generations - Panzhihua is not shown on the picture.

China's iron ore mines, mainly in the north. Xiang Xiaoqiang knew that Nanming's steel smelting and processing capacity was very strong, but iron ore was seriously insufficient. It is simply not enough to rely on two traditional old iron ores, which are imported in large quantities from Australia every year. Now, I have Panzhihua in my hands. As long as this super iron ore is taken out, Nanming's iron ore reserves will immediately double. Judging from the amount of iron used by industry in this era, Daming's iron ore may not have to rely on imports.

Of course, it's just not "dependent" on imports. Because the disadvantage of China's iron ore is that the grade is not high, and the cost of mining and smelting is large, even if the total amount is enough, it is still necessary to import some high-grade ore. But once Daming's sea transportation is blocked, then relying on local iron ore, it can also be supported, which is nothing more than a problem of higher cost.

More importantly, Panzhihua is the only super iron mine in the southwest rear. In case the Northern Expedition fails, just in case...... In case the Northern Qing Dynasty came over and occupied East China and South China of the Ming Dynasty, after the Ming Dynasty lost Ma'anshan and Daye, the iron ore output would be enough to support the long-term war just by relying on Panzhihua in Sichuan.

Moreover, Panzhihua not only has iron ore, but also a large number of associated titanium ores. Titanium was also an expensive war metal in later generations. Xiang Xiaoqiang remembers that Panzhihua's perovskite reserves are the largest in China. However, in the thirties, the era of titanium has not yet arrived. It's a bit of a pity.

If nothing else, I will offer Panzhihua to the Ming Dynasty, and the credit is estimated to be enough for the marquis.

But Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled slightly when he thought of this. Now as long as he marries Zhu Yourong, he will not be a marquis, but a prince directly.

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Xiang Xiaoqiang knew that the name "Panzhihua" was given in the fifties of later generations, and it will definitely not be found on the map now. But the problem is that the location of Panzhihua in later generations is now nothing on the mineral map. Except that mountains are still mountains. After seeing that "own" Panzhihua was untouched, Xiang Xiaoqiang had a bottom in his heart.

But now is not the time to throw Panzhihua out. You can't take out such a big cake at the beginning. That's too dazzling, and I'll be on the cusp of the storm all of a sudden. And such a big cake, Zheng's mineral family will definitely not be able to eat it, so it is of little significance.

When you first start working together, you should first take out a few small cakes and try them. Wait until the cooperation and benefit distribution between the two sides are more mature, and then throw out a "super cake" similar to Panzhihua one after another.

On the other hand, this is iron ore. The unit price of iron ore is low, the early investment in the mine is large, and the preparation time is long, so it is too slow to see the money. Especially the super giant mine Panzhihua, which is in the mountains and mountains, does not even have a road, and the preliminary preparation is not a year or two, and it cannot generate benefits at all.

Xiang Xiaoqiang plans to point out a few small and medium-sized mining sites in areas with relatively mature mining conditions, such as Jiangxi, Hunan, and Hubei. This is tantamount to giving Zheng Gongyin a little sweetness first, so that he knows that what he said is true. In addition, Xiang Xiaoqiang is really a little tight on hand, and he needs to make some "big money" quickly.

His original property, not counting Zheng Yuxuan's stocks, totaled about seven million. But now it has cost more than 3 million yuan to buy 20% of Yuhuacong's equity. Although the more than 3 million yuan of money to buy stocks was earned by himself and was legal, he has now bought Yuhuacong's bearer stocks, and he will not see the light of day. Now there are more than 3 million of the property left in his hand, of which 2 million are bearer bonds and diamonds that swallowed Zheng Yuxuan. Now the "legal property" that can really be seen in the hands of Xiang Xiaoqiang is one million.

Now he needs to get a few mines that can make money quickly. Seeing that the money is fast, first of all, the minerals themselves are more valuable, such as gold, silver, tungsten, manganese, copper, etc. The second is that the location of the mine site cannot be in an uninhabited place, so it will have to build roads and infrastructure first like Panzhihua, and toss for a year and a half.

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"Lord Wang, this is good," Xiang Xiaoqiang said very dryly, "Will your Zheng Clan Mine open a gold mine?" ”

When Zheng Gongyin heard the word "gold mine", a thrill and excitement suddenly came up. He rubbed his hands lightly and said with a smile:

"What, Xiao Xiang, you have the information of the gold mine in your hand?"

Xiang Xiaoqiang nodded, selected on the map, and said:

"Well, there is, more than one place. How's that, it's okay for your company to mine gold, right? ”

"No problem!" Zheng Gongyin immediately said categorically, "The gold mine is absolutely fine!" …… However, I don't know what about reserves and grades? If it's too low, it's a gold mine...... That's going to lose money, too. ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang says:

"You're okay, so I'm okay."

He scanned his eyes on the map, thinking in his heart that the first mine would be the Xiangxi gold mine. The Xiangxi gold mine is in Taoyuan County, Hunan, and is not on the current Daming mineral map. The Xiangxi gold mine was also discovered during the Republic of China in the formal history. Now Da Ming hasn't noticed that it's normal.

Xiang Xiaoqiang remembered that on the map in his later family, the size of the Xiangxi gold mine on it was medium, which meant that its reserves were medium, that is, more than ten tons or dozens of tons of gold reserves. And if he remembers correctly, the ore grade marked next to it seems to be eight tenths, that is, there are eight tenths of grams of pure gold in each ton of ore. This is also a relatively high gold mine. Such a gold mine, producing a few hundred kilograms to more than a ton of gold a year, should still be very realistic. In that case, it's one or two million Mingyang a year.

What's more convenient is that because it is located in Hunan, there are many tungsten ores near and far around the map. That is to say, the mining industry here has been relatively developed, and all kinds of conditions are relatively mature, such as transportation, mining machinery, and related personnel. From the beginning of the entry to the withdrawal of gold, it is a few months at most.

Like Panzhihua, a super big cake, Xiang Xiaoqiang also has a super big cake of a gold mine in his hand. That is the Yunnan Boka gold mine discovered in 2006. This is a world-class gold mine, with an estimated gold reserve of 150 tons, and was known as "China's No. 1 gold mine" after its discovery. This super gold mine, Xiang Xiaoqiang must also keep it first, and don't take it out for the time being.

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Xiang Xiaoqiang studied Daming's copper mine again. Copper ore is the second largest metal in warfare, and is used directly to make bullets and shells. In addition, all industries that are related to electricity are indispensable for copper. And copper is also more valuable, Xiang Xiaoqiang speculated futures more clearly, the current international price of pure copper is 125 US dollars a ton, that is, 179 Mingyang. China is very short of copper, both in the south and in the north. And copper is very important. Regardless of the later generations of China, or the current Southern Ming and Northern Qing Dynasties, copper must be imported in large quantities.

Every time there is a war, copper is always one of the most powerful materials in the world. In addition, copper ore also has the advantage that gold ore is often associated with it, and a certain amount of gold can often be mined when copper ore is mined. Therefore, it is very profitable to invest in copper mines, and it is not only good for yourself, but also for the empire.

Xiang Xiaoqiang found that the main copper mining area in Daming is Hubei Daye Copper Mine, as well as Yunnan Dongchuan Copper Mine and Anhui Tongling Copper Mine. It is also a traditional copper-producing area in history. However, there is also a super large deposit - Jiangxi Dexing Copper Mine, which is not marked on the mineral map of Daming.

Dexing Copper Mine ...... This is no joke. With proven reserves of 8 million tons, Dexing Copper Mine is the largest copper mine in China and the largest copper mine in Asia. Like the significance of Panzhihua, measured by the amount of industrial copper used in this era, once the Dexing copper mine is thrown out, Nanming will no longer have to rely on imports for copper.

Then, Xiang Xiaoqiang went to look for tungsten, manganese, and several other most important strategic metals on the mineral map...... also found the "super big cake" that Daming didn't know at this time.

Xiang Xiaoqiang felt that he knew it in his heart, and it was almost, so he turned around and said to Zheng Gongyin, who was already waiting a little anxiously:

"Lord Wang, I have a lot of ore veins in my hands, and now we are working together for the first time, I will first provide you with a medium mine for gold, copper, and tungsten ore, and we will make a small fortune first. If we work together more happily, I will have a large number of large ore veins, giant ore veins, and super ore veins here. At that time, we were making a fortune again. What do you think? ”

Zheng Gongyin looked at Xiang Xiaoqiang, a little stunned. Listening to his tone, the ore veins he mastered were like supermarkets, with complete varieties and large quantities, and there were high, medium and low grades......

Just when he was in a daze, Xiang Xiaoqiang said to himself:

"That's it, I'll give you a rough account first. A gold mine has a reserve of more than a dozen tons of pure gold, with a grade of 8 to 10 grams of gold per ton of ore. A copper mine has reserves of hundreds of thousands of tons and a grade of a few hundredths. A tungsten ore has reserves of tens of thousands of tons, and the grade is also a few hundredths. ”

As he spoke, he ignored the suspicious Zheng Gongyin, sat down at the table, grabbed a pen and paper, and counted it. After a while, he raised his head, looked at Zheng Gongyin and said:

"Lord Wang, what about this gold mine, even if it produces 1 ton of gold every year, it is more than 1.6 million Ming Yang. What about copper mines, even if 200,000 tons of ore are mined every year...... The international price of copper ore of this grade is about 15 Mingyang 1 ton, which is 3 million Mingyang that year. This tungsten ore is not too big, but it produces 2,000 tons of tungsten concentrate every year...... The international price of tungsten concentrate is 475 Mingyang 1 ton, so it is 950,000 or nearly 1 million Mingyang a year.

"Lord Wang, these three mines can produce about 5.6 million Ming Yang every year. In this way, I will give you a detailed picture of their location, and we will take 20% of the dry shares of each mine, as originally agreed. In addition, you can give me 5 million Ming Yang at one time. ”

Jung Kyung-in's eyes widened suddenly. He almost shouted:

"Xiao Xiang, you're too outrageous, aren't you? Don't say that I haven't explored on the spot, even when you say it yourself, it's also 'tens of thousands of tons' and 'hundreds of thousands of tons', which is extremely vague at all, so it can be seen that you haven't seriously explored, why do you open your mouth to produce 5.6 million Mingyang a year? ”

"Oh," Xiang Xiaoqiang said with a grin, "it's not much worse...... The maximum deviation is 1 million Ming Yang. ”

Zheng Gongyin's face was purple and red by his anger, but he still couldn't hold back and didn't have a seizure. He breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"Okay, take 10,000 steps back and say, even if these mines can produce 5.6 million Mingyang a year, then these 5.6 million Mingyang can't all be mine, right? You have to pay tens of percent in taxes, right? Xiao Xiang, don't you think it's too much for you to ask for 5 million when you open your mouth? …… Okay, you said you want 20% dry shares, that's no problem, I can say yes, because what we said was to give you 20% dry shares. But you have to remember that the price you asked for at the beginning was 10,000 Ming Yang for a one-time price in addition to 20% dry shares. Now you have gone from 10,000 Mingyang to 5 million Mingyang, a full 500 times more. Do you think that's appropriate? ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang remembered that when he first went to Beiqing to negotiate the conditions, the attached "mineral clause" was really only 10,000 Mingyang for a mine.

He smiled wryly, still laughing:

"Lord Wang, this time and that time...... At that time, I was poor and white, and I was so poor that I didn't have a dime in my pocket...... Think about it, I worked hard to go to Beiqing for 500,000 Mingyang...... But now, I sit still, and I have an annuity of 500,000 a year. And I sit at home, just a few phone calls, and I can make hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars in the international market. Lord Wang, think about it, is 10,000 Mingyang still a little bit attractive to me now? …… My lord, put yourself in your shoes, if it were you, would you be very interested in this Wan Mingyang. ”

Zheng Gongyin still shook his head like a wave drum, indicating that he would not listen to him.

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled:

"Lord Wang, your Zheng's minerals are not the largest in Daming Mineral Company, and their exploration and mining capabilities are not the strongest. But I consider that we are old friends after all, and ...... Hehe, I'm with Xuanxuan...... Hehehe...... In any case, fertilizer and water can't flow to outsiders' fields...... Besides, I'm going to have a pretty big stake in the mine...... So, weigh these two: Can I make you suffer? If I make you suffer, I will make myself suffer.

"Besides, you only need to give me 5 million at once now, but from now on, you will be able to get millions of Mingyang from these mines every year...... Even if you give half to the state, you will still be 250 miles! …… Ahem, there are 2.5 million miles left! ”

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The two clashed for a while, and finally Xiang Xiaoqiang took out the killer weapon again, reiterating that he still has a lot of mineral deposits here, these three mines are just experiments, if everyone is satisfied with the cooperation, then in the future, it will not be a mine of 5.6 million Mingyang a year, and 56 million is also very realistic.

Jung Kyung-in's money-hungry nature finally prevailed again. He thought about it again and again, and agreed that he could give Xiang Xiaoqiang 1 million Mingyang first. But then his company is going to explore the three mines. If it is really as Xiang Xiaoqiang said, then he will give Xiang Xiaoqiang another 2 million Mingyang. It's just that each mine can only give Xiang Xiaoqiang 15% of the dry shares.

Xiang Xiaoqiang promised. On the one hand, he is relatively short of money now, and on the other hand, he feels that he can only stay in Daming for five years, so a few million Mingyang is more cost-effective than a dozen percent of the shares. And this time it's just a front station, and I still have more cards in my hand. The next time you throw out a more tempting "cake", as long as you are happy, the proportion of shares is not up to you.

In this way, when he came out of Yanping Wangfu that day, Xiang Xiaoqiang had another 1 million Mingyang cash in his suitcase.

At the same time, the "Mineral Plan", which I had always dreamed of but never had the opportunity to carry out, finally began to be implemented.

He plans to double the proven reserves of various strategic minerals in the Ming Empire within a year. In other words, to raise the war potential of the Ming Empire to a new height.