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At this time, Durin was chatting with Mr. Federley about the gold mines.

In the west, gold mines will always be the most eye-catching, and a newly discovered gold mine represents not wealth, not luck, but disaster. Every new gold discovery means the beginning of a bloody and brutal battle. It is difficult to stop the fight until the predators enter, but the predators will not always enter the game on time, and they also need to consider whether there are too many things in their hands and whether it will cause people to rebound.

This is the western part of the empire, which is synonymous with barbarism, even if the capital predators have caused public anger here, someone dares to touch it in the middle of the night to do a vote. Whoever wants to settle the business here, then the simple people of the west will tell them that the money is put into one pocket, and this pocket will eventually be broken.

So even if there is a new gold mine, those predators will not show a strong desire to possess too much, this is not the south, not the east, not the north, not those places where civilized people live.

Mr. Federly has a gold mine and a gem mine here, and he is the supplier of the Illian jewelry store in Doolin, and the jewelry store in Illian has always used Mr. Federly's gold and precious stones, and the two sides have a good relationship. With the help of Federley's regular source of gold, Durin washed his own batch of gold.

On this trip to the west, the first person Dührin met was Federly.

Mr. Jack knows a certain amount about the West, but he doesn't live in the West, and all he knows about the West comes from the people under him, and it seems that he knows a lot of things, but these things may not work in the West. So Dühring first came to meet with Federly to talk about some specific things in the west, and the topic began with the mines.

"If you want to talk about interesting news recently, it must be something from the side of Yagur Mountain......", Mr. Federly is in his fifties, his appearance is very ordinary, the only thing that makes people regret his hair, the middle piece has fallen out, only the oily big bald head that can reflect the shadow of the light, "The last time the West Mine was ...... Oh yes, you didn't know much about what was going on here. The West Mining Association is an abbreviation, the full name is the Western Mining Development Committee, which is composed of large and small mine owners, mainly to solve some nonsense matters. ”

"It is said that a few tourists picked up a piece of iron ore in a river outside Mount Yagur that had been dry and weathered for many years, and brought it back. When they took it out at the bazaar, they were discovered, and after inspection, it was found that it was an oxidized silver mine, and the news of the silver mine in Yagur Mountain immediately spread, and almost most of the free gold diggers and large and small forces ran away. They have discovered a huge silver mine near the Yagur Mountains, which they have never paid attention to in the past, and according to the exploration results of the Western Mining Association, the Yagur Mountain Silver Mine is a rich mineral, with a finished stock of about 120,000 to 200,000 tons. ”

"There are also some copper deposits found around, geologists believe that there are some underlying fractures due to the change in the terrain, and the Yagur Mountains should have huge and rich mineral resources, and the presence of copper and silver mines means that there may be some other deposits and associated deposits, so everyone rushed over. ”

Durin listened with relish, although he didn't understand it at all, but it didn't hinder his curiosity, "Does no one want to take it there?"

"Take it?", Federly laughed, "Are you kidding, Durin, the 120,000-ton silver mine, even if the Imperial official forcibly occupies the mine, I'm afraid it won't last long, which means a huge fortune, and anyone who wants to take it will only be bloodied by others." ”

At present, the price of silver in the Western world is very stable, according to the exchange rate of the empire, an imperial star yuan can buy four grams of finished pure silver, and if a silver mine with reserves of 120,000 tons is excavated and purified into finished products, the total price is about 30 billion!

This is a crazy number for everyone, so any individual or group that wants to occupy this source of mine on their own will be wiped out under the attack of some thugs who have been blinded by wealth and have gone crazy, 30 billion, and they have not collected so much tax revenue since the New Party came to power!

There's also a nice chalcopyrite nearby, and there are other small mines nearby, most likely hiding other types of huge bonanzas. Under the auspices of the West Mining Association, Yagur Hill has become a "public mining area" where anyone, any group, can go and mine.

The term public mining area first came from some depleted deposits, many low-reserve mining areas will be completely depleted after the mine owners will give up, even with the right to give up the ownership of the area where the mining area is located, in the west to buy land without mines is a very cost-effective thing. According to the provisions of the current land use regulations in the empire, non-agricultural and residential land needs to be commercially built after being purchased for private use, and a certain number of jobs need to be created according to some local standards.

If there are no more deposits in their land and they do not give up, these mine owners must pay to feed a group of people, whether they have something to do or not, and pay a designated "salary" into a designated account every month, otherwise they will face fines and other problems.

Therefore, once most mines have no mines to dig in, the mine owners will immediately give up the ownership of the land and change from private land to public land, and the mines on that land will become public mines. The deposit is sometimes amazing, not that there is no real nothing, maybe dig here, dig there and dig a little something. In the past, there have been cases of mine owners abandoning depleted mines and having new veins dug up, and there are not a few cases.

Once the ownership is in the public, it is not easy to buy it again.

The huge silver mine discovered in Yagur Mountain this time became a public mining area because of the huge reserves, no one dared to occupy it, and it could not afford to occupy it. It is said that there are more than 400,000 people begging for a living on the side of Yagur Mountain, and the growth rate from zero to 400,000 in just three months is definitely a terrifying increase. And because the news is not spread enough, and the weather is too cold, many people have not passed, and after the beginning of spring, I am afraid that the number of people over there will exceed one million, or even more!

After a brief conversation about the Jargur Hill side, Mr. Federley turned back and asked Durin why he had gone west. He and Doolin have known each other for three or four years, and we have worked together quite happily, so I can say that I have enough understanding of Doolin. In his opinion, Dühring's coming to the west to develop is purely a thankless task, and with the doors that Dühring is currently running, it is far faster than mining to make money, and the prospect potential is much greater.

Mr. Federly's gold mine produces about 400 to 500 pounds of pure gold per year, with a market value of about 1.2 million. Excluding all the costs, including the daily wear and tear of buying slaves and forming a mine guard team and wages, he earned more than 800,000 yuan, and of course he also had a gem mine. It seemed like a lot of money, much more profitable than some of the good businesses of the merchants, but it was nothing compared to the tycoons, compared to Doolin's smuggling business.

Dulin's current moonshine trade brings him more than 400,000 net profits every month, and his income in Otis City averages more than a million per month, not including other incomes, so it is a foolish investment for Mr. Federley to see Dulin go west to mine. The biggest dream of these individual or collective mine owners in the west is to make a fortune and then leave the poor place of sand and dust everywhere in the west and go to the south to enjoy themselves.

To Mr. Federley's doubts, During did not give him a direct answer, because he himself did not have an accurate answer, he did not come here to make money, but to make a career.

"I don't have the time or energy to hire an exploration team to look for ore veins for me, I'm going to buy some and find new mines at the same time, and there are a few places that I think are good and not very far from you. Dührin talked about the mines he was planning to buy, and the more Federly listened to it, the more strange it became, and Dührin quickly noticed this, he stopped his words and looked at Federly, "If you have any experience that you would like to pass on to me, it will be my pleasure." ”

Federley struggled a bit, and only sighed after a while, "For the sake of our good cooperation in the past, Durin, I have to warn you that these people who are willing to sell their property to you are either in financial trouble, or they have found a new way. If it's the latter, it's not too much of a problem, but if it's the former, it can be a bit of a hassle. You know, this is the West, and what you use in the civilized world isn't very useful here. ”

"Here, people believe that 'dead people don't snitch', swallow your money, and then make you disappear forever, definitely more than once here!"

It is not impossible to meet the mine owners who have collected money and do not give up the mines, these bloody mine owners and their subordinates are all masters who dare to shoot for profit. If it's really to the point where there needs to be a war, the state government will also intervene, and that's not a good thing. When the time comes, when the hat of illegal trade is deducted, not only will you not get your money back, but you will also face fines and even expulsion, and the state governments of the three western states have always been such bastards.

Oh no, it's not a jerk, it's a local conservation policy!

The black miners made money, the state government reaped hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars in fines, and the only ones who were unlucky were outsiders.

So here there is a famous saying - bullets are more effective than money.

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