"1.25 billion tonnes of iron ore?" After hearing this number, the three people next to them were shocked, no matter what mine, as long as the reserves reach the level of 100 million tons, it must be of high value, even if it is the most basic coal mine, the significance is also very significant. Not to mention that this is still high-quality iron ore.

"Okay, then prepare all the information immediately, and then release it to the public, and then invite some other third-party professional survey companies to come and confirm." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

All this, naturally, in his expectation, the number of super deposits discovered in the 90s in human history is very small, many of which Chen Zhiwen does not remember at all, and some of them are not capable of interfering, such as many oil giants or national oil companies have found a large number of high-reserve oil and gas fields along the coast and even in the deep sea in various places, these things are not something he can meddle in, and even if he can, he does not know the location, and the coast can only be marked by latitude and longitude. Or which city, which direction, what angle, how many nautical miles away, he doesn't remember this kind of data.

The few places that he can remember are a few high-quality mineral deposits in Australia or Canada, these places, Chen Zhiwen has arranged for someone to operate and buy the exploration rights of some areas, but because he does not know the specific latitude and longitude location, he can only explore step by step.

This side of Christmas Creek, because of its great fame, is the core mineral base of the later mining giant AMG, which is the most convenient to find, and it is normal for the first one to be discovered.

"Okay, Mr. Chen." Zhou Jiayang nodded and said, Hutchison's investment in the mining industry adds up to almost 100 million US dollars, if it is not for the group in other fields with high return income, it really can't afford to support this industry, the mining industry, without strong capital is really not playable.

But now it has finally paid off, and the discovery of such a large iron ore mine can be regarded as a firm foothold in this industry.

"Chen Sheng is really powerful, he set off such a big firework without making a sound." Bao Yugang said with some amazement, as the king of ships, his business often does business with mining or oil giants, and naturally knows how valuable an iron ore of more than one billion tons is.

"It's not a firework, the value of the iron ore itself is very high, but it also depends on the location and transportation, if these two aspects are very poor, it is equivalent to nothing." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

This is the truth, the weight of iron ore is huge, the cost of transportation is bound to be very high, the requirements for various infrastructure are very high, if it is not on the edge of the ocean, and there is no port nearby, then it is necessary to build railways and ports, which is a heavy investment, many proven inland iron ore, it is for this reason, it has become a pile of useless waste, such as the iron ore in Bolivia in South America, the national reserves are tens of billions of tons, but as a landlocked country without access to the sea, a little iron ore can not be realized.

Of course, the situation of the Christmas Creek iron ore mine is better, after all, this is an iron ore mine that has been developed for a long time in the future, but the existing infrastructure is also very lacking, and it will also require investment in the unit of 100 million US dollars.

"Where is this iron ore mine?" Bao Yugang asked.

"Western Australia." Chen Zhiwen said.

"In Western Australia, the infrastructure is still good, and my freighter also cooperates with the mining giants there, and if you want to develop this iron ore mine, the best way is to cooperate with these mining companies and use their already established rail network and ports." Bao Yugang thought for a while and said.

"Thank you Bao Sheng for reminding me." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile, he naturally knows this.

Seeing that Chen Zhiwen had his own business, and the purpose of their coming here was basically the same, the three of them also said goodbye and left.

Zhou Jiayang said: "Chen Sheng, I have already found out the railway network near the Christmas Creek iron mine, and if we can connect it, we only need to invest in building a 120-kilometer-long railway." ”

"Do you think these railway networks controlled by Western mining conglomerates can be used by us casually?" Chen Zhiwen asked rhetorically.

"They're going to ask us to pay a little bit of it, or they're going to pay so much that they might swallow up most of our profits." Zhou Jiayang said helplessly, this is the essence of business, when the lifeblood of others, a normal capitalist, will do his best to squeeze others, a hundred years ago, many civilian goods industry is like this, the follow-up national level was born anti-monopoly law, suppressed these companies, but the mutual exploitation between commercial companies, then the government can not control.

"Therefore, we can either borrow other people's channels to slaughter this mine, or we can only build our own railway network and port, or we will sell it or sell part of it and make joint ventures with others." Chen Zhiwen said calmly that this situation was actually expected by him.

"Therefore, we can either borrow other people's channels to slaughter this mine, or we can only build our own railway network and port, or we will sell it or sell part of it and make joint ventures with others." Chen Zhiwen said calmly that this situation was actually expected by him.

"We build our own railways and ports, the input cost is too great, which has to be combined with the development cost of the entire iron mine, and if the international iron ore price falls in the future, then we will inevitably lose money, unless we do long-term consideration, we will continue to invest in mining in Xiao in the future, and form a set of our own whole industrial chain and transportation chain." Zhou Jiayang thought for a while and said.

"In the future, the price of iron ore, I estimate that it will still rise, but it is unrealistic for us to do it alone, the cost performance is too low, or find a way to cooperate with other capital, either sell it all, or joint venture." Chen Zhiwen said: "We don't have any mining experience, so let's take this opportunity to learn more." ”

The so-called century-old mining giants, the existing large-scale mining, have a relatively long history, this is a large number of eliminated after the left several winners, at the same time, this industry, need enough foundation to operate, although Hutchison is not short of capital, but only rely on strong capital is not able to enter the market smoothly, but also need to continue to learn.

Of course, another simple and crude model is acquisition, but this also requires a huge amount of money, Chen Zhiwen can get this money, but in the 80s, when there were countless gold investment opportunities, it was too much loss to spend such a large amount of money on mining.

And using the prophet's golden finger, invest a small amount of money, and discover a huge mineral deposit first, either sell it all to get a large amount of money, or you can gain a lot of experience after the joint venture, and even take the opportunity to obtain a small part of the shares of some mining giant companies.

"Well, after the news spreads, I think those mining giants should take the initiative to contact us." Zhou Jiayang said with a smile.

"Well, then just wait." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, in the 80s, the global iron ore price was relatively stable, a ton was about 20 US dollars, the low is cheaper, the higher is more expensive, as long as the location is not too remote, the development of iron ore is profitable, especially in the recent economic development of many Asian countries is very good, and once the economy is good, the demand for iron ore will increase, after all, a large number of infrastructure, houses need steel. As long as you have a high-quality iron ore deposit and the location is not bad, then you don't have to worry about no big mining companies will take the bait, unless the global iron ore giants work together to suppress themselves, but that is obviously impossible, they are competitors to each other, it is difficult to walk together for an iron mine.

In the next few days, the news of the discovery of large-scale high-quality iron ore in Christmas Creek also spread around the world, and this matter did not need to be promoted by Zhou Jiayang behind the scenes, and many media naturally reprinted it, especially some commercial newspapers, which put this matter on the front page.

This is especially true in Hong Kong, a super iron ore of more than 1 billion tons, which in the history of Hong Kong, there are no companies engaged in large-scale mining, which is a very big commercial progress, but there are also some media who don't understand anything, and they actually directly determine the total value of this iron ore to exceed 25 billion US dollars according to the transaction price of iron ore, which is known as this iron ore and can reach half of Hong Kong.

Of course, it may also be deliberately to attract attention, in the future era of self-media, there are a lot of such people, now, because the requirements for doing media are very high, but there are also such people.

In the international market, mining companies around the world have begun to pay attention to Hutchison, a once unknown junior.

A few years ago, after Hutchison had just spent tens of millions of dollars in Australia and Canada to buy the exploration rights in several places, some large companies were still watching the joke, because there was no basis to directly hoard land to bet that there were mineral deposits in it, or the favorite operation of the American gold rush era more than 100 years ago, blindly, completely relying on luck, for the modern prospecting industry, it is simply too stupid.

However, when a high-quality iron ore deposit of more than one billion tons was discovered, everyone was dumbfounded, considering the authenticity of the matter, these companies still sent some professional engineering teams to Christmas Creek to verify, and Hutchison is also open to this, anyone who comes, can prospect for their own mines, as you toss, the mine dug up wants to take back for testing, no problem, there is no railway, how much can be taken.

In the following week, the major mining giants also got various analysis reports and determined that it was really a large-scale high-quality iron mine, which immediately made many large companies interested.

Regardless of various inputs, the value of this iron ore mine can really reach almost 30 billion US dollars, and according to the location, the depth of the deposit, local taxes and labor costs, a simple calculation, you can know that the profit is still good.

As a result, mining development companies from all over the West have sent professional teams to Hong Kong, and on the Asian side, there are representatives of Japanese foundations, and even a leader of Shanghai City has called through introduction, the reason is very simple, Baosteel, which is about to be completed, also needs overseas high-quality iron ore.

The so-called strange goods can be lived, naturally even so, the sale must be sold, at least part of the shares, then whoever can give the highest value to sell to.

(End of chapter)