Golden Fishery

The four of them were together, other than bragging and farting, they were talking about business matters, and now they were focusing on the lobular red sandalwood horn and the pile of gold and silver coins.

Little Blake said: "The bump must be reserved for the auction. We have invited a total of more than 20 Jewish rich men and Middle Eastern royals. Remember Afef? The guy who bought our "Mont Majour Sunset", He is also interested, and he will make a lot of money during the spring auction."

"The processing of gold and silver coins is divided into two channels, one is private sales, and the other is auctions. The gold and silver coins at the auction are either of poor quality and priced at a lower price, or the quality is the best. Sell. The gold and silver coins in the middle, we are selling them privately."

Qin Shiou nodded, saying that this is very good. He is not very concerned about the auction business now, because the fishing ground has started to generate income for him. Butler's monthly income exceeds 10 million U.S. dollars. The seafood transformed by Sea God's energy can be called huge profits!

Talking about business, Billy said that he also hopes to find a shipwreck now. His men analyzed the information of the shipwreck and found a transport ship that sank in the waters of Somalia. It was an early Spanish treasure ship, and the ship contained crudely purified gold ore. If they can be salvaged, it will definitely make them rich overnight.

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

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

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

According to the current price of gold, one ton of gold is worth less than 40 million U.S. dollars, and five tons is worth 200 million U.S. dollars. No wonder Billy said they would get rich overnight!

Billy rolled his eyes at him and said, "What five tons? It's a thousand tons!"

Everyone gasped, and Blake Jr. shook his shoulder vigorously and said, "Fack! One thousand tons? One thousand tons, what the hell are you doing with five fingers up?! Are you sure you're not mistaken? One A thousand tons of gold? More than 40 billion U.S. dollars?!"

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

Until the discovery of a series of gold resources in the 19th century, the gold production has been greatly increased since then, especially in the 50 years in the second half of the 19th century, the gold production exceeded the total amount of the previous 5000 years.

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

But a thousand tons of gold reserves is still terrifying!

Billy then shattered their illusions: "I'm fake too, brothers, are you listening to me? Yes. A thousand tons, but that's not refined gold, but crudely purified gold Mine! It's ore!"

In this way, Brandon breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Let me just say, a thousand tons of gold is too scary. There is no need to fish for a thousand tons of gold ore, right? Rough extraction? How far has it been extracted?"

He works in a bank, and the bank needs to reserve gold, and the total gold reserves of all banks in Canada do not add up to a thousand tons.

Gold ore is actually not very valuable. As we all know, South Africa is a traditional gold-producing country, but at present, one ton of gold ore in South Africa can extract 4 grams of gold on average. Some high-grade one ton can extract 10 grams of gold, and one ton of low grade can extract 2 grams of gold. Gold deposits below 2 g/t have no mining value.

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

Qin Shiou didn't know much about this, and there were no gold mines in Canada. The environment he usually lives in does not match this aspect, so he asked Brandon. What about the gold ore.

Brandon explained: "Gold ores refer to those ores containing gold elements or gold compounds. They can be processed into gold concentrates or gold ore sands with high gold content, and the gold concentrates need to be smelted. , to become pure gold and gold products.”

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

Brandon nodded and said: "Yes, there are two types. The first one is extremely high-grade gold mines, which come from meteors. Some meteors contain gold, so that when passing through the earth's atmosphere, the meteors and the atmosphere will produce strong friction and violent oxidation combustion. A lot of impurities are consumed in this process."

"You know, gold is very stable, and it is difficult to chemically react with other substances even at high temperatures, so because the temperature is very high when passing through the atmosphere, which is higher than the melting point of gold, so after landing, they will become a liquid flow state, attached to the On the stone or sand, it finally cools down and becomes the ultimate gold mine."

Billy shook his head and said, "The gold content of this kind of gold mine is close to 100%, which is very rare. Once found, it will become a private treasure or a treasure of the town. Of course the gold mine on the ship is not like this, otherwise I don't care about Somalia's gold mine." The armed forces have already gone to fish!"

Qin Shiou signaled him to stop talking, and continued to ask Brandon: "And then? What does another high-quality gold mine look like?"

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

"This kind of gold mine also comes from meteors, but it's not that gold is extracted, but that when large meteors pass through the atmosphere, due to the high temperature, uneven heating, and different internal components of the meteor, the melting point and vaporization point are different, so It will explode."

"After the explosion, the meteor fragments continue to burn, and the impurities are obviously easier to burn, and the particles that are eventually left are rich in gold. These gold deposits are often close to the natural crystal state of gold, showing an equiaxed, cubic face-centered lattice Or in a semi-fluid form, it is also very precious, and it can be turned into pure gold with simple refining!"

Qin Shiou looked at Billy, who shrugged and said, "Why are you looking at me? The ore in the sunken ship is not this kind of top-quality mine."

In this way, Qin Shiou became frustrated, and said, "Then do you know how far the crude extraction has gone?"

Billy said aggrievedly: "Most of the documents and materials at that time were lost. Where can I find out the specific information? However, this thousand tons of gold ore must be able to extract at least one or two tons of gold, otherwise there is no need for the Spanish treasure ship to transport it." They're gone!"

One or two tons of gold is also fine, the value is no less than the horn of lobular red sandalwood, one should not be too greedy, and one should not be too ambitious.

Thinking of this, Qin Shiou patted Billy on the shoulder and said, "OK, buddy, let your people start the work and dig it out."

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