Chapter 1037: 1036. Funds (5/5)

Chapter 1037 1036. Funds (55)

Cole kept his promise, and he quickly arranged a team for Li Du, a team that could help him contract a certain mine in South Africa.

There are two main parts of the team, one is the team of lawyers, they are responsible for solving the legal issues required to contract the land, and they are responsible for the main process of the work.

There are also some mine engineers, gem experts, geological experts and other personnel, who are responsible for the professional issues of the mine and estimate the gem content in the mine.

Li Du has confidence in the ore. He used small flying insects to conduct a detailed search, and found many traces of diamonds in the underground ore, which is definitely a diamond-enriched mine.

Therefore, he felt that the second part of the personnel did not need to be used now, and that it would be good to inspect the mine after he successfully contracted the mine.

But these people are not useless at this time. He happened to have a question about geology to ask, so he found a few experts and showed them the strange ore he brought back from the mine.

He wanted to know the identity of these ores, because he had never seen related ores, so he had a little extravagant hope, could these ores be something that had not been discovered yet?

Or, what precious gems can be refined from this ore?

After several experts saw the ore, they distributed it for identification, crushed a part of the ore for observation under a magnifying glass, and did some simple chemical experiments.

More than two hours later, an appraisal report was released. A geologist named Louis Byrd found Li Du and handed the report to him.

"The result came out?" Li Du asked while watching.

Louis Bird nodded and said: "Yes, according to our observation of the appearance of the ore, the inspection of physical properties and the test of chemical properties, after comparison, we believe that this is a product of an asteroid."

Li Du cheered up and said, "You mean, they come from aliens?"

He is now immersed in the gem market and learned about alien meteorites. Many meteorites can be sold at high prices internationally. If they have scientific research value, the price can even far exceed that of diamonds.

Louis Bird said: "No, they are not extraterrestrial meteorites, they are the products of melting rock layers after asteroids hit the ground rocks."

"According to the comparison results, this ore is very similar to an ore from Bavaria in southern Germany, with a similarity of 98%."

"Among them, in an analysis of ore from Bavaria, geologists speculate that about 15 million years ago, an asteroid fell to Earth and hit Bavaria in southern Germany, creating a massive depression extending over nine miles. .”

"This ore, which is extremely common in depressions, has been named sulphate, a compact breccia or peletic rock containing angular fragments containing glass, crystals and diamonds."

Li Du said: "You mean, this ore contains diamonds?"

Louis nodded and explained: "But the diamonds inside are scattered small particles with no commercial value. This kind of rock is common in impact craters in Bavaria."

He introduced the main information of the ore to Li Du, and more specific information exists in the report.

The asteroid that fell into the earth at that time weighed about 3 billion tons, most of which were dispersed by frictional combustion after entering the atmosphere.

Asteroids are rich in diamonds, but diamonds are melted at ultra-high temperatures. They combine with gravel soil and melted silica, that is, glass. They are too small, and the largest is only 0.1 mm, so they have no economic value. Only scientific research value.

Li Du was quite disappointed, and said, "In other words, this kind of ore is not worth much?"

It is said that it has scientific research value, but this kind of merolite is abundant in Germany, and it is rare and expensive, so naturally it will not be valuable.

Louis nodded and said: "Yes, they are not worth much, but they are very valuable. If these meteorites are found near the mine you want to acquire, it means that the mine has no mining value."

Li Du understood what he meant, because the diamonds in the meteorites were too small, but he clearly found diamonds from the Amanda Mountains, and they were not small and of good quality, so how to explain this?

The answer will have to wait for future investigations. Li Du thanked Louis, and then he told the legal team to proceed with the purchase plan of the Amanda Mountains.

The efficiency of South African officialdom is very slow, but when it comes to money, the efficiency is high.

At the beginning of October, the mine acquisition team sent news to Li Du that the plan was going well, and the South African government was willing to set up the mountains in the Amunda area for mine use and then sell them.

Because Amunda and the surrounding area have no ore records in history, the price of this mine is not high, about $10,000 an acre.

The Amanda Mountain has a vast area. To be on the safe side, Li Du decided to buy it all. It has a total area of ​​about four square kilometers, which is about 1,000 acres, and the price is more than 11 million US dollars.

The money can't help him, and he has these funds in him.

Next, he provided funds and materials to purchase the mountain.

From the discovery of the diamond mine to the purchase procedures, a total of 20 days have passed.

In mid-October, Li Du returned to the United States with the ownership of a diamond mine.

Now he had no money on him, although he got some money from Goodswain's safe, it was only $1.2 million.

For Li Du's mine business, the money is a drop in the bucket and of little use.

He has no pressure in this regard, because he can immediately have a large amount of money in his account!

To return to the United States, you have to land at Los Angeles Airport first. After passing through the customs, Li Du called Cao Fan and asked him for the contact information of Tang Chaoyang and Song Biaozi.

In this way, he called Tang Zhaoyang again, and said bluntly after connecting: "I have a batch of diamonds here, but I don't have any certificates. If you need them, I can sell them to you."

He obtained a large number of diamonds from Goodswin and Lei Moning, and they were stored in a heavy suitcase by him in the black hole space.

These diamonds are very difficult to deal with. In order to protect their own interests, De Beers and other diamond marketing groups have jointly used the strongest means to crack down on smuggled diamonds and blood diamonds. Therefore, it is difficult for Lei Moning or Goodswin to deal with them. diamonds in.

If Li Du wanted to sell them through normal channels, he had to find a reliable mine to be affiliated with and slowly wash these diamonds.

But it is very difficult to do so, firstly, the profit will be deprived by the mine, and secondly, the mine’s digestion capacity is limited, it may take several years to dispose of all the diamonds in his hand!

Li Du didn't have so much time to waste. It happened that Tang Zhaoyang and Song Biaozi seemed to need a lot of diamonds, so he chose to give them the diamonds.

It just so happened that the two returned to Los Angeles and received a call from Li Du. They arrived in a car and inspected the goods on the spot.