Marvel: I traveled through time a little early

Chapter 51 Drawing land to collect money
The next day, a week after George left Los Angeles and returned to school, good news came from Paul. Three pieces of land in Texas had been secured.However, because the area is relatively large, this purchase directly cost George US$4500 million.But considering what I gained, it was all worth it.

Let’s talk about the largest piece of Gobi desert first. George remembered that in his previous life, that piece of land was bought by China for US$17 billion.Four years after the purchase, oil was discovered beneath the land.At that time, the technically recoverable crude oil reserves were 200 billion barrels, in addition to 16 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 16 billion barrels of natural gas condensate, setting a record for the largest unconventional crude oil reserves in the United States.The value of the oil fields even exceeds $1.14 trillion.This oil field is comparable to Saudi Arabia's Ghawar, the world's largest oil field with a daily output of 500 million barrels.China became the big winner.

The second triangular forest area, under a total of 560 square kilometers of land, is the historically famous East Texas oil field.The East Texas oil field was not only the largest oil field in the United States, but also one of the largest oil fields in the world.Historically, the East Texas Oil Field was discovered in 1930 and has been the largest oil field in the United States since it was put into production.

The last piece of land in a small town that produced four of America's oil tycoons.The oil resources underground can be imagined.

In the end, the two pieces of land that George bought in California were not oil mines, but gold mines.The land in Prior County can be surrounded by five mining sites, and they are all open-pit mines.With the improvement of technology, the average gold content of that gold mine has reached 1.15 g/t, and a total of 77.5t of gold can be recovered.

In the last piece of land, the ore reserves of the deposit are 7 tons. The bureau estimates that the ore reserves have a gold grade of 000 ounces/ton, with a total of three mining sites.

These five pieces of land are only the higher-quality mines in the United States that George chose.Like some other mines, George has not yet made large purchases due to money and other capacity issues.

George had informed Paul when he left Los Angeles that he had acquired a qualified mining company.Then let the exploration team start to detect four places except the Gobi.The reason why there is no exploration of the Gobi is because the current technology is not yet developed.Spending time on this piece of land is not as good as developing the wealth that is easy to develop first.

Moreover, the oil price at this time is still too low. I can develop it step by step and let the oil price soar for a while.

George's behavior now is the same as that of horse racing and staking. Others were staking land, but George was staking money, but who allowed him to have this condition.

On this day, George followed Osborne in the laboratory to observe germ experiments.

Osborne had published a paper on penicillin with George as the first signatory half a month ago, and he was the second signatory.The paper specifically discusses that penicillin has significant inhibitory and destructive effects on many infectious bacteria that can cause serious diseases, and its bactericidal effect is extremely strong.

This paper also attracted the attention of the college and was recommended to professional platforms by the college, but it has not been published yet.

By this time the first phase of the experiment had been completed, and Osborne had begun patenting penicillin.George knew that if he wanted to further study the effects of penicillin, he must solve the problem of penicillin purification.After 18 months of hard work, Yuanshikong finally obtained 100 mg of yellow powdered penicillin that was pure enough for human intramuscular injection.

George directly proposed a solution and extracted penicillin crystals using freeze-drying method.In fact, there is a more advanced solution, but the patent has not yet been issued. George thinks it is better to go slower.This extraction method is sufficient to meet the needs of experiments.

The next step in the experiment is to conduct experiments directly on experimental mice to observe the therapeutic effect of penicillin.There are also effects and principles on those germs.These in turn require a series of observations and frequent experiments.

"George, George, read the reply from The Lancet!" Osborne happily walked into the laboratory holding an opened envelope.

"The Lancet?" George looked up from the microscope.When Osborne said he wanted to publish a paper before, George just looked at it and didn't ask which journal it would be published in.However, George was still very happy to have it published in the Lancet publication.Because this will be of considerable benefit to subsequent experimental advancement work.

That night, George invited all the staff in the laboratory to have dinner together to celebrate the results of the experiment.

There is not much left for George to learn in school.The help that school professors usually give George is to set a direction and sort out the structure of knowledge.Then George continued to fill it in through his own learning and reading.

George was already preparing to take his annual final exam, and his graduation thesis was about the effects of penicillin.Barring other circumstances, George will graduate from college in June of this year.

Three days later, news came from the California Mining Company that after a month of surveying, it had been discovered that there was a gold mine.The survey reports have been released.

Next, George will have to consider development issues.The mining value of gold ore must reach more than 0.3-0.5 grams per ton.Both of George's mines have reached above this level, so they have great development value.

Therefore, after a little thought, George prepared to mine these two gold mines himself.The greater advantage of mining by yourself is that you can successfully launder the more than 80 tons of gold in your own space.

After George informed Paul of the decision by phone, he asked him to arrange all the mining matters.George also wrote a 145-page plan on the heap leaching gold extraction process and gave it to Paul.

Heap leaching for gold extraction refers to the process of heaping low-grade gold ore or flotation tailings on the bottom material, and circulating and spraying sodium cyanide solution to dissolve the gold and silver in the ore to form a gold-containing precious liquid to recover gold. gold craft.

堆浸法提金具有工艺简单、操作容易、设备少、动力消耗少、投资省、见效快、生产成本低等优点。堆浸用于处理0.5-3g/t的低品位矿石，金的回收率50-80%，甚至能达到90%。

But in fact, this process was used for leaching copper oxide ore as early as 1752.But this is the first time it has been used in a gold mine.

After George told Paul about this method, Paul was very excited.He even proposed to register this kind of patent, but George still stopped him, because the knowledge used in the whole process has been discovered, so there is no patent issue.

If you want to make money using this method, it’s not impossible. There are two ways.One is to buy other people's low-grade mines and extract them again yourself. If this method can be kept confidential, it can gain benefits to a certain extent.The second is to directly use this method to negotiate with other mining companies to obtain one-time benefits.

Why is it a one-time thing? Because there are a lot of tricks here. To put it simply, you can only cooperate once. If others know it well next time, will they still come to you for cooperation? So it can only be a one-time cooperation.

In the end, George decided to charge a fee directly.The next day, George arranged for Paul to release the exploration results to the outside world.And asked Paul to send invitations to the top 20 mining companies in the world in his own name. These mining companies will definitely be present. After all, he may also be planning to sell the mine.As for the younger George, he was not invited.

The day after the news was announced, many mining companies called to inquire whether they had any plans to sell or cooperate in mining, hoping to talk to George.But George already had a plan, so how could he change it.Let them wait for news.

The next day's newspapers also reported the news.George figured this would bring another gold rush to California.

A week later, the meeting was held in the Plaza Hotel ballroom.All the invited companies were present. After all, according to the data released by George, the two mines together may have 100 tons of gold. This is such a huge fortune that no mining company wants to miss.

"Hello everyone, I'm very happy to meet you here. Let me introduce myself first. My name is George Orwell. I invite you here this time because gold mines were discovered in the two pieces of California land I bought some time ago." George Said first.

"Mr. Orwell, are you prepared to sell these two mines? At what price are you prepared to sell them?" At this time, someone underground began to ask questions.

"Haha, that's it. I don't plan to sell these two gold mines."

"Then why did you gather us together?"

"It's like this. I discovered a new type of technology. It can increase the utilization rate of low-grade ore to 90%. I don't know if you are interested."

"Orwell, is your method really feasible? If the cost is too high, it won't be realistic." Someone asked at this time.

"Haha, no, my newly developed method has simple technology and low cost. I can guarantee this. I called you here today just to talk about this business. Of course, if you don't believe me, we will Another way you can use is to sell low-grade ore to me a second time. We can recycle the ore at a certain discount based on the unit gold content."

When the mining companies present heard what George said, they immediately understood that maybe this method was really feasible.Otherwise, George would not be able to call so many mining companies at the same time, and he would not be able to offend so many mining companies at the same time.

"So Orwell, what are your conditions? You can't publish the method for free, can you?"

"Of course, you are among the largest mining companies in the world. You must have had a batch of low-grade ores in your hands before, and felt that there was no mining value. Now, with the plan I provide, these wealth will be used again."

"As I said just now, you can sell low-grade ore directly to me. Of course, I invited you here today because I want to make friends with you, so you can also directly pay 500 million US dollars to obtain this method. We will teach you Yes, you can also teach on-site. The premise is that you sign a confidentiality agreement after purchasing the method, and you cannot disclose the method within one year."

"Mr. Orwell, is this price too much?"

"Haha, everyone needs to understand two things. The first is that you must have a lot of low-grade ores in your hands, which is a fortune. The second is that you can use the time difference to acquire a batch of low-grade ores. Mine. In this way, the money will be earned back. Our company also wants to make friends with you, and is willing to trade the plan to you because we don’t want to be alone."

In fact, 500 million is really cheap for these companies, because George invited the top 20 companies in the world.The reason why these people still bargain is because it is the nature of businessmen not to talk outside.

"You can also think about it. Let's get to know each other today and you can tell me the answer tomorrow." George said.

"Haha, no need, I believe Mr. Orwell will not cheat us for this little money. In this case, I will sign this agreement first." At this time, Enlil, the head of Cliffs Natural Resources Company in the United States.

After George saw someone expressing his stance, he raised the water glass in his hand and made a slight gesture after raising it.

After others saw someone taking a stand, they also expressed their willingness to cooperate and accepted the offer.Everyone agreed to sign the agreement the next day and leave the meeting.George knew that from the moment the meeting ended, there would be a wave of acquisitions of low-grade mines around the world.These big companies will never miss this opportunity to make a fortune.

Sure enough, the next day, a large number of small companies with low-grade ores were merged and acquired on the stock market.George believes that there are more people rushing to companies that are not listed on the market to negotiate acquisitions on the spot.

Still in the hall yesterday, George signed contracts with 20 mining companies.After the companies paid their checks, George had a 145-page mining plan sent to each company.A round of experiments was also conducted on site and presented to various mining companies.This time, the mining company also brought technical personnel in advance. After discussion by these technical personnel, they finally came to a technically feasible conclusion.

In the evening, George held a small banquet again.The heads of these companies were also very generous in staying.As for the acquisitions their company is making, of course someone will do it.

This time George can be said to be giving them money, and all companies will owe George a big favor.

　Thanks to book friend Enlil 1 for the recommendation vote, thank you.

　　


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