394 Molybdenum Mining Projec (2/2)
No wonder he was a talent signed by Rio Tinto in the first year of his master's program, Yang Yuan's ability was indeed strong. When he talked about work, his work ethic was almost comparable to the workaholic Xia Shiyu.
”The education level of Xin is extremely low, so I hired a lot of technicians from Australia. Because of the massive layoff by Rio Tinto, I met a lot of strong seniors when I was studying for my master's who are currently living off of employment insurance. I asked them for their opinions and the salary they demanded was not high, but they wanted to sign the employment contract according to Australia's standard, and the company provides housing.”
”Vacation and housing are not a problem. I just care about their ability,” Jiang Chen said.
Yang Yuan smiled confidently and said with certainty, ”Their ability are all strong, they were mostly all employed by Rio Tinto before with a wealth of work experience.”
”How many people?”
”Considering that the company has yet to have a mining project, I only hired ten people as management.”
”That's not enough, I have a deepwater mining project on hand.” Jiang Chen shook his head.
Yang Yuan looked at Jiang Chen in surprise.
”This fast?”
”I have some personal relationships with the president,” Jiang Chen implicitly said.
Yang Yuan immediately gave Jiang Chen the ”I understand” look and laughed. ”No wonder the license is approved already. In a lot of countries, it would take more than half a year. Tell me the type of deposition and I'll prepare first if there is a project now. Ten people is definitely not enough.”
”Molybdenum,”
”Molybdenum? Have you confirmed the location?” Yang Yuan raised his eyebrows.
Jiang Chen nodded and took out a paper map folded in his pocket. Although he didn't understand it, he still marked a molybdenum deposition on the map closest to Ange Island.
Looking at the red circle on the map, Yang Yuan's frown, looking more and more serious.
”Do you know that the average depth of the bed is 7500 meters?” Yang Yuan looked at Jiang Chen weirdly.
”Yeah? Is there a problem?” Jiang Chen was puzzled.
The deep-sea environment meant that molybdenum being attached to organic matter is wrapped in a manganese-containing colloid, the final formation would sink into the sea and out of the biosphere cycle. This type of marine molybdenum deposition is undoubtedly more likely than the continental deposition of molybdenum deposits, but this deposit generally appears in the deep sea 5000 meters below with deeper deposits being more frequently. In this environment, the extraction will be complicated.
Although in the early 1970s, manganese nodule mining technology has made some progress, today is still under detailed investigation, assessment, and trial mining stage. At present, theoretically, the deepest mining depth was probably the fluid mining experimental system developed by Japan with a working depth of up to 5250 meters at ideal conditions. But this technology clearly hasn't made a breakthrough. Otherwise, the country that lacked resources would have started building sea platforms a long time ago.
”So you are saying, the current technology can't extract it?' To this point, Jiang Chen expected already.
”Might be possible in a lab, and only possible.” Yang Yuan had a bitter smile, ”Your president friend… is not playing with your right?”
Indeed, in bystander's eyes, selling a deposition that could not be extracted had no other explanation than fooling you. A lot of major companies that spent billions in technology didn't make a splash, let alone a small mining company with no history; it would even be difficult to extract in the shallow sea.
When he thought about this, Yang Yuan became a bit nervous. If the mine could really not be extracted, would that be the end of his job then? But to the rigorous standard and uprightness, he held himself to, he couldn't hide such a significant problem.
But Jiang Chen didn't seem to exhibit any signs of disappointment or even anger like he thought, he only had a weird expression.
[Zhang Yapin dare to fool me? Don't kid me.]
Jiang Chen thought for a moment and said,” I can take care of the underwater mining.”
”But that's 7500 meters.” Yang Yuan had to remind him.
”Only 7500 meters.” Jiang Chen smiled with confidence and in an indisputable tone.
Yang Yuan paused. Although he really wanted to use his industry experience to tell Jiang Chen it was unrealistic, the confidence on his face made him waver.
”I'll take care of the underwater mining technology, your current job is to build a platform located right above for resources transfer, and purchase a transportation vessel, then establish a molybdenum processing plant on Ange Island… Mhmm, and also a steel plant and aluminum plant used to process the ores shipped by BHP,” Jiang Chen said.
It was not worth it to extract iron and aluminum underwater; it was cheaper to import.
”It would cost a lot of money,” Yang Yuan cautioned him.
”I have enough money.”
He borrowed thirty billion USD. Jiang Chen had enough money right now.
”… Okay.” Yang Yuan picked up the glass and took a drink, ”If you insist, I will follow your instructions.”
As they were talking, Su Fei's voice came out of the kitchen.
”Time to eat. Clean off the table, there are a lot of dishes today.”
”Haha, I already smell it.” Yang Yuan stood up and walked to the kitchen to help his girlfriend to bring out the dishes.
Jiang Chen wanted to help too, but Su Fei who brought the sashimi stopped him.
”You are the guest; just let me and Yuan do it.” Su Fei smiled and went back to the kitchen.