bonanza

Chapter 314 Stone Coal
Yang Dongsheng turned his face to look, and saw several people standing up on another table at this moment, turning to look at Yang Dongsheng together, one of them was Xiang Mingshan from Mingshan Iron and Steel Plant!

"Mr. Xiang?"

"Sorry, we didn't mean to eavesdrop on you guys! It's just that Mr. Shen has too high a vision. There are so many of us sitting here, but he hasn't seen it all this time."

"Boss Xiang filtered it, and Boss Shen was also thinking about business, so he didn't notice a few of them."

It wasn't intentional, but it was intentional.

"Mr. Yang, is he interested in visiting our Zhejiang Province? Recently, there are many mines in our province that are going to be outsourced!" Xiang Mingshan said again what he had just said.

"Really?" Yang Dongsheng gave Xiang Mingshan a meaningful look, "Could Mr. Xiang tell me what kind of mines they are, so I have a good idea!"

The two sat down again and ordered two more cups of coffee.

"If you want to say that I am not familiar with other mines, let's say that I am familiar with them!"

The main product of Mingshan Iron and Steel Works is stainless steel, and elements such as chromium, nickel, manganese, and molybdenum need to be added during the smelting process.

Among them, chromium and nickel are scarce minerals in our country. Although we have a lot of manganese ore reserves, they are of low grade and difficult to mine, select and smelt. Similar to iron ore, only molybdenum ore is our dominant mineral.

This time, Xiang Mingshan and the others got the news that there were nickel ore and manganese mines contracted out in the west of Zhejiang, so they decided to go to the west of Zhejiang temporarily, and it was delayed for a few days, so they bumped into Yang Dongsheng.

Yang Dongsheng didn't know why Xiang Mingshan told him this, but since such a thing happened, Yang Dongsheng had to go and see it no matter if it was successful or not.

Immediately asked someone to buy a train ticket, and rushed to the west of Zhejiang together.

The train circled more than half a circle around Taihu Lake and headed south all the way.

As soon as I walked to the exit, I saw someone holding a sign - Jiemingshan Iron and Steel Works, Dongsheng Mining.

The visitor introduced himself as a deputy director of the county they were going to.

"Mr. Xiang, welcome, welcome!" The deputy director shook hands with Xiang Mingshan, and then reached out to Director Zhao, "Mr. Yang, welcome, welcome!"

Director Zhao suddenly felt a gust of cool wind passing by the back of his neck, and he was so frightened that he hurried to the side, "This is Mr. Yang!"

The scene was a little awkward for a while.

The train station was still some distance away from their county, and everyone got on the train.

Chinese people often mention Jiangsu and Zhejiang together. In fact, although Zhejiang Province and Suzhou Province are connected to each other, they are two completely opposite provinces in many respects.

From south to north, Suzhou Province is formed by the alluvial deposits of three major rivers, the Yangtze River, the Huai River, and the Yellow River. Except for some lakes, the entire province is almost entirely plain.

In addition to the areas along the Taihu Lake and the lower reaches of the Qiantang River in Zhejiang Province, most of the other places are mountainous.

Out of the urban area is the mountain, and there is a winding road all the way. Not long after entering the mountain, Yang Dongsheng began to faint.

Later, not only Yang Dongsheng became dizzy, but even Director Zhao and the others who don't usually get motion sickness also started to get dizzy, but Xiang Mingshan and the others looked completely fine.

Yang Dongsheng didn't know when he fainted. When he woke up again, he found himself lying in the hotel room.

"Mr. Yang, do you feel better?" Director Zhao's head stuck out from one side.

"Where is this?"

"This is their county guest house! Are you hungry? I'll ask them to bring you food!" Director Zhao spoke and walked out.

Yang Dongsheng got up, only to see that the sky was completely dark, and he didn't know what time it was.

After hurriedly taking a few mouthfuls of food, Yang Dongsheng fell asleep again.

When he woke up the next morning, Yang Dongsheng still felt a little weak on his feet.

The county sent a car to take them to the mine.

The car came halfway up the mountain, and the car couldn't go up the road below, so it had to go up by itself.

Yang Dongsheng saw the dense grass in front of him, and he couldn't see the ground at all. He suddenly remembered something that Ding Wu, who had been a scout in Zhejiang Province, said.

"I want to ask one thing, don't we have cobras here?" Yang Dongsheng asked the entourage in the county.

"No!" The other party waved his hand.

"That's good!" Yang Dongsheng heaved a sigh of relief.

I just heard the other party continue, "We don't have cobras here, only chessboard snakes, which are what you call dusty snakes and five-step snakes! Some people saw adult alligators in the river below the mountain two days ago, but don't worry, alligators Do not eat people!"

Yang Dongsheng wanted to scold him in a nasty way!

Finally he went to the mine, and after being introduced by the county, Yang Dongsheng discovered that it was not a nickel mine at all, but a copper mine, which was a copper and nickel associated mine.

Not far away, a person approached Xiang Mingshan, "Mr. Xiang, this is the news we found out ourselves. Why did you ask him to come over?"

"What do we want?" Xiang Mingshan glanced at his subordinates.

"Nickel!"

"We have never done mining! If it is high-grade nickel ore, we will naturally find a way to win it. But this mine is originally associated with copper and nickel, and it has been mined for many years. The grade of nickel ore is already very low. If it is mined, there is probably no profit at all. If he can mine nickel, we will buy it from him; if he can’t mine it, someone will try and make mistakes for us!”

On the other hand, Yang Dongsheng had other thoughts. He didn't care about nickel ore, what he cared about was copper ore.

In the next few decades, the output of China's home appliances will increase year after year, and the demand for copper will increase, and the price of copper will also skyrocket. Yang Dongsheng has long wanted to get involved in copper mines, and this time is an opportunity delivered to his door.

In addition to copper and nickel associated mines, the county also arranged for them to visit iron mines in the afternoon.

Xiang Mingshan is not interested in iron ore at all. They use electric furnaces, and the main raw material is scrap steel, so they don't need iron ore.

On the way back to the county, a mountain on the side of the road suddenly attracted Yang Dongsheng's attention. The mountain was jet black.

"Stop, stop!" Yang Dongsheng hurriedly motioned for the car to stop.

Before the car stopped, Yang Dongsheng jumped off.

Judging from the traces at the scene, it is obvious that this is an abandoned mine.

Yang Dongsheng touched the black mountain, and suddenly felt as if he touched a stone. Based on the feel of his hand, Yang Dongsheng felt, "This doesn't seem to be coal..."

"This is stone coal!" Someone got out of the car and explained.

"Stone coal?"

Different from common coal, stone coal is formed from the remains of fungi and algae living hundreds of millions of years ago through saprolification and coalification in a shallow sea environment.

Due to the low biocarbon content of bacteria and algae, it is easy to mix with sediment during the formation process, resulting in the formation of stone coal with more impurities and less carbon content, so the calorific value will naturally not increase.

The development of stone coal has a long history. The county originally wanted to use the stone coal to generate electricity, but after the power plant was built, they found that most of the stone coal here did not meet the requirements, so they had to buy coal from other places to generate electricity.

(End of this chapter)