The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

"Just a kilometer or two to the east of us, it's a huge diamond mine in all likelihood."

Guan Xingquan was too lazy to ask, Zhang Nan said what he said, and had long been accustomed to the supernatural ability of this **** stick.

It is very close to the border, and to the north is a nature reserve delineated by three countries. Although the reserve is their own administration, the three countries cooperate with each other in management, so it is relatively normal for small aircraft to fly into the airspace with each other. No one knows. care.

It will be noon on the 18th. Zhang Nan and Guan Xingquan are chatting in the camp yard. They see a "double otter" plane flying from the north in the air, and they know that Xie Jianliang is here.

Yesterday, mining experts were working in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana. Upon receiving Zhang Nan’s instruction, they boarded the company’s plane sent from the northern mining area to South Africa.

After getting off the plane, Xie Jianliang said directly: "Boss, how can there be a diamond mine?"

This guy was impatient enough, Zhang Nan smiled and said, "It's behind you, not far, you can get there on foot."

Although it is near, but in no hurry, let him settle down first.

Xie Jianliang was in Canada before, but he went to Botswana to participate in the survey of No. 2 mining area a month ago. Zhang Nan happened to capture the young man.

Dean and the others left a jeep and a small truck, enough for Zhang Nan and the others to hunt and kill time.

Just leave the car in the hunting ground when "enough fun" leaves. Anyway, it's not a new car, it's worthless, and it can be used as a vehicle for guards.

Wait for lunch to see places.

After getting on the bus, Guan Xingquan said, "Jung Dong?"

"En. Qiu Bo, drive 5 kilometers east, don't run too far."

The driver expressed his understanding.

Zhang Nan is very clear about where he is currently. Martin and others have clearly pointed it out on the map before.

Guan Xingquan and others are more aware of the specific location. This is an African wasteland. If you don't understand the original coordinates, you have to catch it if you don't understand the original coordinates!

Off-road vehicles and high-chassis small trucks can drill in the wasteland at will, slow down and don't fall into the ditch. In just two kilometers, Zhang Nan saw more than a dozen springboks. Yesterday, he found a group of giraffes in the northern part of the hunting ground about 20 kilometers away.

The new hunting ground of more than 300 square kilometers is adjacent to the nature reserve in the north. Even if the former hunter owners are a little uncontrollable, the animals in the nature reserve will continue to enter the hunting area and become their own wealth.

Zhang Nan doesn't like the wealth on the ground, and it's a big deal when he has time to hunt by himself. As for the openness, it's all about the wealth under the ground!

Qiu Bo will never drive off the road, and will be there soon.

It is said that it is a subtropical grassland. In fact, there are not only grasses on the ground. The coverage rate of woody plants dominated by shrubs is almost half.

Get off, the surface and a lot of exposed mud.

As soon as Xie Jianliang jumped out of the car, he grabbed a handful of soil, distinguished a few times, and found nothing special.

Zhang Nan got out of the car and stepped on the ground under his feet, and said, "It should be right below, here is the center, Jianliang, you stay here for a while, and I will let someone get the smallest drilling rig here in South Africa.

Don't make any gimmicks about finding diamonds, and start work when our own workers arrive in the north. The south side is one kilometer away from the highway. When someone sees it, they use the name of drilling a water well. All the problematic cores are taken away, so don't leave any traces. "

Xie Jianliang carefully looked at the hunting grounds and nearby maps before eating. Hearing this, he immediately said, "Boss, there is 1.5 kilometers away from the drilling boundary."

His subtext is: Boss, after such a calculation, don't tell me that this mine can be compared to the Lake Gera mine in Canada!

A Gera Lake mining area has already caused De Beers a headache, the top giant mine properly!

Zhang Nan didn't answer directly, but gestured around, saying: "1.5 kilometers to the north, one kilometer in each direction in the east and west directions. You don't need to drill too many caves, a dozen or twenty are enough.

Once the diamond-bearing kimberlite is found, it will stop. There is no need to know the reserves and scale. We will have to wait at least six or seven years for this mining area to start.

Also, if there is really high-quality groundwater, it can be used as a well in the future. "

Xie Jianliang expressed his understanding-what the boss said is what he said, don't ask too much.

Besides, he has not been in the "Star Group" for a day or two. I understand that this will be due to the strong intervention of the boss, and the international diamond market is temporarily saturated. Since this side is still breaking hands with De Beers, the output is suddenly too large. Supply will exceed demand.

On the way to the hunting grounds a few days ago, Dean asked Zhang Nan to look at the map where the hunting grounds were located. Zhang Nan found that South Africa on the border of the three countries was either a nature reserve or a private hunting ground. He was in a good mood immediately!

It's so good!

Because when chatting with the retired Xiang Zhangsheng in his previous life, he said that after 2010, De Beers, the former world diamond hegemon, had only 6 diamond mines in South Africa, large and small, and one of them was in the Venetian diamond mine near the border of Botswana and Zimbabwe. The output of De Beers accounts for almost 80% of the output of De Beers' diamond mines in South Africa!

There is a computer and a satellite map-just 20 kilometers south of the border of the three countries, there is a huge "scar" on the surface!

Based on the T-shaped border of the Three Kingdoms, the location of the diamond mine is extremely simple.

This is the Venetian Forest Mine. The "scar" is nearly 6 kilometers in length and 5 kilometers in width. It is a huge rectangle on the satellite map!

Xie Jianliang said that since the peak production period, the mining area has nearly 1,000 employees, and the annual output of diamonds is at least 1.5 tons, most of which are gem-grade!

Not carats, not grams, not kilograms, but tons!

There are 12 diamond-bearing kimberlite pipes discovered by De Beers just below the land where Zhang Nan is standing ~www.readwn.com, and they are named the Venetian Forest Cluster.

The most crazy thing is that in this nearly 30 square kilometers mining area, only two rock pipes, K1 and K2, were being produced at that time-even starting in 2010, these two rock pipes will be in full production for at least 25 years!

Two rock tubes account for the vast majority of De Beers' diamond production in South Africa!

As for other rock pipes, although relatively small, from the existing mining area all the way to the north, one finger is distributed to a location less than 2 kilometers away from the national park, which means that all the rock pipes are now more than 300 pieces bought by Zhang Nan Within square kilometers of land.

Two rock pipes of 30 square kilometers?

"Peace" mine is not so exaggerated.

The smaller Kimberley rock pipe is different from the Canadian mining area. Many rock pipes have multiple magma intrusions, resulting in various types of Kimberley mining operations. As a result, The mining area looks like a mix of two different types of diamond mines in Zimbabwe and Canada by Zhang Nan.