Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 442 Start digging

The work of applying for an excavation permit was much easier than Liang En imagined. After spending more than 80 euros, Liang En got the mining rights of the over 4000-acre land.

However, it is obviously not enough to have mining rights alone, especially in the current situation, various problems are prone to occur without land ownership.

Liang En speculated maliciously that the Guatemala officials were willing to sell the mining rights of the minerals at such a cheap price. It was very likely that they wanted to leave a hook until the final mining, taking advantage of the inconsistency between land ownership and mining rights to trick Liang En.

But after thinking about it, Liang En felt that this possibility was not very high, because the local officials in charge of this aspect were almost only focused on bribery, and they didn't seem to have any long-term plans.

The reason why the other party was willing to sell the mining rights at a low price was purely because Liang En entrusted these tasks to professionals, and those professionals obviously adopted some methods that may not be legitimate.

However, it is also a fact that the other party does not pay much attention to that piece of land. At least the Guatemalans have never mined that piece of mountain area.

So even if Liang En seriously submitted the survey report on those areas, all the other party did was sell the original license of more than 60 euros to 80 euros.

To be honest, the reason why Liang En was willing to submit the correct survey report was mainly because he was not an American after all, so it is better to follow the rules in some things, so as not to be greedy for petty gains and suffer big losses.

This is especially true when Liang En and the others have a sufficiently strong background, because when using dirty tricks is useless, the opponent is likely to find a way to attack them from this angle.

Fortunately, after waiting here for about a week, other people also came here to start buying the land of those mines. Of course, a group of professional prospectors came with them.

As these prospectors continued their investigation work, mines were gradually unearthed. At the same time, everyone also figured out the scale of the mine that Liang En and the others discovered before.

According to the search situation of those professional geological team members, they found that the pure jadeite reserves of the mine were at least tens of thousands of tons, and the ancient Maya's century-old excavation did not even dig out 1/10 of the amount.

In addition, there is also a large amount of emeralds in the river that flows through the mining area. Due to the impact of long-term water flow, some of them have been worn away by the friction between the water flow and the rocks in the river. texture.

Unlike Burmese jade, Guatemalan jade is generally rougher and less delicate than traditional Burmese jade.At the same time, the whole is a bit gray, not as beautiful as Burmese jade.

But this does not mean that all Guatemalan jadeites are low-grade. In the Guatemalan jadeite family, there are also high-quality varieties with water reaching above ice, which are not inferior to Burmese jadeite.

But like Burmese jadeite, Guatemalan jadeite is also rich in color, including green, purple, blue, black and multi-color series, and these geological team members have found corresponding samples from the river.

Among them, the most valuable is high-quality blue water jadeite, followed by green jadeite, but most of these jadeites contain omphacite, which makes the overall jadeite color black.

Fortunately, for Liang En and the others, they did not intend to disguise the Burmese jade to sell fakes when they mined this jadeite, so this situation was not too bad for him, and it could even be used as a special selling point of this jadeite to show and Burmese jadeite is different.

For example, Liang En is now starting to draft a set of jade jewelry with Guatemalan jade as the main material, and then launch this jade brand all at once.

In addition to large-scale exploration, everyone also began to sit down and distribute the shares of these mines. Because Liang En himself was the convener of this gathering, he was responsible for the intermediate coordination work here.

Fortunately, the minerals here are only gemstone mines rather than important energy mines or metal mines. Therefore, although everyone has some disputes, the overall coordination process is relatively harmonious.

The result of the negotiation is that everyone set up a mining company in Guatemala to mine this mine, and each party has a share in this company that matches what he paid, and Liang En got a fixed 12.5% ​​of the shares.

You must know that the land owned by Liang En and the others almost monopolizes the emerald mines in Guatemala. In this case, 12.5% ​​of the shares is already a huge income.

It was also during this period that the mine started small-scale trial production, and three tons of jadeite were mined from multiple exploration points in more than a week. Next, Liang En's first batch of Guatemalan jadeite jewelry will use this A batch of emeralds are used as raw materials.

According to Liang En's plan, the theme of this batch of jewelry will be the ancient Central American Indian culture, and he will combine those traditional Mayan carvings with modern ones to design a set of jewelry.

Of course, besides investing in this ancient emerald mine this time, Liang En also spent 100 million euros plus the 2.5% annual dividends from the emerald mine from his own profits to make the White Knight Security Company his own business. .

The reason why he bought this security company was because Liang En realized that he might go to some dangerous places in the future, so some private armed forces would be very important to him.

After all, sometimes he wants more than one or two enemies. It is obviously of practical value to have some professional armed personnel as helpers when facing a group of enemies.

What Liang En didn't expect was that the plan to acquire the security company went smoothly, because the retired major who ran the industry realized that he was better at military than business operations.

So he happily sold the security company with a sum of money from Liang En, and then continued to work in the company as the company's military commander.

The first task of this security company after its establishment is to train a security team for this emerald ore producing area, and undertake the security work of mining in the future.

What's interesting is that the highest command of the security team that was finally trained was placed in the hands of Liang En, because the several parties he called this time agreed that only by placing it with Liang En can the final fairness be guaranteed.

In this way, the villages and towns around the mine, such as the town Liang En and the others went to last time, quickly benefited. After all, security personnel still need a lot of locals.

And these natives living in the village are obviously more reliable than those guys in the city with unclear backgrounds, not to mention that for the White Knight Security Company, there is also an insider on their own side, who can judge who is more reliable.

"Thank you!" The former veteran of the French Foreign Legion, code-named Bucks, came to Liang En specifically to thank him before he left, "You are different from those Americans, I believe you will bring lasting prosperity to us -"

The reason why the other party thanked Liang En was simple. With the mining of the mine, miners, security personnel, and service personnel were naturally needed here. These personnel must be recruited from the local area first.

Considering the high fertility rate in Central America, one of the biggest local problems is the excess labor force, and the new industry can just digest that labor force and promote local development.

(End of this chapter)