America's Road to Fame

Chapter 353 The $42 Billion Gold Mine
Compared with before William Chen left, Atlanta Island has undergone great changes.

William Chen felt this from the moment he set foot on the temporary pier. The storage area next to the temporary pier was at least twice as large as before, and the road surface of the temporary pier was directly connected to the nearby Atlanta Ring Road.

Up to now, the road around the island has been built to the southern end of Atlanta, and half of the project has been completed, that is, the eastern half of the road around the island of Atlanta, and the eastern half of Atlanta will also be in the next few years. The main area of ​​construction on Tran Island.

The road around the island goes west from the temporary pier. At this time, it has only been built to the position of the Freeport, passing through the natural gas power station built by Huaguo in the middle, which is to facilitate the construction of the Freeport.

In another half a year, the 10-ton berth of the Freeport will be completed, which can be regarded as the first phase of the Freeport project.The 30-ton berth of the second phase of the project will be built next, and the entire project will be completed in about three years.

After passing the temporary pier to the intersection of the road around the island, and continuing to the south, it is the first residential area of ​​Atlan Island under construction. In this residential area, two 33-story residential buildings were built with Japanese aid. At this time Two-thirds of the project has been completed, and there are still two months left before the top is about to be capped and the final decoration stage will be entered.

In this residential area, half of the 10 21-storey high-rise apartment buildings under construction have already been capped and have entered the decoration stage, and half of them will be capped in two months.

When these apartment buildings are completed, it means that all Atlanta staff and builders who continue to live in the temporary camp will be able to move out of there and live in these apartments.

This is also one of the things that everyone on Atlanta is most concerned about at this time.

Between this residential area and the largest temporary camp next to it is a large supermarket - SP Supermarket, which is also the first and only large supermarket on the island of Atlanta.

Since the construction of a supermarket is much simpler than that of a residence, it is basically just a simple filling after the frame is built, so the construction speed is very fast. At present, the supermarket has started to operate, providing rich and complete commodities for the people on the island.

On the opposite side of the SP supermarket is Atlanta No. [-] cafeteria. This cafeteria provides meals for the entire northern residential area of ​​Atlanta and the construction site. People nearby can come to eat directly.For places a little farther away from here, meals will also be delivered regularly.

The No. [-] cafeteria occupies an area larger than the SP Supermarket. After all, thousands of people on the island now need to provide food here, and the dishes are rich, ranging from Chinese food to Western food, from steak to seafood.

In addition, at the southern end of Atlanta, there is also a slightly smaller No. [-] canteen, which provides three meals a day for the construction site at the southern end.

To the south of No. 50 canteen is the TC Freedom Building invested by TC Commercial Management Company, which is under construction. The [-]-story building has already reached one-third of the construction progress and is expected to be completed in half a year. Provide Tru Hotel and office buildings for Atlantis.

Continuing to the south, at the end of the current road construction, there is the management committee building of Atlanta Island. This building is 10 stories high. The interior decoration has just been completed, including the Atlanta Management Committee, SP Telecom Organizations and companies, such as the SP Power Company and the Atlanta Water Company, have begun to settle in and carry out work.

At this time, because of the basic road network in Atlanta, part of it has been built, so you can also see that there are many vehicles driving on the road.

From the ring road near the temporary pier to the southern tip of Atlanta, along the east half of the ring road, about 10 kilometers, you can see the highland facing the sea in the northeast of Atlanta. Underground tunnels go through.

And next to this tunnel, another tunnel is also being dug. This tunnel is prepared for the light rail around the island in the future.

On this highland, there is already a road that bypasses the highland and leads to the highland.

And next to the cliff on the highland facing the sea, William Chen's future residence, a sci-fi mansion called "City of Liberty", has already begun construction.

This villa is based on the Stark sea view villa in "Iron Man 3" he had seen in his previous life, and the villa group has been perfected by the world's top design company. The construction and decoration will be completed within one year, and he will be able to move in.

At that time, the entire highland will be off-limits to outsiders. Under the highlands, the guards of the Southern Cross Security Company will be stationed to defend the "City of Liberty". A surface-to-air missile system purchased will also be installed on the other side of the high ground to guard the sky of the "City of Liberty".

On the road around the island, pass through the tunnel in the highland, continue to drive south for about 15 kilometers, and go west at a T-junction, which is the road leading to the temporary airport.

The temporary airport has been built and put into operation, which also makes the external traffic of Atlanta more convenient. Although there are no flights yet, many people still need to take a boat to Atlanta through the airport of Malus Island. But William Chen's Gulfstream G550, as well as Ivanta and Paris's Bombardier Challenger 850, have been able to take off and land on a runway of more than 2000 meters here.

Next, South Pacific Industrial Investment Corporation plans to order four CRJ900 medium-sized airliners from Bombardier to form South Pacific (SP) Airlines, one of which will open the Atlanta-Hawaii-New York flight, and the other will open the Atlanta -Dubai-London flight, one is the Atlanta-Papua New Zealand-Australia-New Zealand route, and the other is the Atlanta-Lijiapo-Tokyo-HK-Modu flight.

Of course, with such a plan, SP Aviation will definitely owe it in the early stage, but for the development of Atlanta Island, convenient and fast transportation is still needed, and William Chen can still afford it.

Just to the west of the temporary airport is the mountain in the center of Atlanta, named the Central Mountain Range.

The Central Mountain Range is actually a rocky mountain with a maximum altitude of more than 530 meters. Now Atlanta is soliciting design proposals for the "Poseidon Statue" built on the top of the Central Mountain Range from sculpture artists around the world. The $100 million prize, supported by the Atlanta Fund, will require a sculpture of Poseidon, the god of the sea, about 50 meters high, to be built on the top of the central mountain range and become a landmark building in Atlanta.

Of course, only William Chen knew that the function of this sculpture, in addition to being a feature of Atlan Island, attracting tourists, and serving as a symbol of Atlan Island, is also to carry the "Lord's Heart" he got, so that The buff effect of this item covers the whole island.

You know, the landmark building in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Crucifix, is only 38 meters high. Once this statue of Poseidon is completed, it will definitely be more spectacular than that sculpture.

It is worth mentioning that the road to the temporary airport does not end at the temporary airport, but is still extending towards the central mountain range.

Because geologists discovered a gold mine on the side of the temporary airport in the Central Mountain Range, that is, on the east side of the Central Mountain Range. Although the current proven reserves are not as large as those of the super gold mines, they are only about less than 300 million ounces, which is only equivalent to more than one year's output of the world's top-ranked large mining areas, but this is basically an open-pit mine, so mining is extremely difficult.

According to the analysis of geologists, it was the eruption of the volcano, and the magma brought up a gold mine from the ground, so the gold mines here are dense and easy to mine.

If calculated according to the current gold price range of 1400 US dollars per ounce, all these gold mines have been mined, worth 42 billion US dollars!
It's just that because of the cost of mining and smelting, the profit will not be that much, but it is already a huge fortune.

Therefore, after the discovery of this gold mine, the roads here have been prioritized for construction.Moreover, the Atlanta Management Committee attaches great importance to it, and specially mobilized a team of fully armed guards from the Southern Cross Security Company to station it, and the Apache helicopter will also regularly patrol the vicinity every day.

At present, mining equipment has been purchased, and the Atlanta Mining Company has been established, and the gold mine here will be mined soon.

(End of this chapter)