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Supreme Golden Pupils - Chapter 537 Brilliant Prospects

As for the Tavan Tolgoi coal mine, which should have been discovered in 08, it is even more remarkable!The approximate reserve of the main mining area is 64 billion tons, of which 18 billion tons are the main coking coal, and the other 46 billion tons are high-quality thermal coal. These figures are relatively reliable, but Ling Shaonan guessed it before. According to the theory of coal seam formation, these high-quality coals are absolutely impossible to exist in isolation, and there must be coal seams nearby, and the reserves will never be small.

The facts also confirmed Ling Shaonan's guess. In the past few months, the exploration team of the Northern Mining Group has discovered several large and medium-sized coal mines, with a total reserve of more than one billion tons!Of course, the quality of these coal mines is lower than that of the main mining area, but their value is also calculated in billions of dollars.

In this way, the value of the Taben Tolgoi mining area is not much worse than the copper-gold mine of Oyu Tolgoi, and it is also a scale of more than 1000 billion U.S. dollars. After a few years, it can soar to 4000 billion or [-] billion, or even more!In other words, the combination of the two major mining areas of Ta Ben Tolgoi and Oyu Tolgoi will create nearly one trillion US dollars of wealth for Lingtian Investment Group in the next few decades. "Gold Mountain" is not enough to describe them !

With such a huge wealth, it is no wonder that Liu Chenghong is so nervous. No matter who knows the news, it is impossible to remain indifferent.Even Ling Shaonan had already been mentally prepared, his eyes lit up when he saw those numbers that seemed to be shining with golden light, as if he saw a golden mountain smashing towards him!

Needless to say, the value of gold mines, although its average price in the international market has been hovering at more than $0 per ounce in the past two years, occasionally jumping from the $300 line, but in 11, the international gold price It soared to more than $1800 an ounce, approaching $1900, an increase of nearly seven times!Although there is a factor of depreciation of the US dollar, it is an indisputable fact that the price of gold has risen sharply.

In addition to investment factors, gold is also a very good store of value.

After entering the new century, the U.S. dollar has been slowly depreciating due to inflation. After the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, its depreciation rate increased sharply, and its purchasing power has dropped by more than half compared with the present. The currencies of major countries have experienced varying degrees of depreciation. At this time, it is undoubtedly a very uneconomical thing to hold a large amount of cash in your hands.

Therefore, in the past few years, Ling Shaonan has been slowly acquiring gold in the international gold market, just because Lingtian Investment Group is in the development stage and does not have much spare money, so the acquisition speed is relatively slow, and it has not attracted much attention. .

Compared with gold, although the heavy metal copper is not so eye-catching, and it is not as tight as oil, it plays a pivotal role in the industry. The manufacture of cables and many electronic components is inseparable from this metal.Moreover, copper has relatively small reserves in nature, and its strategic position in global economic development is self-evident, and it can be called a "hidden boss".

In recent years, with the economic development of China, which is in an important stage of "industrialization" and "urbanization", the consumption of copper has been increasing at a rate of at least 6% per year, accounting for more than a quarter of the total copper consumption in the world. , ranking first in the world. At the same time, domestic copper production is relatively weak, and consumption is more than one-third dependent on foreign countries. It is the variety with the lowest self-sufficiency rate among the bulk metals needed in China.

Under such circumstances, the domestic thirst for copper resources in Mongolia is naturally very urgent.

In the domestic copper demand structure, the power industry accounts for the largest share, about half, mainly used for wires and cables, transformers, switches, connectors, etc., among which wires and cables are the largest copper consumers.

It is also reported that in the next few years, the investment scale of the State Electricity Corporation will have a large increase. Not only will the power construction be a big leader, but it will also increase the distribution of substations in urban centers and rural areas, and strive to solve the power supply bottleneck problem and improve the reliability of power supply.

The investment in urban power transformation and improvement of rural power construction will exceed tens of billions of yuan, more than double that of the same period last year. The progress of large-scale investment projects in the power industry will undoubtedly have a huge boost to domestic copper demand.

In addition, the home appliance industry is also a large copper consumer in China, and air conditioners alone account for about [-]% of domestic copper consumption.In recent years, the status of the domestic home appliance industry has become increasingly prominent, and the degree of dependence on foreign trade has also continued to increase. Naturally, the demand for copper is quite large.

All kinds of situations show that the domestic production of metal copper is far from meeting the market demand, and has become a major problem affecting domestic construction, and the commissioning of the Oyu Tolgoi Copper and Gold Mine can solve the problem of China's economic development in a big way. An important bottleneck, to put it mildly, would bring Ling Shaonan exceptionally rich profits.

After all, the important position of non-ferrous metals in the world economic circle will become more obvious in the next few years, and the international copper price will also strengthen all the way. This prospect is very clear.

Similar to the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine, the Tavan Tolgoi coal mine is also very important.The most interesting part of this coal mine is coking coal, which is an indispensable and important raw material for the steel industry. As the world economy continues to heat up in the next few years, the demand for steel in various countries, especially China, has been increasing The rapid increase has led to a situation where the international coking coal market has been in short supply. Entering the market under such circumstances will undoubtedly bring extremely lucrative profits to Lingtian Investment Group.

In addition to main coking coal, high-quality steam coal is also in short supply in China.In the next few years, with the rapid development of the economy, a large number of thermal power plants will be built across the country. In many industrially developed areas in the south, during the peak production season in spring and summer, power cuts will often occur.

The power cuts are due to the lack of power, and the root cause of the power shortage is the shortage of raw coal resources needed by thermal power plants.

To be honest, China is also a big coal-producing country, with abundant coal reserves, but like iron ore, the quality of domestic coal is relatively poor, lacking that kind of high-quality coal, and modern thermal power units are very expensive. If the quality of the raw coal does not improve and the heat emitted is not enough, it is very likely that the machine will be damaged.

At present, most of the high-quality coal mines discovered in the Northeast of China have been exploited. Although the Xinjiang Province in the Northwest also produces coal, most of the coal produced is low-calorie and low-quality coal, and the thermal power unit cannot be used at all.The quality of coal in Jin Province is good, and it can produce a lot of thermal coal every year. In addition, some high-quality coal mines in Inner Mongolia have been discovered one after another, but such high-quality coal is just a drop in the bucket. How can it be used by so many thermal power plants in China?

Therefore, once the high-quality thermal coal of Ta Ben Tolgoi is transported to China, it will immediately become a hot commodity of major thermal power companies, and Ling Shaonan does not need to worry about sales at all.

In fact, in the original history, the Tavan Tolgoi coal mine was first discovered by Chinese businessmen.A few years later, under the background of China's resource prices continued to rise, many smart businessmen from the south went north to Jin Province and Inner Mongolia to find mineral deposits suitable for investment.

After earning some money, these businessmen who knew the shortage of domestic coal mines turned their attention to Mongolia again, and started their mining journey in Mongolia.

In the beginning, they just found some small coal mines and bought mining rights. Later, as they earned more money, their ambitions became bigger and bigger. They simply concentrated their efforts and started large-scale exploration, and finally discovered by accident The Tavan Tolgoi Coal Mine, known as the largest shallow coal mine in Asia.

Then the story became very Chinese. After hearing the news, several yamen in the center of the capital, out of greed, forced them to buy shares in this coal mine. However, the merchants in Huaxia did not dare to resist, so they had to hold their noses and admit it. In line with the idea of ​​making a fortune silently, he did not report the news of the discovery of this coal mine to the Mongolian government, thinking that he could make a lot of money quietly and not make a scene known to the world.

But these businessmen overestimated the IQ of their partners. After making a fortune, the flamboyant characters of the princelings could no longer be suppressed. Some princes are dissatisfied.Mongolia is their territory, how many things can they hide from them if they want to find out?Soon, the Mongolian princes discovered the secrets of the Chinese merchants.

The next thing became very simple. The Mongolian government directly issued a decree to nationalize the proven coal mine with the best quality and largest reserves in Asia, and then immediately cooperated with Citigroup of the United States to carve up All interests of this coal mine.

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It took half an hour to read the exploration report carefully, and Ling Shaonan went through the above information in his mind again, quickly analyzing the pros and cons of various pros and cons, and finally sorted out his thoughts completely, and sat up straight suddenly Body, looking directly at Liu Chenghong: "Two questions. First, how many people have read this exploration report in total, how many know all of it, and how many know some of it?"

Seeing Ling Shaonan's serious face, Liu Chenghong, who had just relaxed, couldn't help becoming more cautious, and after thinking for a while, he replied affirmatively: "The only people who have read all the reports are you and me! The heads of the company's several exploration teams Although I know some, it’s only part of it, and I have already strictly ordered these people not to disclose the information to anyone, including several vice presidents of the company!"

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