The harvest is very big, very big, even Zhang Nan, who knew the result early, was very excited and enjoyed the real fun of digging treasures!

After a simple dinner, everyone rested, but arranged someone to be on duty at night, so I was worried that the third watch in the middle of the night would give you a bear!

There are lakes nearby, but there are plenty of migratory birds in the island's central west, and Kwan and Paul found quite a few of them, which attract predators. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Bears and wolves have not been found on the island, but foxes have been found, and the animals can swim, and it is only forty meters from the shore of the lake, and the lake is also shallow, so you have to be careful.

Paul even spotted a small herd of wild reindeer, but it would be a no-hunting period, and although the place where the birds didn't poop was left unattended, it was still private land, and Paul didn't shoot.

Law-abiding good citizens?

In fact, it is too time-consuming to resist coming back, and I am too lazy to move.

If it was in the cold season, it would be different, and on this private land, even if he didn't get a few special hunting licenses, Paul would probably kill a few stag and come back.

The tent is lit up, you don't have to sleep on the floor, there are light camp beds, and there is a lot of humidity in the summer, so you still have to make yourself comfortable if you can.

At this moment, Nicole was lying down, and suddenly she couldn't sleep, not only because of the wind outside, but also because of the sound of wild animals wafting from afar.

It's so quiet that any sound can come far away.

"Alan, going north tomorrow?"

Zhang Nan also just wanted to sleep, and when he heard Nicole's words, he said, "Zhang Sheng, Chen Hao, and Zach will stay here, let's go to the north to have a look." When I come back in one day, the diamonds will not run in the ground, and I will wait for the official mining of this side of the mine to prepare for the start of work there.

All of a sudden, the money is smashed in, the market is easy to saturate, let's take it step by step. I'd like to survey the Australian mining areas sooner, at least the geography there would be much better than this bird's place. ”

"When are you looking for Manu Jain and them to come and have a look?"

Zhang Nan is very bad, this mine under his feet alone will make Indians like Manu Jayin crazy with joy, and the interests of Zhang Nan's diamond mine will only make them participate in investing in this mining area.

When their own diamond group matures, other mines will not let Indians take shares!

What you want to build is a diamond empire!

But now we still need to borrow from the Indians, Zhang Nan said: "I think the beginning of September is about the same, originally I thought that it would be very cold here until the end of September, but it turned out that it will not be considered winter until November, and there is no time." ”

"You're going to Australia?"

"I'm not interested, I'll talk about it in a few months, I want to take a break, or go to Africa. ”

"You'd better not go to Zimbabwe during this time, there was a truce between the two heads at the beginning of the year, and it will be settled down, and if you want to go, let Thomas send someone. ”

Zimbabwe is unstable, it just became independent eight years ago, and as a result, two years ago, there was another fight between its own people, all of which was caused by this power.

However, this year there has been a truce, and it will be safe to wait any longer.

"I'm going to Botswana, I'm going to South Africa, and finally I'm going to Antwerp. In fact, we are all laymen in the diamond industry, and we need to understand it, otherwise a little fluctuation in the industry will cost us a lot of money in the future. ”

Nicole heard that a trip to Antwerp was needed, but it was a little difficult to understand why she was going to Botswana.

"Alan, Botswana is De Beers' territory. ”

"It's okay, De Beers isn't covering the sky over there, I'm just going around in the guise of hunting, and there are a few diamond mines there that De Beers can't hold. ”

I don't want to fight with Deer Bess right now, but I can't let go of the "benefits of picking up for nothing" that suddenly came to mind, at least go to occupy the territory first!

Just as he was having dinner, Zhang Nan thought of going to South Africa and Antwerp to see the exchanges there, and then he thought of the Cullinan diamond in South Africa, and the second largest diamond in the world that was dug up from Botswana.

The first largest rough diamond in history, second only to the Cullinan diamond, should have weighed more than 1,100 carats, and then something important suddenly occurred to me: the diamond was dug up by a Canadian diamond company in Botswana.

Not Canada, not Botswana's own diamond company!

There are no well-known diamond companies in Canada, and the diamond company that got the giant diamond is very famous, which means that the mine has not yet been discovered.

The company doesn't exist yet, and the mine they discovered is "non-existent" today!

And the mine is very interesting - in the middle is a small town, fifty or sixty kilometers away is a huge saltwater lake, and around the town there are three huge diamond fields, in a triangular distribution.

Each mining area is only 10, 15, 20 kilometers away from the town, right on the three corners of the triangle, which is very memorable!

Zhang Nan can't remember what the name of the town is, but as long as he gives him a map of Botswana, it will take him a few minutes at most to find the town: the lake is really large, and it will be clearly marked on the map of Botswana.

Moreover, near the saltwater lake was a huge salt marsh area, several times the size of the saltwater lake, and the town was twenty or thirty kilometers south of the salt marsh area, and the land was extremely barren, and all around it was desert.

It is estimated that it will not cost a lot of money to go there to enclose the land.

What Zhang Nan decided, there was usually no way to pull it back, so Nicole could only say: "Pay attention to safety, and bring more people when the time comes." ”

"Thomas's side has already started to recruit troops, and I think that as soon as we have manpower, we will first mobilize a group of people to take care of our mining area here, at least someone who lives in Yellowknife City for a long time, and I will check here every time. ”

"Yes. ”

Nicole also thinks this is needed.

It's actually easy to find someone to garrison, a few cold-proof huts in each mining area, and three or five people in each place are enough.

You can also get a small single-engine seaplane to be placed in the mining area, and you can also use it as a means of transportation in case of emergency.

In winter, it is not a big problem, and those small seaplanes can take off and land on ice or flat snow as long as they are paddled.

Zhang Nan was a little sleepy, and finally said a few words: "The development is also next year's at the earliest, if it goes well, we will transport some materials in this winter, even if there is no ice highway, and finally those off-road trucks can come over hundreds of kilometers, and the freight is trivial."

Lao Xie and Lao Tang have stayed in Canada for the past few months, just so that those four pilots can be their helpers, so as not to be idle.

Back in Yellowknife, see if you can buy two second-hand seaplanes and rent a hangar. ”

"It's all trivial. By the way, Alan, you don't have to go to Angola as soon as your brain is hot, there is still a war going on there. ”

What's in Angola?

Blood Diamonds!

Although the Western community has begun to condemn "conflict diamonds", rough diamond traders are still buying large quantities of blood diamonds, and generally have their own agents in conflict areas.

Nicole was worried that her man's brain would have a little convulsion, so she went to Angola to buy some large rough diamonds: the rough diamonds there were top-quality, and the Anglo-American-backed side was also selling diamonds, and the prices were cheap, but they really couldn't do it.

My own man has a crazy desire to collect treasures, and Nicole is really worried about his brain convulsions!

"Rest assured, the Cubans and South Africans are still there, and I'm not interested in taking risks. Late, slept. ”

It has been more than 10 years, and Angola is still fighting! That war was the most intense war on the continent of Africa, and the Soviet Union, the West, and Cuba ...... It's a mess there, and Zhang Nan is not interested in participating now.

Moreover, even after the withdrawal of foreign troops, the civil war in Angola will continue to be fought by its own people until 2002.

Let's fight, let's fight, it's a big deal to wait for your diamond business to get on track, send people to that war-torn place to buy diamonds, set up agents, anyway, Dalebis and some other large and small diamond dealers are doing this, and there is no clean person in this industry.

After saying that, I turned off the lights, and it was already dark outside, and it would be midnight, but soon the sun would come out again.

I was so sleepy that I didn't even have the heart to see the aurora.

......

It was definitely the right choice to bring a military tent this time, because this thing was basically opaque, and Zhang Nan was awakened by the sound of explosions the next day.

The experts were so excited that it turned out to be the old habit of getting up at dawn and starting work.

In order to avoid disturbing other people's rest, Xiang Zhangsheng first went to a place a kilometer away to investigate.

Zhang Nan woke up at 9 o'clock, and the experts had been working for hours!

Washing his face and brushing his teeth, he asked Tang Jichao who came over by the way: "Old Tang, how is it?"

Tang Jichao smiled and said, "Boss, it's only been six hours, and we have roughly measured that there should be two rock tubes here." ”

As he spoke, he stepped on his feet and said, "We will camp on the edge of a larger rock tube, which is almost 900 meters in diameter, and it is definitely a super large kimberlite rock tube."

It's hard to imagine, boss, how many diamonds can be produced from such a super-large bonanza!"

"How about the little one?"

Tang Jichao walked to the side and said: "It is less than 200 meters away from the edge of this rock tube, which is the one that Lao Xie found yesterday, with a diameter of about 600 meters, and it also belongs to a large rock tube." ”

The approximate size was measured in 6 hours, which is super fast!--The kimberlite tube looks like a stuffed crater, basically round.

Depending on the state of the rocks on the ground, the approximate diameter can be measured by several people walking back and forth.

The soil layer covered here is almost thin, and it is easy to tell the state of the rock formation.

After chatting with Tang Jichao about his next plan, Lao Tang had no opinion at all about his temporary stay in the wasteland area - there are planes for logistics support, and the weather is still lukewarm, and the conditions are much better than the previous prospecting in the Great Northwest!

I was just about to talk to Lao Xie to talk to him, but I saw Xie Jianliang and Karimi running faster than rabbits.

"Boss, it's done!"

What to send?

Looking at the things in Xie Jianliang's hand, Zhang Nan couldn't help but say: "Is there a mistake!"