"Well, brother, I sincerely admire your bravery!" Seeing that Guo Xiang was not interested, Yang Jing could only make jokes.
Guo Xiang waved her hand lazily, "Forget it, no, I'm going to sleep. After a good sleep, I'll be a brave man again tomorrow morning. Oh, by the way, Lao Yang, where are your bodyguards? If you go there, you'd better bring your bodyguards with you."
"Oh..." Yang Jing was stunned for a moment, "They won't arrive until tomorrow, so I will wait until they arrive before setting off there."
"Brother, I advise you to do this. Without bodyguards to protect you, even if my father asks you to go, you'd better not act rashly. Okay, let's stop talking about this. It's almost two o'clock. Go to sleep."
Listening to Guo Xiang's snoring as she fell asleep, Yang Jing couldn't fall asleep.
The conversation late at night made Yang Jing feel that the fat brother who only knew how to eat, drink and have fun back then has really matured a lot now.
It is estimated that he had not told his father Guo Dabao about his encounter with cannibals and his hiking exploration in the rain forest tonight. Guo Xiang had silently borne all these things by herself.
Yang Jing crossed his hands behind his head, staring at the ceiling, with countless thoughts running through his mind.
Even though he had been mentally prepared before coming here, after hearing Guo Xiang's words tonight, he realized that he had still underestimated the danger of this island.
The world's second largest island is not only rich in resources, but also extremely dangerous. It can be said to be an island where risks and opportunities coexist.
Irian is a large island with very active geological activities. The large amount of geological activities has also brought many high-quality and large quantities of mineral resources to the island.
Irian Island is located in the Pacific Ring of Fire, where the southern edge of the stable Indo-Australian Plate and the northern edge of the Pacific Plate meet, forming a unique geological structure and rich mineral resources. Over the past hundreds of millions of years, due to the collision of the northward-moving Indo-Australian Plate and the westward-moving Pacific Plate, Irian Island has undergone uplift and compression deformation, forming rich mineral resources.
Guo Xiang's investigation this time was not without results. As he said, whether it was true or not, the mineral resources here were really rich. Especially the mineral resource survey that Guo Xiang got from the United States Geological Survey for the Papua New Guinea government. If Yang Jing had not seen it with his own eyes, he really would not have believed that Papua New Guinea, which occupied half of Irian Island, would have such rich mineral resources.
You should know that Papua New Guinea only occupies half of Irian Island, but on this half of the island, the proven mineral resources include metal minerals such as gold, copper, nickel, cobalt, silver, aluminum, bauxite, and energy minerals such as oil and natural gas. Among them, the gold reserve is 1,300 tons, the copper ore reserve is 944 million tons, the copper-gold co-existing ore reserve is about 400 million tons, the crude oil reserve is 576 million barrels, and the natural gas reserve is 6.25 trillion cubic feet.
This country has a land area of only more than 300,000 square kilometers. In China, this area is not even as large as that of Nanyun Province, but the mineral resources it contains are truly amazing.
In fact, it is not just the half of the island occupied by Papua New Guinea, but also the western half occupied by Indonesia, which is also extremely rich in mineral resources. For example, the Grasberg copper and gold mine alone is known as the world's largest gold mine and the third largest copper mine.
The Grasberg copper-gold mine is located in a mountainous area only seven kilometers west of Puncak Jaya, the highest peak in Oceania. The edge of the mine pit of this copper-gold mine is close to four thousand meters above sea level. The huge mine pit with a diameter of more than one kilometer can be seen from space. The snow-covered Puncak Jaya next to it is adjacent to this huge mine pit, forming an extremely spectacular scene.
The Grasberg copper-gold mine is located in the western half of the Central Mountains, while in the Male Mountains in the eastern half of the Central Mountains, that is, Enga Province in Papua New Guinea, there are also gold mines like Porgera with reserves of more than 400 tons.
Yes, although the Central Mountain Range is dangerous, while nature created this dangerous environment, it also left this mountain range with huge wealth, that is, a large number of precious metal-rich veins.
In fact, in Papua New Guinea, there are now more than 60,000 families who make a living by panning for gold in the Male Mountains. It is worth mentioning that this kind of gold panning is not employed by a mining company, but these families are scattered in various locations in the Male Mountains, panning for gold privately. This is enough to prove how rich the precious metals are in this mountain range.
It's just that the current government of Papua New Guinea is not strong enough to conduct detailed surveys of this mountain range that stores rich mineral veins, let alone reasonable mining of the Male Mountains.
The water resources in Papua New Guinea are now seriously polluted because these private gold miners use extremely poor gold mining techniques - the pollution of water resources caused by precious metal smelting is quite serious.
Now, it is estimated that the Papua New Guinea government has also realized the seriousness of the private occupation of national resources, and has begun to successively issue a number of policies that are conducive to foreign capital in mineral development, including lowering tax rates and tariffs on mineral resources.
Just like this time when China is preparing to carry out mineral development in Papua New Guinea, these four private mining companies are at the forefront.
In fact, Yang Jing knew very well that these four private mining companies were backed by the top leaders of China. These four private mining companies were just exploring the way forward. Once they felt that Papua New Guinea was really worth investing in, the big players would immediately move into Papua New Guinea.
No matter what the higher-ups think, now that I am a major shareholder of Rongbao Mining, I have to be responsible for this rare opportunity.
What if we could find a world-class precious metal mine like the Grasberg copper and gold mine here?
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