When the four of them were together, they were talking about business matters, and now they were focusing on the little leaf red sandalwood horns and the pile of gold and silver coins.

Black little said: "The corner collision must be kept at the auction. We invited more than twenty Jewish rich people and Middle Eastern royals. Do you still remember Afef? The guy who bought our "Sunset of Montmaros" was also interested. He was waiting to make a lot of money during the spring auction."

"The processing of gold and silver coins is divided into two channels, one is for sale in private, and the other is for auction. The gold and silver coins at auction are either of the poor quality and lower prices, or the quality is the best, and then we are selling the gold and silver coins in the middle, we are selling them privately."

Qin Shiou nodded and said that this is good. He is not very concerned about the auction business now because the fishing grounds have begun to generate income for him. Butler's monthly income exceeds 10 million US dollars. The seafood transformed by Sea God Energy can be regarded as huge profits!

Speaking of business, Billy said that he also had the hope of finding a shipwreck now. His subordinates analyzed the shipwreck information and found a transport ship that sunk in the Somalia waters. It was an early treasure ship in Spain. The ship was covered with roughly purified gold ore. If it could be salvaged, it would definitely make them rich overnight.

"We have been getting rich overnight." Brandon smiled.

Qin Shiou was more concerned about the amount of gold in the ship, so he asked.

Billy stretched out a slap, and Qin Shiou exclaimed: "Five tons?!"

According to the current price of gold, a ton of gold is worth about 40 million US dollars less, and the five tons are only 200 million US dollars. No wonder Billy said they would get rich overnight!

Billy gave him a blank look and said, "What five tons? It's one thousand tons!"

Everyone gasped. Little Black pulled his shoulder and shook hard, "Fak! One thousand tons? One thousand tons, what did you do with five fingers? Are you sure you are not wrong? One thousand tons of gold? More than four billion US dollars?!"

One thousand tons of gold is indeed terrifying. You should know that before the 19th century, because the level of gold productivity in human society was very low, in the thousands of years before that, humans produced a total of less than 10,000 tons of gold. For example, in the 18th century, only 200 tons of gold were produced...

Until the discovery of a series of gold resources in the 19th century, gold production has increased significantly since then, especially in the 50 years of the second half of the 19th century, gold production exceeded the total in the previous 5,000 years.

Today, the world produces about 2,600 tons of mineral gold every year.

However, the reserves of one thousand tons of gold are still terrifying!

Billy then broke their fantasy: "I'm Farke too, brothers. Have you listened to me seriously? Yes, a thousand tons, but that's not purified gold, but a roughly purified gold mine! It's ore!"

Brandon breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I'll just say it. One thousand tons of gold is too terrifying. There is no need to fish out one thousand tons of gold ore, right? Coarse extraction? How far has it been extracted?"

He works as a banker, and the bank needs to reserve gold. The total gold reserved by all banks in Canada is not 1,000 tons.

Gold ore is actually not very valuable. As we all know, South Africa is a traditional gold-producing country. However, at present, one ton of gold ore in South Africa can extract 4 grams of gold on average. Some tons with high grades can extract 10 grams of gold. One ton of low grades can extract 2 grams of gold, and vaults with lower than 2 grams/ton have no mining value.

If these ores are just raw ore, even if the grade is high, a thousand tons are only ten kilograms of gold, which is really too little.

Qin Shiou didn't know much about this, and there were no gold mines in Canada, and his daily living environment was also inconsistent with this aspect, so he asked Brandon what happened to the gold ore.

Brandon explained: "Gold ore refers to ores containing gold elements or gold compounds. They can be processed into gold concentrates or gold ore sand with higher gold content and gold concentrates, and gold concentrates also need to undergo smelting and commissions to become refined gold and gold products."

"Is there any ore with a particularly high gold content?" Qin Shiou asked.

Brandon nodded and said, "There are two types. The first type is the best gold mine, which comes from meteors. Some meteors contain gold, so when they pass through the Earth's atmosphere, the meteors and the atmosphere produce strong friction and violent oxidation and combustion, causing many impurities to be consumed in this process."

"You know, gold is very stable, and it is difficult to react chemically with other substances even at high temperatures. So because the temperature is very high when crossing the atmosphere, higher than the melting point of gold 1063, they will become liquid flowing after landing, attaching to stones or sand and finally cooling to become the best gold mine."

Billy shook his head and said, "The gold content of this kind of gold mine is close to 100%, which is very rare. Once discovered, it will become a treasure privately collected by the people or become a treasure for the country. Of course, the gold mine on the ship is not like this, otherwise I would not care about the armed forces of Somalia and would have gone to catch it long ago!"

Qin Shiou signaled him not to speak for now, and continued to ask Brandon: "What? What does another high-quality gold mine look like?"

Brandon continued: "That is the gold crystal mine, which was formed about 400 million years ago during the orogenic period of the Precambrian Proterozoic region of the Precambrian Proterozoic."

"This kind of gold mine also comes from meteors, but it is not that gold is extracted. It is because large meteors pass through the atmosphere, due to the high temperature, uneven heat, different components of the meteors, and different melting points and gasification points, they will explode."

"After the explosion, the meteor fragments continue to burn, and the impurities are obviously more likely to burn, and the particles left behind are rich in gold. These gold mines are often close to the natural crystal state of gold, presenting an equiaxed crystal system, and a vertical core lattice or semi-fluid shape. They are also very precious. They can become red gold by simply refining!"

Qin Shiou looked at Billy, and Billy shrugged and said, "What do you think of me? The ore in the wreck is not such a top-quality mine."

In this way, Qin Shiou became discouraged and said, "Do you know how much crude extraction has reached?"

Billy said aggrievedly: "Most of the literature at that time were lost. Where did I go to determine the specific information? However, this thousand tons of gold ore can definitely extract at least one or two tons of gold, otherwise there would be no need for Spanish treasure ships to transport them!"

One or two tons of gold can be used, and its value is not less than the horns of the small-leafed red sandalwood. You should not be too greedy or ambitious in life.

Thinking of this, Qin Shiou patted Billy on the shoulder and said, "Okay, man, let your people start working and dig it out."

The proportion smiled awkwardly and said, "Sorry, Qin, you have to come forward first." (To be continued)
Chapter completed!