50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 522 The Huang Family Takes Flight

The navigator happily accepted the tip, then asked for leave over the walkie-talkie before leading Sun Zhiwei into the inland waterway.

Under his guidance, Sun Zhiwei slowly navigated the city's waterways in the speedboat. Turning left and right intermittently, the journey appeared long, but the speed was actually quite fast.

A dozen minutes later, Sun Zhiwei moored the speedboat at the private inland river dock in Huang Family Manor.

His arrival was warmly received by the Huang family. Sun Zhiwei was very sensitive to this change. In the past, the Huang family had been very welcoming when he came to visit, but this time they were especially welcoming.

As he entered the Huang family estate, he enveloped the entire manor with his spatial energy. He quickly learned from the casual conversations of the people in the manor about the tremendous changes that had taken place in the Huang family within the past month.

Firstly, many of Huang's direct descendants entered officialdom. Besides Huang Huizhong's willingness to spend money, there was another important reason for this.

That was Huang Huizhong's cousin, Huang Taining, who became his first secretary after Deputy Mayor Budiman was promoted to mayor.

This was Mayor Budiman's way of repaying Huang Taining. At the time, the city government meeting was attacked by a bomb, and Huang Taining rescued the unconscious Budiman and other survivors from the fire.

Such a life-saving grace cannot be repaid in any way.

Almost all of the Hatto faction's members in Pontianak City Hall were wiped out this time, and the other survivors would have become suspects.

However, subsequent investigations at the scene revealed that they were simply lucky not to be seated in the most prominent positions; otherwise, the city government would have been completely wiped out.

As a result, a few days later, these marginal faction members successfully seized power in Pontianak, and Huang Taining's promotion was not hindered in any way.

The position of the mayor's first secretary is almost equivalent to a position second only to the mayor in the city government.

Although Huang Taining is not the head of a municipal government agency, he often represents the mayor and wields considerable implicit power.

With this, the path to advancement for the Chinese in Pontianak's officialdom was completely opened.

Only Huang Huizhong knew that all of this was due to Sun Zhiwei's guidance, or even his direct planning and actions.

Of course, the latter point was just a guess, but he felt it was pretty close to the truth.

But he didn't dare to tell the truth. He could only emphasize to his family that all these changes in the Huang family and even the Chinese community came from Sun Zhiwei's planning and help.

This is why the Huang family showed such extraordinary enthusiasm when Sun Zhiwei arrived.

Sun Zhiwei rested at the Huang family's house for a day, and the next day, led by Huang Hongxuan, he went to the diamond mine.

The diamond mine is located 50 kilometers south of the iron ore mine; from a distance, it actually appears as a small, recessed hill.

Having seen so many diamond mines and listened to numerous explanations in Botswana, Sun Zhiwei now has a better understanding of the conditions for diamond formation.

This place was clearly a small volcanic crater a long time ago, but over time, the crater gradually weathered and became shorter, forming the current landscape.

Following Huang Hongxuan into the mining area, Sun Zhiwei unfolded the space, and the deep geological conditions of the entire mining area came into view.

Indeed, just as he predicted, this is also a kimberlite-type barrel-shaped ore vein. The cross-section of the vein is a circular shape with a large ring of 600 meters and a small ring of 200 meters, with a depth of only over 300 meters.

However, the mine was of very low quality, and no diamonds larger than 5 carats were found. 5 carats is about the size of the home button on an iPhone.

Moreover, these diamonds have very poor purity, and can basically only be sold to factories for industrial use. As synthetic diamond technology has matured, the price of industrial diamonds has been plummeting, so it's safe to say that this mine hasn't made much money in recent years.

Huang Hongxuan has already reorganized the diamond mine this month.

It turns out that all the supervisors and other personnel have been dismissed. The workers originally mined by hand, which was not only slow but also prone to accidents.

The mining machinery he ordered arrived a week ago, and the mine is currently being reinforced and widened, which is expected to take another two weeks to complete.

Sun Zhiwei was very satisfied with his arrangement. Although Huang Hongxuan didn't have any great ambitions, he was really good at mine management. He was glad that he made the right choice.

"Well done, Hongxuan. Take me to the mining face and let me assess the condition of the ore veins here."

As the two ventured deeper into the mine, the tunnel became extremely narrow when they reached about one-third of the way through.

Huang Hongxuan was worried about his safety and kept advising him not to go any further and to wait until the area was reinforced and widened before coming in to take a look.

If it were in the sky or underwater, Sun Zhiwei would have some concerns, but underground, there's really nothing to worry about; his space is perfectly suited for underground use.

However, Huang Hongxuan meant well, so he stopped insisting on going to the bottom and instead began to observe the mining area from the side.

The more than 200 million cubic meters of high-grade ore he brought back from Africa could not all be dumped at once; after all, this was foreign territory, and it was always better to be cautious.

He simply replaced 2 cubic meters of ore vein in front of the mining face, so that high-grade ore could be mined after the site was reopened.

This is, after all, a small mine with only one shaft. Even now that it has switched to semi-mechanized mining, it would be considered excellent if it could extract 100 tons of ore a day.

1立方金伯利岩石重量在2.6-2.9吨之间，他放的这2万方矿石大约有5.6万吨重。

At the current rate of mining, it takes one to two years to complete a single mine. To increase production, we can only wait and gradually increase the number of mines in the future.

If it's the Giwanen mine in Botswana, a fully mechanized, open-pit mine, it can extract 1 tons of ore per day.

The Givannen mine produces 5 million carats of diamonds a year, while this mine produces about 500 carats a year, only 1% of the former, so there's really no comparison.

However, this is much better than the previous purely manual mining. In addition, with the improvement in the quality of diamonds, he estimates that he will have an annual income of 500 million.

After the ore replacement was completed, Sun Zhiwei separated all the broken diamonds from the replaced inferior ore.

These shouldn't be wasted; they can at least be sold for some money. He evenly scattered these diamond fragments into the newly replaced ore vein.

After finishing his business, he left the mine with Huang Hongxuan. Once outside, he solemnly explained things to Huang Hongxuan.

“Hongxuan, I just checked the situation of the vein. This is a typical kimberlite tube-shaped diamond vein. The current excavation is only at the shallow layer, and we haven’t even touched the main body of the vein.”

"I am certain that there will be more high-quality diamonds produced further down the line. You need to establish a professional ore beneficiation and processing team as soon as possible to prepare for future increased production."

Huang Hongxuan now has great faith in Sun Zhiwei, not because he admires his professional knowledge, but simply because he admires him as a person.

(End of this chapter)