"Mineral deposit discovered!" "Coordinates: Giant Copper-Cobalt Mine in Congo, Africa" "Deposit type: Top-grade copper-cobalt metal." "Quantity: 28 million tons of copper and 3 million tons of cobalt." "This is the world's largest undeveloped copper-cobalt deposit."
Damn! I'm rich!
Jiang Siming was overjoyed. The Carlin-type gold deposit in Guizhou had already made him a huge fortune.
At the time, 300 tons of Carlin-type gold had been worth more than thirty billion.
Now, there were 28 million tons of copper ore and 3 million tons of cobalt ore.
To be clear, this wasn't 28 thousand tons, but 28 million tons!
After obtaining the Mineral Detector, Jiang Siming had specifically researched a great deal of information about various ores, metals, and their values.
Take copper ore, for example. Copper ore generally needed to be refined, and roughly seven tons of copper ore could produce one ton of copper.
Twenty-eight million tons of copper ore meant four million tons of copper.
One ton of copper was worth roughly fifty thousand.
That meant the four million tons of copper were worth approximately two hundred billion!
And that wasn't even the most valuable part. What excited Jiang Siming the most was the three million tons of cobalt ore!
Cobalt was a stable metal with a high melting point. It was a basic material for manufacturing high-quality heat-resistant alloys, hard alloys, anticorrosive alloys, and more.
It was also widely used in aviation and mechanical manufacturing, making it a highly important strategic material.
To put it simply, this stuff was incredibly expensive. It was also extremely scarce. In a country as vast as China, there was less than a hundred thousand tons of cobalt. That alone showed just how rare it was.
Three million tons would be a treasure coveted by every powerful nation in the