Volume 4: The World of Great Conflict Chapter 0366 Into the Darkness
"Do you know where there are lithium mines?"
“I don’t know, but it’s easy to find. The most easily exploitable lithium resources are pegmatite deposits and brine deposits.
Brine can of course be found in salt lakes. The largest salt lake in the world is the Uyuni Salt Lake in Bolivia. You will definitely find lithium resources there. In addition, there are also the nearby Atacama Salt Lake in Chile and the Umbre Muerto Salt Lake in Argentina. You can also visit them.
We can also look for other places like Australia and the United States, and we can also send teams to Africa.”
"Australia is great. The mineral resources there are so rich. I plan to reorganize Scarlett Gold Mine Company into a mining company and enter other mineral fields."
“What do the other shareholders say?”
“No problem. They are eager to find another mine so that their shares can be valued higher. It would be even better if they could find a diamond mine with higher value. They would be even happier.
Adam, I always feel that we are at a disadvantage. The amount of gold mined every month at the Gordonstake Gold Mine is not low. Maybe we should have mined it slowly ourselves at that time. "
"You are just kidding. If we don't sell our shares, we won't be able to raise billions of dollars. No matter how valuable the gold mine is, we have to dig it slowly. Money is constantly depreciating. Besides, without money, how can Pan Am have the opportunity to invest in so many companies?"
"That's right. Compared to the Gordonstake Gold Mine, the shares of those companies we invested in are the real gold mines. I have to say, Adam, you have a very good vision. The shares you invested in are all companies with huge potential."
"Of course. Let me tell you, I am actually a time traveler. Twenty-five years ago, I placed you, still an infant, at the doorstep of the Cocos family.
He also made a promise with Mr. Alexander George Taylor: "I picked up this girl from the sewer, and I will come and take her away in twenty-five years."
I didn’t expect that before twenty-five years had passed, you would appear in front of me… Wow!”
Nan Yi dodged Scarlett's fist and hid behind Nan Ruoyin with a whoosh .
"Adam, if you make this kind of joke again, I'll be really angry." Scarlett's face was dark, and she seemed really angry.
“ Okay, okay, I won’t say any more.” Nan Yi raised his hand to show his surrender. “It’s getting dark soon. Let’s walk faster and get down the mountain.”
After Scarlett left Hollywood, she reorganized Scarlett Gold Mining Company.
After upgrading from a company to a group, the business scope also changed, from simple gold mining to other minerals, and the company was renamed Scarlett Mining Group.
Nan Yi asked Johnny to pick out some capable members from the peace doves and use these members as the backbone to form a new security team - the Mining Guard, code-named Troublemaker.
The Shit Stirrer has two bases, one in Pemba, Mozambique, Africa, and the other at the Indigenous Brothers Farm in Manaus.
The safety of Mozambique is not high, and it can only be ranked in the median safety in Africa. Pemba is a port city, and the port is a natural harbor that is hidden and easy to access.
The port's main source of income comes from compulsory pilotage for foreign ocean-going ships. This seems to be the same for all ports. Compulsory pilotage is a service that ships must accept and they have no choice but to accept it.
Here in Pemba, it is very convenient to transport armed forces by water, land, or air, and can provide military support to Scarlett Mining Group and Nan's Mining.
The Indigenous Brothers Farm borders the Amazon jungle, from which you can cross Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana and Suriname, and enter the Amazon River, and then follow the river downstream to the Atlantic Ocean.
The Troublemaker being stationed here can also easily protect the expansion of the two mining groups in South America.
Scarlett set Sierra Leone as the first step of Scarlett Mining's overseas expansion. What can we say about this country? With diamond reserves of up to 25 million carats, it is the country with the largest diamond reserves in the world and is a veritable diamond kingdom.
As early as 1972, Sierra Leoneans dug up a rough diamond weighing 969 carats in a mine, which is the most valuable gem in the world.
Sierra Leone has diamonds, and their reserves are abundant, as everyone involved in the mining industry knows.
But precisely because of its diamonds, Sierra Leone has been targeted by many forces, especially the diamond giant De Beers.
In the diamond world, De Beers is the only dominant company that controls the diamond market, pushing diamonds, a transparent stone that is abundant and not rare, to sky-high prices.
Scarlett Mining certainly cannot enter Sierra Leone in a small way, so it is inevitable that it will run into De Beers, and friction and even a fight are inevitable.
It is impossible for De Beers to dominate the diamond industry without its own armed forces. In fact, it not only has its own armed forces, but also a powerful mercenary armed force.
The logo of EO is Paladin, which means the "knight" in chess. The full name of EO is Executive Outcomes, which means "execution results". Johnny, Devin and Rebecca all originally belonged to EO.
EO is just one of the 32 subsidiaries of its parent company SRC. The businesses of these subsidiaries cover mining, air transport leasing, security, etc. These subsidiaries are registered in different places, including South Fiji, the Bahamas, and the Isle of Man.
EO's apparent clients are all legitimate governments recognized internationally, the most famous of which are Angola and Sierra Leone. But in fact, EO's real clients are multinational corporations that exploit natural resources, such as De Beers Diamond Complex, BP, Texaco, Gulf Chevron, etc.
This is the official statement. In fact, De Beers is not a client of SRC at all. It is actually the behind-the-scenes boss of SRC.
In the beginning, SRC was the security guard at the De Beers mine. However, as the team grew larger, the expenses also increased, and it became a bit difficult to maintain the team, so SRC began to take on external business, which was also a way to open up a source of income and generate its own revenue.
Scarlett has given Nan Yi a not-so-small problem. At the beginning, when Nan Yi bought out Johnny, Devin and Rebecca, EO did not make things difficult for the three of them, which showed that there was some kind of friendship between them.
But now they have to run into EO, which is likely to make the three of them feel uneasy.
Nan Yi has decided that the person in charge of the trouble-making group is Colonel Price, not only because he has the highest rank during his service, but also because Nan Yi has had a lot of contact with him and has a deep understanding of his abilities.
"Hunter, I leave the London matters to you. The boss has a new task for me."
In London, Price received Nan Yi's message and handed the task of keeping an eye on the Wu family to Hunter. He flew to the Peace Dove Station in New York, took all the Quail Team with him, and went to Pemba to build an African base for the Troublemaker first.
After Nan Yi had made arrangements in the mineral field, he turned his attention back to film and television. He was currently reading a script, which was not found by him but forced upon him by someone else.
A few days ago, Nan Yi started to check out some scripts that others had given to 20th Century Fox. Companies like 20th Century Fox receive a lot of scripts submitted by screenwriters every year. Most of them will be thrown into the warehouse to gather dust, and some will even be thrown into the trash can.
Only a very lucky few will have the opportunity to reach the hands of script reviewers, and only those with incredible luck will have the opportunity to be brought to a meeting to discuss whether to approve the project.
The chance of finally being approved and started filming is about the same as the chance of winning the lottery in "China".
Of course, this refers to ordinary screenwriters. If they are well-known to a certain extent, their scripts will definitely be taken seriously. Even if they are not interested in it, they will politely ask people to talk about it and then politely refuse.
Nan Yi saw Oliver Stone's "Platoon" from the pile of scripts. He had seen this movie before. He remembered it should be one of the "Vietnam War Trilogy". There was also another one called "Born on the Fourth of July", and the leading actor should be Tom Cruise.
He couldn't remember what the third part was called, so it was probably not much better. Otherwise, since he could remember the Vietnam War trilogy, it was impossible for him to only remember the names of two parts and not the third one.
Nan Yi thought to himself: "The box office of 'Platoon' should be good. I remember that I found this movie from some 'Vietnam War Movie Box Office Ranking'.
There are also "Good Morning, Sunan", "The Deer Hunter", "Apocalypse Now", "Full Metal Eggshell", "We Were Soldiers", and what are the other four?"
Nan Yi prefers war movies, and he has watched almost all of these movies that are worth watching. He also has memberships on seven or eight video platforms. But there is no way, because it is impossible for one platform to have all the movies he likes, so he can only watch them on this platform and that platform.
Occasionally, he would pay attention to serial numbers, magnetic stickers, seeds, etc., but he never understood what "borrowing a sentence to say" meant.
Alas, the cultural level of future Internet users will be so uneven that they will even make a mistake in typing “步”.
"I don't remember many big scenes in Field Platoon, so the investment shouldn't be that big." Nan Yi made up his mind to invest, so he put the script aside and thought about making an appointment with Oliver Stone to meet and have a good chat.
