Wells fell silent after listening, but he didn't react within two seconds.

Looking at the smiling Asta with wide eyes in disbelief, he asked, "Mike, are you kidding me?"

Asta repeated the words of 8 ounces per ton again, and Wells jumped up from the plank bed in ecstasy.

He hugged Asta and yelled.

Speaking of this, Li Changheng thought carefully about the report that Cao Yanjun faxed to him, and it was hard to believe that Wells-Busan never suspected that Asta was a fake after that.

Born in a mining family and the second generation of mines who have worked in the mining industry for more than ten years, Wells is a senior practitioner who is more professional than ordinary people even if he is not an expert in geology and mining.

But he didn't delve into Asta's words, let alone stare at the samples and go to the laboratory in Jakarta for verification.

Instead, as soon as he got the news that each ton of ore contained 8 ounces of gold, he hurried back to the United States to find investors after discussing with Asta for a day.

Thinking of this, Li Changheng became suspicious again, because Wells did not bring back the ore samples, but only the inspection report issued by a laboratory in Jakarta.

It's not that Li Changheng suspects that Indonesian scientists can make mistakes even in the inspection of gold mine samples, but he thinks from the mind of an entrepreneur who needs to attract investors.

The professionalism and industry recognition of Indonesian laboratories are definitely not as strong as those in the United States.

There is no problem with gold mines, ore samples are no problem, and most people will bring samples back to the United States.

With the test report from the United States, the media will frantically chase and report on him, let alone attracting investment.

But Li Changheng still underestimated Wells. This guy is indeed a senior practitioner from a mining family. After returning to the United States, he was not in a hurry to seek investment.

Instead, he told the news to the former employees of Busan Mining who had worked hard with their father.

Although few of these people are rich, they have already left their jobs because Busan Mining can't even pay their wages.

But this group of people are senior practitioners in the mining industry, and they really don't know too many people in the same industry.

Soon word spread that Wells had discovered a gold mine in Indonesia.

At this time, Ashtar, who was far away in Borneo, sent back a copy of the second test report from the Jakarta laboratory in due course.

Not only does it show that the gold reserve discovered for the first time in the mining area should be more than 1 million ounces, but the report on the gold content of the new sample also states that the gold content per ton is roughly between 8 and 10 ounces.

Now, those who have read this report are basically full of jealousy, and then they start to calculate.

Calculated by just one million ounces of gold, the value of the gold mine reached 140 million US dollars.

Of course, when actually mining, even if the gold content per ton is 8 to 10 ounces, the mining cost is not low.

But no matter how you calculate it, a profit of 50 to 70 million US dollars is still completely fine.

And as long as anyone with a little knowledge knows in their hearts, the gold reserves of gold mines will basically be higher than this figure.

No matter how unlucky they are, with a base of one million ounces, at least they won't lose money if they buy shares in Busan Mining.

Since the profit is guaranteed without loss, everyone wants to get the shares from Wells before the news is fully spread.

Wells was very reluctant to sell at the beginning, but due to lack of funds, he was unable to expand the number of drilling wells and find more gold-bearing mining areas.

Wells finally had to call the former employees of Busan Mining and divide the company's shares into 100 million shares at a price of 0.7 US dollars per share.

And if it is only 0.7 US dollars per share, it actually underestimates the value of the gold mine.

At a real-time gold price of US$140 per ounce, if one million ounces is priced at 100 million, some mining groups are willing to purchase directly.

Because for listed companies, even if they only earn two or three thousand dollars after deducting costs, it will have a great boost to the stock price.

Moreover, the price of gold is not only bullish, holding more gold is also conducive to the manipulation of gold prices by giant gold mining companies.

In this way, the benefits obtained from mining gold are far less than those earned from the stock market.

Therefore, those former employees of Busan Mining basically did not hesitate much about the quotation of 0.7 US dollars.

In just a few days, the gold mine has not yet been mined, and even without the equipment actually used for mining, he has earned a paper wealth of 20 million U.S. dollars.

As for the former employees of Busan Mining, there are basically none who are really rich.

If these people are basically middle-aged people over the age of 3 or 40, they may not even have thousands or tens of thousands of dollars in savings.

Of course, there are also people who are crazy enough to mortgage their houses, betting that the reserves of gold mines are far more than 1 million ounces.

Unfortunately, even so, Wells only got $700,000.

Paying 1% of the shares, but got the first phase of funds to expand the exploration of gold mines. At the same time, the news of the gold mines inevitably spread to more people's ears.

Later, a reporter from the U.S. "Gold Digger" magazine came to him for an interview, and even jokingly said that maybe next year's Golden Pick Award, the highest honor award in the ore industry, will be awarded to him.

Of course Wells heard the reporter's words, implying that he spent money to lobby the various judges.

But Wells is not thinking about awards at this time. As long as the magazine reports it, more people will pay attention to the gold mine.

And the facts were just as he expected. After the magazine reported it, although it was still only circulated between the mining industry and capital.

But some large mining companies really focused on Busan Mining at that time.

And the first one to make a move was Black Mining, who had a good relationship with Old Busan.

The initial offer was 8 million US dollars to get 20% of the shares of Busan Mining, which is of course low.

But with the first large-scale mining company joining, the news immediately went out of the circle and reached the ears of small and medium-sized oil exploration companies in California, as well as some other mining-related companies.

Big companies and Wall Street are certainly not really stupid~lightnovelpub.net~ Even Black Mining requires samples from gold mines to be shipped back to the United States for testing.

Then Mike Ashtar strongly opposed the samples being sent to the testing agency under Black Mining, on the grounds that he was worried that Black Mining would deliberately lower the gold content in the analysis report.

But it would definitely not work without testing. After the compromise, the samples were sent to a third-party testing agency, and it was a university in Melbourne, Australia for testing.

Li Changheng believes that even if he has not obtained evidence of whether there is a problem with this Australian testing agency, the fact is that the inspector or the director of the agency has a high probability of being bribed.

Otherwise, there will be no subsequent events.

Now that there is a report from a university, Asta's confidence is even stronger.

The testing party was relocated to the original testing agency in Jakarta. The reason was that since an Australian university issued the same report, putting it in Jakarta would not only save costs, but also shorten the testing time.

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