210: Chapter 210: The reserves are astonishing; this is world-class.

This meeting was truly about the exploration of the Jigongshan Gold Mine.

Sitting in his seat, Qin Chuan seemed to sense everyone's excitement, smiled slightly, and got straight to the point.

"Let's begin the meeting. As of yesterday afternoon, the exploration of the Jigongshan Gold Mine is basically complete. I know everyone wants to know the results, so first, Professor Chen will introduce the exploration situation to everyone."

Professor Chen nodded and said in a clear voice, "After many days and nights of exploration, we have basically completed all the work. Last night, we calculated and analyzed the exploration data and have obtained the specific figures for this gold mine, including the reserves."

"First, I want to tell everyone that this is a super-large polymetallic mine. In addition to containing gold beyond your imagination, it also has copper, silver, and various other metals."

What!

It's actually a super-large polymetallic mine!

Although everyone here isn't involved in geological exploration, they knew a little bit, and polymetallic mines are more valuable than single-metal gold mines.

The originally quiet meeting room suddenly became lively.

"This surprise is too big, I never expected this!"

"There are actually huge copper ore resources! Our country is short on copper, and now the price of copper per ton is as high as fifty or sixty thousand!"

"Besides gold and copper, there are also various metals like silver; it's so exciting!"

"Thanks to Qin Chuan! If he hadn't invited Professor Chen, who knows how many more years this super-large mine would have remained buried underground!"

"..."

Seeing the meeting room instantly become lively, Qin Chuan smiled without any dissatisfaction, because such a reaction from everyone was normal.

Last night, when he communicated with Professor Chen and learned about the situation of this massive mine, he couldn't calm down either.

He didn't even sleep very well last night; he couldn't help it, he was too excited.

In his previous life, he only knew it was a super-large gold mine and hadn't heard that it was a super-large polymetallic mine with huge copper and silver resources. He didn't know if it was because he hadn't understood the details well enough back then, or if the trajectory of history had shifted somewhat after his rebirth.

Regardless, this was a good thing.

Everyone understood what a super-large polymetallic mine meant; at the very least, it represented immense economic value.

After a full three to five minutes, Qin Chuan signaled for everyone to quiet down, and then Professor Chen continued to introduce the massive mine to everyone.

"According to our exploration, this massive mine exists in the form of a vein. The length of the vein is about 11 kilometers, the width ranges from over one hundred meters to over three hundred meters, and the depth ranges from several tens of meters to six or seven hundred meters. The total ore reserves are 185 million tons, including approximately 2,100 tons of gold, about 37 million tons of copper, and 8,500 tons of silver..."

Hearing such astonishing reserves, everyone was unable to calm down again.

But at least they remained quiet and continued to listen to Professor Chen's introduction.

"The gold reserves have broken domestic records and are enough to rank in the top five of the world's ten largest gold mines internationally. The copper reserves are also very astonishing; before this, the largest proven copper mine reserve in our country was 9.61 million tons, and our mine is a full four times that..."

Professor Chen's introduction was very detailed and professional.

He spoke for a full thirty to fifty minutes and even prepared quite a few charts, established vein models, and so on, which were very intuitive.

After hearing the introduction, no one could remain calm.

Everyone had one thought in their minds: Wanshun County is about to take off!

After the meeting ended, the news spread instantly, and reports regarding the reserves even began to appear on the internet.

After the meeting, Qin Chuan and Professor Chen accepted an interview from the Provincial TV Station.

After some interviewing and a series of questions, the reporter from the Provincial TV Station asked, "Secretary Qin, how did you know that Jigong Mountain had such a huge gold mine with such massive reserves?"

Qin Chuan smiled, having already prepared his explanation, "Intuition. Intuition told me there should be a large gold mine there. With the mindset of giving it a try—what if I got lucky and actually discovered a large gold mine?—I invited Professor Chen and his team over."

"Facts have proven that my luck wasn't bad, and I really discovered this super-large gold mine!"

After the interview, the reporter from the Provincial TV Station stated that this interview would be broadcast across the province during prime time tonight.

Qin Chuan thought to himself that after this interview was broadcast, international gold prices would likely fluctuate tomorrow, and domestic copper prices would probably be greatly affected as well.

Less than ten minutes after the interview ended, Qin Chuan received a call from Mayor Zhang Qun himself.

As soon as the call connected, Mayor Zhang happily said, "Secretary Qin, congratulations to you all on discovering a world-class polymetallic mine. Both the gold reserves and the copper reserves have broken domestic records."

"Thank you, Mayor Zhang. I didn't expect my luck to be this good either."

After offering some praise and congratulations, Mayor Zhang Qun didn't waste any more words and said directly, "I'm waiting for you in my office. Come over now."

Since he had put it that way, and a dignified mayor was waiting specifically for him to come over, could he really say no?

"Alright, Mayor Zhang, I'll be there right away."

Qin Chuan could basically guess that Mayor Zhang definitely wanted to learn the details of this super-large mine and wanted to hear his in-person report; furthermore, he might even have his eyes on this massive mine.

Based on what Qin Chuan knew of him, it was impossible for him not to be envious.

Sitting in the car heading to the Municipal Government, Qin Chuan thought, "Mayor Zhang, you cannot handle this mine; do not set your sights on it."

Last night, after communicating with Professor Chen and understanding the reserves of this gold mine in detail, Qin Chuan had called his father.

The father and son chatted on the phone for at least twenty or thirty minutes.

With such a massive mine, the state would definitely intervene. Whether it was gold or copper, these were strategic resources, and it was impossible to leave them to small Wanshun County to independently mine and operate.

Qin Chuan also knew deeply that small Wanshun County could not handle such a large gold mine; let alone Wanshun County, even Jiangnan Province would struggle. Only the state could do it.

Following his father's advice, Qin Chuan prepared to voluntarily hand over the mining rights and operating rights of this gold mine to the state.

But as a member of the Qin Family, with such an impressive family background, it wouldn't be excessive to make a few requests—for example, having Wanshun County hold a few percentage points of shares, solving thousands of jobs for Wanshun County, and creating some tax revenue, and so on.

Provincial Party Secretary Qin Zhendong agreed immediately and promised that he would secure ten percent of the shares for Wanshun County. That was quite good; ten percent was already quite a lot.

If it were any other County Party Secretary without such a powerful family background as Qin Chuan, they wouldn't be able to get any shares at all.

On the way to the Municipal Government, Qin Chuan kept thinking to himself, "Mayor Zhang, please do not be envious and set your sights on this gold mine. You really cannot handle it; you must listen to advice."