"Okay! Which one do you want to mine?" Shi Dazhu asked.

There are so many proven things here, but no one is exploiting them.

"Well, let me take a look!" Qin Feng searched carefully on the map.

After a careful search, Qin Feng stopped his finger in the forest between Bridgeton and Ballingup in southern Western Australia, where a mineral vein point was marked: Greenbush Mining Area.

This is a tin mine!

"Why is Mao here?" Shi Dazhu was stunned, "Didn't Boss Ming want us to focus on iron ore?"

Iron ore can be used to build high-rise buildings, although tin ore is also very important. But at this stage, the country is vigorously developing infrastructure, and iron ore is in greatest demand.

Qin Feng smiled.

I originally thought I couldn't find it here, but I didn't expect to find it.

This is indeed a tin mine with quite large reserves. It shows that there are approximately billions of Australian dollars worth of tin ore left.

This in itself has no mining value.

After all, although there are still billions of Australian dollars worth, if you want to mine, Qin Feng has some data provided by Boss Ming. The initial investment in mining will be nearly 1 billion Australian dollars.

Among them, it is mainly used to purchase various mining equipment, large ore trucks, road construction, etc. These are a very large amount of money. Including subsequent labor expenses, the hourly wages of workers here are

Basically, they cost more than forty or fifty dollars.

If the weather is hot, there are various subsidies. In addition, various benefits are provided. For example, corresponding transportation to the city, as well as various daily necessities, etc.

If it is too far from the urban area and is inconvenient, then a small town must be built to provide workers with comfortable living conditions. At the same time, it must also meet their needs for family happiness.

Therefore, many small towns in remote areas of Australia came from this way. They were built by mining companies.

In addition, pension insurance must be purchased for them, which is 9.5% of their income. This is what the company needs to bear in addition to wages.

Calculating these 7,788, plus the mining tax, every ton of tax is basically not profitable.

Therefore, after this tin mine has been mined for nearly a century, the remaining tin mines are relatively scattered and there are no companies to mine them. Although there are still tin mines worth billions of dollars, but including labor and taxes,

Wait, it's not cost-effective. It's not that it doesn't make money, it's just that after a hard work, you don't make more than the workers.

That's not cost-effective. After all, there are so many mineral resources in Perth, so just mine other ones.

Therefore, this place became deserted.

The reason why Qin Feng chose this place was because there was news in later generations, a very big news, that is, a lithium mine with extremely amazing reserves was suddenly discovered here.

It is said to be worth hundreds of billions of Australian dollars.

Qin Feng forgot the exact number. It was in the news at that time. Initially, the use of metallic lithium was mainly for aluminum smelting, lubricants, pharmaceuticals, glass and ceramic vessel firing, pigments and other industrial purposes.

Although it is widely used, the demand is not large.

But with the rise of mobile phones and laptops, everything has changed. In particular, the development and application of lithium batteries is the first revolution that has truly improved the status of lithium. Lithium is the lightest of all metals, and its energy

The high density means that lithium batteries can be perfectly adapted to digital devices such as laptops, mobile phones, calculators and digital cameras in terms of functionality and portability.

In addition, the emergence of electric-driven cars has ignited the lithium battery market and once again completed the second revolution in the application field of metallic lithium. This is also the key to the lithium resource industry becoming the hottest new industry.

However, there were not many lithium mines proven in the world at that time. After all, the demand was very small before, so people didn’t care much. The lithium ores that have been proven are enough for the world to use for hundreds of years.

However, after two consecutive revolutions in lithium batteries, the proven lithium mines were no longer enough. Therefore, when this lithium mine in Australia was discovered, it made global financial news.

There were many reports at that time, and Qin Feng unexpectedly paid attention to it. After all, the reserves were so amazing, accounting for 30% of the global market share of lithium ore sales.

How amazing this is!

Therefore, this time Qin Feng came to look for this first. To occupy this point first. That way, after the lithium battery revolution, this place will be valuable.

As for iron ore, there are too many. Just choose whatever you want.

"By the way, what if we discover those things that have not been discovered?" Shi Dazhu asked curiously.

"If we haven't discovered it, we have discovered it. It's still the same tax. It's just that we can get a certain degree of tax exemption, which is a reward for discovering mineral resources." Qin Feng said with a smile, "In Australia, don't expect anything real.

Get rich overnight. Everything here has to do with taxes. There's no escaping it."

The government allows you to make a fortune, but you must pay taxes.

And the more you earn, the more taxes you pay.

Therefore, relatively speaking, Australia's welfare benefits make it difficult for world-class super-rich people to emerge.

For example, the wealthiest family in Australia only has US$18 billion in assets accumulated over several generations.

This pales in comparison to the world's richest people. You know, Australia has no inheritance tax, unlike other developed countries that need to pay heavy inheritance taxes.

Even so, there is only one family in Australia whose assets exceed tens of billions of dollars. The second-placed man has less than ten billion dollars. As for the 10th-ranked man, Scott Farquhar, who looks exactly like actor Scott Alkins

, assets are only US$4 billion.

In this country, it is too difficult to truly get rich. Various taxes ensure that wealth is as even as possible, making the entire population wealthy.

"Oh, it's so hard to make money here!" Shi Dazhu shook his head.

In comparison, China is simply a paradise for investment, and you can make money easily.

Here, making some money is literally killing people. And we also have to build a town for workers to meet their needs for family happiness. This is simply unbelievable.

"Okay, how is your property here?" Qin Feng asked.

"Well, I looked at several houses today, and they were all pretty good. I want to buy a villa on the beach and an apartment in the city. But I don't have enough time in the manor!" Shi Dazhu said helplessly.

Qin Feng smiled.

"There's no rush. Take your time! If it's okay, you can come over and choose the manor." Qin Feng said with a smile, "Anyway, you have nothing to do in the country for the time being."

"That's true!" Shi Dazhu said with a grin, "By the way, my daughter must like it very much here. There are children's facilities everywhere, in every block. It's so child-friendly."

Qin Feng smiled.

"In the status ranking of Australians, children are first, the elderly are second, women are third, and men have the lowest status." Qin Feng said with a smile, "Little Jing'er will like it here."
Chapter completed!