Gold and Silver Alchemist

Moving the mine was very simple.

After buying land in a suitable place, it is to bury the diamond ore brought from Antarctica.

It would be strange to bury only diamonds, so kimberlite, the mother rock, should also be buried.

Then it becomes a diamond mine.

Then, after obtaining a mining license from the competent authority, you can start digging for diamonds.

As if laundering money, Antarctic diamonds are transformed into legally mined diamonds.

The question is, where do you mine?

“First of all, you can’t go to Korea!”

At Director Kim’s words, I tilted my head.

“Why not?”

“I was interested in gold mines in the past, so I did some research there. Whether it’s gold or diamonds, in Korea, mineral ownership does not belong to the land owner.”

“Then who is with you?”

“It belongs to the owner of the mining right.”

“A mining right holder?”

“He is a person who has been granted the right to mine minerals from the Korean government.”

Each country has different laws regarding mineral ownership, but in Korea, even if minerals were buried in my soil, they were not my property.

This is because the mining of all minerals buried in the ground, whether private or public, is under state control.

Director Kim searched for relevant laws and regulations on his cell phone and read them.

“Article 2 of the Mining Law, the state has the ‘power’ to grant the right to mine and acquire unmined minerals!”

If the owner of the land accidentally digs gold or jewelry while farming, he can claim ownership of it, but if the land was dug for the purpose of mining from the beginning, it is illegal mining.

Only miners selected by the government can mine.

“Then the landlord doesn’t even have soup?”

“That’s right. If you want to own the minerals on your own land, you have to register as a miner and bid for mining rights organized by the government.”

Even in the case of oil, only the government can have mining rights by Article 9 of the Mining Law.

In a word, if minerals are buried in my land, they are owned by ‘government-appointed mining rights holders’, and if oil is buried, they are simply owned by ‘government’.

Therefore, if you buy land and bury diamonds, you are only making good things happen to others.

‘It can’t be helped.’

If possible, I would like to create a diamond mine in Korea to create jobs and pay taxes honestly to contribute to the country’s economy, but it doesn’t work.

It was clear in front of my eyes that the rotten Korean public officials would do something reeky about the mining rights of the diamonds I buried, in order to secure their share.

There is no need to deliberately create such a mess.

“Pass Korea!”

President Park, who had been deep in thought from earlier, opened his mouth.

“It reminds me of a company that the state manipulated with diamond mining rights in the past.”

About ten years ago, a Korean mining operator acquired mining rights for a diamond mine in Africa.

He drew attention by saying that the mine’s diamond reserves are twice the annual production of diamond mines worldwide.

However, it turned out that he had exaggerated the reserves hundreds of times higher than the actual amount in order to raise his company’s stock price.

He fled from Interpol in a foreign country and was eventually arrested.

In the process, it was revealed that he had sold mining rights to a Chinese company.

The mining rights, which were said to be worth tens of trillions of won, were sold for 30 billion won, less than 1/100 of the price.

“What if we do the opposite? Aren’t there tons of diamond mines in Africa? Buying the most humble mine of them all!”

Other miners are trying to buy mines that have already sucked out the sweet water and become empty cans at a bargain price.

“But as soon as we took ownership, diamonds are just pouring out of the mine!”

As soon as Mrs. Park got married, she shed her skin and bought a run-down apartment, which was a windfall that went into redevelopment right away.

It would be much easier to wash diamonds by buying an existing mine cheaply and increasing the amount of mining than creating a new mine.

Oh oh!

Director Kim gave President Park a thumbs up.

I also nodded with a satisfied expression.

It is also easy to solve this problem by talking to them.

I think it was good that you came to the Songpa office today.

“good! Hurry up and leave for Africa!”

“yes! President!”

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President Park and Chief Kim left for Africa to purchase a mine.

I contacted James.

It will acquire a mining company in the corporate name of Nevis.

To buy a diamond mine, you have to own a mining company of the appropriate size.

– A lot of the mining industry died in the global economic downturn. So there are a lot of miners who want to sell the company.

“okay? That’s great.”

-What size company are you planning to acquire? How about a small business that only handles one type of diamond? Or will it acquire a large company that handles gold and silver, etc.?

Thinking later on acquiring a mining company, it would be better if it was a company that could mine not only diamonds but also gold.

After finding all the elixir extraction facilities, we will mine the gold underground.

“How much does it cost to acquire a large company?”

-There is a US listed company that can be acquired at a low price. But no matter how cheap it is, you’re going to have to spend almost all the money in your corporate account, okay?

There are $2 billion in corporate accounts.

When converted into Korean currency, the amount was well over 2 trillion won.

To acquire a large mining company, you have to pour all that money into it.

“What do you do with that? Push it all in!”

After all, it was the money he had laundered from the slush funds he stole from Chairman Chun.

Even if things go wrong and you lose all that money, you have nothing to regret.

‘It’s empty money anyway.’

And if you run out of money, there are plenty of ways to earn it back.

Because the world is full of dirty money.

I can put that kind of money in my pocket whenever I want.

-All right! We will start working on the acquisition right away. Maybe the company that I bought for 2 billion dollars will be in the world’s top 500 market capitalization at once!

The world’s 500th largest market capitalization is staggering.

Among Korean companies, only two or three are included.

Seeing James, who is normally reserved with words, talking about things like that makes him excited too.

Because it’s a different level of betting than before.

If diamonds are poured out of mines in Africa and stock prices skyrocket dozens of times, the world’s 500th largest market cap will truly become a reality.

Anyway, even if the value of the company increased astronomically, it was owned by the Nevis corporation.

I can move freely, but I don’t think I’ll develop much of an attachment to ‘mine’.

My main goal is to process and sell Antarctic diamonds in ‘my gold and silver room’.

“This job will be difficult alone. I will send reinforcements.”

-all right.

I’ll send some golems to Nevis.

We need to help James and keep an eye on him at the same time.

I planted explosives in my head, but I can put my mind at ease in front of an astronomical amount of money.

‘It would be better to prevent something unpleasant from happening in advance.’

After talking on the phone, I went down to the basement.

Now that the diamond-related matters had been sorted out, it was time to do other things.

self-

Expanded the basement space.

Then the arch brought from Antarctica was pulled out.

cool-

The space under the arch shuddered and the teleportation gate opened.

hiss-

I passed through the gate and entered the 4th factory.

The location of the 4th factory was the South Pole, more than 1,000 km away from the place where the gate was found.

The elixir extraction facility was hidden deep underground at the South Pole.

‘Why did they bother to build this at the South Pole?’

Weeng-

Weheeng-

A sound similar to a siren was heard from somewhere.

It was the cry of emperor penguins.

waddling-

The penguins saw me and came in droves.

They are not afraid of people.

Factory 4 was entirely covered with ice, and in addition to emperor penguins, there were several species of penguins, including Gentoo penguins, chinstrap penguins, and Adelie penguins.

Then there were Antarctic fur seals and Antarctic seals.

At the edge of the underground space, there was a ‘salty lake’ with the same salinity as the sea.

A variety of fish lived in the lake.

flirting-

Thieves were flying in the sky.

‘I’ve collected all the animals that live in Antarctica.’

It was truly a microcosm of Antarctica.

I don’t think I need to go to Antarctica to see penguins in the future.

Anyway, there was something I could tell by looking at the guys who lived here.

It was not so long ago that the elixir extraction facility was created here.

If it had been built tens of millions of years ago, the penguins inside would have looked different from those outside.

Giant penguins that lived 30 million years ago were as tall as humans.

Glitter-

The gold piled up on top of the ice caught my eye.

Unlike the ‘Golden Horse’ in Factory 2 and the ‘Golden Condor’ in Factory 3, the gold here was not in the shape of an animal.

It was a huge ingot weighing about 10 tons per lump.

Hundreds of such ingots are piled up.

However, the purity was so high that I could absorb it right away.

hiss-

It absorbed a chunk of steam.

I felt a pleasant feeling of satiety.

‘I ate well!’

I moved to the building in the center of the underground space.

The building here was built of ice, not stone.

And there was no memory in the ice block.

In short, unlike factories 2 and 3, it was not built by workers.

Perhaps Factory 4 was built by the ‘Alchemist’ only with telekinesis.

I don’t know if there was one alchemist involved in the construction or many.

“president!”

The manager and Kim Seo-yeon ran to meet me.

They were looking to see if there was anything special about the elixir extraction facility here.

The manager reported to me.

“There is nothing particularly different from factories 2 and 3. It must have been designed by the same person! However, the amount of Elixir is less compared to other places.”

The amount of Elixir stored in Factory 2 and Factory 3 was almost the same.

Because saturation is the same.

However, only the 4th factory here was short of 2% compared to other factories.

Kim Seo-yeon, who was next to her, opened her mouth.

“Looks like you’ve consumed a huge amount of elixir while using defensive magic!”

When they broke through the ground in Antarctica and invaded the underground space, tens of thousands of rock monsters attacked.

A huge amount of elixir was consumed to make them.

2% of the elixir saturation amounted to about 40 tons.

This is the amount extracted from 80 tons of gold.

Converted into money, it was worth 6 trillion won at today’s market price.

A whopping 6 trillion won evaporated in one trespass.

If I find another elixir facility later, I will try to find the stone box and the altar if possible and enter the crystal stone.

I asked Seoyeon Kim.

“Where is the next destination?”

In the future, there is no need to select a candidate site for exploration with great care.

This is because you can easily explore underground using magic engineering.

After going to the vicinity of the candidate site and conducting a seismic survey, if there is nothing in the ground, you can just withdraw.

“So, how about looking for it in Korea this time?

“Is there a place like that in Korea?”

“Yes! No, there was! El Dorado on the Korean Peninsula!”

“Where is it?”

Kim Seo-yeon shouted with a confident expression.

“This is Shilla!”