2117 Gradually out of control(1/2)
How did these Long people do it?
In their country, they have not discovered any new large copper mines.
Moreover, as for their previous copper mines, they did not say that there were any new technologies that could reduce the cost of mining.
Moreover, the grade of copper ore has not been said to have improved compared to before.
As for the smelter, let alone the smelter, not to mention from beginning to end, what new technology they used to reduce costs.
So in this way, they can keep the cost so low, how did they do it?
Could it be that they have found any new purchasing channels?
A group of giants immediately studied the copper mining data of other major copper-producing countries in the world.
Unfortunately, no major discoveries were made.
For example, in Kangaroo Country, the mineral resources in these guys are really jealous.
Not only iron ore, but also copper ore, their copper ore production is basically monopolized by European buyers.
It's basically no turn for Dragon Kingdom to take action.
The copper ore in the United States is not exported, and it is basically produced and sold by itself.
The same is true for the Mao Bear. Although their copper ore reserves are quite difficult to mine.
Therefore, they rarely export to the outside world, and they basically produce and sell it themselves.
Then the only thing that is possible to export large quantities is the dried fruit from Africa.
Moreover, the main export target of this country is the Dragon Kingdom, but they also have a lot of eyewitness in Africa.
According to the information they reported from their eyeliners, there are only so many copper mines produced in the dried fruit every year, and there is no sign of increasing production recently?
That's a big monster. Where did the copper mine in Long Kingdom emerge from?
Why did they get so much copper concentrate?
Could it be that they really found a large copper mine in the territory, so they were secretly announced?
The most important thing is that these guys seem to have suddenly become aware of this time and have extremely accurate control over prices.
The price of domestic copper concentrate is controlled at about 60,000 yuan per ton, while the price of copper plate is controlled at 65,000 yuan.
Such prices, such as the price of spot copper in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, is slightly lower.
But the traders in their country have no room for operation.
Because if the price of copper spot in their country is much lower than that in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea.
Those traders will definitely try their best to buy the copper spot in their country into the European, American, Japanese and Korean markets.
But the problem is that if the price in their country is added with freight and tariffs, it will leave those traders without profit margins.
If you resell it overseas, you might even lose a lot.
So no one reselled it overseas. In the end, the copper spot could only be sold to manufacturers in their country in need.
And it is these manufacturers who get the benefits in the end, as well as ordinary downstream consumers.
Originally, these capital giants wanted to push up copper prices and slowly promote inflation in the Dragon Kingdom to delay the speed of their economic development.
But now it seems that their plan is going to be ruined.
Since the plan shows signs of bankruptcy, these guys are now panicked and must find the source.
What exactly is the reason that the spot price of copper in Long Country is so low?
They began to send a large number of satellites, flying dozens of times over the head of Long Kingdom almost every day.
Every time I focus on the major copper mine production areas in the Copper Kingdom, and they will take a look at it.
The question is whether it appears in these copper mineral areas, but I have been watching it for many days.
There were no signs of increasing production in these copper ores. Not only did they not increase production, but there seemed to be signs of reducing production.
This made them even more puzzled. Do the people of Long really don’t even want copper mines in their territory for environmental protection?
Then they placed the satellite above the heads of several major copper smelting enterprises in Longguo.
After seeing this, I seemed to understand it a little.
There are several large copper production areas in China, and these copper production areas are also close to copper production areas, located in Caiyun Province and Jianggan Province.
There is no sign of increased production in copper smelting enterprises in these provinces from the satellite maps.
However, several copper smelting companies located in the Magic City and Fujian Province have indeed roared day and night recently, and their firepower is fully opened.
It seems that these factories produce a large amount of copper every day!
But the problem is that the source of copper concentrate for these companies mainly depends on imports!
The copper concentrate in Fujian Province mainly comes from dried fruits in Africa, while the copper concentrate in the Magic City is mainly purchased from South America.
But the problem is here. In recent months, the amount of copper concentrate imported by Longguo has been significantly declining.
In the past, they had to import at least 100,000 tons of copper concentrate from overseas every month, and at most they had to import more than 150,000 tons.
But in recent months, their domestic automobile home appliance industry has been in a peak season with both supply and demand.
Their efforts to purchase copper concentrate from overseas should be greater, but the problem is that the amount they purchase has not increased, but has actually decreased.
For example, in the past three months, their import volume has dropped by more than 20% year-on-year respectively.
And there is a significant decrease every month, with fewer imports per month than for a month.
Three months ago, the amount they imported was about 120,000 tons, but then they reduced their imports by 10,000 tons or 20,000 tons every month.
By last month, the amount of their imports had been reduced to 60,000 tons...
This data has been the lowest value for imported copper concentrate in the past twenty years.
But you are watching their factories in the Magic City and Fujian Province, and they are constantly on fire day and night.
Every day, they supply large amounts of copper plates to the market, so where does their copper concentrate come from?
Could it be that someone imported from a neighboring country with them?
Isn't this possible?
You should know that they brought their neighboring countries, but they didn't have any large-scale copper mines, and if they found anything, they wouldn't be stupid.
Such expensive things as copper ore naturally need to be controlled and priced as international market changes.
Moreover, these international mining giants and capital's intelligence networks are not vegetarians.
Whenever any country in the world has any important mineral resources discovered, they can immediately smell the smell and rush forward.
First use capital to smash them until the country's control of mining departments is taken down, and then get the other party's mineral resources.
If they can't break through them, they will use other means to play tricks.
For example, a coup occurred in a small country in West Africa some time ago, and that country controls a huge iron ore deposit.
Although it has not been developed yet, some countries and companies have paid a lot of money and have mastered the shares of the iron ore.
But as soon as this coup occurred, iron ore mining would be indefinitely far away.
In this way, the world's iron ore's voice has returned to Europe and the United States again.
The trend of copper mine this time completely exceeded their expectations.
This made them feel a little disappointed and very scared.
Because in the past, these capital and resource giants have always been hiding behind this huge market and secretly lie down to make money.
But if the copper ore fails, there will be a series of mineral resources such as iron ore, which may all be controlled.
After all, who knows where the Dragon Kingdom got so many mineral resources?
Previously, they had monopolized more than half of the pricing power of Longguo's agricultural and animal husbandry by relying on soybeans and corn.
Because these agricultural products will seriously affect the price of feed in Longguo Animal Husbandry.
But as the damn celebrity chef group began to enter agriculture, they created a new type of corn variety.
Not only can corn be produced in large quantities, but it can also be used to extract ethanol, which has affected the prices of feed and clean energy.
Recently, the forward futures prices of these two commodities have begun to loosen and have even begun to turn downward.
You should know that this is the first time that such commodity prices have begun to loosen and lower in two years since the pandemic has spread.
The loosening of corn prices naturally caused the loosening of soybean prices. In recent times, the price of soybeans has also seen a significant decrease.
After all, the corn has been found. If the soybeans here have not been reduced, they will go directly to the corn.
Anyway, corn can also be used to make high-quality feed. At worst, cattle and sheep who raise animals can eat more corn and less soybeans.
Imported soybeans are only used to press oil.
Therefore, the decline in corn prices will inevitably lead to a decline in soybean prices.
The large amount of corn extracted ethanol also gave Longguo more choices in replacing clean energy.
To be continued...