Just find a diamond at hand.

This luck pleased General Mup, and at the same time made his own claims more credible.

"It's kimberlite, and it's easy to be associated with diamonds. Ye Qing also looked at the sun, and the rough diamond in front of him was of good quality, showing a faint bright silver metallic luster in the sun.

This is an unpolished rough diamond, polished, its quality should be S2 grade, and the luster will become colorful and multi-colored.

Ye Qing casually threw the stone to one of General Mopu's entourage, and asked him to take it to the grass shed and take out the diamond. Then he said to General Mopu: "Judging from the current situation, this diamond mine is a little smaller. ”

"But the advantage is that the quality of the rough diamond is good, and in addition, there should be a certain amount of rough diamond reserves in the underground rock belt. ”

General Mopu breathed a sigh of relief, and Ye Qing was satisfied.

In addition, there is a rocky belt underground, and the news that there are probably diamonds in the rocky belt is not surprising to General Mopp.

Because from the experience of international diamond mining, most of the diamonds are associated with rocks.

But there's a question of the cost of extraction.

Diamond ore is different from metals or other minerals, and it can be smelted from ore by modern and industrialized means. The rarity of a diamond determines that it has a very, very low chance of being associated with rocks.

It cannot be smelted by normal industrial means, and can only be sorted out of the ore by the last manual work of the workers.

To sort by hand, tons of stones that may contain diamonds are stripped from the rock belt and broken into evenly matchbox-sized rubble.

When you're unlucky, you can't pick even a diamond out of ten tons of rough stones.

It is a place of extreme industrial backwardness, where even basic electricity is difficult to guarantee, and it is a place of exploitation by European and American jewelers who firmly control the pricing power of diamonds.

In this case, whoever goes to large-scale mechanized mining of diamonds in the rock will lose all his money.

Even Ye Qing was not sure that after mining the hard soil layer on the surface, there would definitely be considerable reserves of diamonds in the underground rock layer.

It was not too early, Ye Qing asked people to collect some gravel and hard soil, ready to take them back for testing and analysis.

By the time the convoy returned, the setting sun had almost merged with the earth.

Four hardcore off-road vehicles sped through the wild brown land, and by the time the convoy arrived in the capital city of Anu District, it was 8 p.m. local time.

Now that the capital city has begun to take on the shadow of a modern city, in addition to the urban infrastructure aided by the Behemoth Industry, General Mopu himself has invested in a four-star hotel and reserved a set of exclusive suites on the top floor with hardware standards far exceeding the five-star standard.

This was specially used to receive Ye Qing, and after Ye Qing moved in, he called Tan Jinghao, the general manager of the factory here.

Now Tan Jinghao is carrying a list of equipment from the factory, waiting for Ye Qing's instructions.

Immersive spiral classifier.

Ore powder handling system.

Cluster of enriched uranium centrifuges.

Supercritical unit power generation unit.

Adjustable Magnetic Field Generator......

Ye Qing swept through the list of equipment one by one, and soon had a comprehensive understanding of the types of equipment and engineering vehicles currently equipped by the factory in Nigaya. Ye Qing, who has a big family, really didn't know the specific type before this.

If you want to mine on a large scale, advanced industrial mining equipment is essential.

Among them, the Titans X is of course one of the main mining forces.

But it is only responsible for stripping the raw ore from the soil or rock, and then how to accurately select the diamonds from the raw ore one by one is the core problem.

The plant in Nica was originally designed to extract dysprosium metal and other rare earth metal elements from monazite ore on a large scale, and the plant has perfect raw ore processing conditions.

However, after reading the list of types on the factory side, Ye Qing found that he could only use these equipment to carry out the three steps of mining, crushing, and preliminary screening.

The most critical step, how to do it......

Tan Jinghao, the general manager of the factory, saw that his boss was deep in thought, he knocked his head and thought about it, and said with some uncertainty: "Boss, I remember that the super drilling mine in Russia uses heavy medium beneficiation technology. ”

"Can we also use this kind of technical thinking?"

"Heavy medium beneficiation?" Ye Qing shook his head when he heard this.

Of course, he knew about the Russian super diamond mine, the super diamond mine in Siberia, which was said to contain far more reserves than all the world's known diamond mines combined.

The origin of that diamond mine is a magical coincidence that tens of millions of dollars ago, a huge meteorite hit the ground, which broke out in an instant with terrifying pressure and high temperature, carbonizing the ground material into diamonds all over the ground.

Unfortunately, these are not the diamonds that are normally condensed in nature, and their main composition is Lonsdale stone, doped with graphite and diamond.

It is not pure, nor is it transparent and flawless, similar to the principle of synthetic diamonds. It can only be used for industrial processing, and there is no possibility of even becoming jewelry.

Otherwise, how could Russia have the leisure to maintain the stability of the diamond market, and make a lot of money from these diamonds, the international jewelry and diamond market.

As for heavy media beneficiation, this kind of use of the density of the raw ore containing diamonds is different from the density of ordinary rocks. Then specially proportioned the suspension of the same density, put the raw ore into the suspension, so that the higher density of the ore containing drilling, slowly sink to the bottom, the technology is suitable for use in the super drilling mine in Russia.

But it is not suitable to use it here, at least the diamond mine that Ye Qing visited in the afternoon.

The super mine was the result of a meteorite impact, and its ore density and diamond distribution were highly uniform, and the suspension was effective in separating the diamond-bearing ore.

There is no pattern in the distribution of diamond-bearing ores here in Konicaya, and those ores that do not contain drills may also contain other minerals with higher densities, using heavy media beneficiation technology. The poor diamonds selected are not enough for the cost of configuring the suspension.

After explaining the principle to Tan Jinghao, Tan Jinghao had no idea for a while.

There are only three diamond mining techniques used internationally, and in the end, all three of them cannot be bypassed the step of manual selection.

Seeing Tan Jinghao there looking anxious that he wanted to help himself share, but couldn't do anything, Ye Qing said with a smile that it was not as complicated as you thought.

As for the final step, there is now a preliminary idea of how to accurately select the diamond from the raw ore. After the three mines have been inspected, a more detailed solution can be developed based on the characteristics of the mines.

Tan Jinghao asked curiously what plan was envisaged.

Ye Qing said two words softly, "hardness".

……

Early the next morning, Ye Qing inspected the second drill mine under General Mopu.

The mine is located not far from Port Hackett, the only modern port in Nigaya.

The mine originally belonged to General Boggs, the owner of Port Hackett, and now that Boggs is a general under General Mopp, the question of ownership of the mine is certainly not complicated.

The mine is located in a huge lake.

Nature's ingenuity has created this peculiar diamond vein.

According to General Mopp, the mine was first discovered fifty years ago. At that time, the locals used to fish in this lake, and a lucky fisherman went down and caught a glittering stone.

Of course, the stone itself does not glow, but it does because there are more than a dozen diamonds of various sizes stuck to the surface.

The largest one is the size of a pigeon's egg, and the smallest one is the size of a grain of rice.

Later, local fishermen touched diamond-encrusted stones in the water, which eventually attracted the attention of those in charge of the land.

The lake is three times the size of a mine on the other side of the forest, and the water is shallow, only two meters deep.

Workers mined diamonds by building a ring of dams in the lake, pumping out the water from the dam, and then feeling the stones in the silt.

Not all diamonds are set in stone, and some are mixed in the mud, which requires a lot of workers to squeeze the mud little by little.

The lake is a very productive mine, but only a very small fraction of the rough diamonds are of S1 quality.

After collecting samples from the mine, the convoy moved on to a third mine.

The mine was located at the very edge of the Western Frontier, just a stone's throw from the Nation of Tagana.

It is the largest of the three mines, and the quality of the rough diamonds produced is only slightly worse than the first. So theoretically, when it comes to large-scale mechanized mining, this mine will be the one with the most profits.

https:

Genius one second to remember the address of this site:. Mobile version reading URL: m.