The next stop is the staff cafeteria, which is now past lunchtime and only the employees working in the canteen can be seen.

Most of these employees are family members, and when they saw Ye Qing coming to inspect, the hot eyes of these young female family members made Ye Qing a little overwhelmed.

The hardware facilities of the canteen are not said, the dining is all stainless steel dining tables, and the kitchen has quick-freezing cold storage, and a snack room. Flipping through the canteen's log, Ye Qing found that not only the food was very rich, but also some "game" that could not be seen in China at all.

For example, two days ago, all the staff ate a meal of [fried bison with chili] at noon, and a meal of [braised gazelle] at dinner last week.

"Where did the bison and gazelles come from?"

"Report to the owner, it was all sold to us by local residents. The person in charge of the canteen cautiously reported: "Here in the canteen, except for spices and meat products, they need to be transported by air. Like rice, flour, and cooking oil, we all buy them from the trading company run by General Mopp. After a long time, the local residents became emboldened and took the initiative to sell their own vegetables and game. ”

"Locals have come to sell a lot of meat, but when our chef made the dishes, he found that some of the meats were not very tasty. There was also a time when the locals got a whole big python, weighing more than 200 pounds. But it scared us enough, and the taste was far worse than the domestic snake soup. ”

"The price of these game meat is cheaper than our domestic pork, so I told them that as long as the meat is fresh and delicious, it will be sent to the canteen in the future. ”

Ye Qing nodded, this idea is right, but you should also pay attention.

"You canteen makes a meat table, those animals with huge populations can be collected, but those rare animals can't be wanted. Although we are not animal protectors, we cannot take the initiative to provide local residents with a way to hunt and kill. ”

"Yes, boss. The person in charge of the cafeteria straightened his body and reassured.

After visiting the canteen, the next stop is the core mineral smelting factory.

The core department of the Sotu Rainforest plant is divided into a mining area and a smelting area.

After unremitting efforts, the smelting area has now become a refinery with a daily production capacity of 100 tons of rare earth metal elements.

The 100-ton class sounds very rare, and those large mines often have a daily production capacity of 10,000 tons.

But here are rare earth metal elements, in the international market, similar rare earth concentrate powder quotations, usually in the hundreds of thousands of dollars a ton, this is just ordinary concentrate powder. Those that are rare, buy by the kilogram.

The 100 tons here is the rare earth metal element powder finally refined by the mining area after mining nearly 20,000 tons of crude ore a day, through a series of processes, with a market price of 60 million US dollars.

The smelting area is mainly divided into [crushing area], [rough selection area], [grinding area], [magnetic separation area], and [chemical purification area].

Ye Qing visited one stop at a time, and saw the crushing area, the two huge crushers that could easily bite a pickup truck into pieces. I also saw a magnetic separator that rotated around the minerals that had been ground into powder like a portal.

The loader served by the Titan X can put more than 200 tons of coarse ore into the crushing port per bucket. The occlusal gears inside the crusher, which weigh hundreds of tons each, can crush these car-sized stones to the size of glass balls of mineral particles with a slow turn.

The momentum is like thunder, and the dust is flying.

Ninety-nine percent of these coarse ores are ordinary stones, and only one percent is a monazite mine with smelting value.

Workers working here must wear fully sealed radiation suits and breathe in gas cylinders.

The ore is rough-separated, the ordinary stones are removed, and the remaining monazite ore is sent to the grinding area. The grinding area is a cylindrical rotary grinding furnace where mineral particles are fed and rotated into flour-like granules.

It is also from here that the purification of monazite has entered the high-tech operation link.

Magnetic separation is a magnetic field generation device that can adjust the magnetic field environment.

With a slight modification, these devices can be used to produce monocrystalline metals.

These devices can accurately separate metallic and non-metallic elements from monazite ore. Dysprosium, on the other hand, is hidden in the metal element.

The scientific and technological content of chemical purification lies in its recyclability. Ionizing sewers can turn chemical wastewater into a clean and usable source of water, and those chemical wastes, after treatment, can be sold to chemical plants for further recycling.

Chemical purification is used to distinguish and purify non-metallic minerals, which are not the main goal of Ye Qing's construction of the factory, but it can continuously create profits for the factory.

Those rare earth metal elements are the target.

There are 17 types of rare earth metals, nine of which can be mined in the Suotu rainforest.

But these nine metallic elements want to be separated into a single species, such as dysprosium metal. It is necessary to use a gas centrifuge to separate.

Originally, the separation work was only carried out at the Longxitan plant. At present, a new gas centrifuge area has been built in the factory, where tens of thousands of gas centrifuges are located.

It's just that for the time being, there is not enough energy to drive these centrifuges to work all night.

After inspecting the core smelting area, Ye Qing changed into a new radiation protection suit, and together with Tan Jinghao, he inspected the mining area of the last station.

The mining area is several kilometers away, because the ore contains harmful radiation and must be kept away from the factory living area. At the same time, there are several testing stations in the factory to detect the presence of radiation in the air.

The mining area is fully mechanized, and the 11 ocean-going missions of the humpback whale have not only transported a large number of industrial equipment here, but also transported more than 20 Tishen X-types.

These Titan-X cockpits have been specially modified, with enhanced electronics, an independent air circulation system, lined with a thick layer of lead, and even the cockpit glass is leaded radiation-proof glass. This level of protection, used to deal with the low-grade mineral radiation here, is simply a killer knife.

But the workers sat inside, relieved.

When Ye Qing arrived at the mining area on a modified Giant God I, the mountain range in front of him had been split into a cliff nearly 100 meters high, and under the cliff was a huge pile of rubble.

The Titans X acts as a loader and rock crusher, and at the foot of the gravel hill, there are Caterpillar 797 mine transporters shuttling back and forth.

Accustomed to seeing the Giant God X-type, Ye Qing naturally would not be amazed by this kind of world's largest mining truck.

But as soon as this thing runs on the road, it is covered with dust.

Walking around with the dust, the mining site was full of mechanical work, and there were no employees in sight, Ye Qing was planning to return to the factory. It so happened that someone on the intercom informed that a mountain range was about to be blasted in the distance.

Blasting is the most common means of mining, holding the mentality of watching the excitement, Ye Qing retreated to the safety line with the on-site machinery, and then covered his ears and waited for the blasting to start with great interest.

"The location of the on-site machinery is finally confirmed, and each numbered machine is asked to answer and confirm. ”

"Unit 1 confirms safety. ”

"The second machine confirms that it is safe. ”

"No. 3 ......"

"Forty-Seven ......"

"Countdown to the blast, please cover your ears. ”

When the countdown ended, Ye Qing covered his ears.

Just as Ye Qing was nervously waiting for the blast to come, without warning, the earth suddenly shook.

The mountain range in the distance, like the otherwise calm sea, was dropped into a large-yield aerial bomb.

"Boom!"

The top of that mountain range instantly collapsed and exploded, and for a moment, Ye Qing felt as if this mountain range had come to life and stood up. The top of the mountain rose by an unknown number of meters, and the earth shook violently like it had never felt before.

The sound was like a thunderbolt piercing through the heavens and the earth, and the mountains that were raised upwards spread out in all directions to the west, containing incomparably terrifying power.

There was no fire in sight, but the dust and smoke were several hundred meters high.

Finally, there was a stirring air flow mixed with fine dust, which hit the glass of the Titan I cockpit with a continuous crackling sound.

It wasn't until the airflow was completely calm that Ye Qing could take a breath.

After exhaling the stuffiness in his chest, Ye Qing praised: "It's enjoyable, it's such a big firework." ”

This was a deep-hole blast, which detonated multiple explosion points in an instant, totaling more than 500 tons of explosives.

The explosives were purchased by General Mopu from a regular chemical factory abroad, and I have to say that General Mopu is very business-minded, and since Ye Qing set up a factory here, almost all the logistics materials that can be purchased from the outside world are purchased and provided by him.

To this end, General Möpp also registered an international trading company.