Tantalum metal sounds very unfamiliar, but we come into contact with it every day, and many people can't live without it.

Tantalum metal is able to store and release electrical energy and is widely used in capacitors used in modern electronics. Phones, tablets, e-readers, and even many other electronic gadgets you can't immigate.

The importance of this thing is self-evident, although it may not be so precious in terms of unit price, it is also because the countries that export this thing do not care much, if it is according to OPEC's practice, the price of mobile phones in our hands will increase by leaps and bounds.

The Congo and Rwanda together account for nearly 70% of global tantalum concentrate production. Rwanda is the world's largest exporter of tantalum concentrate, mainly to China.

There is nothing wrong with this view, at most there will be some impact on the manufacturing industry, after all, it is not a good thing that raw materials are highly concentrated in the hands of one or two countries.

However, there is a strange fact that Rwanda, a country with almost no tantalum resources, has become the world's largest exporter of coltan.

Isn't it weird?

All of this ore is dug up from Congo and sent to Rwanda for export, in order to make it legal.

The miners who dig for ore are far worse off than my orc slaves, and the mine owners will do whatever it takes to get enough labor.

In order to save costs, there is no high-tech machinery and equipment in the mine, it is all manual labor, and if I hadn't seen a documentary called a bloody mobile phone, I wouldn't have known what this thing is for.

The red highlands where the orcs live, the soil is rich in tantalum, which is probably why they can't grow crops.

The tantalum content in the red soil made the people at the laboratory think that I had ground the metal and mixed it in.

His grandmother's, how high is that?

Industrial, minerals and the like, when shipped back to Earth, are not much, unlike things like gold and silver.

The only restriction now is that the alchemist of Halongsu has not brought me back yet, and there is no space equipment to use.

On the one hand, I asked Lao Qian to come forward and go to the orc empire for me to contact the nearby tribes and propose a deal of grain for red earth, and on the other hand, I returned to China overnight.

I don't know if tantalum metal is considered a strategic material, but the vast area of the red highlands will definitely make companies that need this thing crazy.

Through Yun Lang, I made an appointment to meet Sister Mori Kuisen, the place and time are set by Sister Sen, she is a busy person.

I thought I would meet Sister Sen in a hotel teahouse or something, but I was asked to be in the office building of a military compound.

If you bring me in for a long time, it's nothing, but if you ask to go to this kind of place to talk about business, does it mean that the buddy has been accepted by the organization?

It seems that the research of Cang metal has achieved certain results, and the country, especially the military, is beginning to feel that the reward I asked for is too vain, and this is to compensate me?

Sister Mori wore a dark blue suit, not a military uniform as I imagined, and sat behind her desk without knowing what she was writing.

"Xiao Li is here, sit down, what's the matter with me? I'm too busy, you have to run around, I'm so embarrassed." ”

Sister Sen wore a pair of glasses, and when she saw that I was paying attention, she went down embarrassedly, and said in her mouth: "Eldest sister's eyes are spent, and she can't see the words clearly without wearing a mirror. ”

I smiled and said, "Sister Sen, you're working hard, take an air conditioner to raise it, or a big beauty." ”

"As far as your mouth is sweet, if there is anything important, you have to run the big boss personally, just let Yun Lang pass on a word if you have something, you are in trouble in business?"

Sister Sen is really busy, on the way here, the orderly also told me that this is not the usual place for Sister Mori, this is to coordinate a batch of materials, time is very tight, deliberately compressed other people's time, squeezed out a little time to meet me.

"Well, I have a business friend who found a little mineral deposit, and I bought that place, and the location is kept secret, and no one knows what is in it, and this is the specimen I brought back. ”

As I spoke, I took out the red soil from Yun Lang's handbag.

Sister Sen looked at it curiously and asked, "What is in here?" ”

"It's tantalum. ”

"Tantalum, the one that makes cell phone capacitors?"

Seeing that I nodded, Sister Mori quickly asked the orderly to call someone to send the samples I brought for testing.

"You're going to Africa?"

Sister Mori asked curiously.

"No, in other places, no one has found that the soil in that place is rich in tantalum, not ore, but all red soil, which is amazing.

If the country needs it, I will think of shipping it back in large quantities. ”

I'm telling the truth, no one else has noticed, and even the orcs who have lived on the Red Heights for generations don't know why their crops don't produce much food.

Sister Sen smiled and said: "Yes, of course, you don't know, this kind of tantalum metal is now more and more widely used, and our country, as the world's factory, has never said that these raw materials are enough."

If it is soil, it should not be difficult to mine, and you should have understood the production process of this thing before you came, and the source was pinched in the hands of a few countries and organizations, which had a great impact.

At the same time, there are many people with ulterior motives who make a fuss about these problems in the international community to attack us, and they don't want to think about it, if we don't produce these basic accessories, why do they produce higher-end products?

As long as we give up the market, we will immediately be occupied by these people with ulterior motives, and this is the international community, which is very irritating.

Xiao Li, how big is the reserve of this kind of thing? You give it to the eldest sister, and I can also report to organize people to carry out technological transformation. ”

It is estimated that Sister Sen was inspired by it, and I don't know what those bastards are doing with this thing again.

"There are a lot of reserves, and they are very confidential, as long as I don't say it, no one knows what I'm doing, and I promise that the goods I provide will never be stained with blood and tears. ”

They are all people who understand and understand, and there is no need to say too clearly, everyone knows what is going on, and as for the output, I guarantee to meet one-third of the domestic market demand.

Of course, I have compressed the output countless times, the red highlands are boundless, if the soil is all like this, the tantalum metal reserves contained in it are definitely more than the earth, and this thing is not difficult to mine, and there is no need for deep processing, you can sell it directly for money, which is very convenient.

Sister Mori thought that I was deliberately exaggerating to attract more attention, and she didn't say anything about it, but only said that if it was really as rich in tantalum metal as I said, how much should I have.

After waiting for a while, the orderly rushed back and showed Sister Mori a copy of the test materials, which were almost exactly the same as the materials I provided, and the tantalum metal content was amazing!

"Boy, you won't mix tantalum metal powder into it, will you? How can the content be so high? If that's the case, there must be associated minerals in the soil, and the purity of those ores is amazing!"

Sister Mori was frightened by the data on the materials, she didn't believe the materials I provided, but her laboratory would not falsify.

"The associated mine has not been found yet, but I can't cheat these samples, pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other, what's the point of me cheating?

But there is one thing, Sister Sen, I shipped these things back, but there are no procedures, how to pay me domestic taxes, foreign procedures, don't ask me. ”

These words must be made clear, if it were not for the lack of formalities, I could have sold these things to other enterprises in the country.

Sister Sen laughed and said, "Okay, I'll make a mistake with you, as long as you pull things back, honestly pay taxes, you don't have to worry about other things, since you enter the China Sea, your ship will be legal, this is always okay, right?"

I laughed embarrassedly and said, "It's not for secrecy, dare to let people know that this soil is full of tantalum metal, and someone has to rob it." ”

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