If you want to mine diamonds on a large scale, you need to come up with a mechanized mining plan to match it.

This is a long R&D process that needs to be developed from scratch and slowly explored and improved in mining practice.

For example, in a lignite mine in Hamburg, Germany, in order to increase production capacity to the limit, engineers specially designed and built the world's largest single construction machinery and equipment, the 293 scoop wheel excavator.

This excavation machine can dig up nearly 150,000 tons of coal per day when it is started.

Engineers have pushed mechanized mining to its limits.

But it took the engineers a total of five years to design and build the steel behemoth.

It took five years to build a steel behemoth, and this was when the engineers had a lot of similar digging equipment to draw from, and the equipment only had to be mined with a simple turn of a winch.

How long does it take to design a diamond mining facility that doesn't have any design ideas to draw on?

Soon.

Because of the intervention of [Virtual Factory 5.0].

The last upgrade of the Monster Factory allowed the Longxitan Factory to obtain the Virtual Factory 5.0 system. This system is equivalent to giving a group of cold machines a soul, to think for themselves, and in the virtual world, through tens or hundreds of thousands of different combinations, to find the best combination of processes for all the machines in the factory.

Fatal tolerances are gradually generated during the operation of the machine, and the system is automatically calibrated.

In the process of product processing, every detail is checked by the system to reduce the influence of human operation to the limit.

For a very simple example, when a machine tool leaves the factory, the manufacturer often marks it with a theoretical processing limit accuracy. However, in actual use, this ultimate precision is simply not possible to be machined. Because in machine tool work, there are too many factors that will affect the accuracy, even as small as the change in the temperature of the workshop.

But in a virtual factory system, these influences are all eliminated.

Any changes cannot escape the sensing and measurement of the system, which in turn is automatically adjusted and compensated by the system.

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The virtual factory system can automatically reorganize the machines in the factory to find the optimal solution.

In the case of knowing the geological conditions and geomorphological drop coordinates of the three drilling mines, the virtual factory can of course find out the most scientific mining plan in the virtual world through rigorous simulation experiments.

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With the launch of the virtual factory.

In front of Ye Qing's eyes, rows of graphic bars similar to game menus suddenly appeared.

These graphic bars are not skills, but machine tools, smelting equipment of different shapes, and construction machinery. In addition to these, there are all industrial products in the Longxitan factory, all auxiliary processing robots.

A Titan-X-type was dragged out of the graphics bar by Ye Qing, and as soon as the icon landed on one of the three diamond mines, the icon immediately expanded, turning into a real Titan-X-type with the same size as the diamond scale.

The Giant God X was at Ye Qing's feet, only the size of a cigarette case. It stopped on the edge of the mine, and it seemed so insignificant.

But if you really drive a Titan-X there, it will be exactly as high as the shrunken model in front of you, both at the height of the mine and in the area of the area.

Ye Qing pulled his hands, and the surrounding terrain and the Giant God X quickly enlarged, becoming as tall as Ye Qing.

This is easy to observe, and then a mining loading truck, the mining truck was dragged out by Ye Qing and placed behind the Giant God X in front and back order.

The materials for the two construction vehicles were taken from the metal dysprosium mine on the side of the Nicayan plant, and the last impact iron ore crushing tower was used as the finishing touch.

Ye Qing set the crushing diameter of the impact iron ore crushing tower to 60 millimeters.

The two-chamber structure of this crushing tower can easily crush ore crushed with a feed hardness of no more than 8 on the Mohs scale into pieces of uniformly sized stones.

The discharge conveyor belt divides the crushed material into crushed and powdered materials, and the crushed homogeneous stones are screened out and removed from the crushed materials, and those powders and soils are separated from the powders.

Large-scale mechanized operations, of course, are not possible to follow the example of the natives, who only pick up soft soil and gravel to sift diamonds by hand. In Ye Qing's plan, any object in those three diamond mines would be screened.

The rocky belts buried underground, and the mountains on the border, are the best targets for screening.

The Titans X mines the soil and rock, and loaders and transporters transport the minerals to the feed port of the crushing tower.

The crushing tower is then responsible for breaking them into uniform stones.

This process does not require any effort to design, and there are several types of mines under the umbrella of Behemoth Industries, and the equipment can be used on the spot if you move equipment from that mine.

Fluorite has a hardness of four on the Mohs scale.

Feldspar has a hardness of six.

Quartz, granite, basalt have a hardness of seven.

Topaz has a hardness of eight.

The hardness of various mineral rocks in nature is usually between four and seven, and the crushing tower can crush ores with a hardness of no more than eight, while diamonds have the highest hardness of ten.

Therefore, the crushing tower cannot destroy the diamonds, and as long as the scrap it treats contains diamonds, it will remain intact in the scrap.

The final step is to screen the diamond from the scraps.

Ye Qing's idea is to start with hardness.

Since diamonds are the hardest objects in the world, can we devise a device that can process all rock scraps of hardness 9 or less into granules with a diameter of no more than two millimeters?

If it could, a diamond with a hardness of 10 would be completely separated from the scraps.

It is only necessary to design a screening equipment with a diameter of no more than two millimeters, and after the granular fragmentation is screened and separated, the remaining 100% is diamonds.

At this time, Dianjing took out a model from his pocket.

This is a diamond separation equipment that it hastily designed according to Ye Qing's ideas.

The model was thrown to the ground, and it was transformed into a rectangular mechanical device nearly three meters high. Referring to the Titan-X next to it, its true height should be around twenty meters.

"Boss, according to your idea, this separator uses the principle of a hammer mill, which can hammer all the ore the size of a fist into granules through a hammer table driven by hydraulic power. ”

"The hydraulic drive force has been adjusted to just enough force to crush the topaz stone. ”

"Wouldn't it be too simple...... Ye Qing looked at the rectangular mechanical equipment and kept muttering in his heart, "Logically speaking, our thinking is right, the strength of the hammer platform is not enough to smash the diamond." But I don't think it's reasonable for other engineers to think of such a simple solution. ”

"It should be fine, maybe the engineers can design a solution, but they can't come up with a corresponding material solution. Dianjing bit his finger and pointed to the shrunken diamond on the ground: "Among the three diamond mines, I have added a 1 in 100,000 chance of randomly distributed diamonds. ”

"These diamonds are all copied directly from the factory's diamond inventory, and now they're hidden in the ore, so let's give it a try. ”

Ye Qing was no longer entangled, "Let's try first." ”

Ye Qing chose to start the simulation.

As soon as the selection was made, the Titan-X-type on the edge of the mine suddenly activated, and after a short warm-up, it did not hesitate to crash headlong into the mountain not far away.

Tons of rock fragments, easily crushed from the mountain.

The rocks are then loaded into mining trucks by loaders and tilted into the impact ore crushing towers.

Roar of the Broken Tower!

As we continue to zoom in on the details, tons of shredded material are spit out from the shredding and powder openings.

These scraps are dotted with red glowing particles.

That's the diamonds, which the electrocrystals have deliberately added to their emissive properties so that they are easy to identify.

When the scrap entered the diamond separation equipment, Ye Qing and Dianjing couldn't help but clench their fists.

Rumble~

The hammer table in the diamond separation equipment smashed on the scraps.

In the first crushing operation, Ye Qing and Dianjing only heard a sound, and they couldn't see what was going on inside. When waiting for the second operation, Ye Qing hurriedly made the shell of the diamond separation equipment transparent and enlarged it on the hammer table.

Now Ye Qing's eyes were covered with fist-sized rock scraps, and Ye Qing could clearly see three luminous bodies in this pile of scraps.

The hammer fell for the third time.

And then......

The luminaire has changed from three to dozens......

Because after the hammer platform fell, it not only shattered the rocks, but also smashed three diamonds the size of peanuts.

"What's the situation?" Ye Qing was a little caught off guard by this result, "Didn't I tell you before that you want to use softer metal as the hammer table material?"

Dianjing looked innocent, "I did it." ”

The truth that things are easy to fold when they pass through steel, Ye Qing and electrocrystals both understand.

Diamonds are the strongest objects in the world, and no metal can leave scratches on its surface, but that doesn't mean it won't break.

As a simple example, the average steel has a hardness of about 5.5 on the Mohs scale.

What if you take this steel hammer and hit a piece of granite with a hardness of seven?

Of course, granite will be hammered with a hammer, because granite is much less malleable than iron hammers.

If this hammer were to hit the diamond, the diamond, which was extremely hard but not very malleable, would also be shattered.

That's why Ye Qing asked the electrocrystal to use a softer metal as a hammer table, but obviously he has already taken corresponding measures, why is the diamond still broken?

Fortunately, this is a simulation experiment, and Ye Qing can make adjustments in time, "Continue to increase the softness of the hammer table by ten percent, and repeat the action just now." ”

This time, one diamond was broken.

The softness was automatically adjusted upwards and the experiment continued.

One ton at a time, the hammer table worked eleven times, in which nine diamonds of various sizes were separated.

The diamonds were all intact, but Ye Qing and Dian Jing did not show the smiles they should have.

New problems have arisen.

Although the softness of the hammer is perfectly balanced with that of the diamond, the hammer is working downward, and the hammer that stops automatically when it touches the diamond also loses its work on the rock that is at the same level as the diamond.

That is, how large the volume of the diamond is obtained, and how big are the particles of those broken rocks.

And in many cases, the surface of the hammer table, which is made of soft metal, has appeared a layer of dents that have been ejected by rocks and diamonds.

Dianjing held back for a long time, and held back the sentence, "His grandmother's ......"