Chapter 721 Interstellar Mining

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Fan Yihang scratched his head, stared at his boss with wide eyes, although after returning to China from the mines in the Congo, he thought that his job might be transferred, but he didn't expect that this transfer would come so strangely, "Mr. Zhang, I heard me right? You said that Xihe Plan sent a transfer letter asking me to be transferred? I am a half-person of a mining professional, what can they do if they want me to go over?"

"Hehe, if you are half-, then what are the rest of us?" Mr. Zhang, a rare big boss of their company, smiled very kindly at this time, "Speaking of the application of mining machinery, you are the number one talent in the entire group company! Xihe plans to take a fancy to your ability in this regard!"

"Do you want me to go to the moon to mine?" This is not impossible, although the conditions on the moon are difficult, but after all, there is no black corn with AK running around, and it may be safer than Africa!

"It's not the moon! I don't know the exact place!" Mr. Zhang shook his head and said, "In short, it won't be on the earth, you still need to undergo a lot of training before you officially start working! Of course, your salary will be much higher than now! Although our company can't do without you now, we have always supported the Xihe plan, you can consider it and reply to me! But I personally recommend that you still seize this opportunity! It turns out that the project with Professor Lu's participation is always very rewarding!"

If it weren't for Lu Qiujian, his company would not have been able to win a big order from the Congo, and now anyone with a discerning eye can see that Lu Qiujian is now preparing for a new plan! If Fan Yihang is brought in, he will have a way to cooperate with Xihe in the future, right? Mr. Zhang's abacus is extremely shrewd! For this reason, he has made a ruthless effort to patiently persuade the technical backbone of his company.

"Go! Don't think about it! Since Xihe plans to need, I am definitely willing to go!" Seeing that Zhang always sincerely supported himself, the last trace of worry in his heart also disappeared, Fan Yihang replied decisively.

"Okay! I'll give them a reply!" Mr. Zhang slapped the table happily, "You don't have to go to work these days, get ready and prepare! I invite you to dinner tonight on behalf of the company, and thank you for your contributions to the company over the years!" If it weren't for the fact that he didn't have a daughter, Mr. Zhang would have wanted to find him as a son-in-law! This is a project that Lu Qiujian participated in! Once he seizes this opportunity, his company will not have to worry about it for at least the next few decades!

Mr. Zhang couldn't help but loosen his tie, Li Shufu and they were able to reach the top of the Forbes list, isn't it because they hugged Professor Lu's thigh?

Three days later, Fan Yihang was taken to the local military region by a car with a special license plate, and then came to the Xihe Project Base in Chang'an by guò military plane, which is now much larger than it was more than 10 years ago! Many studies related to nuclear fusion have gradually moved out of the cave, and the cave has been left for more advanced research, and it is one of them that Fan Yihang wants to participate in.

After several identity checks, Fan Yihang finally entered the cave, and a white-haired white man led him over, "Fan Yihang, I'm Li Yan, the person in charge of this project, let's get familiar with the project with me first!"

When I entered the site, I saw a huge boulder stacked in the middle of a huge pool, and a group of workers were busy operating all kinds of strange-looking machines on the stones!

What is this for? Underwater mining? This technology doesn't seem new, does it? The South China Sea was everywhere at the beginning, but it was gradually shut down in the past few years!

Li Yan's next words quickly dispelled his doubts, "What they are simulating now is mining operations under weightless conditions! Now it is only a small test stage, and when the small test is mature, we will go to the lake and ocean to carry out a large real asteroid! When the large real test is completed, we will officially enter space to capture the asteroid!"

, asteroid mining! Fan Yihang almost jumped up with excitement! He had heard of this technology many times, and the Planetary Resources Company and Deep Space Resources Corporation of the United States had already announced their interest in asteroid mining, and attracted the attention of Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, Larry Page, founder of Google, Ram Schreem, founder of Google's board of directors, Charles Simeone, the "father of Word" of Microsoft, The great director James Cameron invested in them, and Luxembourg, a small European country with steel as its pillar industry, launched its own asteroid mining plan in the name of the country! Unexpectedly, now Huaguo has also started its own research in the field of asteroid mining!

As a veteran of the mining industry, Fan Yihang is well aware of the benefits that asteroid mining technology can bring to mankind, and of the approximately 9,000 asteroids known, more than 1,500 are as easy as landing on the moon, and among these 1,500 asteroids, there is a huge amount of wealth.

In 2015, an asteroid with a diameter of about 500 meters flew by the Earth. The arrival of the asteroid has attracted everyone's attention, not because it will bring any disaster, but because some scientists estimate that the asteroid numbered 2011UW-158 contains 100 million tons of platinum, with a total value of up to 54 trillion US dollars (about 33 trillion yuan).

As long as this asteroid can be captured, it will be enough to beat the platinum on Earth into the price of cabbage! Oh no, cabbage will be much more expensive than platinum!

The asteroids that have been discovered so far can be divided into three categories, one is carbonaceous, one is silicon, and one is metallic. Among them, carbonaceous and metallic asteroids are believed to be available to human beings, providing huge resources and economic value. Carbonaceous asteroids are rich in hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and other elements that can fuel space exploration. Metallic asteroids are mainly composed of iron and nickel, and some asteroids are also rich in platinum metal elements, such as platinum, cobalt, rhodium, iridium, osmium and other rare metals. Clearly, this platinum asteroid belongs to a class rich in platinum metals.

If 2011UW-158 has gradually moved away from the Earth, then 241 Germania, with a diameter of 1,689 kilometers, can be in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter! If it is worth nearly 100 trillion US dollars in iron ore at today's market prices, it is enough to match the total GDP of the world at present!

In this asteroid belt, there are many small stars similar to 241germania!

Could it be that Professor Lu has set his sights on the mining industry after burying the oil industry? Fan Yihang began to mourn for BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, which are multinational mining groups