Chapter 722 of the text Space Smelting

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"10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1! Launch!" Huaguo's satellite launch center has once again successfully launched, and a recyclable rocket has risen into space with more than a dozen resource exploration satellites.

Reporters also regard these satellites as the same exploration of the earth's resources as before, if they know that these satellites are flying to the asteroid belt, I am afraid that the world will fry again, right?

Although several space resource companies in Luxembourg and the United States have launched several exploration satellites to the asteroid belt in the past to explore, I am afraid that no one will believe that with their strength, space mining can be realized in a short period of time!

Huaguo's strength is far from being comparable to theirs, and more importantly, it is Lu Qiujian who is in charge of the Xihe plan, and there are too many miracles that have been created in his hands over the years! As soon as this news is released, the stocks of the world's major mining groups are guaranteed to fall sharply! Because everyone believes that Lu Qiujian will make this plan a reality.

"Eh, Brother Liu, you said that this has discovered an ore planet in space! How can you transport the ore back to Earth? If you put such a lot of effort into just transporting ore, it is too cost-effective, right?" Fan Yihang met his old acquaintance Brother Liu in the base of the Xihe Plan, and it was Brother Liu who took him to the Congo in the first place.

When he was on an ocean-going steamer, Brother Liu was still thinking that one day he would mine in Antarctica! Unexpectedly, only a few years later, they would be about to enter space mining! Brother Liu still couldn't believe the reality, he squatted in the smoking room, looked up at the ceiling, and watched the smoke rings gradually dissipate, "Yes, even if it is platinum mining! Judging from the number of satellites fed back, 1 ton of rock contains about 28 grams of platinum, and in the international market, the price of every 28 grams of platinum is 1,500 US dollars! But how much does it cost to bring a ton of ore back to Earth?

"Unless the smelting of ore is completed in space! Judging from the current launch cost, there is still a considerable profit margin for transporting finished platinum ingots, gold ingots, or diamonds back to Earth!" Fan Yihang guessed, "But how should smelting be carried out in space? How to solve the energy problem? How to remove impurities in the ore?"

"These are not things I can worry about!But since we are here, Professor Lu must already have a solution, right?" After speaking, Brother Liu stood up, flicked his fingers, and the cigarette butt accurately fell into the ashtray, "Let's go, the afternoon training is about to start again! Hey, I didn't expect that I Liu would have a day to be counted in space!"

A year and a half later, the Pixiu spacecraft entered space under the leadership of Captain Yi Meng and flew toward the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter! In addition to the astronauts, there were also Fan Yihang, Liu Ge, and other space miners who had been trained and assessed! The goal of their trip was an asteroid with a diameter of 420 meters and rich in platinum, nickel, iron, and other metal minerals! They wanted to smelt this asteroid worth $2.42 trillion into metal ingots and bring it back to Earth!

That's because in the ancient mythology of China, Pixiu was a gold-swallowing beast that liked to devour all kinds of precious metals, and it was named after the spaceship to make a good omen.

Just when the spacecraft was successfully launched, the Chinese government suddenly announced a large-scale purchase of platinum in the hands of the Chinese people at a guaranteed price, and for a time the price of platinum in the international market skyrocketed! Those investors thought that Huaguo had discovered a new use for platinum, and immediately launched a frenzied purchase at a premium.

At the same time, it has stepped up its management of domestic platinum mines, shut down a number of small-scale and polluting platinum mines, and has repeatedly warned the people that they must sell all their platinum within this year!

It's just that some people heeded the call of the state and sold the platinum they had stored to foreign companies that bought it at a higher price! Some people who were outburst of patriotism thought that the state needed platinum to be of great use, and would rather hand them over to the state for a certain economic loss! This made the state's purchasers laugh and cry!

If they are persuaded to sell platinum to foreign companies, they will stare at these staff members and scold them for eating inside and out, they must have received benefits from foreign companies!

Of course, there are also people who, like those foreign companies, think that platinum has a lot of room for appreciation, and the louder the state shouts, the more they hide the platinum and refuse to sell it! Some people who are active not only do not sell, but also try their best to buy platinum from others!

Those high-level officials of the countries who knew the truth could only shake their heads and smile bitterly! They had no choice but to issue statements again and again calling on them to take action as soon as possible! But the results were mediocre! In the end, they could only let it go, and the opportunity had already been given to you, and now the vast majority of the people had already released the platinum in their hands, and a few greedy people would have to bear the consequences themselves! Fortunately, it would not be the citizens of China themselves who would suffer the greatest losses at that time!

With the passage of time, the Pixiu mining spacecraft is getting closer and closer to the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter! The Chinese government also released this news at the right time and announced where Pixiu was going to carry out space mining! Where is the rich platinum deposit, as soon as this news came out, those who speculated about platinum were immediately confused.

The international price of platinum immediately plummeted, jumping back to the level before Huaguo announced the recovery of platinum! Many companies and individuals who bought platinum wept without tears.

Of course, they refused to admit defeat willingly, and immediately used various channels to argue that this news of Huaguo was just to lower the purchase price of platinum!

Under their speculation, the price of platinum began to rise slowly, and at this time, Pixiu had entered the orbit of the asteroid, and countless mining machines were put down, and under the madness of Fan Yihang and others, they landed on the surface of the asteroid to work!

These centipede-like miners climbed up and down, crawled in and out of the asteroid, and it didn't take long for the asteroid to be drilled into a thousand holes, and tons and tons of ore were mined by them, and soon enough smelting weight was accumulated.

At this time, Fan Yihang commanded the smelting team to transport the smelting equipment from the Pixiu mining spacecraft, and they planned to use this advanced equipment to smelt the ore into platinum ingots here, and then transport these platinum ingots back to Earth!