Chapter 296: Strategic Resources

Inside the tall and spacious storeroom, rows of heavy, sturdy platforms are almost as far as the eye can see, and on them are stacked with strips of metal of various colors, more or less. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info?? Novel w?w?w?.'

Zhao Xinglan took a look and found that they are all industrial metals that are in high demand in the major countries of the human world today, such as copper, titanium, tungsten, aluminum, antimony, etc., as well as various high-value rare earths, which belong to the mother emperor's split army to collect and refine manganese nodule ore on the seabed.

Most of the metal resources they produce are for the mother emperor to devour as food for their own growth and evolution, and the rest are stored here as Zhao Xinglan's strategic reserve stock.

According to her identification, the metal reserves that can appear here are extremely valuable, and a few types are extremely scarce key strategic resources in China, and they need to spend a lot of foreign exchange to import all year round.

For example, on the platform in front of her at this moment, there were silver-white columnar metal blocks with a length of fifty centimeters and a diameter of five centimeters, which were highly purified rhenium metal.

Rhenium metal is a real rare element, and it is the last element found in nature by human beings, it has no separate deposits at all, only a small amount of silicon-beryllium yttrium and molybdenite, belonging to their associated ores. However, a few years ago, there were rumors that Russia had discovered the world's first pure rhenium mine on the South Kuril Islands, but it is not known whether the news is true or not.

One of the biggest uses of rhenium is aero engines, without this rare metal as an additive, if you want to create a qualified fifth-generation fighter engine is a castle in the air, a mirror!

At present, the global rhenium resources are mainly distributed in the Americas and Europe. According to the data released by the Geological Survey of the United States in 2015, the global proven rhenium resource reserves are only 1,100 tons, of which the proven rhenium resource reserves in the United States are about 500 tons, and those in other countries are 600 tons.

The total reserves of rhenium resources in the world are about 2,500 tons, and Chile has the most abundant rhenium resources of 1,300 tons, followed by rice (390 tons), Russia (310 tons), Kazakhstan (190 tons), Armenia (95 tons), Peru (45 tons) and Canada (32 tons), and the total reserves of rhenium resources in other countries in the world are about 91 tons.

It can be said that this thing will become a much more scarce resource than gold in the future, and in 2014, the total amount of rhenium metal produced in the world was less than 50 tons, most of which was supplied to the superpower of rice. In recent years, China has also increased the import and reserve of this strategic metal, so as not to be stuck when the international situation changes in the future.

Zhao Xinglan roughly estimated that the rhenium metal on this platform was about two tons, and after the unique purification technology of the mother emperor, they were all high-quality goods with a purity of more than 99.99%. If you sell it, it's very easy to get rid of it.

"This thing is good, I will refine and reserve more in the future. She said with satisfaction.

The amount of gold produced in the world today exceeds 3,000 tons every year, but the output of rhenium metal is not even one-fiftieth of gold.

"No problem, master, there is no shortage of this metal near the hydrothermal deposits on the seabed, and I will build a biosmelting furnace for its purification and production. The Mother replied.

Zhao Xinglan continued to visit the warehouse, where there were more than 50 kinds of minerals, the largest of which was pure copper, as many as thousands of tons, and pure titanium was hundreds of tons.

On the last platform at the end of the storeroom, unsurprisingly, there was a pile of gold bars of magnificent color, slightly reddened in the light, and next to it was a pile of larger silver bars, neatly stacked into two eye-catching mountains of gold and silver.

In total, five tons of gold, and thirty-four tons of silver.

Zhao Xinglan nodded indifferently, this reserve is unsatisfactory, and he will have to continue to work hard in the future.

In peacetime when economic development is stable and orderly, banknotes are basically equivalent to wealth, and with it, you can buy almost all the resources you need; however, in wartime, only gold, minerals, materials and other things are used, so Zhao Xinglan is trying to make money at the same time, and also attaches great importance to the accumulation of physical wealth.

Today's international situation is not optimistic, the world will not be peaceful in the next few years, many international institutions are discussing and predicting the possibility of large-scale wars, and Phantom Li also has a clear analysis and judgment on this, so Zhao Xinglan must take precautions and make full preparations to let his kingdom survive in troubled times.

By the end of the year, when the mother queen completes its transformation and enters the fifth stage, the number of various powerful splits that can be produced will jump to a higher level, and the output of various rare resources will naturally rise.

In another warehouse, Zhao Xinglan saw countless gold and silver products, cultural relics and antiques, and porcelain treasures, which were several times more than in the No. 1 sub-base.

“…… So far, the number of shipwrecks excavated by the Split Legion in Southeast Asian waters has exceeded 400, most of which have very few items on the shipwreck, and the ships with rich harvests account for less than half of them, and many items have been damaged and lost their collection value. The Mother explained.

Zhao Xinglan bowed slightly, if all the things in front of her were successfully sold, she would immediately become the richest man in the world.

By the beginning of next year at the latest, there will be footprints of the Split Legion on the other side of the Atlantic Sea, and all the valuable shipwrecks will be found and patronized by the Split Legion, and those huge treasures that have been lost will finally be rediscovered!

"By the way, how did you study the item that was given to you last time?" Zhao Xinglan asked again.

When she was in the imperial capital, the metal disc given to her by Qin Yuanjun was determined to be the product of the intelligent civilization of the previous era after the preliminary observation of Phantom Li.

Therefore, after she returned to Binhai, she immediately handed it over to the split, and transferred it to the mother emperor's body for in-depth analysis and identification, and the results should be available now.

"Yes master, I have fully deciphered the message contained therein, this thing is indeed magical and very important, you should treasure it well, and never reveal its secrets to anyone. The Mother replied.

……

At this moment, he is in the Qin Mansion in the imperial capital.

“…… Dear Mrs. Hu, this is the document for the transfer of ownership of 35% of the original shares of the Miláslone mine in Chile.

The well-dressed Bachman spread out the documents in the suitcase and placed them on the crystal coffee table, and said politely to Hu Lin, who was calm on the main seat: "As long as you return the relics of my family's ancestors, this document worth one billion dollars will belong to you!"

"......" (To be continued.) )