Chapter 1069: Return to Business
After discovering these four asteroids, Tang Feng really almost sang "Hee Haw" with a broken gong. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
When Tang Feng established the Star Exploration Company, his original intention was not to land on Mars, but to conduct space mining. As for the so-called space mining, the source of minerals is these unowned asteroids floating in the universe.
Although most of the small rows are made of rocks, there are also quite a few "metal asteroids" like these four asteroids. As we mentioned earlier, the formation of the asteroid belt is likely to be composed of some primitive solar nebula material when the solar system was just formed in ancient times.
The original primordial solar nebula contains a huge amount of metal elements, and its content is far beyond human imagination. Just like the Earth, how did the Earth come to be? Quite simply, the heavier metal elements in the primordial solar nebula first gathered together, and then slowly absorbed other lighter substances, and finally slowly evolved into the current earth.
Why the core of the earth is iron-nickel is the root of it.
Similarly, the asteroid belt, which does not form a planet for various reasons, also contains enough metal material to give birth to a planet, but these metal materials do not form a solid planetary core under the influence of the gravitational pull of the sun and the gravitational pull of Jupiter, but are evenly dispersed among many asteroids.
If these asteroids, which are rich in metal elements, can be used as another source of the earth's mineral resources, then the metal elements contained in these asteroids alone are enough for the earth to be used for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years.
Many people understand this truth, Tang Feng and Benjamin and Andrew set up the Space Exploration Company back then, and its original intention was also to mine these asteroids.
As a result, due to a series of changes, Star Exploration Company did not become a space mining company, but became the initiator and organizer of the Mars development.
But this doesn't matter, now that the development of Mars has entered the formality, the earth is carrying out preparations for Mars immigration in an intense and orderly manner, and the Star Exploration Company can unite with Tang's Anglo-American Glencore to continue to complete the feat that has not been completed before - space mining.
In fact, it is not so simple to carry out space mining, and the first prerequisite is to find a suitable mineral source, that is, an asteroid rich in metal elements. But in the solar system, there are only millions of asteroids with a diameter of more than 10 meters. And how do you choose the right asteroids to mine from such a large number of asteroids?
Therefore, the first step in space mining is a large threshold that is extremely difficult to cross.
And now it's a good thing, it's just a casual experiment, and he actually dug up four treasure stars, which is simply the east is not bright and the west is bright.
Originally, Tang Feng still felt a little depressed because of the "strike" of the star core, but the appearance of these four treasure stars immediately made Tang Feng throw the depression in his heart directly to the Andromeda Galaxy.
In fact, the mineral resources on the earth are already quite tight. Although the earth is not small, if it feeds almost seven billion earthlings, it is actually about to reach its limit.
Not to mention anything else, this non-renewable mineral resource alone is about to drive the earthlings to a desperate situation.
Tang Feng is the owner of the world's largest mining company, and he certainly knows what is going on with the mineral resources of the entire planet.
Like the earth's silver resources, according to the current global demand, the earth's silver resources are estimated to be able to be mined for another 16 years at most.
Silver is a good thing, it was used as money for a long time, and it was an absolute hard currency. China also implemented the silver standard during the Republic of China era from 1910 to 1935, which shows the importance of silver as a metal element to human beings.
Although silver is no longer used as currency, it has an irreplaceable role in various industrial uses. Silver still plays an extremely important role in alloy production, batteries, medical equipment, electroplating, electronic industry, photosensitive materials, etc.
At present, the silver reserves found by human beings on the earth are only a pitiful 280,000 tons, and the annual mine output of silver mines in the world is more than 17,000 tons. It's about 30,000 tons......
If calculated according to such a high demand, the static reserves of silver mines will not last even ten years......
In addition to silver, many mineral elements on the earth have actually reached the "red alert" warning line. For example, copper reserves can be mined for another 26 years, zinc reserves can be mined for another 22 years, tin reserves are only enough for another 44 years, antimony can be used for 22 years, and lead, it is only a pitiful 10 years......
And now, the large-scale "Tinder Plan" has been vigorously launched, and this is the largest in the history of human history, the consumption of funds and various resources is also the largest plan, so that the consumption of human mineral resources is greater, many metal minerals even because of the "Tinder Plan" development, has only a pitiful number of years of mining.
The Earth is the home planet, and even if the earthlings join the Star Alliance, the Earth is also the eternal home planet of the Earth civilization.
In the Star Alliance, no matter which family or civilization, the home planet is always the most beautiful planet, even if it is the Alexander family that controls the two river systems, the home planet of its family is also the planet with the best conditions.
As for the current situation of the earth, if the earth civilization really joins the Star Alliance, then it will also become a big joke of the Star Alliance. For the hair? Because your earth civilization can't even protect your home planet, you can't even mess with your home planet, don't laugh at you, who will laugh at you.
Therefore, Tang Feng was actually quite anxious in his heart. But because of the fetters of various things, Tang Feng did not take the time to carefully consider how to solve the current shortage of mineral resources facing the earth.
As the owner of the world's largest mining company, Tang Feng is very unqualified, especially his performance in the recent stage, considering from the position of chairman of the board of directors of Tang's Anglo-American Glencore, he is simply not doing his job.
You're a big boss of a mining company who doesn't think about the mineral problem, and he has to engage in some alien immigration and genetic modification program, and it's free, what are you not fed for?
Tang Feng actually asked himself, but he still persevered. But this also made him feel a little uncomfortable, after all, his starting capital was Tang's Yingmei Carencore.
Well, the discovery of these four asteroids can definitely sweep away the feeling of guilt in my heart. See, Lao Tzu is not not doing his job, Lao Tzu has now returned to his profession, and he has found an asteroid containing billions of tons of scarce metals to the earth! Once these four asteroids are developed, the earth's silver, antimony, copper, and rare metal metals will be enough for the earth to last tens of thousands of years...... (To be continued.) )