Nantori Island can be said to be an enclave in the middle of nowhere. This small island, which resembles an equilateral triangle, is 1,267 kilometers away from the Ogasawara Islands, the closest territory to the city, and more than 1,800 kilometers from the mainland.

This small island is isolated in the Pacific Ocean, with an area of only 1.2 square kilometers, but it is precisely because of the existence of this small island that the exclusive marine economic zone of Yuben has expanded a lot.

Just like the rare earth mine found on the seabed this time, if it weren't for the existence of this small and almost negligible island, how could I have such a large rare earth mine?

Although this rare earth mine is found in the sea mud on the seabed, and the depth is also 5600 meters, the mining cost is extremely high, but after all, this is a high concentration of rare earth ore with an average concentration of up to 1100ppm, although it is very difficult to mine now, but this seabed rare earth mine with huge reserves, enough to become a strategic reserve mine, once an unpredictable emergency occurs, then this mine can maintain the demand of various industries in the country for up to 227 years!

Rare earth, which is the mining treasure given by nature to human beings, has the reputation of "industrial vitamin", and has now become an extremely important strategic resource.

Rare earth elements are the collective name of 17 special metal elements, which have been widely used in petroleum, chemical industry, metallurgy, textile, ceramics, glass, permanent magnet materials and other fields.

Such an important resource is treated as a treasure in Europe, the United States and Japan, and they are not even willing to exploit their own resources. Huaxia is now the country with the largest reserves of rare earths, accounting for about 40%, but other countries also have a lot of rare earth resources. The proven reserves of rare earths in the United States reached 13 million tons, and in Russia 19 million tons. Australia has proven reserves of 5 million tons. But the approach varies greatly from country to country.

After 1990, the United States gradually sealed its mine resources and began to import and hoard rare earths from China, and more than ninety percent of the rare earths are currently imported by China. Eighty percent of this rare earth comes from China. After obtaining a large number of rare earths, he did not rush to use them, but stored these resources on the seabed for 20 years. Huaxia, on the other hand, is strategically the complete opposite. Or that there is no strategy in this area at all. With less than 40% of the reserves, Huaxia has supplied more than 90% of the world's rare earth demand for many years.

"There is oil in the Middle East, and rare earths in China", this is what Deng Gong said during his southern tour in 1992. At that time, Huaxia once had expectations for rare earths, the value of rare earths is no less than gold and oil, if the rare earths are developed well, then Huaxia can live a Saudi life with only resources. Rare earths are to China what oil is to the Middle East and iron ore is to Australia. But 20 years have passed, have rare earths brought a lot of money to China? Apparently there is only disappointment.

It's not that other countries can't mine rare earths. Or the quality of rare earths in other countries is not good, but Huaxia has sold a large number of rare earths that are "more expensive than oil" to pork prices, squeezing rare earths from the United States, Russia and other countries out of the market. In most cases, the price of Huaxia's oxide, samarium oxide, and cerium oxide is less than 20,000 yuan/ton, which is equivalent to more than 10 yuan per kilogram, which is really cheaper than pork in the same period.

In fact, the price of rare earth products in China has long been controlled by foreign merchants. Some powerful foreign traders and enterprises buy a large number of rare earth products in China when the price is low, and stop purchasing and using inventory when the price rises. Wait until the price is reduced again. This forced domestic enterprises in China to compete to sell at lower prices. Foreign countries are big buyers, while Huaxia is more than 100 companies selling to foreign countries. Vicious competition between Chinese export enterprises. The valuable rare earth short-term products neodymium, terbium, dysprosium, europium and other low-cost export products, while cerium, lanthanum, yttrium and other large backlogs, enterprises struggle on the low profit line.

Tang Feng, who graduated from the mineral resources exploration major, naturally knew the rare earth situation in China very well, and also knew very well the importance of this rare element in all countries around the world, but Tang Feng had no way at that time. I can only do it in a hurry.

But now, Tang Feng, who has the star core, is no longer the ordinary young man in China who has no ability, if Tang Feng is willing, Tang Feng definitely has the ability to change the current extremely unreasonable status quo.

Therefore, when Tang Feng heard Ichiro Tanaka mention the submarine rare earth mine that he discovered on Minamitorishima Island. A thought involuntarily flashed through my mind, that is, to get rid of this submarine rare earth mine!

With the ability of the star core, it is simply easy to get rid of this mine without knowing it, not to mention this rare earth mine hidden at the bottom of the sea at 5,600 meters, even if it is a rare earth mine from the United States, Russia, and Australia, Tang Feng also has a way to get them into his own hands.

However, Tang Feng didn't plan to do anything to those terrestrial rare earth mines, those things were looked at like treasures in various countries, and if he rashly did anything to those terrestrial rare earth mines, it might cause an uproar.

But this rare earth mine hidden deep in the sea, if you want to do it, it will be much simpler.

The terrestrial rare earth mines of the United States, Russia, and Australia are relatively scattered in their countries, even if Tang Feng wants to use the star core to get rid of those rare earth mines, he must risk being discovered, but this seabed rare earth mine is different, the fourth-level star core can completely create a small Haitian earthquake or submarine volcanic eruption on the seabed, and a geological movement can cover up the fact that the rare earth mine suddenly disappeared.

You must know that just the mining platform set up by Yue himself on Nanniao Island is enough to meet the annual demand for rare earths, which is quite huge, because the current import volume of rare earths accounts for 50% of the world's share!

And now Huaxia has tightened the pocket mouth of rare earth exports, even if it is even domestic mining, and now it has begun to limit mining, so as long as it is to get rid of this rare earth mine of Yue, then I have to start looking for rare earth sources all over the world again.

Thinking of this, Tang Feng smiled and said to Ichiro Tanaka: "Mr. Tanaka, I know what you said, you can do as much as you can, even in terms of iron ore and rare metals, my advice is that you try to do as much as you can, you can do whatever you can, you don't need to have any psychological burden, after all, our purpose is to expand our market share!" ”

Ichiro Tanaka nodded happily, and his eyes seemed to see the future of the Tanaka family becoming the largest supplier of mineral resources in the private reserve market, and countless people surrounded him to curry favor with himself (to be continued. )