Chapter 252: Treasures of the Sea
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The stage of the Sea Dragon is the vast desert and vast ocean on the earth, Ye Quan is wearing a pioneer mecha, flying to a sea area near the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea, with the help of the power of space, opening a 6o meter wide "space door", connecting the space ocean with the South China Sea, and the Sea Dragon quietly sailed into the South China Sea like a ghost.
There are almost all the resources and minerals on the 6 places in the ocean, and there are some resources that are not on the 6 places.
The first is oil and natural gas, oil and natural gas in the seabed account for about half of the world's reserves, and Xinhua has been in constant disputes with some countries in relevant waters in recent years, and oil resources in the ocean are one of the fundamental reasons.
Second, solid minerals such as coal and iron have been exploited in small quantities by various countries, among which the resource-poor Wa country has taken the lead in other countries.
The third is coastal placer mines, including diamond, rutile, monazite, zircon, zircon, gold, platinum, silver, chrome spinel and other placers with high economic value, in addition to ilmenite, yttrium phosphate, niobium, glass placer, arsenic platinum ore and other mineral particles.
Fourth, polymetallic nodules, cobalt-rich manganese nodules, including cobalt crusts in the deep sea, polymetallic nodules contain dozens of elements such as manganese, iron, nickel, cobalt, and copper. These polymetallic nodules are easy to mine and have high economic value, and countries around the world and some specialized companies have begun to venture into the seabed to extract these resources.
Fifth, hydrothermal deposits, hydrothermal deposits are rich in gold, silver, copper, tin, iron, lead, zinc, etc., because it is a volcanic metal sulfide, so it is also called "heavy metal mud", and the economic value is also very high.
Sixth, combustible ice. This is a new type of mineral known as gas hydrate, an icy solid substance composed of hydrocarbons and water molecules at low temperatures and high pressures.
It is characterized by high energy density, less impurities, almost no pollution after combustion, thick seabed ore layer, large scale, wide distribution and rich resources.
It is estimated that the world's reserves of combustible ice are twice as large as the existing oil and gas reserves. In the case of the gradual depletion of the world's oil and gas resources, the emergence of combustible ice has undoubtedly opened a "door of hope" for mankind.
Seventh, rare earth resources, rare earths in many high-tech aspects of the indispensable strategic resources, and about 97% of the world's rare earth supply from Xinhua, Xinhua has tightened export quotas in recent years, which led to the international market rare earth prices soaring, so that rare earth consumers such as the United States and other Western countries have been hit hard, have to turn their attention to the rare earth resources on the seabed.
According to a study, There are about 880,000 square kilometers of sea in the central Pacific Ocean alone, and about 240,000 square kilometers of sea near Tahiti in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Its rare earth reserves have reached 9oo tons, which is 8oo times that of 110000 tons of reserves in 6 places.
Human beings have sent astronauts to space and even the moon, but the understanding of the ocean is very little, at present, the real mining of marine mineral resources, is only limited to oil and natural gas, other minerals are at most real research and exploration, easy to mine is only relative, human beings want to exploit the treasures in the ocean, but also need to wait for the progress of science and technology.
The Sea Dragon relies on the technology of marine mineral exploration, mining, separation and refining in the advanced era for nearly 100 years. Only then did he dare to venture into the deep sea alone.
Ye Quan delineated the exploration and mining scope of the Sea Dragon in several areas of the Pacific Ocean that are rich in mineral resources, of course, he will avoid the sea areas to which Xinhua belongs, and if it belongs to the minerals of hostile countries such as Lijian and Wa, it will naturally be unkind.
Because there are no marine bases and submarine bases along the coast, the minerals extracted from the Sea Dragon will be stored in several specific areas of the seabed. Every three or four months, Ye Quan will move into the space to supply the universal manufacturing base and the Jakarta area.
After the construction of the Sea Dragon, the huge production capacity of the universal manufacturing base was suddenly liberated, and Ye Quan began to produce a batch of weapons and equipment for the Black Dragon Army. From high-end weapons such as fighter jets, helicopters, armored vehicles, and missiles, to light weapons such as pistols, rifles, and machine guns, everything is waiting for the right time to upgrade your equipment.
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Under Ye Quan's instructions, Dongfang Metal Materials Company and Metal Materials Office have been established in Yue'an City, also temporarily led by a biochemical researcher, recruiting a group of skilled scientific researchers at home and abroad, mainly researching a series of metal materials such as high-strength alloys, high-temperature resistant alloys, marine alloys, aerospace alloys, memory alloys and metallic glass.
Metal materials are the most important mechanical engineering materials, and they are also an important material basis for the exhibition of human civilization and social progress.
The first problem to be tackled in the real yàn room is grade alloys, which will use new methods in atomic structure to produce better products than the current various high-strength alloys.
Grade alloys usually have high strength, high hardness, high corrosion resistance, high thermal stability and good machinability, and can be widely used in aviation, aerospace, automobile, medicine, chemical, petrochemical, coal chemical and other industrial fields, as well as for manufacturing armor, weapons, artillery and other military fields.
Ye Quan's plan was to buy a steel mill first, producing grade alloys, the most widely used metal material, because he was now supplying ore or ordinary steel to the universal manufacturing base, which was simply a waste of the production capacity of the manufacturing base in this era!
It is completely possible to put some of the primary processing production into the real world, produce qualified semi-finished products, and then send them to the base for assembly, only some parts that cannot be produced in the real world are manufactured by the base, which saves a lot of production capacity, so that the universal manufacturing base can produce more products at the peak of the secondary civilization.
Of course, the grade alloy provided to others can only be the first generation of products, and the performance will be better than that of ordinary alloys, but there is no need for decades of advanced technology.
More importantly, the grade alloy produced by means of atomic structure reorganization has an extremely advantageous production cost, and the composition is mainly ordinary metal elements, and there are very few precious and rare metals.
Why is the price of special alloy steel expensive on the market? In addition to the difficulties in smelting technology and production process, the need to infiltrate a large number of precious and rare metals is also one of the reasons.
Steel is the foundation of industry, and it is also the most important link of all materials, and if Ye Quan wants to complete the huge exhibition plan in his mind, he must first complete this base.
Large-scale technical enterprises, its internal skilled workers are a huge wealth, not a short period of time to be able to train and integrate, acquisition is undoubtedly the fastest way, the object of acquisition naturally has professionals to screen, inspection, Ye Quan has to make the final decision.
Guan Yong gave three steelmaking enterprises as a choice, all of which are large and medium-sized enterprises with an annual output of more than 2oo tons of steel, one of which is called Zhenxing Iron and Steel, which is located in Jinzhou City, an old industrial area in Nanling Province.
As the largest private iron and steel enterprise in Nanling Province, Zhenxing Iron and Steel has total assets of more than 1 billion yuan, more than 1,000 employees, and an annual output of more than 3oo tons of steel and other steel products, ranking 48th among private enterprises in the country.
Most of Yequan's industries are in Nanling Province, and the revitalization of steel will definitely be the object of negotiation.
Negotiations at the steel plant have not yet begun, but negotiations between two battery factories in eastern Guangdong and Xiangjiang provinces have reached an impasse because some shareholders are reluctant to sell their shares and want to continue their stakes in the new company.
In this regard, Ye Quan insisted on the original idea, he could make concessions in terms of price, but the shares were not to be discussed, and the benefits of rare earth nano batteries could not be shared by anyone, not to mention that there were various restrictions and requirements of the military. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )