Chapter 229 Mineral Resources Exploitation and Electricity (Page 1/1)

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The industrial age is inseparable from coal and iron, copper, aluminum, zinc and other raw materials, the distribution of mineral resources in the South American continent is uneven, the coal and iron ore resources in the La Plata region are insufficient, and the iron ore resources, coal and other resources that are relatively easy to mine are either located in the interior of Brazil, or located in Chile, Venezuela, Colombia and other countries, the local mineral resources reserves of Han are limited, and the problem of supporting millions of people for industrial development in the early stage is not very large, once the population reaches tens of millions of levels, Locally stockpiled mineral resources will be difficult to sustain the country's industrial development.

Some of the raw materials for the steel industry come from the Corrales mines in Santa Catarina and northern Uruguay, and some from the mines on the north shore of Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela.

Before the discovery of the Corrales mine in northern Uruguay, the iron ore and coal mines of Santa Catarina had been the main supplier of industrial raw materials in the country, and after occupying 60,000 square kilometers of land in northern Uruguay, the exploration team discovered several medium-sized iron ores, manganese ores and coal mines near Corrales.

Quang Ninh Province, which was occupied by the Nam Yang Corps of the National Defense Forces, was a famous coal producing area in Annam, and the anthracite coal produced from Quang Ninh Hongji was not only supplied to Annam's domestic industrial construction in later generations, but also exported to the mainland, Japan and other countries.

Hongji coal mining area is more than 100 kilometers long, 15-20 kilometers wide, with coal reserves of 2.25 billion tons, thick coal seam and thin topsoil, which is suitable for outcrop mining.

In 1872, when Li Mingyuan began to form a professional mineral exploration unit, the Hongji Coal Mine had already been discovered by the local garrison, which was then reported to the Wehrmacht headquarters by telegram.

At that time, Li Mingyuan received the information reported by the troops, and he was very happy but also very distressed, because the coal output of Hongji Coal Mine was much higher than that of the local coal production of the Han Kingdom, but such a high-quality coal yard could not support local industrial construction.

Although coal is an indispensable raw material for industry, its value is not as good as that of iron, copper, aluminum and other metal raw materials, so after reading the information transmitted by the Nanyang troops, Li Mingyuan only reminded them that it is enough to open up some production areas as mines, and the unmined coal production areas are left for later disposal.

Hongji coal mine can not be transported to South America, the quality of the slightly inferior Kola coal mine to undertake the main function of supplying the domestic industrial development, in the Corrales mining area, relying on the advantage of close to the resource production area, the use of poor quality coal as fuel cement plants, brick kiln factories and honeycomb coal manufacturing plants soon developed, for the Han domestic infrastructure construction to provide a lot of construction materials, at the same time, with the exploration of the army in the local exploration area, in 1876, a large manganese ore was discovered, manganese, aluminum, Due to the development of electric power and other metals, zinc and other metals have been able to be separated from metal oxides, among which the production technology of using aluminum nitride and sodium as raw materials to prepare aluminum introduced by the Han Kingdom has entered the production stage.

St. Clair's invention of aluminum nitride and sodium in 1854 greatly reduced the cost of aluminum, but it was not widely used to make luxury goods and decorations at this time.

Li Mingyuan went to college for two years before becoming a mercenary, and when he was in junior high school, he learned to prepare various metals by electrolysis, so after understanding that electrolysis is the mainstream method for preparing various metals, Li Mingyuan selected more than 200 Chinese students who had returned from studying abroad and invited from Europe to engage in electric power research and development experiments with the not yet famous physicists Jedlik and Estrom.

Improving arc lamps, developing rotating magnetic field alternators, and perfecting the process of preparing metals by electrolysis, Li Mingyuan formulated three major research directions for researchers in view of the actual situation in China.

The industrial preparation of aluminum, zinc, copper and other metal elements by electrolysis requires a large amount of electricity support, so the large-scale manganese ore in Corrales cannot be effectively developed when the domestic generator research and development project in Han has not been completed.

However, Li Mingyuan is not worried about delaying the mining of manganese ore, because after he used his knowledge of chemistry and physics to guide the researchers several times, the generator project has made great progress, and according to the researchers' calculations, the final time before the project success will not be more than half a year. In the face of the researchers' confident assurances, Li Mingyuan did not doubt that in the original time and space, Bayer proposed a simple purification method a few years later, which greatly improved the efficiency of refining metals, and this process has been used for generations to come. Now Li Mingyuan not only told the researchers the principle of the generator in later generations, but also proposed the method of Bayer process, if they could not develop the rotating magnetic field alternator four or five years in advance, Li Mingyuan could only cry out in vain.

The Third Industrial Revolution is a revolution triggered by electricity.

In terms of power development, Han has sent students to study power technology that has not been valued by the West, and the gap between the development level of Western countries and Western countries is not very large, coupled with Li Mingyuan's emphasis on the research and development of electric power, Han is most likely to catch up with the development level of Western countries in terms of electric power.

In July 1877, while participating in field exercises near Corrales, Wehrmacht soldiers stumbled upon a large amount of gold sand in a river between the valleys, and then the informed-duty exploration team explored along the riverbank, culminating in the discovery of a rare giant gold mine seven or eight kilometres from the discovery site.

The gold mine discovered by the Wehrmacht soldiers was part of the resources of the Corrales mine, which was sufficient for Uruguay to develop for 60 years according to the production techniques of the twentieth century, but in the second half of the nineteenth century, the Han government was unable to extract all the gold reserves with relatively sophisticated excavation equipment, as the later Uruguayan government did.

Excavating gold mines buried in the rock requires high-strength synthetic steel, and in the steel industry, the Han Kingdom recruited Manist, in 1877, eight years in advance, the Maniste pipe making method, which was widely used in the rolling processing industry, was invented, but in terms of special steel synthesis, Li Mingyuan did not know much, and did not give the key advice of the European experts hired at a high price, therefore, the special steel synthesis technology of the Han Kingdom has not made significant progress, and the entire synthetic metal technology is still in the exploration stage.

More than 95 percent of the gold deposits in the Corrales gold mine are buried deep in the rock and cannot be mined, and a small amount of mineral deposits contained in the submerged rock are scattered and the mining output is limited according to the existing technology.

The shallow deposits of the Corrales gold mine were not very profitable, and the Corrales gold mine, like the mining fields in the Congo region, was mothballed and could not be mined until after the end of the war of unification, given the looming deadline for the annexation of Argentina and Uruguay by the IDF.

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