Represented by the tin ore in it!

According to the data given by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), as one of the rare metals in the world, tin is contained in the earth's crust at 0.004%, and the world's proven tin reserves are only about 4.8 million tons.

A conservative estimate puts the total maximum of the Earth at 11 million tons!

Of the 4.8 million tonnes of tin ore that has been discovered, China alone owns 1.5 million tonnes of it.

No. 1 in the world!

Tin is rare in storage on Earth, but it is used for a wide range of purposes.

In industry, it is mainly used for the production of tinplate (tinplate) and various alloys. Tin plate is the main consumer area of tin, accounting for about 40% of tin consumption.

It can be used as a container for food and beverages, such as cans for Red Bull, various packaging materials, home kitchen utensils, and more.

Among them, the "tin foil" used to wrap food for heating must be familiar to everyone.

Tin and lead plus a small amount of antimony, the low melting point of industrial consumption alloy, is the kind of "solder" that we can often see, staring at can brighten the blind.

Bearing alloys composed of tin, lead, antimony, and copper, and bronze alloys containing tin are widely used in many aspects such as shipbuilding, chemical industry, construction, and currency manufacturing.

Tin is also an indispensable metal material in the high-tech manufacturing industry.

Tin and other metals are made into babbitt alloys, movable type alloys, titanium-based alloys, niobium-tin alloys, etc., which have been widely used in the atomic energy industry, aerospace industry and other fields.

Huanyu Group is currently in a stage of rapid development, and the future global strategic layout, business layout, and Starfleet building plan will be fully launched.

The production of various products of the military industry will skyrocket, as will the demand for tin.

Among them, the super battery now developed by Huanyu Group will dominate the world pattern in the future, because of the unique stable catalytic characteristics of tin metal.

It has become one of the main synthetic elements indispensable for the manufacture of "super batteries".

The global tin ore reserves are so small, with the huge demand of Huanyu Group in the future, if it cannot be prepared in advance, it will inevitably affect the later development.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xingfeng has set up a trading condition for the guaranteed supply of 3,000 tons per year and reserves the right to negotiate with the supply of 5,000 tons.

Although the Huanyu Group does not need so much now, the surplus can be saved and hoarded enough resources in advance for the future construction of Starfleet.

And the more the merrier!

As for the remaining rare earth resources, this thing is even more precious and scarce.

At present, 72% of the world's total annual production of rare earths comes from China, and the whole world is looking at China with a bare eye, looking forward to buying more.

The reason why it is so popular is that although the output of rare earth is very low, it has excellent and widely used physical properties such as optical electromagnetic conductivity.

It can form new materials with different properties and a wide variety with other materials.

Its most significant function is that rare earths are rich in elements, which can greatly improve the quality and performance of other products.

Especially in the military industry!

For example, the comprehensive strength and tactical performance of steel, aluminum alloy, magnesium alloy and titanium alloy used in the manufacture of tanks, aircraft and missiles have been greatly improved.

It acts as an indispensable lubricant and reinforcing agent for electronic systems, laser technology, nuclear industry, superconductivity, etc., many of the world's top high-tech products.

And these rare earth-enhanced scientific and technological products, once used in military use, will bring a significant leap in military science and technology.

In a certain sense, the overwhelming superiority of the US military in several local wars after the Cold War is precisely due to the fact that it surpassed the Soviet Union by a large margin in the field of rare earth science and technology.

Thus bringing immeasurable benefits to military strength and economic development!

In addition, rare earths have become indispensable mineral resources in petrochemical industry, glass ceramics, metallurgical industry, agricultural production, etc., covering almost all industries around the world.

And it is foreseeable that the excavation of rare earths has only begun!

In the future technology manufacturing industry, with the continuous development and application of rare earths, there is no doubt that its status will be improved by leaps and bounds again, becoming one of the most popular mineral resources in the world.

That's why the world calls rare earths "industrial gold"!

Rare earths play such a big role in various industries around the world, and they will also play an indispensable and powerful role in the military industry of Xingfeng's Huanyu Group.

However, China accounts for 91% of the world's rare earth smelting industry exports, but its annual rare earth smelting output is only 96,000 tons.

This seems like a lot, but it can be distributed all over the world, and it is really not enough.

Take the current Huanyu Company as an example!

Since the background is only a small backward country, it is not qualified to sign a trade contract with China for the mutual benefit of these rare resources.

The import volume is actually a "big duck egg"!

Rare earths are also extremely scarce materials in other importing countries, and it is basically difficult to buy large quantities with money.

The current manufacturing scale of Huanyu Group is very large, with the production of various electromagnetic kinetic energy weapons, electromagnetic energy weapons, nuclear fusion reactors, Mark suits and so on.

The combined demand for rare earths cannot be met simply by reselling them from abroad.

Nowadays, it is basically smuggled on the underground black market!

The international black market is not a good place, and it is a "pig killing farm" where one-man butchers risk high risks to earn high profits.

The international price of medium-quality rare earths is less than 40,000 US dollars a ton, and the asking price has reached more than 5 times that of more than 200,000 US dollars a ton, which is much more expensive than the price of 189,000 US dollars a ton of high-grade rare earths.

If Xingfeng wants to conservatively reserve 100,000 tons of rare earths for the construction of Starfleet, this resource alone will invest more than 20 billion US dollars.

What's more, if you want to build a starfleet that integrates operations, life and logistics.

It is necessary to have logistics maintenance ships, transport and supply ships, frigates, combat flagships, base carriers, landing ships, several main combat ships, and so on.

Add up to more than 10 ships, and 100,000 tons of rare earth extracted materials are obviously not enough.

And rare earths ......

Just one of the thousands of materials needed to build a spaceship!

Is Xingfeng rich now?

The answer is yes, and it won't take long for the assets to exceed $1 trillion.

It is no exaggeration to call him the richest man in the world!

However, if you don't make careful calculations and use them indiscriminately, this amount of money is really not worth mentioning.

At that time, let alone building a whole fleet, it may be difficult to build two or three ships.