"Bang!"

Far away here at the Chicken Tanegashima Space Center in the foot basin of the earth, Ichiro Yanagi has already dropped several pieces of his beloved antique porcelain in a row, but at this time, the anger in his heart is getting stronger and stronger.

He had already chosen Yunhai as the location of his moon base, and Yunhai had already been regarded by him as his bag, but now it was taken by Li Fu's Fuyun Group, and the entire moon plan of the foot basin chicken was completely disrupted, and all the subsequent plans had to be adjusted, and other areas had to be selected to build their own moon base.

"Liu Shengjun, now the atmosphere has no effect, what we have to do now is to readjust the plan and quickly establish a lunar base on the moon first, otherwise, there will be fewer and fewer good places on the surface of the moon, but I heard that Uncle Sam is also preparing to build another lunar sub-base in the near future."

The village guard on the side was very sensible, he knew that now was not the time for the atmosphere, the strong strength of the Fuyun Group in space, coupled with the help of the Huaxia official, it was very simple and easy to build a base on the moon, and there was no need for detailed planning like himself, and it would take a long time.

I didn't receive any news in advance, but I didn't expect that Fuyun Group would suddenly establish a lunar base on the moon on a whim, and it just happened to choose here in Yunhai to occupy the place that the foot basin chicken had fancied in advance.

"Whew!"

"Xiang Shoujun is right, now is not the time to be angry, our lunar base plan must be implemented as soon as possible, if we don't hurry up, there will really be no place for us on the front side of the moon."

"Township Shoujun, please, please revise the plan as soon as possible, and then implement it."

Ichiro Yanagi let out a heavy breath, then nodded slowly.

"Hey, the other problems are not big, the key now is that on the side of our aerospace aircraft, the astronauts of the Fuyun Group say that they want to take a day off every time they go to space, as far as I know, when the aerospace aircraft of the Fuyun Group are most frequent, they can perform hundreds of missions to and from space a day, and if they want to implement the lunar base plan as soon as possible, they must be dealt with."

Xiang Shou Xingtai frowned, now the footbasin chicken is like a wind-up machine in all aspects, and everything is done in a hurry, but when it comes to the last link to go to space, the astronauts sent by the Fuyun Group are procrastinating every time, and they will always find all kinds of reasons to delay, and there is no way to rush the footbasin chicken.

"Tell Nishimura Jiro, no matter what method is used, whether it is money or beautiful women, in short, they must be dealt with, once every two days is too little, not to mention hundreds of times a day, now treat them as uncles, it is not too much to go back and forth to space several times a day."

Speaking of this, Yagyu Ichiro was angry again, the aerospace plane that he bought back at a large price didn't feel like it had much to do with him, and everything had to be carried out with the consent of the astronauts and security personnel sent by the Fuyun Group, and all kinds of things that delayed time appeared.

"Hey!"

……

Far away on the moon more than 300,000 kilometers away, here in the moon cloud sea base, every day there are more than 10 large "Hercules" aerospace planes to transport a large amount of materials over, the scale of the cloud sea moon base is getting bigger and bigger day by day, living areas, scientific research areas, factory areas, agricultural areas, airport areas, and so on, one by one area is rapidly formed.

At this time, here in the factory area of the Yunhai base, Cao Haitao, the person in charge of the Yunhai base, is directing the staff of the base to carry out lunar mining.

A very large lunar engineering vehicle, this lunar engineering vehicle is more than ten meters high, and the whole is a large enlarged version of the large excavator, with a huge excavation claw, which is specially used to dig up rocks, mud and so on on on the moon.

Inside the lunar engineering vehicle, Cao Haitao, who was wearing a spacesuit, was connected to the virtual machine to command, and Han Dafei, a huge lunar mining worker, was concentrating on driving the engineering vehicle outside.

"Everyone is keeping up, this is the first time we have mined on the moon, trying to dig up the first pot of gold."

With Cao Haitao's command, more than a dozen large lunar transport vehicles followed behind, and more than a dozen vehicles drove on the desolate lunar surface, and their destination was a mining area only 5 kilometers away from the base.

In fact, the moon is full of lunar basalt rich in rare earth minerals, Cao Haitao's target is here, a large mountain range of more than 200 meters high, almost the entire mountain range is composed of basalt, the rare earth contained is very amazing, and it is also a rare rare rare earth mineral, the value is extremely high.

"Brother Tao, you are a big scientist, can you tell us what's going on with this rare earth? How did it come out of stone and dirt? ”

Walking and chatting along the way, Han Dafei couldn't help but ask Cao Haitao, Han Dafei was a college student who had just graduated last year, but he studied a major that had nothing to do with mining.

"Rare earth is a general term for 17 metal elements such as lanthanides and scandium and yttrium in the periodic table, and there are currently 250 kinds of rare earth minerals in nature. The first rare earth was discovered by the Finnish chemist Gadolin, who isolated the first rare earth 'element' - yttrium earth from a piece of heavy ore shaped like asphalt in 1794, because there were fewer rare earth minerals found in the 18th century, and only a small amount of water-insoluble oxide could be obtained by chemical preparation at that time, and this oxide was habitually called 'earth' in history, hence the name rare earth. ”

"In general, the mining methods of rare earths can be divided into three categories, namely acid method, alkali method and chlorination and decomposition method. Acid decomposition is divided into hydrochloric acid decomposition, sulfuric acid decomposition and hydrofluoric acid decomposition. Alkaline decomposition is divided into sodium hydroxide decomposition or sodium hydroxide melting or soda roasting method......"

"In fact, the value of rare earth itself is quite high, the value of high-purity single rare earth elements is thousands of times higher, or even tens of thousands of times, although we exported a lot of rare earths in China, but it is only for the export of primary products, the price is very low, but to buy high-purity rare earths from Europe and the United States and other countries, which are sheared do not know how miserable it is."

"Brother Tao, can't we refine a single rare earth element of high purity ourselves?"

"The separation and extraction of a single pure rare earth element from the mixed rare earth compounds obtained from the decomposition of rare earth concentrate is more complex and difficult in the chemical process. There are two main reasons for this, one is that the physical and chemical properties of lanthanides are very similar, and most of the rare earth ion radii are very similar between the two adjacent elements, and they are all stable trivalent states in aqueous solution. Rare earth ions have a large affinity for water, and their chemical properties are very similar due to the protection of hydrates, so it is extremely difficult to separate and purify. ”

"Second, there are more associated impurity elements (such as uranium, thorium, niobium, tantalum, titanium, zirconium, iron, calcium, silicon, fluorine, phosphorus, etc.) in the mixed rare earth compounds obtained after the decomposition of rare earth concentrates. Therefore, in the process of separating rare earth elements, it is necessary to consider not only the separation between these dozens of rare earth elements with extremely similar chemical properties, but also the separation between rare earth elements and other impurity elements. ”

"So does our company now have the technology of purification? Brother Tao, we can't keep letting Europeans and Americans shear our wool with scissors. ”

"I must have mastered it, now it's their turn to shear their wool, don't you see that we all sell trillions of aerospace planes?"

Cao Haitao also agreed very happily, anyway, the road is boring, chatting with each other can quickly pass the time, along the way everyone began to popularize rare earth mines, chatting, chatting, and soon came to the mining area.

"Brothers, it's time to start!"

Han Dafei roared through the intercom, and drove the machine to dig up the hill of the moon with its huge claws, and the basalt of the moon was shattered one after another, grabbing a large handful of basalt, and then turning around and loading these basalt and soil onto the engineering truck that followed behind.

It took less than 30 minutes for more than a dozen engineering trucks to be full, and the hill in front of it didn't seem to have changed at all, and the loss of quality was a drop in the bucket for it.

Ten minutes later, everyone drove the lunar engineering vehicle back to the lunar base, and the lunar rover poured all the basalt and soil on it into the smelting line.

As the rotating belt rotates, the mined basalt first enters the crushing plant, where the pieces of basalt are crushed into powder, and then entered the smelting furnace to begin the separation of rare earth elements.

The rare earth ores selected by Cao Haitao here are dysprosium and terbium rare earth ores with relatively high value among rare earths, and the value of these two rare earth ores has always been relatively high, especially the rare earth ores with high purity and high color, which are even more valuable.

A few hours later, Cao Haitao, Han Dafei and others all looked at the separation furnace one by one, and dozens or hundreds of tons of rocks, soil, etc. were loaded into it, but in the end, the rare earth ore that came out and smelted was pitiful, only a few kilograms.

"Brother Tao? This silvery-white is rare earth? ”

"Well, this is rare earths."

"What's the only way? We got hundreds of tons of basalt into it, and when we came out, our boss had to lose money to my grandmother's house. ”

"What's the point of coming out? Do you know what the value of this is? It will cost hundreds of millions casually, but I didn't expect that the rare earth ore on the moon has been enriched to such an extent, and so many rare earths can be refined from basalt. ”

Cao Haitao looked at the final product, touched his chin and was shocked by the abundant rare earth minerals on the moon, you must know that the final output is high-purity rare earth elements, which are very valuable.

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