After mining the veins of gallium metal off the coast of the Japanese Kingdom, they drove at turtle speed towards the North Pacific Ocean.

The water research castle could not pass through the narrow Miyako Strait, so it could only follow the coastline of Wakoku to the south, through the Ogasawara Islands, and into the North Pacific Ocean.

That's right, the city is heading south, because the Pacific Ocean is so big, even the Mariana Trench in the North Pacific Ocean is still to the south of them.

The Mariana Trench is the deepest known trench on Earth, located on the western North Pacific Ocean bed, near the east of Guam's Mariana Islands.

In addition to the Mariana Trench, there are many trenches in the Pacific Ocean, which were formed about 60 million years ago, and the Pacific Ocean has undergone a series of huge shocks.

Huang Ke looked at the details of the Mariana Trench, which would be the last stop of their expedition.

The deepest part of the Mariana Trench is 11,034 meters, and at the standard of 10 meters of one atmosphere, the Mariana Trench is at a pressure of 1,100 atmospheres at all times.

Such a huge pressure will form very rare materials, which will play a very good role in inspiring the future research and development of Xinghuo Technology.

The extreme water depth that the bathystrophic submarine can withstand is also designed exactly according to the deepest part of the Mariana Trench.

They are fully able to withstand the intense pressure on the seafloor of the Mariana Trench, and sufficient specimens were collected in the Mariana Trench.

Huang Ke carefully read the information of the Mariana Trench.

The Mariana Trench is a zone of two tectonic plates that subduct the Pacific plate below the Philippine plate.

The Mariana Trench is located at 11 °20′N, 142°11.5′E, that is, at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean near the Mariana Islands in the northeastern part of the Philippines.

Between the Asian continent and Australia, it stretches from the Iwo Islands in the north to the vicinity of Yap Island in the southwest.

It has the Aleutian, Kuril Island, and Ogasawara trenches to the north, and the New Britain and New Hebrides trenches to the south

The Mariana Trench is 2,550 kilometers long and arc-shaped, with an average width of 70 kilometers and a depth of more than 8,000 meters.

Huang Ke looked at the recent weather in the Mariana Trench again, as long as there was no super typhoon coming, the water research city was not afraid of ordinary wind and waves.

If a super typhoon does occur, the water research city can only avoid its edge and make a detour to the Mariana Trench.

Huang Ke breathed a sigh of relief, the results predicted by the Central Meteorological Observatory showed that there were no super typhoons in the North Pacific region recently.

As soon as he maintained this good mood for a while, the weather on the Pacific Ocean changed as soon as it was said, and the clear sky soon turned into torrential rain.

However, the water research city is completely unafraid of wind and rain and continues to move towards the goal.

Along the way, passive sonar arrays and neutrino radars are turned on at full power.

The North Pacific region, which is an area where US submarines are very active, did not know that the voiceprint signal of their submarine had been collected by the water city passing above and transmitted to the relevant departments in China.

"It's another oil and gas field, how to exploit it if it's buried so deep, it's worthless at all."

"Such a large copper mine, this should be the largest known copper mine in the world, but it is buried too deep, not just at 5,000 meters of the seabed, and if you want to mine this copper mine, you have to dig 800 meters down from the bottom of the sea.

This mining difficulty is too high, it is not worth mining copper ore, mark it first, and wait until the technology is mature later. ”

"It's a big gold mine, but these gold mines are too scattered, only forming scattered veins, and there is no mining value at all."

"Manganese nodules, a large piece of manganese nodules, are difficult to mine, but this material is of great value and is recommended to be mined."

"It's a very special material, it's located at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean at a depth of 6,800 meters, and I've seen a lot of material with neutrino communication radar, and it's the first time I've seen a neutrino map of this style.

This material is extremely difficult to mine, and I recommend that it be mined by a deep-sea submarine.

It may be that this material on Earth, even to supplement the neutrino radar data, should be mined for this material. ”

When they come across large-scale, relatively cheap metal mines, they mark them on the map and wait for the technology to mature before mining.

The minerals that are extremely valuable and difficult to mine are mined by the water science city.

When encountering something very special, even if it is extremely difficult to mine, and do not understand the value of this material.

The Aquatic Research City will also send deep-sea submarines to mine this material.

The main purpose of the water research city is to conduct scientific research in the Pacific Ocean, and they are not a mining company.

Discovering new materials and exploring the secrets of the seabed is the mission of the Aquatic Research City.

The water research city was full of ups and downs, and they soon came to a short distance from the Mariana Trench.

According to the scientist's opinion, Huang Ke gave an order to the water scientific research city.

"The deepest point of the Mariana Trench is the center, and we do a spiral movement around this center to cover more of the bottom of the Mariana Trench with all our might."

The water research city is driving slowly, but the neutrino radar detection range is very wide.

The city of water research soon came above the deepest point of the Mariana Trench.

Huang Ke looked at the neutrino radar map of the Mariana Trench.

"Are we going to try to mine valuable metal veins first, or are we going to explore some mysterious places on the bottom of the Mariana Trench?" he asked scientists.

Scientists are divided into two factions, and they argue for the sake of convincing each other.

The mining resource school believes that valuable ore veins are mined first, and these are formed by the strong pressure of the seabed, forming metal nodules formed by metal elements.

The source of the Mariana Trench is well stocked.

Neutrino radar maps show lithium nodules, rubidium nodules, cesium nodules, and beryllium nodules, all of which are very abundant.

This lightweight metal has a low density and is chemically active. Oxides and chlorides are very stable and difficult to reduce to metals, and are generally prepared by molten salt electrolysis and metal thermal reduction, which is extremely difficult to process.

Now, metal nodules can be mined directly, eliminating the need for processing and purification, and their value is extremely high.

In addition to the common combination of rare metals, the Mariana Trench is also very rich in metal nodules of uranium nodules, thorium nodules and other radioactive elements.

In particular, uranium nodules, which are an important element in the manufacture of nuclear weapons, are a country with depleted uranium, and the mining of this material is extremely important to the country.

If you don't mine now, wait for someone else's technology to come and mine, and then you will regret it too late.

The scientific expeditions believe that they came to the Mariana Trench mainly for the purpose of scientific investigation, and there are many mysterious places in the Mariana Trench.

Most of the mysterious places should be dealt with first, and the metal veins can be mined by the same specialized company.

Foreign countries can't break through key technologies in a short period of time, and they are not afraid of competition at all.

Huang Ke thinks that any faction is reasonable, he is the person in charge of the water science research city, and it is completely up to him to decide how to work.

He put his finger on the deepest part of the Mariana Trench.

When the scientists saw this location, some people's faces turned green at that time, because no one proposed to develop this place.

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