Early the next morning, Wang Dao came to the rooftop of the research institute, and Elder No. 6 was already waiting with three people. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Elder No. 6 took the initiative to introduce Wang Dao: "This is Wu Cheng, an expert from Huaxia Mining Research Institute, Zhao Bufan, an expert in metal smelting, and Song Gongming, a geological expert, are the main persons in charge of this project. ”

Wang Dao took the initiative to shake hands with the three of them and say hello, said a few simple greetings, and got into the car in turn.

This time, the car number 476, which has just left the factory recently, is specially designed for the staff of subsea operations, and the overall size and layout are similar to the sleeper cars of a train, but the internal living facilities are more spacious and comfortable.

Several people sat down in the car, and No. 6 spoke: "In the early stage, there are eighty-nine staff, mainly experts in various fields, to conduct scientific research and research, and Xiaohua is mainly responsible for the production work. Twenty-three more flights have already arrived at the intended production site. ”

Introducing the situation, the flying car started and headed for the Pacific Ocean at great speed.

In addition to various biological resources, the underwater world also has well-known oil, natural gas, and the hottest natural gas hydrate, which is combustible ice.

The seabed is also rich in metallic and non-metallic minerals. So far, 600 billion tons of mineral resources such as polymetallic nodules, phosphate rocks, precious metals and rare element placers, and sulfide ores have been discovered in the seabed.

Even more interesting is the discovery that manganese nodule ore on the seafloor is still growing, and it will not disappear in the future because of human exploitation. Manganese nodules, the "jewels" in the depths of the ocean, are an inexhaustible and valuable resource in the world.

Some scientists estimate that manganese nodules at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean continue to grow at a rate of about 10 million tons per year. If we were to extract metals only from the newly grown manganese nodules at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean each year, copper would last the world for three years; Cobalt is available for four years; Nickel can be used for a year.

At present, all countries in the world are mining seabed resources, in addition to traditional oil and gas resources, many of the world's near-shore seabed have been mined coal and iron deposits. Japan's seabed coal mining accounts for 30% of its total production; It is also mined in Chile, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Turkey.

Coastal coal and iron ore mining is generally carried out from the shore to extend to the seabed, and there are also natural islands and artificial islands to open wellheads.

The United States mines ilmenite, zircon mines, gold placers, etc. on the coast; Sri Lanka mines coastal tin placers, and Australia currently produces 60% of the world's zircon and 90% of the world's total production of zircon and rutile.

The United States relies on imports of manganese ore, so it attaches the most importance to the development of manganese nodules, and at present, American mining enterprises have achieved mining results of more than 2,000 tons of manganese nodules per day.

Due to technical limitations, most of the mineral development is concentrated in coastal and offshore areas, and most of the oil and gas development is in shallow seas.

With the advanced technical conditions of the super flying car, Wang Dao directly established a mine on the 6,000-meter seabed.

The location of Xiaohua's selected submarine mine is located in the North Pacific Ocean, which is a super-dense area of manganese nodules discovered, with proven reserves of manganese nodules exceeding 10 billion tons in an area of 100 square kilometers in the center.

Around this sea area, there are also three extra-large iron mines, one super-large gold, silver and copper associated mine, two large copper mines, and more than 20 other metal deposits.

All the ore deposits are buried very shallowly, if you don't count the seawater, it can be said that it is an open-pit mine, and the grade is very high, the iron content of iron ore is as high as 70%, and the average is not less than 60%.

As long as it can be put into production smoothly, it is expected that the output of one month will be enough to meet the current national use for one year.

Soon, the 476 flying vehicle reached the bottom of the sea. Connected to the other twenty-three flying cars, all of them formed a shape similar to the Bagua Plate, which looked quite mysterious.

If it is discovered, then a new round of extraterrestrial creationism will be in the dust.

Because there is no need to consider the resistance of air or water, the shape design of the flying car is very arbitrary, and these flying cars on the bottom of the sea are determined according to the actual use.

Like the No. 477 car that came to the royal road, it is a flat cylindrical type, which is a multi-purpose car integrating dining, studying, meeting, leisure and entertainment, and sports.

Sitting down on the rostrum, the No. 6 host briefly mobilized everyone, and then Wang Dao also said a few words, and then Xiaohua's specific design plan was introduced.

"Now we are located 6,500 meters above the sea, and our mining sites are distributed in an area of 300 kilometers around, and we will use fully automatic robot mining and unmanned smelting workshop smelting."

"Manganese nodules are picked up directly, and the main targets are more than five centimeters in diameter. Other minerals are mainly mined by direct blasting, and the output is determined according to actual needs. ”

"Minerals are transported by pipeline, where the ore is crushed and injected into the pipeline, and the water moves to the designated location, where it is dehydrated and smelted."

"The robot is designed to have a wireless transmission distance of up to 10 kilometers, and we will build two active and one backup fusion power generation units. At the same time, wireless charging piles are arranged at a distance of five kilometers to meet the needs of use. ”

"It is estimated that 1 million robots, 100,000 mineral processing and smelting equipment, and 1,000 combinable flying vehicles will be needed. Below, you can take a look at the manganese nodules brought by one of the robots. ”

A two-meter-long lobster-like robot walked in, perhaps more accurately with a crawl, of course. The long cord-shaped tentacles on top of the robot's head are wrapped in a manganese nodule the size of a human head.

Manganese nodules, also known as polymetallic nodules, manganese ore balls, manganese ore clusters, manganese tumors, etc., are a kind of iron and manganese oxide aggregates. Now this piece is black in color and spherical in shape.

"According to the preliminary analysis, the content of various metal components in this manganese nodule is approximately: 37% manganese, 1.7% nickel, 2.4% copper, 1.5% cobalt, and 26% iron), and other components are not counted. Of course, more data requires more collection and analysis! ”

"Good!" All applauded Xiaohua's explanation.

After the meeting, the construction of the mine officially began.

All the equipment is built in a self-splitting way, of course, not to split one robot into two, but to use existing robots to collect minerals, smelt metals, and make robots, so as to achieve a multiplier increase in the number of robots.

This speed is very fast, now there are 100 initial robots, and the number can be doubled every day, and after half a month, the number of robots will exceed 3 million.

Of course, not all robots will be used to produce new robots all the time, and when there are enough of them, mining equipment, transportation pipelines, and smelting equipment will also start to be built.

It is expected that it will take 20 days for all the equipment to be in place, and the mine can be officially put into operation, and at that time, all the resources will be produced continuously.

The following production matters are presided over by Xiaohua, and there is nothing to do. So Wang Dao accompanied No. 6 and drove a car around the bottom of the sea.

Under the illumination of the searchlight, the scene on the seabed can be seen very clearly. The dense manganese nodules cover the seabed tightly, and as far as the eye can see, it is completely black.

No. 6 was interested, and under the protection of the gravitational field, he got off the car, stood on the nodules, and said happily: "So many resources, but they are all ours!" ”

Wang Dao nodded with a smile and agreed: "Yes, this is the benefit of leading science and technology, when the United States has the ability to come down, it will definitely look confused,, what about the rich resources, who has stolen them?" ”

"Haha!" Six smiled happily, "I'm going to pick up a few pieces and go back as a souvenir, what about you?" Why don't you take some back with you? ”

Wang Dao shook his head, he was not interested in this.

No. 6 didn't care about him, and began to pick and choose, either because this one was ugly, or because it was too ugly, which made Wang Dao speechless, in his eyes, it was just a resource, there was no difference.

After choosing for a long time, the sixth was finally chosen, a total of more than 20 yuan, all of which were held by Wang Dao.

No. 6 said confidently: "These are all gifts for other elders, and your kid hasn't given us gifts until now, so it's right to make some efforts!" ”

What he said made so much sense that he made Wang Dao speechless! can only honestly follow behind, as a porter of submarine resources.