21, 13/13.

In the Longerang Mountains of Honsavady.

Weng Xuehai, Ba Kang and others led the exploration team, after nearly half a month of exploration, 173 drill points, and finally roughly determined the distribution, thickness and reserves of this vein.

"I didn't expect that our mineral exploration team didn't find this super mine." Bacon joked.

In fact, he is not wrong, because it was discovered by the construction team of the space base, so the first credit for this mine is on the side of the construction team, not the exploration team.

Weng Xuehai can see it: "This kind of thing is normal, don't think about the luck of the blind cat when it encounters a dead mouse, we still do it down-to-earth, and sooner or later we will find other big mineral veins." ”

And Wu Gang, who got the map of the distribution of the ore layer, finally breathed a sigh of relief, because the ore vein did not extend in the direction of the space base, he only needed to find another place for fuel storage.

At this time, Wu Cong, who was in charge of the mining department, also hurried here.

He looked at the mountainous area, even if there was a railway passing nearby, and it still made people bald.

"Head, how do you arrange this place?" Bacon asked curiously.

Wu Cong spread his hands: "What else can I do?" It must be mined, and now the domestic iron ore is imported from Australia and Tianzhu, which is not a good phenomenon. ”

As the head of the mining company, Wu Congke knows that the three major groups currently have their own steel mills, and the scale is not small, which can add up to 18 million tons of steel per year.

It will expand to 33 million tons of steel production next year.

Steelmaking and ironmaking equipment can be purchased, but iron ore is a consumable, and if you rely on imports all year round, it is not a good thing.

Although Qingye Group successfully forced Tianzhu and Australia to sell a batch of iron ore at a low price with new drugs.

But the other party must be making a small calculation in his heart, such as expanding your production capacity at a low price first, and fattening up in a few years, and directly slaughtering you.

Honsavady and the other three controlled areas did not have large iron ore mines before, and once the iron ore supply was choked, the profits of the steel industry would definitely be harvested by the Australians.

Huaguo's iron and steel companies are unable to be self-sufficient in iron ore, resulting in profits being harvested by iron ore suppliers such as BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, and Vale.

Wu Cong has seen part of the company's long-term plan, which requires the construction of many large-scale infrastructure projects.

In the area controlled by Homo sapiens, at least 3~500 million tons of steel will need to be consumed in the next 10 years.

With such a huge consumption of steel, if it is purely imported, then Homo sapiens will not be able to sustain it no matter how rich it is.

Therefore, it is necessary to develop its own steel industry.

But the problem comes back, the steel industry needs a lot of iron ore, and before that, no large iron ore was found in the control area, and most of the iron ore relied on imports.

Now that the super-large iron ore of Mount Longerang has been discovered, it must be mined.

Weng Xuehai, who was present, reminded: "Mr. Wu, mining belongs to mining, but the associated mines must be dealt with, which is a huge wealth." ”

"Of course, when I get back, I'll organize a secret workshop to discuss a reasonable mining plan." Wu Cong is also very aware of the value of this mine.

According to preliminary exploration data, the total magnetite reserves are about 870 million tons, with an average grade of 34.6%.

In addition, if all the associated titanium, vanadium, molybdenum, and rhenium are mined and refined, about 180,000 tons of titanium, 110,000 tons of vanadium, 30,000 tons of molybdenum, and the most valuable 320~350 tons of rhenium.

If all the iron ore in this mine is mined, it can smelt about 300 million tons of steel, which can basically meet the minimum requirements of the current control area.

Together with other small mines in the control area, another 100 million tons of steel can be smelted together.

In other words, with the Longerang Mountain vanadium titanomagnetite, Homo sapiens basically does not need to worry about the threat of international iron ore suppliers.

Now taking advantage of the cheap international iron ore price, it is necessary to import a large amount of iron ore unscrupulously.

The vanadium titanomagnetite mine in Longerang Hills will certainly not be mined on a large scale in the early stage, but the infrastructure and supporting facilities will be built to prepare for the expansion of production capacity at any time in the future.

As long as there are enough iron ore reserves in hand, international iron ore suppliers are nothing more than a bunch of paper tigers.

In fact, iron ore mines in all parts of Honsavady have been mothballed and strategic reserves have been established.

When it comes to preparing for a rainy day, Homo sapiens attaches great importance to it.

Whether it is food, energy, fertilizer, minerals, a whole set of strategic reserve systems has been established to deal with possible external blockades in the future.

Wu Cong, who had been inspecting the mining area for two days, was about to take people back to the company, but he didn't want to meet the person in charge of another company.

"Mr. Wu, your mining company is developed this time." Achindo, the head of the Mandalay Special Smelting Company, greeted him with a smile.

Wu Cong smiled and shook his head: "It's just hard-earned money, and this mine is estimated to be used as a strategic reserve." ”

Achindo didn't sell Guanzi either, after all, they were all his own people, and he directly said the purpose of his coming: "I read the exploration report, I don't need iron ore for the time being, but titanium, vanadium, molybdenum, and rhenium are urgently needed here, especially rhenium." ”

Wu Cong, who knew a little about the use of metals, immediately guessed something: "Steam turbine blades? Or an aero engine? ”

Acindo nodded: "Our metallurgical technology is not very good, and the performance requirements of some special parts are very high, in order to meet the requirements, we can only work the materials." ”

For this statement, it was not as expected by Wu Cong, he replied with a smile:

"It's all for the company, we keep these rare metals and reserves, since you have needs, we are naturally fully cooperative, and we also need to deal with these associated minerals."

"That's great." Achindo was overjoyed.

Recently, he can be smelting special alloys and looking for rare metal imports.

Titanium-vanadium-molybdenum is good to say, rhenium is not only comparable to gold, but also has very few channels to buy, which is basically monopolized by Europe and the United States.

Among lightweight high-temperature resistant alloys, rhenium has the finishing touch.

Rhenium is an important raw material in many jet aero engines and ultra-high temperature resistant parts.

Although there is no rhenium, it is possible to produce high-temperature resistant alloys, but the performance will be much worse.

Homo sapiens, which is very good at special alloy technology, if it can't use good raw materials, the alloy performance will be even worse.

Obviously, the discovery of vanadium titanomagnetite in Longerang Mountain, the reserve of more than 300 tons of rhenium, for the Mandalay Special Smelting Company, is like the discovery of a freshwater lake in the desert.

After discussing for a long time, the two decided to return to Mandalay together.

Weng Xuehai, Ba Kang and others led the exploration team to continue to explore the entire Longerang Mountains.

After all, the length of this mountain range is about 370 kilometers from north to south, the width from east to west is between 50~80 kilometers, and the total area is 24,000 square kilometers, which is roughly equivalent to about 0.4 Tongliao.

Such a vast area, coupled with the fact that a large part of the area is unexplored, makes for great prospecting potential.

The exploration team, which was stimulated by the vanadium titanomagnetite in Longerang Mountain, planned to conduct a thorough investigation of the entire Longerang Mountain.

Although they said that they didn't care who discovered the super-large ore vein first, they actually cared very much in their hearts.

Prospecting is their specialty, and in their own professional field, they are not as good as the results of other blind cats encountering dead rats, and there are always some unconvinced and unwilling.

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