22, February 15.

Zhu domain.

The town of Chilang in the center.

After more than half a month of training, and through the channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Root found the family members who had been relocated to Zhuyu, and he applied to be transferred to Zhuyu.

Through the secret channel of day and night, Tru and a dozen other recruits who were assigned to the Zhu domain finally arrived in Qilang Town.

This town looks unremarkable when viewed from outer space.

But in fact, Qilang Town is only the surface, the real city is actually in the mountains on the east side of Qilang Town, and under these mountains with an average height of two or three thousand meters, there is a hidden Qilang Base City.

The scale of Chilang Base City is very large, especially with the recent large-scale expansion, and now 8 sub-districts have been built, with a total capacity of 73,000 people.

In the future, the scale of this area will continue to expand until an underground base group that can accommodate 20~300,000 people is formed.

Root's party entered the traffic station in Chirang Town, identified themselves, and was taken to a break room.

After checking their identities, the person in charge of the station took them to an elevator for insiders.

The elevator descended hundreds of meters all the way to the underground station below the traffic station.

Twenty minutes later, the electric train slowly stopped at the Chilang Town Station, and the doors of the carriage opened automatically.

At this moment, the communicator of the station manager rang, he picked it up and looked at it, and quickly asked the electric train to wait for five minutes.

Another group of people came down from the elevator.

Rout sat in his seat and looked curiously at the group of people who had just come down, judging from the uniforms these people were wearing, he knew through the reminder of the mobile phone elf that these people belonged to the technical class.

The group also quickly got into the car.

The train starts and heads towards District 1 of Chilang Base City.

Rutte was a little homesick, and he kept looking around.

Weng Xuehai, who was sitting opposite him, glanced at him, and continued to look at the geological exploration data of the tablet, he came to Qilang Base City this time, not to wander around casually, but because there were new discoveries here.

Recently, their geological exploration department is one of the busiest.

Due to the large number of underground bases built in the Assam branch, tunnels and shafts were dug underground, which was a common thing.

This also led to the unintentional mining of a large amount of mineral resources in the Assam division.

For example, the large bornite copper mines in the Manipur area, the Shillong lithium and Dura tungsten mines in the Meghalaya area, and the gold and lead mines in the Jemunchon area.

These minerals have a characteristic, they are often buried at depths of less than 500 meters underground, and are surrounded by either deep mountains and old forests or snowy plateaus.

For example, the discovery of this mine in the base city of Qilang is a mountain peak with an altitude of 1,736 meters, and the excavation area is about 1,400 meters from the top of the mountain.

While Weng Xuehai was engrossed in checking the information, the train also arrived at the District 1 station in Qilang Base City.

Rout and the others went to report to the local branch of the Ministry of Defense.

And Weng Xuehai and his entourage met with the person in charge of the geological department of Qilang Base City.

Soon they took the train to Area 9, where the minerals were discovered, which was also a newly developed area.

When he came to the excavation site, Weng Xuehai looked at the section of the rock formation that had been corroded, and hurriedly ordered: "Collect samples immediately." ”

Several assistants skillfully opened the toolbox they carried with them and began to take fixed-point samples of rock formations and excavated sediment.

Deputy team leader Bakang picked up a palm-sized black rock: "Typical magnetite characteristics, and the grade is not low. ”

"Magmatic metamorphic magnetite is usually associated with other metals." Weng Xuehai said as he inserted a test tube of sediment into the portable mass spectrometer.

After a while, a mass spectrometer combined with biological computer technology analyzed the elemental composition of the sediment.

"The magnetite grade was really good, and this sample reached 47%."

Bacon looked at the list of detected elements: "Huh? The content of platinum and rhodium is very high, and there are also large amounts of manganese and chromium. ”

Weng Xuehai successively tested mineral samples from other locations and found that the average grade of magnetite was about 42~48%, which is a typical bonanza.

However, this kind of iron ore with more associated minerals must be prepared for mining.

Since they are underground, they can only drill twice in all directions, depending on the course of the tunnels and veins.

However, based on past experience, Weng Xuehai is basically certain that the reserves of this composite magnetite will not be less than 120 million tons.

In fact, the mineral resources currently in the hands of Homo sapiens are no longer what they used to be.

Taking iron ore as an example, the total reserves of iron ore in the area controlled by Homo sapiens have reached 5.37 billion tons, with an average grade of about 28.4%.

Reserves of other minerals are also increasing.

In fact, as long as you can explore downward, there are still a lot of mineral resources in the deep layers of the earth's crust, so you don't have to worry too much about it.

For example, the recent iron ore trading between Australia and Honsavady has had a big problem, and Australia's three major iron ore suppliers have collectively raised the price of iron ore exported from Honsavady by 30~40%.

In response, Honsavady has stopped importing iron ore and turned to mining its own reserves.

It is precisely because of this kind of precautionary preparation that Australia's three major iron ore suppliers not only failed to harvest the Honsawady steel enterprises, but caused the international iron ore futures price to plummet.

After all, Honsavady is now one of the world's top steel producers, producing 47 million tonnes of steel per year.

If you add the 7.3 million steel production capacity in Luzon and the 2.1 million tons of steel production capacity in Siam, then the total steel output of Homo sapiens is not a few.

Australia's three major iron ore suppliers were supposed to be wishful thinking, but they underestimated the preparation of Homo sapiens.

For these Australians, Homo sapiens has never seen them as a stabilizing factor, but as an unstable factor that can be removed at any time.

In this iron ore confrontation, Homo sapiens made another small profit in the futures market with a backhand, and at the same time shorted a number of iron ore suppliers on stocks.

The outside world had already overestimated Honsavady, but it didn't expect it to be underestimated.

can rely on its own iron ore reserves to support not to purchase Australian iron ore, which is the strength of Honsavady.

At least it is difficult for other steel-producing countries to get rid of the extortion of Australian iron ore, and in this regard, Hungsavady steel companies have gained a great advantage.

After seeing the behavior of the Australians, Homo sapiens further stepped up its exploration efforts in the controlled area, striving to make all minerals self-sufficient.

This is also the reason why when Qingye Group was planning the automobile industry, Li Qingye directly denied the lithium battery route.

If you want to play lithium battery type electric vehicles, the premise is that you must have enough lithium reserves, otherwise others can make small moves on lithium mines, which can increase the production cost of lithium batteries.

What's more, many patents for lithium battery vehicles are in the hands of Huaguo, Dongying, America, and Germany, which have first-mover advantages.

Although Homo sapiens can be unreasonable in many cases, those things that are to be sold in the international market must comply with international patent law.

Homo sapiens, which did not want to make wedding dresses for others, directly abandoned the lithium battery route and hydrogen fuel cell route and switched to the gas turbine hybrid route.

It's all about being independent, and it's also that Homo sapiens has enough technical background to be a little capricious.

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