Homo sapiens.

Chapter 182 Strategic Reserve
21, April 1.

In the Mount Longerang of Hongshawadi.

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

"I didn't expect our mineral exploration team to fail to discover this super large mine." Ba Kang joked.

In fact, what he said was not wrong, because it was discovered by the construction team of the aerospace base, so the first contribution to this mine was on the construction team, not the exploration team.

Weng Xuehai can take it seriously: "This kind of thing is normal. Don't think about the luck of a blind cat encountering a dead mouse. We'd better keep our feet on the ground. Sooner or later, we will find other large veins."

And Wu Gang, who got the distribution map of the mine layer, finally breathed a sigh of relief, because the mine vein did not extend towards the aerospace base, and 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 this mountainous area, even if there was a railway passing nearby, it still made one's head bald.

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

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

As the person in charge of the mining company, Wu Cong knows that the three major groups currently have their own steel plants, and the scale is not small, with a combined annual output of 1800 million tons of steel.

Next year will expand to 3300 million tons of steel production.

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

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

But the other party must also have a small calculation in mind, such as expanding your production capacity at a low price first, and then fattening you up in a few years, and directly slaughtering you.

Hongshawadi and the other three control areas did not have large iron mines before. Once the supply of iron ore is choked, the profits of the steel industry will definitely be reaped by the Australians.

Iron ore suppliers in Huaguo, such as BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, and Vale, have harvested their profits because they cannot be self-sufficient in iron ore.

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 10-3 million tons of steel will be consumed in the next 5 years.

Such a huge steel consumption, if only relying on imports, Homo sapiens can't support it no matter how rich it is.

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

But the problem came back again. The steel industry needs a lot of iron ore. However, no large-scale iron ore was found in the control area before, and most of the iron ore relied on imports.

Now that the super-large iron mine of Longerang Mountain is discovered, it must be mined.

Weng Xuehai, who was present, reminded: "Mr. Wu, mining belongs to mining, but the associated mines must be handled well, which is a huge fortune."

"Of course, after I go back, I will organize a secret seminar 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 reserves of magnetite are about 8.7 million tons, with an average grade of 34.6%.

In addition, if the associated titanium, vanadium, molybdenum and rhenium are all mined and refined, about 18 tons of titanium, 11 tons of vanadium, 3 tons of molybdenum, and the most valuable 320-350 tons of rhenium can be obtained.

If all the iron ore in this mine is mined, about 3 million tons of steel can be smelted, which can basically meet the minimum requirements of the current control area.

In addition to other small mines in the control area, we can smelt another 1 million tons of steel if we put together things together.

That is to say, with the vanadium-titanium magnetite of Mount Longerang, 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 prices, large quantities of iron ore have to be imported unscrupulously.

Longerang Mountain vanadium-titanium magnetite will definitely not be mined on a large scale in the early stage, but infrastructure and supporting facilities must be built to prepare for future expansion of production capacity at any time.

As long as there are sufficient iron ore reserves in hand, international iron ore suppliers are just a group of paper tigers.

In fact, the iron mines in various places in Hongshawadi have been sealed up and strategic reserves have been established.

In terms of planning for a rainy day, Sapiens Corporation attaches great importance to it.

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

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

"Mr. Wu, your mining company is well developed this time." Archindo, the person in charge of Mandalay Special Smelting Company, greeted him with a smile.

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

Archindo doesn't make a fool of himself. After all, they are all his own people. He directly stated the purpose of his visit: "I read the exploration report. I don't need iron ore for the time being, but I need titanium, vanadium, molybdenum and rhenium urgently. Especially It's rhenium."

Wu Cong, who knew a little about the uses of metals, immediately guessed: "Steam turbine blades? Or aero-engines?"

Archindo nodded: "Our metallurgical technology is not very good, and some special parts have very high performance requirements. In order to meet the requirements, we can only work hard on the materials."

Wu Cong did not expect this statement, he replied with a smile:

"It's all for the company. We keep these rare metals as a reserve. Since you need them, we will naturally cooperate fully. Originally, we also need to deal with these associated mines."

"That's great." Archindo was overjoyed.

Recently, he has been smelting special alloys and looking for imports of rare metals, making one head and two big.

Fortunately, titanium, vanadium and molybdenum are not only comparable to gold in price, but also have very few purchase channels, which are basically monopolized by Europe and the United States.

Among lightweight superalloys, rhenium has the finishing touch.

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

Although high temperature resistant alloys can be produced without rhenium, the performance will be much worse.

Homo sapiens company, which is already very good at special alloy technology, if it cannot use good raw materials, the performance of the alloy will be even worse.

Obviously, the discovery of vanadium-titanium magnetite in Mount Lungerang and the reserves of more than 300 tons of rhenium, for Mandalay Special Smelting Company, it is like discovering a freshwater lake in the desert.

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

On the other hand, Weng Xuehai, Ba Kang and others led the exploration team to continue to explore the entire Longerang Mountain.

After all, this mountain range is about 370 kilometers long from north to south, and 50-80 kilometers wide from east to west, with a total area of ​​2.4 square kilometers, which is roughly equivalent to about 0.4 Tongliao.

With such a vast area, and a large part of it unexplored, the prospecting potential here is very large.

The exploration team stimulated by the vanadium-titanium magnetite in Mount Longerang planned to conduct a thorough investigation of the entire Mount Longerang.

Although they say they don't care who discovers the super-large mineral vein first, they actually care very much in their hearts.

Mining prospecting is their specialty. In their own professional field, they are not as good as other blind cats and dead rats. They are always unconvinced and unwilling.

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