Homo sapiens

Chapter 262 Confrontation Everywhere

22, April 2.

Zhu domain.

Chirang town in the middle.

After more than half a month of training, and through the channels of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Root found his family members who were relocated to Zhuyu, so he applied for transfer to Zhuyu.

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

From outer space, the town looks unremarkable.

But in fact, Chirang Town is only on the surface. The real city is actually in the mountains on the east side of Chirang Town. Under these mountains with an average height of 3000 meters, there is the base city of Chiran hidden.

The scale of Qilang Base City is very large, especially with the recent large-scale expansion. Currently, 8 districts have been built, which can accommodate a total of 7.3 people.

In the future, the scale here will continue to expand until an underground base group that can accommodate 20 to 30 people is formed.

Root and his party entered the traffic station in Chilang Town in a hurry, and after identifying themselves, they were taken to a lounge.

After checking their identities, the person in charge of the station took them to an elevator dedicated to internal personnel.

The elevator descended hundreds of meters before arriving at the underground station below the traffic station.

After 10 minutes, the electric train slowly stopped at the Qilang Town Station, and the doors of the carriages opened automatically.

At this moment, the communicator of the person in charge of the station rang. He picked it up and took a look, then hurriedly let the electric train wait for 5 minutes.

Another group of people descended from the elevator.

Root sat on 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 from the mobile phone wizard that these people belonged to technical employees.

The group of people also quickly boarded the car.

The train started and drove towards District 1 of Qilang Base City.

Root was a little timid about his hometown, and he kept looking around.

Weng Xuehai, who was sitting across from him, took a look at him, and then continued to flip through the geological exploration data on the tablet. He came to Qilang Base City this time, not just to wander around, but because there are new discoveries here.

Recently, their geological survey department is one of the busiest departments.

Due to the large number of underground bases being built in the Assam branch, digging underground tunnels and shafts is commonplace.

This also led to the unintentional digging of a large amount of mineral resources by the Assam branch.

For example, the large bornite mine in the Manipur area, the Shillong lithium mine and the Dura tungsten mine in the Meghalaya area, and the gold mines and lead mines in the Zhe Mengxiong area.

These minerals all have a characteristic. The burial depth is often below 500 meters underground, and the surrounding areas are either deep mountains and old forests or snow-covered plateaus.

For example, the mine was discovered in Qilang Base City. It is above a mountain with an altitude of 1736 meters, and the excavation area is about 1400 meters from the top of the mountain.

While Weng Xuehai was concentrating on looking up information, the train also arrived at the station in District 1 of Qilang Base City.

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

Weng Xuehai and his party met with the person in charge of the geology department of Qilang Base City.

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

Arriving at the excavation site, Weng Xuehai looked at the section of the corroded rock strata, and quickly ordered: "Collect samples immediately."

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

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

"Magnetite of the magmatic metamorphic rock type is usually associated with other metals." Weng Xuehai said while inserting a test tube of sediment into a portable mass spectrometer.

After a while, the mass spectrometer combined with biocomputer technology analyzed the elemental composition in the sediment.

"The grade of magnetite is really good, this sample reaches 47%."

Bacon looked at the list of detected elements: "Huh? The content of platinum and rhodium is so high, and there are also a lot of manganese and chromium."

Weng Xuehai has successively tested mineral samples from other locations and found that the average grade of magnetite is about 42-48%, which is a typical rich ore.

However, for the iron ore with many associated minerals, it is necessary to prepare associated ore separation equipment for mining.

Because they are underground, they can only conduct secondary drilling in all directions according to the direction 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 1.2 million tons.

In fact, the mineral resources currently held by Homo sapiens are no longer what they used to be.

Take iron ore as an example. At present, the total reserves of iron ore in the area controlled by Homo sapiens have reached 53.7 billion tons, and the average grade is about 28.4%.

Reserves of other minerals are also increasing.

In fact, as long as it can be explored downward, there are still a lot of mineral resources in the deep layers of the earth's crust, so there is no need to worry too much.

For example, the recent iron ore trade between Australia and Hongshawati has caused major problems. The three major iron ore suppliers in Australia collectively raised the price of iron ore exported from Hongshawadi by 30-40%.

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

It is precisely because of this kind of preparation for a rainy day that the three major iron ore suppliers in Australia not only failed to harvest Hongshawadi Steel Enterprises, but also caused the price of international iron ore futures to plummet.

After all, Hongshawadi is now one of the top steel producing countries in the world, with an annual output of 4700 million tons of steel.

If Luzon's steel production capacity of 730 million tons and Siam's steel production capacity of 210 million tons are added, the total steel production of Homo sapiens is already quite large.

The three major iron ore suppliers in Australia had their wishful thinking, but they underestimated Homo sapiens' preparations.

For these Australians, Sapiens Corporation has never regarded them as a stable factor, but as an unstable factor to be removed at any time.

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

The outside world had already overestimated Hongshawadi, but unexpectedly it was still underestimated.

It can rely on its own iron ore reserves and insist on not purchasing Australian iron ore. This is the strength of Hongshawadi.

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

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

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

If you want to play lithium-ion battery electric vehicles, the premise is to have enough lithium reserves, otherwise others can make small moves on lithium mines, which can drive up the production cost of lithium batteries.

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

Although Sapiens can be unreasonable in many cases, those things that are going to be sold in the international market must comply with international patent laws.

Homo sapiens, who didn't want to make wedding dresses for others, directly abandoned the lithium battery route and the hydrogen fuel cell route, and switched to the gas turbine hybrid route.

All of this is for independence, and Homo sapiens has enough technical background to be a bit willful.

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