Homo sapiens

February 15, 22.

Zhuyu.

The town of Chilang in central China.

After more than half a month of training and through the channels of the Internal Affairs Division, Root found the family member who had been moved to the Zhuyu Branch, and he applied to be transferred to the Zhuyu Branch.

Through the secret channel of staying up day and night, Tru and a dozen other new employees assigned to Zhuyu finally arrived in Qilang Town.

Seen from outer space, this town looks unremarkable.

But in fact, Qilang Town is only on the surface. The real city is actually among the mountains on the east side of Qilang Town. Under these mountains with an average height of two to three thousand meters, Qilang Base City is hidden.

The scale of Qilang Base City is very large, especially with the recent large-scale expansion. It has now built 8 subdivisions, which can accommodate a total of 73,000 employees and their families.

In the future, the scale here will continue to expand until it forms an underground base group that can accommodate 200,000 to 300,000 employees.

Root and his party entered the traffic station in Qilang Town. After identifying themselves, they were taken to a rest room.

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

The elevator descended for hundreds of meters before reaching the underground station below the transportation station.

Twenty minutes later, the electric train slowly stopped at the Qilang Town Station, and the carriage door opened automatically.

At this moment, the station manager's communicator rang. He picked it up and took a look, then quickly asked the electric train to wait for five minutes.

Another group of people came down from the elevator.

Root sat in his seat and looked curiously at the group of people who had just come off. Judging from the uniforms these people were wearing, he knew through the reminder on his mobile phone that these people were technical employees.

The group of people also quickly got on the bus.

The train started and headed towards Area 1 of Qilang Base City.

Root was a little timid about the countryside, and he kept looking around.

Weng Xuehai, who was sitting opposite him, glanced at him and continued to look at the geological exploration data on the tablet. He came to Qilang Base City this time not just for a casual stroll, but because there were new discoveries here.

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

Due to the large number of underground bases built by the Assam Branch, it is commonplace to dig tunnels and shafts underground.

This also led to the Assam branch unintentionally digging up a large amount of mineral resources.

For example, there are large bornite mines in the Manipur region, Shillong lithium mines and Dura tungsten mines in the Meghalaya region, and gold and lead mines in the Jemengshion region.

These minerals all have a characteristic. They are often buried below 500 meters underground, and are surrounded by either deep mountains and old forests or snowy plateaus.

For example, this mine was discovered in Qilang Base City. There is a mountain peak with an altitude of 1,736 meters above sea level. The excavation area is about 1,400 meters from the top of the mountain.

While Weng Xuehai was concentrating on checking the information, the train also arrived at the Zone 1 station in Qilang Base City.

Root and others went to report to the local branch of the Foreign Security Division.

Weng Xuehai and his party met with the head of the geology department of Qilang Base City.

Soon they took the train and headed to Area 9 where the minerals were discovered. It was also a newly developed area.

Arriving at the excavation site, Weng Xuehai looked at the eroded rock formation profile and quickly ordered: "Collect samples immediately."

Several assistants skillfully opened the tool boxes they carried 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 characteristics of magnetite, and the grade is not low."

"Magnetic metamorphic rock type magnetite is usually accompanied by 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 of the sediment.

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

Ba Kang looked at the list of detected elements: "Huh? The content of platinum and rhodium is so 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 is about 42 to 48%, which is a typical rich ore.

However, for iron ore with relatively large amounts of associated minerals, associated ore separation equipment must be prepared for mining.

Because it is underground, they can only conduct secondary drilling in all directions according to the direction of the tunnel 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 controlled by Homo sapiens companies are no longer what they used to be.

Take iron ore as an example. Currently, the total reserves of various iron ore mines within Homo Sapien Company have reached 5.37 billion tons, and the average grade is about 28.4%.

Reserves of other minerals are also increasing.

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

For example, a big problem has arisen recently in the iron ore transaction between Kangaroo Country and Hongsawady Branch. The three major iron ore suppliers in Kangaroo Country collectively raised the price by 30% for the iron ore sold by Hongsawady Branch. ~40%.

In response, Hongsawady Branch has stopped purchasing iron ore and turned to mining its own iron ore reserves.

It is precisely because of this kind of precautionary preparation that the three major iron ore suppliers in Kangaroo Country not only failed to harvest the steel companies affiliated to the Hongsawady Branch, but also caused the international iron ore futures price to plummet.

After all, Hongsawady Branch is now one of the top steel producers in the world, with an annual output of 47 million tons of steel.

If the 7.3 million tons of steel production capacity of the Luzon Branch and the 2.1 million tons of steel production capacity of the Siam Branch are added, then the total steel production of Homo Sapiens Company is no longer small.

The three major iron ore suppliers in Kangaroo Country had all their plans, but they underestimated the preparations of the Homo sapiens company.

For these kangaroo people, the Homo sapiens company has never regarded them as a stable factor, but as an unstable factor that needs to be removed at any time.

In this iron ore confrontation, Homo sapiens 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 Hongsawady Branch, but unexpectedly it underestimated it.

It can rely on its own iron ore reserves to resist purchasing iron ore from the Kangaroo Country. This is the strength of the Hongsawady Branch.

At least it is difficult for other steel production companies to get rid of the extortion of kangaroo country iron ore producers. At this point, Hongsawady Steel Co., Ltd. has gained a great advantage.

After seeing the behavior of the Kangaroo Man, Homo Sapiens Company further increased its internal exploration efforts, striving to achieve self-sufficiency in all minerals.

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

If you want to use lithium battery-type electric vehicles, you must have sufficient lithium ore reserves. Otherwise, other people's tricks on lithium ores will increase the production cost of lithium batteries.

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

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

The Homo sapiens company, which does not want to be a wedding dress for others, directly abandoned the lithium battery route and the hydrogen fuel cell route and switched to the gas turbine hybrid route.

All this is for the sake of independence, and it also means that Homo sapiens company has enough technical background to be more willful.

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