Vol 2 Chapter 175: , White gold (1)

The moon is still in the sea, the moon mining base of Xinghe Mining Group is here.
As the last box full of moon dirt was carried into the spacecraft by a robotic arm, the entire spaceship
Lushan
was already full.
The designed takeoff weight of the 'Lushan' spacecraft can reach a maximum of 10,000 tons, while its own weight is only about 1,000 tons, which means that its effective load can reach 9,000 tons.
Of course, this is on the earth's side, because the moon's gravity is only one-sixth of the earth's, so its transport capacity on the moon will be even stronger.
A huge warehouse filled with earth and rocks excavated from the moon, weighing 50,000 tons, and filled directly, ready to be brought back to Earth.
The 'Lushan' spacecraft filled with soil and rocks soon took off and returned to the side of the earth. There were 6 people left at the mining base, and they continued to be responsible for building the base here and exploring resources.
No accident, the spacecraft ‘Lushan’ rose directly into space, flew a few circles around the moon, and gained greater speed before heading back to Earth.
There is no way. The weight of the spacecraft is really too heavy. For 50,000 tons of dirt and rocks, it is better to fly around the moon a few times, which can save some fuel and time as much as possible.
Dragging a long tail flame, like a firefly that has been flying in the dark night, the 'Lushan' spacecraft embarked on the return journey. This time, it is expected that the return time will be more than 5 hours. The dirt and rocks carried are too Heavy, the speed will be much slower.
"Apply to the country immediately. The 'Lushan' spacecraft needs to be parked at the Tiangong Space Station and some of the cargo will be temporarily placed in the Tiangong Space Station."
Huang Pingzhen ground control command center, Lu Qingwei commanded to his men.
The weight of the 'Lushan' spacecraft is really too large. It is loaded with 50,000 tons of moon dirt and rocks. If it directly flies to the earth, its load will exceed the limit and it will directly crash into a comet. Earth.
So you have to put the cargo into the Tiangong Space Station in space, and then transport these dirt and rocks back to the ground in batches.
"I don't know how much this rare earth is. This rare earth is called white gold ~"
Qin Yi, who was aside, touched his chin, but his eyes were full of expectations.
Rare earths have very few reserves on the earth, but the precious metals in rare earths are all essential for high-tech industries and fields, so the prices of rare earths have always been very high.
And in recent years, as Huaxia began to take measures to protect resources, reduce the mining of rare earths, and severely crack down on the phenomenon of random mining and digging, the prices of rare earths in the world have continued to rise year after year.
On the one hand, there is increasing demand, and on the other hand, fewer resources are dug. Rare earth is also called white gold.
Twenty-five hours later, the 'Lushan' spacecraft successfully arrived on Earth and was captured by Earth's orbit. After constantly adjusting its orbit, it also docked into the space port of the Tiangong Space Station very smoothly.
The "Lushan" spacecraft hatch opened, and the robotic arm here at the space port quickly unloaded the large boxes inside the spacecraft and temporarily deposited them here.
After leaving one-fifth of the box, the door of the 'Lushan' hatch was closed again, and slowly separated from the Tiangong Space Station, flew a few laps in orbit, adjusted its position, and flew into the earth.
星 Xinghe Aerospace Industrial Base in Huangping Town. Here, news reporters from all over the world almost flock to the area. In the planned area of ​​news reporters, people are moving, and long guns and short guns are aimed at the ‘Lushan’ spacecraft that is slowly descending.
After a day, the 'Lushan' spacecraft returned very smoothly from the moon, and brought back the first barrel of gold that humans had recovered from the moon.
The spacecraft seemed to have no trace of heavy hair, and slowly landed slowly on the airport. The huge hatch slowly opened, revealing neat boxes of yards.
Early in the morning, there were already prepared ground crews coming and loading and unloading the boxes inside the spacecraft. The spacecraft's work has not been completed, and there are still tens of thousands of tons of dirt and rocks in space to be transported.
"Good afternoon, audience friends. My current position is in the Xinghe Aerospace Industrial Base in Huangping Town, Jiangnan Province, China. You can see behind me that this huge spaceship has returned smoothly from the moon, boxes by box. It's full of dirt and rocks dug from the moon. "
"According to what we learned from the Galaxy Aerospace Industry Group and the Galaxy Mining Group, these earths and rocks contain a lot of rare earth ore. We will continue to provide you with live broadcasts. Please watch them."
大家 "Good evening everyone, it is 4 o'clock in the afternoon, China time, and I'm here to bring you the first detailed report on the mining of alien planets in the history of human beings at the Xinghe Aerospace Industrial Base."
"At present, the Lushan spacecraft has returned to the ground smoothly, and is filled with soil and rocks that are said to contain rich rare earth resources collected from the moon. We are fortunate to have obtained a permit, and we will be allowed to enter Xinghe in the future. The smelting plant of the Mining Group has personally witnessed the smelting of rare earth ores. "
News reporters from all over the world are reporting frantically, all kinds of lights are blinking, and news media, social networks, etc. all over the world have reported the incident in the form of headlines almost immediately. .
第 一次 For the first time in the history of human beings to go to an alien planet for mining, this is a big thing enough to write into human history.
The Xinghe Group also very generously chose to be open, and invited many news media to report. The most important purpose is naturally to let people see that lunar mining is profitable and profitable ~
箱子 A box was continuously loaded and unloaded from the spacecraft ‘Lushan’. The unloaded box was placed on the huge airport, and the lid on the box was opened to reveal the dirt and rocks inside.
"Crapping ~ Crapping ~"
The Xinghe Group gave enough time for ten minutes for these news reporters to report. After ten minutes, a truck came and started to transport these dirt, rocks, etc. to the smelting plant.
The smelting plant is also located in a huge factory building. There are also news media reporters invited here.
The smelting of rhenium rare earth ore is completely different from the smelting of general resources.
冶 Smelting rare earth ore from soil and rock requires strong acid or alkali, soaking with a solution of strong acid or alkali to extract the rare earth from the soil or rock.
Seeing strong acids and alkalis, everyone should know that the damage to the environment from mining rare earths is extremely serious.
The first damage is to destroy the green mountains and green water, and to extract the soil or rocks, it is necessary to push the mountain away and expose the mountain directly. The most direct impact is that the soil and water loss is very serious. Mining will soon become a desert.
But this is not the worst damage yet.
What really destroys the environment is that strong acids and alkalis are required for the mining of rare earths. The impact of acid and alkali solutions on the environment is too great.
In the rivers of the rare earth mining area, almost all living things are extinct, and no living thing can survive in the waters polluted by acid and alkali, especially when the pollution starts just now, when the acid and alkali concentration is high, where they pass by , Inch grass does not grow.
Second, there is also great pollution to groundwater. This is long-term, and the water in the rare earth mining area cannot be drunk at all.
There is also the waste residue left after mining. Because these waste residues have been soaked with strong acid and strong alkali, there is no way to grow any vegetation on these waste residues. It takes many years to grow new vegetation slowly.
Randomly accumulated waste residues will enter rivers and cultivated land when washed by rainwater, which will seriously damage the ecological environment.
The environmental damage caused by the mining of rare earth is almost irreversible, and it lasts for a very long time, and the pollution is very serious. Therefore, in the areas with rich rare earth resources, with the phenomenon of random mining and digging, the environmental damage is very serious.
In the southern part of Jiangxi, the place that was originally green mountains and green waters appeared an incredible desert area due to the mining of rare earths.
This is why the state prohibits the random mining and digging of rare earth resources, because the pollution to the environment is too serious, especially for private mining, as long as it makes money, it does not care about the ecological environment at all ~ EbookFREE.me ~ pollution More serious.
The vast amount of rare earths contained in the United States accounts for 40% of the world's total, but Americans just do not mine their own domestic rare earth ore, because they know that the environmental sacrifice of this rare earth mining is too great, and it is difficult to recover. .
Coupled with the chicken thief itself, I like to use other people's resources first, so the United States has a variety of resources, but Americans never dig their own resources.
Xinghe Mining Group also adopts the method of refining rare earth with strong acid and alkali, but because it is extracted in the factory, Xinghe Mining Group can effectively control it.
Wastewater and waste residue can be treated by scientists' methods, which can reduce the pollution to the environment to the minimum, and it can basically be said that there is no pollution.
"Boom ~"
Under the attention of many news media reporters around the world, the dirt and rocks in a box were poured into a shredder.
The first step in refining rare earth is to pulverize the rock into the smallest particle state, so that the rare earth ore contained in it can be perfectly refined.
If the rock is not pulverized, there is no way to extract the rare earth ore inside the rock with strong acids and alkalis.
PS: There is such a thing as rare earth. It was near my hometown. When I was a kid, I grew up watching Kai Rare Earth. I saw it polluted the environment with my own eyes. It was extremely serious. The places where the rare earth had been driven turned into desert areas. This is definitely not a falsehood ~