Chapter 229: Mining Resources and Electricity

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In the industrial era, coal and iron, copper, aluminum, zinc and other raw materials are inseparable. The mineral resources in South America are not evenly distributed. There are insufficient coal and iron ore resources in La Plata. The iron ore resources and coal resources that are relatively easy to mine are either Located in the interior of Brazil, or located in Chile, Venezuela, Colombia and other countries. The domestic mineral resources reserves of Han are limited. It is not a big problem to support the industrial development of millions of people in the early stage. Once the population reaches tens of millions, the local reserves Of mineral resources will be difficult to sustain the country's industrial development.
Han's current steel industry raw materials are partly from the Santa Catarina and Corales mines in northern Uruguay, and partly to the northern shore of Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela.
Before the Corrales mine in northern Uruguay was found, Santa Catarina's iron ore and coal mines have been the main domestic supply of industrial raw materials. After occupying 60,000 square kilometers of land in northern Uruguay, exploration The team found several medium-sized iron ore, manganese ore and coal mines near Corrales. Although the coal quality of the Corrales mining area is not as good as anthracite coal in Annan Quang Ninh Province, it is inferior to Santa Catarina. Compared to the quality of coal, the coal mines in Corrales are still better.
Quang Ninh Province occupied by the Nanyang Army of the National Defense Forces is a well-known coal producer in Annan. Anthracite coal produced by Guangning Hongji will not only supply Annan's domestic industrial construction in the future, but also export it to the mainland, Japan and other countries.
Hongji coal mine production area is more than 100 kilometers long, 15-20 kilometers wide, coal reserves of 2.25 billion tons, thick coal seams and thin topsoil, suitable for outcrop mining.
When Li Mingyuan started to set up a professional mineral exploration unit in 1872, the Hongji Coal Mine had been discovered by the local garrison and then reported to the National Defense Forces headquarters by telegram.
At that time, Li Mingyuan received the information reported by the army, and he was also very distressed when he was happy. The coal output of Hongji Coal Mine was much higher than that of Han's native coal. However, such a high-quality coal field could not support it. Local industrial construction.
Annan is too far away from South America. Transportation of coal to South America by ocean-going vessels can greatly increase the cost of coal. Although coal is an essential raw material for industry, its value is not comparable to iron. , Copper, aluminum and other metal raw materials, so after reading the information transmitted by the Nanyang Forces, Li Mingyuan just reminded them to open up some production areas as mines, and the unproduced coal origin is left for later processing.
The Hongji Coal Mine cannot be transported to South America. The slightly lower quality Cora mine has assumed the main function of supplying domestic industrial development. Around the Corrales mine area, relying on the advantage of being close to the source of the resources, one by one the quality of use Poor coal-fired cement plants, brick kiln plants, and honeycomb coal manufacturing plants quickly developed, providing many construction materials for domestic infrastructure construction in the country. At the same time, as the exploration team expanded the scope of exploration locally in 1876, Large manganese ore was found everywhere. Due to the development of the power discipline, metals such as manganese, aluminum, and zinc have been able to be separated from metal oxides. Among them, the production technology of aluminum introduced by using aluminum nitride and sodium as raw materials has been introduced in Han Dynasty. Enter the production stage.
The method of producing aluminum by aluminum nitride and sodium that St. Clair invented in 1854 greatly reduced the cost of aluminum, but because aluminum was mainly used to make luxury goods and decorations at this time, this method was not widely used.
Li Mingyuan attended the university two years before becoming a mercenary. He learned the experiment of preparing various metals by electrolysis in his junior high school. Therefore, after understanding that electrolysis is the mainstream method of preparing various metals, Li Mingyuan returned from studying abroad. Among the Chinese students, more than 200 people were selected to work with the unfamiliar physicists Yedrick and Estrome from Europe to conduct electric power R & D experiments.
In order to improve the arc lamp, develop a rotating magnetic field type alternator, and improve the process for preparing metals by electrolysis, according to the actual situation in Han country, Li Mingyuan formulated three major research directions for researchers.
The industrial production of aluminum, zinc, copper and other metal elements by electrolytic process requires a large amount of power. Therefore, when the domestic generator research and development project in Han Dynasty has not been completed, the large-scale manganese ore of Corales cannot be effectively developed.
However, Li Mingyuan was not worried about delaying the mining of manganese ore, because after he instructed the researchers several times using the chemical and physical knowledge of later generations, the generator project has made great progress. According to the calculations of the researchers, the distance from the project to the successful The final time will not exceed six months. Facing the confident assurance of the researchers, Li Mingyuan had no doubt. In the original space-time, Bayer proposed a simple purification method a few years later, which greatly improved the efficiency of refining metals, and this process has been used to future generations. Now Li Mingyuan not only told researchers about the principle of later generation generators, but also introduced the Bayer process method. If they did so, they could not develop the rotating magnetic field alternator four or five years in advance. Helpless.
The third industrial revolution was a change triggered by electricity.
In terms of power development, after sending overseas students to study power technology that has not been valued by the West, the development level of the country is not very different from that of Western countries. In addition, Li Mingyuan attaches great importance to power research and development. The level of development of the western countries.
In July 1877, when IDF soldiers stationed near Corrales participated in a field exercise, they accidentally found a large amount of gold sand in a river between the valleys, and then the exploration team that got the news proceeded along the river bank to conduct exploration, and finally found the distance from the spot. A rare giant gold mine was found seven or eight kilometers away.
Gold mines accidentally discovered by the soldiers of the Wehrmacht are part of the resources of the Corrales mine ~ EbookFREE.me ~ According to the production technology of the 20th century, the gold mines were enough for Uruguay to develop for 60 years, but in the second half of the 19th century, The Han government could not use the relatively mature excavation equipment to mine all the stored gold like the later Uruguay government.
Excavation of gold mines buried in rocks requires high-strength synthetic steel, and in the iron and steel industry, Han Guo invited Mannister, and in 1877, the later generations were widely used in the rolling mill industry for the Mannister system. The pipe method was invented, but Li Mingyuan didn't know much about the synthesis of special steels and did not give key advice to European experts hired at high prices. Therefore, Han's special steel synthesis technology has not made significant progress, and the entire synthetic metal technology is still being explored. stage.
More than 95% of the mineral deposits in the Corrales Gold Mine are deeply buried in the rock and cannot be mined. A small amount of the minerals contained in the buried rock are distributed in a distributed manner. According to the existing technology, the mining output is limited, so the gold standard is being adopted. During the currency reform, Li Mingyuan did not choose to use the gold produced by the Corrales gold mine as a reserve for issuing banknotes, but made a decision to send people to venture into India.
The mining benefits of the shallow mineral deposits of the Corrales Gold Mine are not large, and in view of the increasingly close date of the defence forces' annexation of Argentina and Uruguay, the Corrales Gold Mine is in the same state of storage as the Congo mining area, and it is necessary to wait until the unification war Mining cannot be completed until the end. Find this site Please search for "" or enter the URL: