"Boss, we can make the best steel ourselves." The Metal Expert pointed at the brown, shiny metallic ground under his feet.
"This is limonite ore, with 40% iron content, it is already worth mining."
Ye Qing, who had been rushing forward, didn't care about the color change on the flat ground.
Hearing the Metal Expert's words, Ye Qing came down from the Mechanical Colossus Model X's cockpit.
"Hiss …"
With the multi-angle searchlights on the cockpit, Ye Qing now accurately saw that on the ground where the four Type X's were pushed out, it was like being painted by a Chinese painting master with dye. It was full of inexplicable brownish-brown patterns like clouds and petals.
Touching it with his hand, the cold metal feeling made Ye Qing realize that the stones in front of him were limonite ore that could be used to make steel.
What was missing really came.
Iron ore, usually its iron content could be distinguished by its color.
The iron ore imported from Australia and Brazil, if it was a famous product of rich mining areas, was often silver grey in color, as if it didn't need to be refined and could be used directly.
That was the color of iron ore with more than 60% iron content.
Although these ores were expensive, they were also very easy to refine.
Hua Xia had a lot of iron ore resources, but most of them were poor ores. And many of them were associated ores, like the limonite ores in front of Ye Qing. Because they were affected by the humidity of the sea for a long time, they had become very wet. There was also a large amount of quartz mixed in, which made it very difficult for ordinary steel mills to refine.
This was also the reason why Ye Qing was sure that Dragon Creek Beach was so barren.
There were many minerals here, such as the high purity titanium ore found in the underground base, and the exposed limonite ore found in the desert outside.
The composition of the soil contained a lot of metal, which was naturally not conducive to the growth of plants, and there was also a chemical factory that discharged waste all year round.
"Boss, our Metal Expert has the technology to refine these ores. If we do it ourselves, we can definitely get steel that is far better than the market. "
Refining ores was a technical job, Ye Qing was naturally not worried about the Metal Expert's ability. And since he found a very suitable open-air iron ore in front of his own home, Ye Qing had no reason not to take down these ores and let the Metal Expert refine better steel.
That's right — down.
Forget about the titanium ore hidden in the underground base. No matter what Ye Qing did with it, no one would be able to discover it. However, this was an open-air iron mine, so they had to file a record with the Bureau of Land and Resources and apply for a mining permit.
Ye Qing climbed back onto the Mechanical Colossus X and shouted into the walkie-talkie, "One, two, three, we've stopped. Turn around and follow me to the transfer warehouse and the new factory."
During the filing process, the Bureau of Land and Resources would definitely come here to conduct an exploration. Ye Qing decided to wait until they were done with the exploration before redesigning the factory based on the reserves.
There was a distance of 1500 meters between the discovery of the iron ore vein and the entrance of the factory. Ye Qing believed that the exploration team would not target the mountains around the factory because that was his factory area.
He couldn't just run to the factory and do some probing for iron ore that wasn't worth much to others.
Ye Qing's factory now had a net worth of more than a billion yuan. After paying taxes, Ye Qing had nothing to do with it. Delaying the production of this company just because of a small piece of barren land was like throwing away a watermelon and picking up sesame seeds.
In the future, when Ye Qing could pay tens of billions of yuan in taxes, the treatment would be different.
… … …
Early the next morning, Ye Qing called the Bureau of Land and Resources. He said that during the construction of his factory, he found a piece of limonite ore. He didn't know how big the reserves were, so he asked them to send someone to take a look.
After hearing that it was a limonite ore and that it was at Dragon Creek Beach, the Bureau of Land and Resources' Deputy Director called Ye Qing 20 minutes later.
Dragon Creek Beach was a piece of barren land with no development value. When Ye Qing bought the right to use this land, the leaders of the Bureau of Land and Resources were very happy for a while. Now that they received a call from Ye Qing saying that he found a piece of limonite ore here, of course they had to ask for Ye Qing's opinion.
At the same time, the Deputy Director was also a bit puzzled. There weren't any valuable metal mines near Zhongyun City.
And usually, some enterprises would pretend that they didn't know anything even if they dug up some minerals during the construction process.
What's the point of reporting?
If the Bureau of Land and Resources sent someone to explore, wouldn't that delay the construction of his factory?
"The situation is like this, Director Sun. Our Monster Heavy Industries needs a lot of steel. If the iron reserves at Dragon Creek Beach are okay, we can contract to mine it."
"Okay, no problem. I'll immediately send the geological team to explore." Hearing that Ye Qing was interested in contracting the limonite ore, the Bureau Chief suddenly realized.
Logically speaking, if they didn't want to mine, no boss would want to cause trouble for themselves.
But Ye Qing was interested in the ore, so he could only report the situation to him.
After hanging up the phone, Ye Qing sketched while communicating with the company's ten CAD designers in the group. He asked them to draw the CAD blueprints according to the sketches he uploaded.
Ye Qing was going to use the electronic blueprints to plan out the expansion project. These laborious and time-consuming tasks were naturally done by the company's employees.
As for the expansion of the factory, Ye Qing, after getting addicted to the Mechanical Colossus Type X, handed it over to the newly recruited ten peons and master artisans.
At ten o 'clock in the afternoon, Zhongyun City's geological team drove two Great Wall pickup trucks and two large trucks to Dragon Creek Beach.
A Huanhai road separated two completely different landscapes. Dragon Creek Beach was full of rocks and barren land. On the other side of the road, there was a beautiful scenery of thriving trees.
When he went out to greet the exploration team, Ye Qing suddenly thought of a problem.
When the Huanhai road was being built, the foundation must be excavated. Then there must be no iron ore under the foundation.
His own factory didn't have any either. Generally speaking, the distribution of iron ore was relatively large. Maybe a part of the iron ore was buried in the sea.
When Ye Qing walked to the barren land, the twelve exploration team got off the car one by one.
People who worked in the field all year round had a very obvious characteristic – dark skin!
These people were no exception. Each and every one of them had dark and weather-beaten faces. However, they looked very spirited and energetic.
After the two sides met, Ye Qing first invited them to the factory office to drink some hot tea.
"Mr. Ye, you are too polite." The leader, a middle-aged man wearing a navy vest with binoculars hanging around his neck, shook hands with Ye Qing and said, "Before we came, Director Sun had already told us to make a quick decision. We must not delay the production of your factory."
"We won't disturb you. Ye Qing, you go to work. Don't worry about us."
"That's OK. I will prepare two tables of food and drink at noon. When you are done with your work, come over to eat. Don't be polite with me. You are helping me. "
"Thank you!" The man did not refuse Ye Qing's invitation.
As Ye Qing guessed, when these exploration teams unloaded the drilling machine, they also explored some small holes with a depth of half a meter from all directions and sampled and analyzed the gravel.
However, the sampling range stopped at the side of the factory road.
Originally, Ye Qing was a little worried that they would come to the barren mountains to sample. While they were sampling on the other side of the road, Ye Qing found out that even if there were minerals in the barren mountains, there was no development value.
The construction of a mining area required a large amount of heavy mining machinery.
Even if there were iron ore in these barren mountains, it was not worth investing manpower and material resources to open up the mountains and extract the ore.
Moreover, Ye Qing's factory was still here. Wouldn't drilling and mining in the barren mountains disrupt the normal production of the factory?
In the afternoon, the test results were sent out.
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