In the city of Anut, the monsters left behind have completed the first batch of equipment.
In addition to a small detection laboratory, the rest of the equipment carried by the cargo aircraft are mini smelting factories that are easy to assemble.
The two Mechanical Colossus Type I that General Maups bought at a high price were also recruited by Ye Qing and left for mining after a little modification.
Two mini smelting factories, with the Mechanical Colossus Type I as a mobile chassis, are equipped with mineral crushing equipment, small chemical reaction cauldrons, small magnetic separators, flotation machines, and so on. These industrial equipment have no technical difficulties for Monster Industries.
The demand for dysprosium in Monster Industries is too urgent.
Just two days after Ye Qing went to Nigeria on a business trip, there were few dysprosium left in the factory. In another day, they would face the dilemma of having no dysprosium available again.
So now, relying on these two sets of equipment, they can smelt a little bit. Ye Qing intends to put aside the copper-uranium-mica minerals for the time being and wait until the Giant God engineering ship with more powerful mining and smelting equipment arrives, and then talk about uranium ore purification.
Of course, these two mini smelting factories only have the ability to process ten tons of coarse rare earth metal ore powder a day. Ye Qing intends to buy a cargo plane and air transport all of these coarse ore powders back for further processing and purification.
In the middle of the night, the motorcade that went to the Sotu Rainforest returned.
Ye Qing took a cold shower comfortably, washed off the sweat from the anti-radiation suit, and then drilled into the mini laboratory with the ore sample.
It is said to be a laboratory, but in fact, it is more like a small container.
Of course, this is a high-grade container. The box is filled with a thermal insulation layer and equipped with a temperature and humidity control system. The internal space is used to the limit. Within a few square meters of space, there is even an electro-scanning microscope and an atomic absorption spectrometer.
A materials expert sat in the laboratory. Ye Qing waited for more than half an hour, and the ore sample test report was in his hand.
Rare earth elements are the general name of seventeen rare elements.
This report indicates that the samples taken from the interior of the mountain range by Ye Qing's team include a total of nine rare metal elements and other elements.
Cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, samarium, gadolinium, dysprosium …
Like uranium, rare earth ores were considered rich ores if they contained more than 1% of each type of special metal element. The report detailed the element content in the sample.
65.2% phosphate.
This was the main material that made up monazite, just like how most iron ores were made up of stone. Of course, this material was more useful than stones. It could be made into a chemical raw material, but from the name, it was obvious that its value was very low.
Cerium trioxide was 0.32%.
This kind of rare metal was very interesting. After using a chemical reduction method to reduce it to cerium metal, it would burn and burst into dazzling sparks with a light fold of the metal. However, the amount was too little, so it was not worth mining.
The content of Praseodymium was 0.97%.
This was also an interesting rare metal, worth 800 yuan. One kilogram of it had to be stored in mineral oil. Because in the air, it had a half-life of less than 20 hours, and in the end, it would become a green fragile waste.
The content of neodymium was 0.41%.
This … was another piece of metal that was difficult to handle. It had to be stored in a sealed container. In contact with the air, it would quickly oxidize, darken, and lose its activity. At the same time, it was very flammable.
The characteristics of these rare metals were also the reason why the Monster Industries had previously applied to the mining department to increase the amount of dysprosium metal mining, but the mining department had been slow to approve.
Mining dysprosium metal must be extracted together with other rare elements, but in the case of a stable market supply, these rare metals that were extremely difficult to store, how should they be dealt with?
The other metals were also rare, and they were also more difficult to handle than the princess. He didn't know if the materials master was intentional, or if dysprosium metal was the target mineral this time and needed a separate piece of paper to introduce it. Ye Qing had to turn to the next page to find the introduction of dysprosium metal.
After reading the first few metals, Ye Qing took a deep breath and turned to the second page of the report.
Dysprosium metal, density 8.55 grams/cubic centimeter, single metal density, accounted for 1.53% of the collected sample.
Ye Qing's rapidly beating heart gradually calmed down, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
This showed that monazite had a very high mining value. For every 100 tons of monazite mineral, at least 1.5 tons of dysprosium metal with a purity of 99.99 could be refined.
Other rare metals were not needed for the time being.
Unable to rest, Ye Qing immediately asked the Master Metal Expert to drive two mini smelters and two Mechanical Colossus Type I recruited from General Maups to the edge of the Sooto Rainforest.
"Mr. Ye, this... what is this?" General Maups has been waiting for news. His scientific values have been completely subverted, and he has quickly adjusted his mentality. Now he sees every product displayed by Monster Industries, and he subconsciously labels it as "extraordinary" in his heart.
For example, the two strange equipment that roared past his eyes. It is somewhat like the drilling platform that General Maups has seen on TV, but the volume is many times smaller, only 20 square meters in size. It has a complex structure no less than the drilling platform.
"A simple mineral processing plant." Ye Qing smiled and said: "General Maups, for the time being, I have to trouble you to send someone to patrol the periphery of the Sooto Rainforest and not let irrelevant people enter."
"Your people should not get close to the mountains. There is radiation everywhere. It is very harmful to the body if you stay for a long time. In addition, the two small factories need to consume two thousand liters of diesel fuel a day for power generation, and you need to send someone to transport it. "
"Rest assured, leave this task to me." General Mopu thumped his shoulder with his fist, and then sent away the two factories that were "not simple at all" with an envious look.
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When the fiery sun rose on the tawny wilderness, the Anut area ushered in a new day.
The new day was still hot, and the entire Anut area was still the same.
Women took care of their children under the trees, and men gathered together, either complaining about the mess of life everywhere, or calculating where they could go to make a small extra money today.
But near the Sooto Rainforest, there were very different changes from the past. Two strange mini factories were established here, and two strange metal equipment climbed up the mountain.
At the same time, a few pickup trucks rushed into the villages near the rainforest.
The soldiers on the pickup trucks warned them in a serious tone that they were not allowed to get close to the Sooto Rainforest in the future. There would be military vehicles patrolling the area 20 hours a day, and if they found anyone who dared to violate the rules set by General Maups, they would be beaten up, and if they were serious, their legs would be broken.
Some of the older villagers were brave enough to ask, what if the rainy season was delayed and they did not have enough food?
"In the future, we will build a factory there, and the benevolent factory owner will give you 20 USD worth of food every month based on the number of people. Are you still worried about going hungry?"
Most of the villagers did not know what USD was, but the soldier on the pickup truck threw a bulging sack of barley from the truck and said that this was 20 USD worth of food.
Seeing the yellow and plump grain of food, all the villagers' eyes almost popped out.
God above, a man in his prime could not finish this sack of delicious barley in a month, let alone the elderly and children.
Did that mean...
In the future, they could not do any work and just eat and play every day?
The nearest village to the Sooto Rainforest was dozens of miles away. There were more than 200 indigenous people in this village, and they were asked to collectively move 15 kilometers away.
In the face of General Maups's order, no one in the village dared to disobey.
They originally thought that their home was destroyed, and they would live a difficult life in the wilderness. They did not expect the soldiers to tell them that the benevolent factory owner would give each resident 1,000 USD as compensation. And from today onwards, each person would be given a sack of barley every month.
What was 1,000 USD, and what was compensation?
But they really understood what a sack of barley was.
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