The next stop was the staff cafeteria. It was already past lunchtime, and only the employees working in the cafeteria could be seen.
Most of these employees were family members. When they saw Ye Qing coming over for inspection, these young female family members stared at Ye Qing with burning eyes, which made Ye Qing a little overwhelmed.
The cafeteria's hardware facilities were excellent. All the dining tables were stainless steel. There was also a quick-frozen freezer and a snack room in the back kitchen. Opening the cafeteria's log, Ye Qing found that not only was the food very rich, but there were also some "wild game" that could not be seen in China.
For example, two days ago, all the employees had eaten a "chili fried bison" for lunch and a "braised gazelle" for dinner last week.
"Where did the bison and gazelle come from?"
"Boss, they were all sold to us by the local residents." The person in charge of the cafeteria carefully reported, "In the cafeteria, other than spices and meat products that need to be transported by air. For example, rice, flour, and cooking oil, we all purchase from General Maups' trading company. After a long time, the local residents became bold and took the initiative to sell their own vegetables and wild game. "
"The locals came to sell a lot of meat, but after our chefs made the dishes, they found that some of the meat was not delicious. There was also a time when the locals got a whole python that weighed more than 200 kilograms. It scared us so much. In the end, the taste was far worse than the snake soup in China. "
"The price of these wild game was cheaper than our domestic pork. I told them that as long as the meat was fresh and tasted good, they would send it to the cafeteria in the future."
Ye Qing nodded. This idea was right, but he had to be careful.
"Your cafeteria can make a meat list. Those animals with large populations can be accepted, but those rare animals can't be accepted. Although we are not animal protectors, we can't take the initiative to provide the local residents with a source of income. "
"Yes, boss." The person in charge of the cafeteria straightened his body and promised.
After visiting the cafeteria, the next stop was the core mineral smelting factory.
The core department of the Soto Rainforest Factory was divided into the mining area and the smelting area.
After unremitting construction, the smelting area had now become a refining factory with a daily production capacity of 100 tons of rare earth metal elements.
100 tons sounded very little. In those large mines, the daily production capacity was in the tens of thousands of tons in the past.
However, the rare earth metal elements here. In the international market, the price of similar rare earth concentrate powder was usually hundreds of thousands of US dollars per ton, and this was just ordinary concentrate powder... For those rare ones, please buy them by the kilogram.
The 100 tons here were the rare earth metal powder refined after a series of processes after mining nearly 20,000 tons of coarse ores a day. The market price was 60 million US dollars.
The smelting area was mainly divided into the Broken Area, the Rough Area, the Grinding Area, the Magnetic Area, and the Chemical Purification Area.
Ye Qing visited one stop at a time, and saw the Shattered Area, and the two giant crushers that could easily bite a pickup truck into pieces. He also saw a magnetic separator that was constantly rotating around the minerals that had been ground into powder like a portal.
The Mechanical Colossus X served as the loader, and each bucket could throw more than 200 tons of coarse ore into the crushing mouth. The grinding gears inside the crusher weighed hundreds of tons. They only needed to rotate slowly to crush these car-sized rocks into glass-ball-sized mineral particles.
The momentum was like thunder, dust flew everywhere.
Ninety-nine percent of these coarse ores were ordinary stones, and only one percent of them were monazite ores with smelting value.
Workers working here must wear fully sealed radiation suits and breathe with gas cylinders.
After rough selection of the ores, ordinary stones were removed, and the remaining monazite ore was sent to the grinding area. The grinding area was a series of cylindrical rotary grinding furnaces. The mineral particles were transported here and ground into flour-like particles by the rotary grinding furnaces.
It was also from here that the purification work of monazite entered the high-tech operation.
Magnetic separation was a magnetic field generating equipment that could adjust the magnetic field environment.
These equipment could be used to produce monocrystalline metals with a little modification.
These equipment could accurately separate the metallic elements and non-metallic elements in the monazite ore. Dysprosium was hidden in the metallic elements.
The technological content of chemical purification was its recyclability. Ionizing wastewater could turn chemical wastewater into clean and usable water sources. The chemical waste, after processing, could be sold to chemical factories for further recycling.
Chemical purification was used for the separation and purification of non-metallic ores. These non-metallic ores were not the main goal of Ye Qing's factory, but it could generate a steady stream of profits for the factory.
Those rare earth metal elements were the goal.
There were seventeen rare earth metal elements, and nine could be mined in the Sooto Rainforest.
But these nine metal elements wanted to be separated into a single type, such as dysprosium. A gas centrifuge was needed for separation.
The original separation work could only be carried out in the Longxitan factory. Now in the factory, a new gas centrifuge area was built, with tens of thousands of gas centrifuges.
It was just that there was not enough energy to drive these centrifuges to work all night.
After inspecting the core smelting area, Ye Qing put on a new radiation suit and inspected the mining area at the last stop with Tan Jinghao.
The mining area was a few kilometers away because the ore there had radiation that was harmful to the human body and must be kept away from the factory living area. At the same time, there were multiple detection stations in the factory to detect the presence of radiation in the air.
The mining area was fully mechanized. The eleven ocean missions of the Humpback Whale ship not only delivered a large number of industrial equipment here, but also more than twenty Mechanical Colossus Type X.
These Mechanical Colossus Type X cockpits have been specially modified, and the electronic equipment has been strengthened. They have an independent air circulation system and are lined with thick lead layers. Even the cockpit glass is lead-containing radiation resistant glass. This level of protection is used to deal with the low-level mineral radiation here. It is simply killing a chicken with a butcher knife.
But the workers sat inside and felt relieved.
When Ye Qing arrived at the mining area in a modified Mechanical Colossus Type I, the mountain in front of him had been split open with a cliff nearly 100 meters high. Under the cliff, there was a huge pile of gravel.
The Mechanical Colossus Type X acted as a loader and rock crusher. At the foot of the gravel mountain, there was a Caterpillar 797 mine transport vehicle that kept shuttling back and forth.
Accustomed to the Mechanical Colossus Type X, Ye Qing naturally would not be amazed by the world's largest mining truck.
But as soon as this thing runs on the road, the sky is covered with dust.
Walking around in the dust, the mining site was mechanical work, and no employees could be seen. Ye Qing was planning to return to the factory. It happened that someone on the intercom informed him that a mountain range in the distance was going to be blasted.
Blasting is the most common means of mining. With a lively mentality, Ye Qing and the on-site machinery retreated to the safety line, then covered their ears and waited excitedly for the blasting to begin.
"The on-site machinery finally confirms the position, please answer the number of machinery to confirm."
"Machine No. 1 is confirmed safe."
"Machine No. 2 is confirmed safe."
"Machine No. 3..."
"Machine No. 47..."
"Countdown to the blasting, please cover your ears."
At the end of the countdown, Ye Qing followed and covered his ears.
Just as Ye Qing nervously waited for the blasting to come, without warning, the earth suddenly shook.
The mountain range in the distance of the field of vision was like the original calm sea, and a large yield aerial bomb was thrown into it.
"Boom!"
The top of the mountain range collapsed and burst open in an instant. For a moment, Ye Qing felt that the mountain range seemed to be alive and stood up. The top of the mountain range was raised by an unknown number of meters, and the earth sent a violent vibration that had never been felt.
The sound was like thunder running through the world, and the mountain range after the uplifted spread to the west in all directions, containing a terrifying force.
The fire could not be seen, but the dust and smoke were hundreds of meters high.
Finally, there was a turbulent airflow mixed with small dust. The airflow hit the glass of the Mechanical Colossus Type I cockpit, making a continuous crackling sound.
Until the airflow was completely calm, Ye Qing could take a breath.
After the stuffy breath in the chest was spat out, Ye Qing praised: "Great, a big firework."
This was a deep-hole blasting, which detonated multiple explosive points in an instant, totaling more than 500 tons of explosives.
The explosives were purchased by General Maups from foreign standardized factories. It has to be said that General Maups is very business-minded. Since Ye Qing set up a factory here, almost all the logistics materials that can be purchased from the outside world are purchased and provided by him.
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