God-level Miner

Chapter 1071 Giant Open Pit
Wang Xudong doesn't understand for the time being why Australia has to order so many rare earth ores, hundreds of millions of tons are needed every year, which is really scary.

Hearing such an order quantity at first, Wang Xudong was a little scared. Even a big industrial country like China can't use so much rare earth ore every year!

Wang Xudong pondered.

After thinking about it, he did not rush to agree to such an order request from Green, but said slowly: "Green, let me think about this matter."

Green nodded understandingly, "Yes, I'll wait for your reply."

Before Wang Xudong gave a clear answer, Green was not going to leave. Wang Xudong thought for a day, he would wait for a day, Wang Xudong thought for two days, he would wait for two days.

The two of them stopped talking about the order of rare earth ore, but talked about other things.For example, the Yinhai oilfield, such as the oil ordered by Australia, has already started shipping, and the first batch of oil has already arrived in Australia.

I also talked about the special steel smelting plant invested by Sanlian Special Steel Group in the suburbs of Perth, the capital of Western Australia, because the Australian side hopes that the plant will be put into operation as soon as possible. During the entire construction process, it not only fully supported it, but also gave green light all the way, and the progress is relatively fast. .

At present, all the land leveling of the factory area has been completed, the foundation of some factory buildings has been laid, and some smelting equipment has even begun to be in place.

In a year and a half, this factory will be able to go into operation and begin to smelt super stainless steel, super high-strength steel, hard alloy steel and other world-class special steels. The total output of these steels can reach about 50 tons per year.

50 tons of such special steel is basically enough for Australia.After all, their industrial scale is not as large as that of China, and they cannot be regarded as a big industrial country.

After chatting for a while, Green looked at the time and said enthusiastically, "Wang, can you take me to visit your rare earth mine now."

According to Green's plan, he planned to negotiate with Wang Xudong this morning about the order of hundreds of millions of tons of rare earth ore per year, visit the rare earth mining area in the afternoon, and sign a formal order contract between the two parties tomorrow.

Wang Xudong has not officially agreed to such a huge order, so Green's plan changed and he wanted to visit the mining area this morning.

Wang Xudong got up and said, "No problem, let's go, let's go and have a look."

A group of us left the cafe and got in the car at the door. A convoy of several off-road vehicles gradually left the town and headed towards the direction of the rare earth mine.

The journey of more than [-] kilometers started with a good asphalt road, followed by a gravel road for about ten kilometers. It took about [-] minutes before and after.

Everyone arrived at the mining area smoothly, and several cars parked directly not far from the mining area. When they got off the off-road vehicle, Green was a little startled.

"Oh, God, such a big seam!"

Not far ahead, in the mining area, a large area of ​​topsoil was dug out, exposing the gratifying rare earth ore layer below, and the ore layer and the topsoil are clearly separated at a glance, and anyone can see which is the topsoil and which is the ore layer.

For this ore layer, Wang Xudong is the clearest, because all the rare earth mines here are gathered by Wang Xudong, and all the rare earth resources with a radius of 1000 kilometers and a depth of 4500 meters are gathered here, which is why there is such a huge amount of rare earths. .

A total of 58 billion tons of rare earth mines, here are several square kilometers, and within a depth of 2 meters, there are all rare earth mines, which are highly enriched. The area you see in front of you is just the tip of the iceberg, less than one percent.

Even so, many people were shocked, including Green. He got out of the car, exclaimed, and immediately ran almost all the way to the mining area.

He squatted down and picked up a few small pieces of rare earth ore, looking a little excited, as if what he picked up was not ore, but a few pieces of gold.

The dozens of large excavators are still digging the topsoil, digging up the layer of soil on the surface of the ore seam, transporting it away, exposing the ore seam, and facilitating the mining of the combined mining vehicle.

The scale of mining needs to be expanded, more topsoil needs to be excavated, and a larger area of ​​ore seams needs to be exposed.After the official start of mining two days ago, these works have not stopped at all.

The area of ​​the exposed ore seam is getting larger and larger, but this is not enough, it is less than one percent of the entire ore seam, and the area of ​​the exposed ore seam needs to be expanded.

Green's entourage looked at the combined mining vehicles, and they were slightly shocked when they saw that the mining efficiency was so high.

It is indeed a combined mining vehicle, and it really lives up to its reputation!

Someone calculated the time carefully and found that in less than 10 minutes, the huge body of a 300-ton mine truck was full of rare earth ore.

Wang Xudong pointed to the front and introduced proudly: "Green, this will be an open-pit mining mode. The area of ​​this mine will reach several square kilometers, and the depth will be hundreds of meters. It will be one of the largest open-pit mines in the world."

Of course, it has just started now, and it will take several years to form such a huge mine. When this giant mine is formed, it means that billions of tons of rare earth ores have been mined.

Such a huge pit can be seen clearly by astronauts even on a spacecraft. They will find that a huge pit has appeared in the vast inland of Western Australia, which is the giant open pit of this rare earth mine.

Following Wang Xudong's introduction, a huge picture seemed to emerge in Green's mind, and the core of this picture was a huge open pit.

In this giant spiral open-pit mine, a large number of workers, a large number of combined mining vehicles, and a large number of 300-ton large mining vehicles are busy, and a large amount of rare earth ore is mined.

"Oh God, it's huge!"

Green looked at the mining area in front of him and murmured.The area in front of me is just a flat and vast wasteland, showing the red color that can be seen everywhere in the inland of Western Australia, and there are only a few sparse and few low shrubs.

But after half a year or a year, there will definitely be a big change here. The topsoil covering an area of ​​several square kilometers will be dug out, and then the pit will gradually appear. With the mining, it will become bigger and deeper.

Green looked at the mining of rare earth ore in front of him, and was reluctant to leave.Wang Xudong didn't urge him either, and watched with the same interest that truckloads of rare earth ore were mined and transported away by 300-ton large mine trucks.

After watching this for nearly an hour, Green was willing to leave, turned his eyes to the huge factory that was faintly visible in the distance, and said loudly: "Wang, if I guess correctly, it is a rare earth refining and processing factory."

There will be a large factory area, a huge rare earth storage yard, and several large factory buildings, which will be equipped with the most advanced equipment with the highest production capacity in the world. In the future, a large amount of rare earth ore will be processed there.

At this time, construction is in full swing here. The huge rare earth ore storage yard, which is comparable to the size of two or three football fields, has been completed. The two or three large factory buildings of the first phase of the factory have also been capped. Soon, will enter the installation phase of the device.

After seeing the factory area, Green said: "Wang, the scale here is really too big, not only the factory area is big, but the mining area is even bigger."

"You said that more than 3 million tons of rare earth ore can be mined every year. I was a little skeptical before, but now I firmly believe it. Let alone 3 million tons, it is estimated that 4 million tons is possible."

"The only shortcoming is that it is impossible to send so much rare earth ore to this factory for processing. A large part must be sold directly in the form of rare earth ore. However, this rare earth mine does not have a railway. The transportation of those 300-ton large mine trucks is not enough."

Green is worthy of being a high-ranking official in Australia, and he has some vision. He can see at a glance the importance of a railway to this mining area.

In fact, Wang Xudong has also seen this, and is also considering whether to build a railway in the mining area. After all, some rare earth ores will be sold in the future. These rare earth ores need to be transported from the mining area to the nearest port of Dampier.

Seeing Green's words, Wang Xudong was thoughtful, and even looked Green up and down, thinking in his heart, is the construction of this railway to play with Australia's ideas.

The No. 2 iron mine here, as well as the current largest rare earth mine in the world, have brought such strong economic growth to Australia.

Well, they don't want to order a large amount of their own rare earth ores. According to their order quantity, it is hundreds of millions of tons per year. So much rare earth ores have to be transported from here. The road is not enough, and there must be a special railway line...

Thinking of this in his heart, Wang Xudong came up with Green's idea. Seeing Wang Xudong's gaze, Green's heart trembled for a while, and he felt like he was being targeted, as if he was the prey and Wang Xudong was the hunter.

Green hurriedly said: "Wang, what are you thinking, we are good friends."

The meaning is very clear, we are good friends with a good relationship, you may not be able to hit some crooked ideas on me.

Wang Xudong smiled happily and thought in his heart, I am not trying to make up your own mind, but the Australian government, public is public, private is private.

"It's nothing, I just suddenly remembered an interesting thing." Wang Xudong said.

"It's strange to believe you!"

Green gave Wang Xudong such a look. Noticing this look, Wang Xudong laughed and waved: "It's almost noon, let's go, we will have dinner in town."

Hearing that we will be eating right away, Green became interested and offered to say, "Wang, I want to eat Chinese food. There is a Chinese restaurant in the town. I want to try the food there again."

Wang Xudong agreed: "Then we will eat Chinese food."

Green said again: "King, after lunch, let's talk about the order of rare earth ore."

Wang Xudong did not rush to agree. So far, Wang Xudong knows why Australia has ordered so many rare earth ores.

.........

The first one is delivered!

(End of this chapter)