Super Plane Mall

Chapter 321
Mars will continue to receive various asteroid-level knowing collisions in the next few years. It can be said that there may be no rest time at all in the future, but fortunately, in the future, the impact of Mars None of the asteroids is too large, and the largest will not exceed the size of Ceres.

After all, in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars, the largest asteroid is just Ceres, and other asteroids simply cannot reach the size of Ceres.

But Zhu Lei and everyone in the Ming Empire knew that the real test of Mars would be five years later, when Io and Mars collided, and that would be the biggest test.

In the following six months, Zhu Lei and his fleet have been flying back and forth between the asteroid belt and Mars. In the past six months, Zhu Lei has moved all the other three largest asteroids in the asteroid belt On Mars, the three small stars all have a volume of more than 400 kilometers. The names of these three asteroids are Pallas, Juno and Vesta.

In addition, the Ming Empire sent tens of thousands of small probes to the asteroid belt in half a year. These probes not only have detection functions, but also have positioning functions.

The main goal of these probes is to detect asteroids with a diameter of more than 500 meters in the asteroid belt. Once detected, these small stars will be positioned by the positioning device released by the probe.

Then wait for private mining ships, or Zhu Lei's fleet, to pull all these little stars to Mars.

Of course, for those asteroids with relatively high mineral content, they will definitely not be pushed directly to Mars, but after the minerals are smelted, the slag will be transported to Mars in a slag ship.

In the past six months, the private mining business of the Ming Empire has also developed very rapidly. From the original total number of spaceships to less than 5, the mining beds of the entire Ming Empire have more than doubled, and the overall number has reached [-]. More than [-] ships.

Moreover, the number of medium and large mining ships has exceeded more than 1000, and the number of large mining ships has not exceeded 50 in the entire Ming Empire.

Although compared with small mining ships, the number of medium and large mining ships is really very small, but unlike small mining ships, these medium and large mining ships can not only carry out long-distance voyages by themselves, but also have the ability to mine anywhere in the entire solar system. Moreover, these medium and large mining ships can also carry a large number of small mining farms for mining very far away from the earth.

For example, on a medium-sized mining ship, he can carry eight small mining ships and all the staff on the mining ship, and then take these spaceships and personnel to fly to the outer Kuiper belt of the solar system, or even further away for mining. Of course, first of all, enough living supplies must be prepared on the spacecraft.

Since the energy used by these medium-sized mining ships is still an old-fashioned nuclear power plant reactor, and the thruster has only one type of plasma thruster, its speed is not very fast. More than two years, and even a large mining ship will take more than a year to mine in the Kuiper belt outside the solar system.

During this period, when Da Mingming received the mining group, there were some events that caused a sensation throughout Da Ming. Among them, the mining ship Five Brothers, they brought back a huge platinum ore from the asteroid belt, and the platinum content of this platinum ore, As high as 50%, in addition to this ore has up to 30% iron content and less than 20% copper.

For this platinum ore mined by the Five Brothers, the entire Ming Empire was very sensational. Even Zhu Lei himself was very surprised. Although the Ming Empire has entered the interstellar era, many precious metals are everywhere in the universe. Yes, but so many precious metals like platinum have been discovered since humans have just stepped off the earth.

And compared to gold, whether in the entire universe or on the earth, the number of platinum mines is far less than that of gold. For example, the preciousness of platinum on earth is 35 times higher than that of gold.

And whether it is in the industrial field, the medical field or other fields, the role of platinum is far higher than that of gold, so Zhu Lei was so surprised.

After calculation, the platinum content of this ore is as high as nearly 500 million tons. This amount is terrifying, but in fact, this amount is not a big deal for the current Ming Empire, because every spaceship built, especially a medium-to-large spaceship On average, each ship uses at least more than 100 tons of platinum, so when this ore arrived at the Universe Minerals Trading Center nearby, it was directly purchased by the Ming Empire officials and Zhu Lei's Yong'an Group.

And the price is quite considerable. After all, so much platinum is not of much use to other companies except the official of the Ming Empire and Zhu Lei's Yong'an Group. Of course, it is also useful for jewelry companies, but this platinum The ore is as high as 600 million tons. If it is smelted into jewelry, no jewelry company can afford it.

The officials of the Ming Empire and Zhu Lei's Yong'an Group finally came up with a price of 15 billion energy coins for this ore. After all, this ore is rich in copper and iron in addition to platinum with a content of about 50%. The price of ordinary steel in the Ming Empire has also risen linearly, so this price is very reasonable.

The price of this ore caused a sensation in the entire Ming Empire that day. You have to know how much the price of a small space mining ship is, at most it is only a few hundred thousand. Big rewards, this is no longer a question of ten times or a hundred times, but a whole tens of thousands of times, which in the entire Ming Empire is not jealous.

Although the four brothers driving this small space mining ship spent more than half a year to drag the asteroid to the space mineral trading base near the moon, and the price of energy consumed was as high as several million, but Just the return of this asteroid is already crazy. You have to know that the price of 15 billion can already buy the largest space mining ship in the Ming Empire.

Of course, the first batch of people who bought space mining ships, except for the Five Brothers, are not bad, although the price of a single mine of many teams is far lower than that of the Five Brothers, after all, not every team has people like them With luck, I was able to find the platinum ore that was just pulled back by their spaceship.

Moreover, although precious metals like platinum ore are abundant in the universe, it is very difficult to find them all at once.

However, many teams have earned hundreds of millions of energy coins in just a few months.

Even among the first batch of buyers, the ones who earned the least amount were hundreds of millions.

　Thanks; those who have aspirations can achieve 111, and reward 100 starting coins.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)