Monster Factory - 1220

A diamond was found at hand.

This kind of luck made General Mopp very happy, and at the same time made his statement more credible.

“This is kimberlite, it is easy to accompany diamonds.” Ye Qing also looked at the sun, and the rough diamond in front of her was of good quality, showing a bright silver metallic luster in the sun.

This is a rough diamond that has not been polished. After polished, its quality should reach WS2, and its luster will become colorful.

Ye Qing casually threw the stone to an entourage next to General Mopu and asked him to take it to the grass shed to take out the diamond. Then he said to General Mopp: “From the current observations, although the area of this drill ore is a bit smaller.”

“But the win is that the quality of rough diamonds is good, and there should be a certain amount of rough diamond reserves in the underground rock belt.”

General Mopu breathed a sigh of relief, and Ye Qing was satisfied.

In addition, there is a rock belt under the ground, and the news that diamonds are likely to be stored in the rock belt, General Mopu is not surprised.

Because from the international diamond mining experience, most of the diamonds are associated with rocks.

But there is a problem of mining cost.

Drilling ore is different from metals or other minerals. It can be smelted from ore through modern and industrialized means. The rarity of diamonds determines that the probability of it being associated with rocks is very, very low.

It cannot be smelted by normal industrial methods, and can only be sorted out from the ore by the final handwork of the workers.

If you want to sort by hand, you have to peel tons of stones that may contain diamonds from the rock belt, and then break them into even matchbox-sized crushed stones.

When bad luck, not even a diamond can be picked out of ten tons of rough stone.

This is a wilderness where the industry is extremely backward and even basic power supply is difficult to guarantee. This is a land of exploitation where European and American jewelers firmly control the pricing power of diamonds.

In this case, whoever mines the diamonds in the rock with large-scale mechanization will lose everything.

Even Ye Qing is not sure that after mining the hard soil layer on the surface, there will be considerable diamond reserves in the underground rock layer.

It was getting late, Ye Qing asked someone to collect some gravel and hard soil, and prepared to take them back for testing and analysis.

When the convoy returned, the sunset had almost merged with the earth.

Four hard-core off-road vehicles were speeding on the wild brown land, and it was already eight o’clock in the evening local time when the convoy arrived in the capital city of Anu District.

Now the capital city has begun to take the shadow of a modern city. In addition to the urban infrastructure aided by Behemoth Industry, General Mopp himself has also invested in a four-star hotel and reserved a set of hardware standards on the top floor that far exceeds five stars. Class exclusive suite.

This was used to receive Ye Qing. After Ye Qing moved in, he called Tan Jinghao, the general manager of the factory here.

Now Tan Jinghao is carrying a list of equipment for the factory, waiting for Ye Qing’s instructions.

Immersive spiral classifier.

Ore powder processing system.

Enriched uranium centrifuge cluster.

Supercritical unit power generation unit.

Adjustable magnetic field generator…

Ye Qing scanned the equipment list one by one, and quickly gained a comprehensive understanding of the types of equipment and construction vehicles currently equipped at the Nigeria plant. Ye Qing, who has a great career, really didn’t know the specific type before this.

For large-scale mining and drilling, advanced industrial mining equipment is indispensable.

Among them, the Titan X is of course one of the main mining forces.

But it is only responsible for stripping the ore from the soil or rock, and then how to accurately select the diamonds from the ore is the core issue.

The factory in Nigeria was originally intended to extract dysprosium and other rare earth metal elements from monazite ore on a large scale. The factory has perfect raw ore processing conditions.

But after reading the list of types at the factory, Ye Qing found that he could only use these equipment to carry out the three steps of mining, crushing, and preliminary screening.

The most critical step, what to do…

The general manager of the factory, Tan Jinghao, saw his boss lost in thought. He knocked his head for a while and said with some uncertainty: “Boss, I remember that Russia’s super drilling mine uses heavy-medium beneficiation technology.”

“Can we also use this kind of technical thinking?”

“Dense medium beneficiation?” Ye Qing shook his head when he heard the words.

Of course he knows the super drill mine in Russia. The super drill mine in Siberia is said to store far more than the sum of all the reserves currently known in the world.

The origin of the drill ore was a magical coincidence that a huge meteorite hit the ground in front of tens of millions, which burst out terrifying pressure and high temperature in an instant, carbonizing the ground material into diamonds all over the ground.

It is a pity that these are not diamonds that are normally condensed in nature. Its main component is composed of Lonsdale stone and is doped with graphite and diamond components.

It is not pure, nor is it transparent and flawless, similar to the principle of synthetic diamonds. It can only be used for industrial processing, and it is not even possible to become jewelry.

Otherwise, how can Russia have the leisure to maintain the stability of the diamond market, and make a lot of money in these diamonds in the international jewellery and diamond market.

As for the heavy-medium beneficiation, the use of the density of the drill-bearing ore is different from the principle of ordinary rock density. Then specially proportioned the suspension of the same density, put the raw ore into the suspension, and let the denser diamond-bearing raw ore slowly sink to the bottom. The technology is suitable for the super drilling ore in Russia.

But it is not appropriate to use it here, at least the mine that Ye Qing visited in the afternoon.

The super diamond mine was produced by meteorite impact. Its raw ore density and diamond distribution are highly uniform, and the suspension can effectively separate the diamond-bearing raw ore.

There is no regularity in the distribution of diamond-bearing ore in Conigaya. Those ore that does not contain diamonds may also contain other denser minerals, using heavy-medium beneficiation technology. The poor diamonds selected were not enough to prepare the suspension.

After explaining the principle to Tan Jinghao, Tan Jinghao had no idea for a while.

There are three types of diamond mining technologies used internationally, and these three are in the end, and the manual selection process cannot be avoided.

Seeing Tan Jinghao who wanted to share the burden for herself but was helpless and anxious, Ye Qing was a little bit amused and said that it was not as complicated as you thought.

With regard to the final step of accurately selecting diamonds from the original ore, there is now a preliminary plan. Only after investigating the three drilling mines, we can formulate more detailed solutions based on the characteristics of these drilling mines.

Tan Jinghao was curious to ask about the plan.

Ye Qing said two words softly, “hardness”.

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Early the next morning, Ye Qing inspected the second drill mine under General Mopu.

This drill mine is located not far from Port Hackett, the only modern port in Nicaya.

The drill here originally belonged to General Boggs, the owner of Port Hackett. Now Boggs has become a general under General Mopp. The question of ownership of the drill is of course not complicated.

The drill ore is located in a huge lake.

The extraordinary craftsmanship of nature has created this peculiar piece of drilling ore veins.

According to General Mopp, this drill ore was first discovered 50 years ago. At that time, the locals often fished in this lake. As a result, a lucky fisherman went down with a net and caught a gleaming stone.

Of course, the stone itself does not emit light. It can emit light because there are more than a dozen diamonds of different sizes stuck on the surface.

The largest one is the size of a pigeon egg, and the smallest is only as big as a rice grain.

Later, one after another, local fishermen touched diamond-encrusted stones in the water, and finally attracted the attention of the power holders of this land.

The area of this lake is three times the size of the drilled mine on the other side of the forest. The lake water is very shallow, only two meters deep.

Workers mine diamonds by using manpower to build a dam in the lake, evacuating the lake from the dam, and then touching stones in the silt.

Not all diamonds are set on stones, and some are mixed in the silt, requiring a large number of workers to squeeze the silt bit by bit.

The output of this lake is not small, but the quality of rough diamonds usually only reaches WS1 level.

After collecting samples from this drill mine, the convoy went to the third drill mine.

The drill mine is located at the extreme edge of the western border, only one step away from the country of Tagana.

It is the largest of the three mines, and the quality of rough diamonds produced at the same time is only slightly inferior to the first. So in theory, when large-scale mechanized mining, this drill mine will be the one with the most harvest.