Monster Factory - 696

In the city of Anut, the remaining monsters have completed the construction of the first batch of equipment.

Except for a small testing laboratory, all the equipment urgently carried by the cargo plane is a mini smelting factory that is easy to assemble.

The two Titan I models that General Mopu bought heavily at the time were also conscripted by Ye Qing, and they were slightly modified and reserved for mining.

Two mini smelting plants, with the Titan I as the mobile chassis, are equipped with mineral crushing equipment, small chemical reactors, small magnetic separators, flotation machines, etc. These industrial equipments are not technically difficult for the giant monster industry.

The demand for dysprosium from the Giant Animal Industry is too urgent.

In the two days when Ye Qing went to Nicaya for business trip, there was not much dysprosium accumulated in the factory. One day later, we will face the dilemma that there is no metal dysprosium available.

So now relying on these two sets of equipment, one thing can be smelted. Ye Qing planned to put the copper-uranium-mica mineral aside for the time being, and talk about uranium ore purification after the arrival of the Titan engineering ship equipped with more powerful mining and smelting equipment.

Of course, the two mini smelting plants only have the capacity to process ten tons of crude rare earth metal ore powder per day. Ye Qing intends to purchase a freighter to transport these coarse ore powders back by air for further processing and purification.

In the middle of the night, the convoy headed to the Sotu Rainforest returned.

Ye Qing took a cold shower comfortably, washed away the sweat from the radiation protection suit, and then went into the mini laboratory with a sample of ore.

Said it is a laboratory, in fact it is more like a small container.

Of course, this is an advanced container. The box is filled with an insulation layer and equipped with a temperature and humidity control system. The internal use of space has reached the limit. In a few square meters of space, there is even an electric scanning microscope and an atomic absorption spectrometer.

There was a material expert sitting in the laboratory. Ye Qing waited for more than half an hour before he got the ore sample test report.

Rare earth elements are the collective name for seventeen rare elements.

This report showed that the samples taken from the mountains by Ye Qing led a total of nine rare metal elements and other elements.

Cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, samarium, gadolinium, dysprosium…

Like uranium ore, the content of special metal elements in rare earth ore, each exceeding one percent, is already a top-grade rich ore. The report details the element content in the sample.

The phosphate content is 65.2%.

This is the main substance of the monazite ore, just like most iron ore is stone. Of course, this material is more useful than stone and can be made into chemical raw materials, but you can tell by its name that its value is very low.

The content of cerium oxide is 0.32%.

This rare metal is very interesting. After it is reduced to metal cerium by chemical reduction, the metal can be burnt and burst into dazzling sparks by gently folding the metal. However, the content is too small to be worth mining.

The metal praseodymium content is 0.97%.

This is also an interesting rare metal, worth 800 yuan, a kilogram of it must be stored in mineral oil. Because in the air, its half-life is less than twenty hours, and finally it turns into green fragile waste.

The content of neodymium metal is 0.41%.

This… is another metal that is difficult to serve. It must be stored in an airtight container. In contact with air, it will quickly oxidize and become dark, and lose activity, and it is very flammable.

The characteristics of these rare metals are also the reason why the giant animal industry has applied to the mining department to increase the amount of dysprosium mining, but the mining department has been slow to issue an approval.

Mining the metal dysprosium must inevitably extract other rare elements together, but when the market supply is stable, how to deal with these rare metals that are extremely difficult to store?

The content of several other metals is also scarce, and also more difficult to serve than the princess. I don’t know whether it was the material master deliberately, or the metal dysprosium is the target mineral this time, so I need to use a separate piece of paper to introduce the reason. Ye Qing must turn to the next page to find the introduction of Dysprosium.

After reading the first few metals, Ye Qing took a deep breath and turned the report to the second page.

Dysprosium metal has a density of 8.55 grams cubic centimeters, and the density of a single metal accounts for 1.53% of the collected samples.

Ye Qing’s fast beating heart gradually calmed down and let out a long sigh of relief.

1.53%, which shows that monazite has extremely high mining value. For every 100 tons of monazite mineral, at least 1.5 tons of dysprosium metal with a purity of 99.99 can be extracted.

For the other rare metals, don’t worry about it for the time being.

Regardless of taking a break, Ye Qing immediately asked the metal expert to drive two mini smelters and two Titan I models conscripted from General Mopu to the edge of the Sotu Rainforest.

“Mr. Ye, this…what’s this?” General Mopu has been waiting for news. After his scientific values have been completely subverted, he has quickly adjusted his mentality. Now that he sees a product displayed by the Giant Animal Industry, he subconsciously label it “extraordinary” in his heart.

For example, the two strange devices that roared past his eyes. They resembled the drilling rigs that General Mopp had seen on TV, but they were many times smaller in size, only 20 square meters in size. They were no less than drilling rigs. Complex structure.

“Simple mineral processing factory.” Ye Qing smiled comfortably: “General Mopu, I have to trouble you for the time being. Send someone to patrol the outskirts of the Sotu Rainforest and don’t let people who are irrelevant enter.”

“Don’t let your people get close to the mountains. There is radiation everywhere, and staying there for a long time will cause great harm to your body. In addition, those two small factories need to consume 2,000 liters of diesel for power generation every day, and you also need to send someone to transport them. one time.”

“Don’t worry, leave this task to me.” General Mopu punched his shoulder with his fist, and then with envious eyes, sent away the two “not simple” factories.

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When the fiery red sun rises in the tawny wasteland, the Anu District ushered in a new day.

The new day is still hot, and the entire Anu district is still the same.

The women brought their children under the tree, and the men gathered together in a casual manner, either complaining about the mess in life everywhere, or figuring out where they could go today to earn a little extra.

However, near the Sotu rain forest, very different changes have taken place. Two strange mini factories settled here, and two strange metal devices climbed up the mountains.

At the same time, several pickup trucks rushed into the village near the rain forest.

The soldiers on the pickup warned them in a serious tone that they will not be allowed to approach the Sotu rain forest in the future. There will be military vehicles patrolling for 20 hours. It is found that someone dared to offend the rules set by General Mopp, and it was a violent beating. , Severely breaks the leg.

Older villagers had the courage to ask, what if the rainy season is delayed and they don’t have enough food?

“In the future, factories will be built there. The benevolent factory owner will give you twenty dollars of food per head per month. Are you still worried about being hungry?”

Most of the villagers didn’t understand what the dollar was. As a result, the soldiers on the pickup truck threw a bulging sack of barley directly from the truck, saying that this was food for twenty dollars.

Seeing the yellow-orange-orange, full-grained food, all the villagers almost stared out.

God is on top, this sack of fragrant barley can’t be eaten by a mature man in a month, let alone the elderly and children?

Doesn’t that mean…

In the future, I can do nothing and eat and play every day?

The nearest village to the Sotu Rainforest is dozens of miles away. There are more than two hundred aborigines in this village. They are required to relocate collectively to 15 kilometers away.

In the face of General Mopu’s orders, no one in the village dared to obey.

Originally thought it was the hard days of the destruction of the home, and since then, being displaced in the wilderness. Unexpectedly, these soldiers told them that the benevolent factory owner would provide 1,000 U.S. dollars in compensation to every resident who moved. And starting today, one bag of barley per person will be subsidized every month.

What is a thousand dollars, and what is the compensation?

But they really understand a bag of barley.

That is the top delicacy that can only be tasted on important festivals. Use it to bake into cakes, if you add chopped plump ants, or meaty scorpions, it is really a day that gods can only enjoy.