Monster Factory - 937

The next stop is the staff canteen. Now that the lunch time has passed, only the employees working in the canteen can be seen.

Most of these employees are family members. Seeing Ye Qing coming to inspect, the fiery eyes of these young female family members made Ye Qing a little bit overwhelmed by Rao Shi.

There is no hardware facility in the canteen. All meals are made of stainless steel dining tables, and there are also quick-freezing refrigerators and snack rooms in the back kitchen. Looking through the canteen’s log, Ye Qing found that not only the food was very rich, but there were also some “games” that were invisible in China.

For example, two days ago, all the employees had a meal of [chili fried bison] at noon, and a meal of [braised gazelle] in the dinner last week.

“Where did the bison and gazelle come from?”

“Report to the boss, it was all sold to us by local residents.” The person in charge of the canteen carefully reported: “In the canteen, except for seasonings and meat products, we need to transport them by air. For example, rice, flour, and cooking oil, we all drive them from General Mopu. Purchased in a trading company. As time goes on, local residents become courageous and take the initiative to sell the vegetables and game they make themselves.”

“The locals have come to sell a lot of meat, but after our chef made the dishes, we found that some of the meat was not delicious. Another time the locals bought a whole boa constrictor weighing more than two hundred catties. It scared us. It was so bad that it tasted far worse than domestic snake soup.”

“These game meats are cheaper than our domestic pork. I told them that as long as the meat is fresh and tastes good, it will be delivered to the cafeteria in the future.”

Ye Qing nodded, this idea is correct, but also pay attention.

“You can make a meat table in the canteen. Those animals with huge populations can be collected, but those rare animals cannot. Although we are not animal protectors, we cannot actively provide local residents with a means of hunting and killing.”

“Yes, boss.” The person in charge of the cafeteria stretched his body and assured.

After visiting the canteen, the next stop is the core mineral smelting factory.

The core department of Sotu Rainforest Factory is divided into mining area and smelting area.

After unremitting efforts in construction, the smelting area has now become a rare earth metal element refining plant with a daily production capacity of 100 tons.

Hundred-ton level sounds very rare, and those large mines often have a daily production capacity of 10,000 tons.

But here is the rare earth metal element. In the international market, the quotations of similar rare earth concentrates are usually hundreds of thousands of dollars a ton, which is just ordinary concentrates. Those rare ones, please buy by kilogram.

The one hundred tons here is the rare earth metal element powder that is finally refined through a series of processes after nearly 20,000 tons of crude ore is mined a day in the mining area. The market price is 60 million US dollars.

The smelting area is mainly divided into [crushing area], [rough selection area], [grinding area], [magnetic separation area], and [chemical purification area].

Ye Qing visited the broken area one by one and saw the two huge shredders that could easily bite a pickup into pieces. I also saw it, like a portal, a magnetic separator that kept spinning around the minerals ground into powder.

The loader used by Titan X can put more than two hundred tons of coarse ore into the crushing port with each bucket. The single bite gear inside the crusher weighs hundreds of tons, and it only needs to rotate slowly to crush these car-sized stones and smash glass ball-sized mineral particles.

The momentum is thundering, and the dust is flying.

Ninety-nine percent of these coarse ores are ordinary stones, and only 1% are monazite mines with smelting value.

Workers working here must wear fully-sealed radiation protection suits and breathe with gas cylinders.

The ore is roughly selected, ordinary stones are removed, and the remaining monazite ore is sent to the grinding zone. The grinding area is a cylindrical rotary grinding furnace, where mineral particles are delivered, and the grinding furnace is rotated and ground into flour-like particles.

It was also from here that the purification of monazite entered the high-tech operation link.

Magnetic separation is a magnetic field generator that can adjust the magnetic field environment.

These equipment can be used to produce single crystal metals with a little modification.

These devices can accurately separate metal elements and non-metal elements in monazite ore. The metal dysprosium is hidden in the metal element.

The technological content of chemical purification lies in its recyclability. The ionization sewage device can turn chemical wastewater into a clean and usable water source. After treatment, those chemical wastes can be sold to chemical plants for further recycling.

Chemical purification is used to separate and purify non-metallic ores. These non-metallic ores are not the main goal of Yeqing’s construction of the factory, but it can continuously create profits for the factory.

Those rare earth metal elements are the target.

There are 17 kinds of rare earth metal elements, and 9 kinds can be mined in Sotu Rainforest.

But these nine metal elements want to be separated into a single species, such as dysprosium metal. You need to use a gas centrifuge for separation.

Originally, only the Longxitan Plant could carry out the separation work. Now in the factory, a new gas centrifugal area has been built with tens of thousands of gas centrifuges.

It’s just that there is not enough energy for the time being to drive these centrifuges to work all night.

After inspecting the core smelting area, Ye Qing put on a new radiation protection suit and, together with Tan Jinghao, inspected the mining area at the last stop.

The mining area is several kilometers away, because the ore there contains radiation that is harmful to the human body, and it must be far away from the factory living area. At the same time, there are multiple detection stations in the factory to detect whether there is radiation in the air.

The mining area is fully mechanized, and the eleven ocean-going missions of the Humpback Whale have not only transported a large amount of industrial equipment, but also more than 20 Titan X models.

These Titan X-type cockpits have been specially modified, the electronic equipment has been strengthened, they have an independent air circulation system, and are lined with a thick lead layer. Even the cockpit glass is lead-containing radiation-proof glass. This level of protection is used to deal with the low-grade mineral radiation here.

But the workers sat inside, feeling relieved.

When Ye Qing arrived at the mining area on a modified Titan I, the mountain range in front of him had been split by a cliff close to a hundred meters high. Under the cliff, there were huge piles of rubble.

The Titan X acts as a loader and rock crusher. At the foot of the gravel hill, there is also a Caterpillar 797 mine truck that shuttles back and forth.

After seeing the Titan X, Ye Qing would naturally not be amazed by the world’s largest mining truck.

But as soon as this thing runs on the road, it is covered with dust.

After walking around in the dust, the mining site was all mechanical work, and no employees could be seen. Ye Qing was planning to return to the factory. It happened that someone in the phone informed that a distant mountain range was about to be blasted.

Blasting is the most common method of mining. With a mindset of watching the excitement, Ye Qing retreated to the safety line with the on-site machinery, then covered his ears and waited enthusiastically for the blasting to begin.

“Finally confirm the position of the on-site machine, please reply and confirm with each numbered machine.”

“Unit 1 confirms safety.”

“The second unit confirms safety.”

“Unit three…”

“Unit 47…”

“The countdown to blasting, please cover your ears.”

At the end of the countdown, Ye Qing followed and covered his ears.

Just as Ye Qing waited nervously for the blasting to come, the ground suddenly shook without warning.

The mountain range in the distance was like a calm sea, thrown into a large-yield aerial bomb.

“Boom!”

The top of the mountain range collapsed and burst open. For a moment, Ye Qing felt that the mountain range had come to life and stood up. The top of the mountain rose up for an unknown number of meters, and the earth shook violently that had never been felt before.

The sound like thunder pierced through the sky and the earth, and the mountains after being raised up, followed by spreading to the west, containing incomparable terrifying power.

There is no fire, but the dust is hundreds of meters high.

Finally, there was a turbulent airflow mixed with fine dust, which hit the glass of the Titan I cockpit, making a continuous crackling sound.

It wasn’t until the airflow was completely calm that Ye Qing could take a breath.

After suffocating in his chest, Ye Qing praised: “It’s enjoyable, what a big firework.”

This was a deep-hole blasting, which detonated multiple explosion points in an instant, totaling more than 500 tons of explosives.

Explosives were purchased from foreign regular chemical factories. I have to say that General Mopu is very business-minded. Since Ye Qing set up a factory here, almost all the logistic materials that can be purchased from the outside world are Purchased and provided by him.

To this end, General Mopu also specifically registered and established an international trading company.