"Bang!"

Far away from the Earth's Football Chicken Seed Island Space Center, Ichiro Yagyu had already dropped several of his beloved antique porcelains in succession, but the anger in his heart became more and more powerful.

He has already chosen to use Yunhai as his lunar base. Yunhai has long been regarded as his own possession by him, but now he has been taken advantage of by Li Fu's Fuyun Group. The entire lunar plan of Xiaobaiji has been completely disrupted. All subsequent related plans need to be adjusted, and other areas must be selected to build his own lunar base.

"Yaoshengjun, the atmosphere is no longer useful now. What we need to do now is to re-adjust the plan and quickly build a lunar base on the moon first. Otherwise, there will be fewer and fewer good places on the surface of the moon. I heard that Uncle Sam is also planning to build another lunar sub-base in the near future."

Yuki Yuki, who was standing by, was very rational. He knew that this was not the time for the atmosphere. Fuyun Group's strong strength in space, coupled with the help of the official Chinese government, it is very simple and easy to build a base on the moon. There is no need for detailed planning like himself, and it will take a long time.

I didn't receive any news in advance, but I didn't expect that Fuyun Group suddenly built a lunar base on the moon on a whim, and just chose to stay in the sea of ​​clouds and occupied the place I had the spot I had attracted to in advance.

"call!"

"Xiang Shoujun is right. Now is not the time to get angry. Our moon base plan must be implemented as soon as possible. If you don't have it, there will be no place for us to stay on the front of the moon."

"Xiangshoujun, please, please modify the plan as soon as possible and then implement it."

Ichiro Yagyu breathed heavily and nodded slowly.

"Hey, other problems are not big. The key now is that on our space plane, Fuyun Group astronauts say they have to take a day off every last time they are in space. As far as I know, when Fuyun Group's space planes are most frequent, they can perform hundreds of round-trip missions a day. If you want to implement the moon base plan as soon as possible, you must deal with them."

Xiang Shuyuta frowned. Now all aspects of the squat chicken are like a machine that is tightly wound up, and everything is done in a hurry. But when it comes to the last stage of space, the astronauts sent by Fuyun Group are always delaying and always looking for various reasons to delay. There is no way to go in the squat chicken.

"Tell Nishimura Jiro, no matter what method is used, whether it is money or beauty, they must be dealt with. It's too little every two days. Not to mention hundreds of times a day, now I'm serving them like an old man, and it's not too much to travel back and forth a few times a day."

Speaking of this, Ichiro Yagyu was so angry that he spent a lot of money to buy the airplane that he actually had nothing to do with him. Everything had to be agreed to by the astronauts and security personnel sent by Fuyun Group, and all kinds of delays occurred.

"Hey!"

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Far above the moon more than 300,000 kilometers away, there are more than ten large "Hercules" space planes transporting massive materials every day. The scale of the cloud sea lunar base is getting bigger and bigger day by day, and the living area, scientific research area, factory area, agricultural area, airport area, etc. are rapidly forming one area.

At this time, here in the factory area of ​​Yunhai Base, Cao Haitao, the person in charge of Yunhai Base, was commanding the staff of the base to carry out lunar mining.

A very large lunar engineering vehicle, this lunar engineering vehicle is more than ten meters high. Overall, it is an enlarged large excavator with a huge excavator, which is specially used to dig rocks, soil, etc. on the moon.

Inside the lunar engineering vehicle, Cao Haitao, wearing a space suit, connected to a virtual machine for command. Han Dafei, a huge lunar mining worker, was driving the construction vehicle outward with concentration.

"Everyone keeps up. This is the first time we have been mining on the moon and trying to successfully dig out the first pot of gold."

With Cao Haitao's command, more than a dozen large lunar transport vehicles behind him were also following behind. More than a dozen vehicles were driving on the desolate surface of the moon. Their destination was a mining area only 5 kilometers away from the base.

The most valuable mineral on the moon is rare earth ore. The same is true for Cao Haitao's target. In fact, the moon is full of lunar basalt rich in rare earth ore. Cao Haitao's target is a mountain range of more than 200 meters high. Almost the entire mountain range is made of basalt. The rare earths contained are very amazing, and they are also a rare high-quality rare earth ore among rare earth ore, with extremely high value.

"Brother Tao, you are a great scientist. Can you tell us what's going on with this rare earth? How did it be mined from stones and soil?"

While walking and chatting along the way, Han Dafei couldn't help but ask Cao Haitao. Han Dafei was a college student who had just graduated not long ago last year, but he studied a major that had nothing to do with mining.

"Rare earths are the general term for 17 metal elements of lanthanides and scandium and yttrium in the periodic table of chemicals. Currently, there are 250 rare earth ores in nature. The first rare earth discovered was the Finnish chemist Gadolin. In 1794, he isolated the first rare earth ‘element’ from a heavy ore that looks like asphalt. Because there were few rare earth minerals discovered in the 18th century, only a small amount of water-insoluble oxide could be made by chemical methods. In history, this oxide was called ‘soil’, so it was named rare earth.”

"In general, rare earth mining methods can be divided into three categories, namely acid method, alkali method and chlorination decomposition. Acid decomposition is divided into hydrochloric acid decomposition, sulfuric acid decomposition and hydrofluoric acid decomposition, etc.; alkali decomposition is divided into sodium hydroxide decomposition or sodium hydroxide melting or soda roasting, etc...."

"In fact, the value of rare earths itself is already quite high. The value of a single rare earth element with high purity is thousands of times or even tens of thousands of times. Although we exported a lot of rare earths in China in the past, they were only exporting primary products, and the price was very low. Instead, we had to buy high purity rare earths from Europe and the United States and other countries. Among them, we were cut by people. "

"Brother Tao, can't we extract high-purity single rare earth elements?"

"In the mixed rare earth compounds obtained after decomposition of rare earth concentrate, it is relatively complex and difficult to separate and extract a single pure rare earth element in chemical process. There are two main reasons. First, the physical properties and chemical properties between lanthanides are very similar. Most rare earth ions have radii between two adjacent elements, which are very similar, and are stable trivalent states in aqueous solutions. Rare earth ions have a strong affinity with water. Because they are protected by hydrates, their chemical properties are very similar, so separation and purification are extremely difficult."

"The second is that the mixed rare earth compounds obtained after the decomposition of rare earth concentrates have more impurities (such as uranium, thorium, niobium, tantalum, titanium, zirconium, iron, calcium, silicon, fluorine, phosphorus, etc.). Therefore, in the process of separating rare earth elements, not only should the separation of these dozen rare earth elements with extremely similar chemical properties be considered, but the separation of impurities associated with rare earth elements must also be considered."

"Then does our company have the technology of purification now? Brother Tao, we can't always let Europeans and Americans use scissors to cut our wool."

"It must have been mastered. Now it's their turn to cut their wool. Didn't we sell all one of the airplanes for trillions?"

Cao Haitao agreed very readily. Anyway, the road was boring, and chatting with each other quickly passed the time. Along the way, everyone started to popularize rare earth mines, chatting, and soon arrived at the mine area.

"Brothers, the work is on!"

Han Dafei roared through the phone and drove the machine to dig up the moon's hill with huge claws. The moon's basalts shattered one after another, and a handful of basalts were grabbed. Then he turned around and loaded the basalt, soil, etc. on the engineering car that followed him.

More than a dozen engineering cars were fully equipped in less than 30 minutes, and the hill in front of them seemed to have no changes. The lost quality was simply a drop in the bucket for it.

More than ten minutes later, everyone drove the lunar engineering car and returned to the lunar base. The lunar rovers poured all the basalt, soil, etc. onto the smelting line.

As the rotation belt rotates, the mined basalt first enters the crushing workshop, where the basalt is crushed into powder, and then enters the smelting furnace to start separation of rare earth elements.

The rare earth ore chosen by Cao Haitao is the rare earth minerals with relatively high value among rare earths. The value of these two rare earth minerals has always been relatively high, especially the high-purity and high-quality rare earth minerals, which are of very high value.

A few hours later, Cao Haitao, Han Dafei and others looked at the separation furnace one by one. There were dozens of tons, hundreds of tons of rocks, soil, etc. in front of them, but the rare earth ore that was smelted in the end was pitifully few, less than a few kilograms.

"Brother Tao? Is this silver-white rare earth?"

"Well, this is rare earth."

"Why is it just a little bit? We got hundreds of tons of basalt in it, and then we came out a little bit. Our boss will lose money to grandma's house."

"What's the point just coming out? Do you know how valuable this is? It costs hundreds of millions of dollars at will. I didn't expect that the rare earth ore on the moon has become so abundant. No matter how you point basalt, you can extract so many rare earths."

Cao Haitao looked at the final product and touched his chin and was shocked by the abundant rare earth ore on the moon. You should know that the final result was high-purity rare earth elements, which were of very high value.

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I wonder if you have seen rare earths? I grew up playing with rare earths when I was a child. The mountains near my hometown all contain rare earths, and they are all randomly opened and harvested. The locals did not make any money, but the green mountains and clear waters were destroyed. Alas! A long sigh, this is something Lao Niu has seen since he was a child. The villagers sold their mountains to outsiders to mine, but they went out to work. They really guarded the mountains of gold and silver and were poor all their lives. They were heartbroken! There are too many such cases in our China.
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