The outside world has also become disturbed by the popularity of private anti-gravity aircraft. Capitalists are burning money to build a global industry, and ordinary people are planning to fly around the world in the future.
But for Xinghai Technology, it is still very peaceful here.
"Boss, boss~"
Wan Hanrui, the president of Xinghai Mining Group, hurriedly found Liu Yuan.
"What's going on?"
Liu Yuan looked at Wan Hanrui and asked with a smile.
He was one of the first researchers recruited by Xinghai Technology. Because of his excellent studies and outstanding performance, he was promoted to a level 3 scientist early on.
Wan Hanrui, who originally studied materials science, gradually discovered that what he liked was mining subjects, so he also specialized in mining-related scientific fields and became the person in charge of Xinghai Mining Group. Now he is mainly responsible for lunar mining.
matter.
"Boss, we have built the rare earth smelting factory on the moon. We will officially start mining rare earths on the moon today. Are you free? If you are free, let's go to the mining ceremony together."
Wan Hanrui said quickly.
"The lunar rare earth smelting factory has been built?"
When Liu Yuan heard this, he was slightly startled. He had been busy with the aircraft since the last time he landed on the moon, and he had forgotten about this matter. If you count the time, it has been more than 2 months.
The factory is indeed almost ready to be built.
"It has been built, including the gold mining factory."
Wan Hanrui said softly.
"Well, let's go and see our rare earth mining factory."
Liu Yuan nodded with satisfaction. The biggest wealth on the moon now is the large gold mine discovered on the moon, which is worth more than one hundred billion fruit coins.
Of course, if all is mined and transported to the earth and put on the market, the price of gold will inevitably fall sharply, and it will not be worth so much money.
But Liu Yuan has no intention of bringing this gold back to Earth. If you bring such a huge amount of gold and wealth back to Earth, you will have to pay taxes to death.
Liu Yuan's plan was to mine it quietly, then keep it on the moon, and then transport the gold to his own colonial planet in the future.
He and Wan Hanrui took an aircraft to the headquarters of Xinghai Mining Group in Ningcheng. Xinghai Mining Group also has a separate base in Ningcheng, which is also very large.
It is mainly used to cultivate interstellar workers and mine resources and minerals on the moon or interstellar in the future. In addition, it specializes in various resource exploration, mining technologies, research on interstellar mining machinery and the like, and operates around interstellar resources.
A subsidiary.
Although what he does is mining resources, which has no technical content, because he mines resources in the sky and on alien planets, it is related to high technology.
In terms of mining resources on the moon, it is not a simple matter.
The vacuum environment on the lunar surface, whether it is lunar mining workers or various machinery used on the moon, workers need to be trained to work in a spacesuit environment and the lunar microgravity environment.
As for the various machinery for lunar mining, you have to develop and research it separately. The mining machinery on Earth is useless in the vacuum environment of the moon.
In the future, we will have to go to Mars and the asteroid belt to source resources, which will require even higher technology and is far from as simple as mining on Earth.
It seems to be a mining company, but the research institutes affiliated to Xinghai Mining Group still have dozens of disciplines and laboratories in materials, metallurgy, astronomy, engineering machinery, etc., and a research team of thousands of people.
In a large conference room at the headquarters of Xinghai Mining Group, a huge monitor is connected to the lunar rare earth factory. Through the screen, you can see the large scale of the lunar rare earth factory.
The height of the factory building is more than ten meters. Inside the factory, the workers are all wearing ordinary clothes, not spacesuits. Looking at these workers, every one of them has eyes.
Obviously they are not ordinary mining workers, but college students recruited by Xinghai Mining Group, and then trained them to become interstellar miners.
Their work is also different from ordinary workers. They don't need to do tiring and dirty work themselves. All they need to do is to drive various mining machinery to work, and even many
You can just sit in the office and control the machine operation at all times.
They are interstellar workers of the new era, knowledgeable and cultured interstellar workers.
Of course, their salary and benefits are incomparable to those of traditional absentees. Xinghai Mining Group has set a starting salary of 400,000 yuan per year for them, not to mention five insurances and one housing fund.
Because they work on the moon, being in a microgravity environment for a long time will cause damage to the human body. Therefore, they work on the moon for half a month and then return to the earth to rest for half a month.
Including subsidies, nutrition fees, lunar business trip expenses, etc., you can get an additional income of about 120,000 yuan a year. After calculation, this year's annual income is almost more than 500,000 yuan.
At the end of the year, the year-end bonus from Xinghai Technology Group is naturally indispensable, and it is also the bulk of the annual income.
As long as the company's profits are good, Liu Yuan, the boss, has always been very generous. According to past situations, the year-end bonus is usually two to three times the annual salary. Calculated, the annual income is well over one million. It is absolutely
They are definitely high-income people.
Of course, Xinghai Mining Group's requirements are also very high.
First of all, it requires talents with science and engineering majors. If you want to get in, you must take the exam and have a solid basic foundation. Secondly, it has extremely high requirements for physical fitness.
When working on the moon, you need to wear a space suit in many places. The space suit is very bulky and heavy. If you don't have good physical fitness, you can't bear it after working for a long time.
In the future, if you want to go to Mars or other planets to mine resources, you will need to sail among the stars. Your physical fitness must be good, and you will need to pass various tests and physical examinations.
Therefore, an annual salary of one million is not that easy to earn. After joining Xinghai Technology, you still need continuous learning and progress to adapt to this era of rapid development.
They not only have to learn to drive a spaceship and an interstellar mining vehicle, they also need to know some basic maintenance, and they also have to undergo some training programs from astronauts.
Learn mining exploration, interstellar mining, cosmic astronomy, engineering machinery and many other related knowledge and skills. There are many things to learn, all in order to become a qualified interstellar worker.
"The boss is here!"
At this time, someone shouted, and everyone looked at the door. Liu Yuan and Wan Hanrui walked in with smiles on their faces, and everyone clapped quickly.
Liu Yuan looked at the scene and then at the video monitor, and could see the situation at the Lunar Rare Earth Factory.
"Today is a very memorable day, because it is an important moment when we humans have taken another small step forward on the road to the interstellar universe."
"From today on, the place where we humans obtain resources is no longer limited to the earth, but begins to obtain resources from the interstellar universe."
“Today we are only mining resources on the moon, but in the future, we will mine resources on Mars, Venus, Mercury, and asteroids, and even in the future, we will mine resources in the wider interstellar universe.
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"And you will be the pioneers of our human interstellar development!"
Liu Yuan looked at the big screen, thought about it and said.
As soon as he finished speaking, warm applause broke out at the scene and at the Moon Factory.
"I announce that the Xinghai Mining Group's lunar factory has officially started construction!"
Then Liu Yuan also officially issued the order to start construction.
Soon, as the order was conveyed to the lunar factory, the entire lunar rare earth factory also began to be busy.
I saw workers quickly putting on spacesuits and driving lunar mining vehicles out of the lunar factory. They came to the rare earth mining area that had been explored in advance.
Along with the work of the mining truck, a mining truck loaded with lunar soil and rocks soon arrived at the factory. There are multiple gates set up in the factory, and the mining truck needs to continuously pass through the gates.
From the vacuum environment outside, we gradually entered the air-filled lunar rare earth factory, and then poured a truck full of lunar soil and rocks onto the transportation conveyor belt.
The conveyor belt first brings the soil, rocks, etc. into the crushing workshop, and the crushing workshop will crush the mined soil and rocks.
On the moon, the basalt of the moon contains the most rare earths. This kind of rock contains a large amount of rare earth minerals, and the method of mining rare earths is very different from the mining of general minerals.
Smelting rare earth minerals from soil and rocks requires the use of strong acid or strong alkali. The solution of strong acid or strong alkali is used to soak the rare earth minerals in the soil or rock to extract the rare earth minerals.
When you see strong acids and alkalis, you should know that mining rare earths is extremely damaging to the environment.
The first damage is to destroy the green mountains and green waters. To mine soil or rocks, it is definitely necessary to push the mountain skin away and expose the mountain directly. The most direct impact is that water and soil erosion is very serious. Once the green mountains and green waters are once
Mining will soon turn into a desert.
But that's not the worst damage.
What really damages the environment is that rare earth mining requires the use of strong acids and alkalis. The impact of acid and alkali solutions on the environment is really great.
In rivers in rare earth mining areas, all living things are almost extinct. No living things can survive in waters polluted by acid and alkali. Especially when the pollution just begins, when the acid and alkali concentration is high, wherever it passes
, not a blade of grass grows.
Secondly, there is also great pollution to groundwater. This is long-term. The water in rare earth mining areas is not drinkable at all.
There is also the waste residue left after mining. Because these waste residues have been soaked by strong acids and alkalis, there is no way for any vegetation to grow on these waste residues. It will take many years for new vegetation to slowly grow.
Randomly accumulated waste will enter rivers and farmland when washed by rain, seriously damaging the ecological environment.
The environmental damage caused by rare earth mining is almost irreversible, lasts for a very long time, and causes serious pollution. Therefore, in areas with very rich rare earth resources, with the phenomenon of indiscriminate mining and excavation, environmental damage is very serious.
For example, in southern Jiangxi, places that were originally green mountains and green waters have turned into incredible desert areas due to the mining of rare earths.
This is why the country strictly prohibits the indiscriminate mining of rare earth resources, because the pollution to the environment is too serious, especially when private mining only cares about making money and does not care about the ecological environment, the pollution is even more serious.
Meiliguo's vast territory contains more than 40% of the world's total rare earth reserves, but they themselves do not mine their own domestic rare earth mines because they know clearly that the sacrifices to the environment caused by rare earth mining are too great, and they are very harmful.
Difficult to recover.
In addition, they are very thieves and like to use other people's resources first, so even though they are extremely rich in various resources, they never dig their own resources, but print money to buy other people's resources.