The first thousand five hundred and eighty-nine chapters
You know, manganese nodules contain manganese, iron, copper, nickel, cobalt and more than 20 other rare elements. Such good things, Han Peacock is not willing to give up. After all, his Peacock Kingdom has just been established and is in the midst of a century.
At the stage of being in ruins, he lacks everything.(〔?(([((
Originally, there was no other way but to use various farmed seafood in exchange for resources. Now that there is such an opportunity, Han Peacock will naturally not give up.
No one will be polite when faced with an opportunity. This is the same whether it is a country or an individual.
Ordinary people don't have the opportunity, so such opportunities often fall on the country.
For example, in March 1991, the "United Nations Seabed Authority" officially approved the application of the "China Ocean Mineral Resources Research and Development Association", thus giving China access to 150,000 square kilometers of oceanic manganese nodule mineral resource development zones.
At the same time, in accordance with the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, China has become the fifth registered "pioneer investor" in oceanic manganese nodule mining, following India, France, Japan, and Russia.
At this time, Han Kongque had realized that he had gone in the wrong direction. Just now he was thinking of entering the shallow sea, but the discovery of manganese nodules proved that he had entered a deeper ocean.
People all over the world know that manganese nodules are a good thing, but not many countries can actually get them.
Even in China, it was difficult to obtain manganese nodules. It was not until 2011 that China's 5,000-meter Jiaolong manned submersible successfully completed the third and fourth launch missions of the 5,000-meter sea test. After the "Jiaolong" successfully dived to a depth of 5,000 meters, it brought
The picture of manganese nodules on the seabed of 5,000 meters is back. This is also the highest exposure of the picture of manganese nodules on the seabed of 5,000 meters.
The "Jiaolong" also brought back 5,000-meter seabed manganese nodule samples. China has taken an important step in exploring seabed manganese nodule sources. Therefore, although there are many manganese nodules, not everyone can collect them.
As for the number of manganese nodules, there are even fewer that can be easily collected. On July 3, 2013, the "Jiaolong" manned submersible, which was undergoing its first experimental application voyage, dived in the "Jiaolong Seamount" area of the South China Sea, and
Large areas of iron-manganese nodules are found on the seabed.
However, the "Jiaolong" only brought back 8 iron-manganese nodules, 5 of which were slightly larger than eggs, and the other 3 were larger than an adult's fist, all with a black surface.
Even so, one of these iron-manganese nodule samples was crushed by the submersible's manipulator.
According to the plan at that time, the "Jiaolong" will dive twice in this sea area to continue the scientific investigation of the "Jiaolong Seamount". Of course, it would be better if it could bring back a few more manganese nodules.
In 2013, China was already very powerful. Even for such a powerful country, it was not easy to mine manganese nodules, let alone other small countries.
Nowadays, many companies around the world are mining manganese nodules, but the cost is very high, and they all use stupid methods. For example, using submarines to dive into the deep sea is generally not done by anyone, even those big companies.
Can't afford the huge expense.
Although this is the case, the profits from manganese nodules are too great, so there are still hundreds of companies in the world mining manganese nodules.
It is also because countries around the world have increased their efforts to study manganese nodules, so Han Kongque learned some knowledge about the identification of manganese nodules.
For example, after analyzing the manganese nodule he is holding in his hand, Han Kongque will be able to know what mineral it is and what it looks like inside.
"The round core inside this piece is the lava of the volcano, and the circles outside are iron and manganese oxides, which were gradually formed over tens of thousands of years. If you polish it, you can see that the circles outside are like the growth rings of a tree.
, the specific age of this nodule needs to be determined in the laboratory."
Since he had gone to the wrong place, Han Kongque did not immediately change his direction. Instead, he made mistakes and collected a lot of manganese nodules around him. It was not until Han Kongque felt that he had enough manganese nodules that he could use them for more than ten years, then he stopped.
How many manganese nodules does a small developing country need to be able to utilize for more than ten years?
Anyway, Han Peacock has always been greedy. If he can get ten, he will never only take nine and a half. Therefore, this time he went to the sea, Han Peacock gained a huge harvest.
This time Han Kongque didn't waste time. He surfaced directly, contacted the ship on the sea, and returned directly to Oahu.
"Second brother, what have you been doing at the bottom of the sea for so long?" Gu Lie said impatiently as soon as he returned to the hotel.
Han Peacock glanced at him and said, "I thought you had returned to China, but I didn't expect you were still floating here?"
"Second brother, do you have any objections to us?" Song Min came out of a bedroom and asked.
"Haha, you guys are here too? Sister-in-law and the others are here too?" Han Peacock asked with a smile.
Song Min said: "It's just me, sister-in-law and Xiaozhu who are here. Third sister-in-law has gone home to take care of the children."
"Where's the sister-in-law?" Han Kongque really hasn't seen Chen Rui for a while.
Chen Qingdao: "I'm going to have a spa treatment."
"What on earth are you doing?" At this time, Yuan Peng also walked out of the room.
Han Peacock smiled and took out a piece of ore from his pocket. Some small and distinctive ores, Han Peacock put it in his pocket.
For example, there are some very beautiful small ores, as well as some distinctive rhodochrosite and manganese nodules.
These ores were only the size of pigeon eggs. Han Peacock wanted to surprise a few people, so he took out a piece of ore from a pocket containing manganese nodules in his memory.
The grayish appearance of the manganese nodules must have surprised them.
Sure enough, everyone showed surprised expressions after seeing this piece of ore.
Han Kongque was stunned. This surprise was too much, so he casually glanced at the ore in his hand.
Under the illumination of the light, the ore became colorful, or rather strange.
"Huh? Rhodochrosite?" Han Kongque smiled bitterly. Unexpectedly, he found a beautiful piece of ore. No wonder they were so shocked!
"Why did the color change?" Even Han Peacock was very surprised when he saw this.
"What kind of gem is this?" Everyone around was surprised when they saw a large piece of ore emitting colorful light.
"Is it because of the lighting? Just turn off the colored lights and leave only the incandescent lights." Han Kongque said.
This ore is more beautiful under the white light. After the lights are turned off, the ore turns yellow-green, which is the color that Korean peacocks are familiar with.
But there is still a strange light shining on it, or is it fire?
"Isn't this a diamond? How come the colors are so rich?" Song Min looked at it most seriously.
"From different angles, the fire color is different, but the diamond is so big? And it is also yellow-green. It doesn't look like a diamond. The color is so weird. With such a good fire color, could it be a diamond?
Stone?" Song Min was still mumbling to himself while looking at the ore from all angles.
"What is sphene? A kind of gemstone? Why haven't I heard of it?" Gu Lie asked while hugging Song Min.
Song Min pouted and said, "How many kinds of gemstones do you know? This must be sphene. The color is so good, it's either a diamond or sphene. No gemstone has a better fire color than sphene."
Song Min briefly talked about what sphene is. In fact, sphene is a secondary mineral. Coarse crystals are often produced in pegmatites, especially alkaline pegmatites, and are also found in gneiss.
, in skarn, and can also be found in placer mines.
The main features of sphene are its obvious wedge-shaped crystal shape and diamond luster. The main producing areas of sphene are Australia, Canada, Madagascar, the United States and other places. The most famous sphene origin is the Kola Peninsula in Russia.
"Shenite is an extremely rare gemstone species in nature. This gemstone has special light processing capabilities. It can absorb and decompose the received light beam to form strange and bizarre colors, which is a typical gemstone's 'fire color'.
Sphene is superior to diamonds in this regard. This feature is related to its strong pleochroism, that is, it displays different colors when viewed from different angles, and its color changes are extremely rich. The usual colors are green and yellow-green.
, and occasionally pink, black and chocolate for a bright rainbow effect.”
"Better than diamonds?" Han Peacock couldn't help but ask.
Song Min spread his hands and said: "I'm not a gemstone expert. I just studied materials science and know some strange minerals, such as sphene, because it is so beautiful."
Han Kongque nodded. He had seen too many beautiful minerals in the past few days, such as this kind of sphene stone that he didn't care about just now.
Originally he thought it was rhodochrosite jade! So he took it out to show off. Unexpectedly, the piece of rhodochrosite jade he thought was the most beautiful was actually a piece of sphene. He couldn't tell this. Saying so would be a disservice to his scholarly wealth.
The reputation of Shiche, and it’s so embarrassing.
At this time, the ore was in Song Min's hands. Looking at this piece of ore, Song Min almost drooled.
"Honey, why don't you be so exaggerated?" Gu Lie felt a little embarrassed. His wife was not good at that and was a bit obsessed with money.
Song Min glanced at Gu Lie and said: "I don't know if sphene is better than diamonds, but sphene has a more gorgeous appearance than diamonds, higher light dispersion than diamonds, strong flames, unique color and shadow, and pleochroism.
Strong, due to its good light capturing effect, it will sparkle when made into earrings or pendants.
Its high birefringence is also an important feature. This feature means that after absorbing light, it can split it and divide it into two rays. Therefore, its bottom surface presents a hazy double image, which is extremely beautiful, just like the double image of zircon.
visual effects.
Due to its low hardness, it is difficult to polish and process. Polishing a fine sphene can make a gem craftsman famous. Therefore, cutters always polish sphene carefully to ensure that they are maximized.
It embodies the beauty produced by natural effects, and clean sphene stones larger than one carat are extremely rare.”
"One carat is so rare? That's only 0.2 grams, right? Are you kidding me? How big is this piece of sphene?" (To be continued.) 8