Chapter 1682 Digging Well

Southwest of Salt Lake City, Oakle Mountains.

Here is the Bingham Copper Mine, the largest open pit mine in the world. This mine was originally a small mountain, but after a hundred years of digging, it has become a super large pit more than 1,000 meters deep.

The copper mine was originally forty or fifty kilometers away from Salt Lake City. However, with the continuous expansion of the city, the mining area is currently only five kilometers away from the edge of the city, and it is only a matter of one step on the accelerator.

Flower growers are short of copper, and when other big hooligans use copper shell bullets, it has developed copper-clad steel or even painted steel as a helpless substitute, which makes rabbit bullets notoriously difficult to use and jammed. The probability is quite high.

When Xiao Yi reported that Zhou Qingfeng had reached out to Utah, the real-world Elder Rabbit named and requested that the mining sub-base be built in Salt Lake City.

Because this copper mine is too close to Salt Lake City, the workers in the mine went to the city to purchase by themselves. They went to the supermarket to spend a lot with the salary paid in advance by the church, and everyone returned with a full load.

"Let's go to the mine and have a look." Zhou Qingfeng asked. His car followed the miners who finished purchasing to the mine, and after more than ten minutes, they came to the edge of the huge mine pit. This is the largest hole dug by human beings on the earth, none of them.

There are rolling earth slopes at the edge of the mine, which are formed by the accumulation of abandoned slag over the past century. Looking down from the edge of the mine, the huge pit with a diameter of more than 4,000 meters and a depth of more than 1,000 meters will make people marvel at the great power of human beings to transform the earth.

On second thought, though, it's not a big deal for Earth. It's not painful or itchy, it's not as good as a volcanic eruption or a tsunami.

The accompanying priest introduced to Zhou Qingfeng: "The giant mining forklift here can mine more than 50 tons of ore at a time, and the giant truck that matches it can load more than 200 tons, and the work efficiency is very high."

The priest's proud tone and expression were naturally boasting to Zhou Qingfeng about America's achievements in the mining industry. Zhou Qingfeng nodded slightly as he looked at the huge vehicles constantly busy at the bottom of the mine, "Your work is indeed amazing."

In order to make the Mormon Church work hard, Zhou Qingfeng did not hesitate to praise, and even charged a high price for the purchase of ore. The purpose is to make the members of the Brotherhood feel that mining is more profitable than other industries, and increase investment in the mining industry.

The copper content of the crude ore extracted from the mine is 0.6%, which can be enriched to about 28% after crushing and water separation. These concentrate powders can be smelted and electrolyzed to become high-purity copper ingots.

The 'crushing' and 'water separation' steps, which have little technical content, are left in the wasteland to complete, and Zhou Qingfeng purchases the concentrate powder and transports it away. In this way, the planter copper mine industry in the real world can obtain cheap and sufficient raw materials,

It can also develop the entire industrial chain. He could make a lot of money himself.

Mining buses are constantly transporting miners back from the city, and the people who have just spent money on purchases are extremely happy. They couldn't wait to take off the clothes they had worn for a year or two and were full of tattered patches, and put on the new clothes they just bought.

The income of the miners is very good. Zhou Qingfeng keenly discovered that these people quickly developed deep-rooted consumption habits to buy some goods that are not so urgently needed after they have money. For example... It's not a sex doll, it's a drink.

"Those beverages were taught by us. We bought a set of beverage production and canning equipment from the Army Group and opened a special production line. It can produce 50,000 bottles of carbonated beverages per day.

The beverage factory we opened has solved the work problems of more than 200 people, and made a profit on the first day of opening, and the order has been scheduled for the next month. The church felt that this kind of small business has less investment, low technology, and quick results, so it decided to increase support in this area. "

The priest who accompanied him couldn't stop laughing, so Zhou Qingfeng could only laugh along with him. When he talked about free trade with Brothers of Steel, the other party wanted to get some simple equipment to engage in light industry to solve the difficult employment problem. For this reason, I also specifically asked Zhou Qingfeng what kind of factory to open?

How does Zhou Qingfeng understand this? He can only go back and ask the think tanks in the real world what factories have been opened that can meet a large number of employment requirements without increasing too much industrial capacity. The think tank recommended simple food processing industries to him, and opening a beverage factory was one of them.

A simple beverage factory does not require much investment, and a township enterprise can do it. The equipment is even more crude, and an ordinary food machinery factory can provide it anyway. As long as there are orders for this kind of factory, the benefits are still very good.

The beverage factory of the Mormon Church can be regarded as a factory that they have been officially successful since the end of the world. They have made many similar efforts in the past, but they have not been able to solve the sales problem. People want it, so it is naturally difficult to drive consumption.

At present, all the equipment and materials of the beverage factory are provided by Zhou Qingfeng, including food additives including caramel and glass bottles for beverages. However, the Mormon Church is also engaged in import substitution. After all, the production of ordinary raw materials is not difficult.

In this case, it might be necessary to import equipment from Zhou Qingfeng, such as a glass factory for the production of glass bottles. It cannot be said that there is no such equipment in the wasteland, but it is better to go to the ruins of the city to find these equipment that may have been broken and then repair it. It is better to simply buy it directly from the legion.

Although it is the most common 'Coke' drink, miners still buy it in boxes and drink it to their heart's content. Everyone has had enough of the apocalypse and desperately wants to rediscover the conveniences and benefits of civilized society. So even just a bottle of drink is enough to make them ecstatic.

More and more miners came back, and more and more people cheered and drank. Westerners always like to have parties, and now everyone is shouting and shouting like a carnival. They simply decided to hold a barbecue meeting at the entrance of the mine because...  

A refrigerated truck transporting beef drove up.

Americans love to eat meat. The animal husbandry industry in the United States used to be very developed, and the animal husbandry industry in Utah used to be very good, but now it is difficult for everyone to eat a piece of meat. Pigs, cows, and all his meows are dead. Except for the Aurora Legion to re-engage in the breeding industry, other places can only stare blankly.

David Lawrence of the New York Brotherhood had been wanting to import a batch of breeding poultry and breeding stock from the Aurora Legion, but Zhou Qingfeng had been procrastinating. He waited until Rachel came to make a request and then gave a small amount. But at this point, it will take many years to develop into a large-scale breeding industry.

It takes a few months for chickens and ducks to grow up, and it takes years for cattle and sheep to grow up. The expansion of the population cannot be completed in a short time. People in North America want to eat meat... they still have to ask Zhou Qingfeng to buy it.

The florists in the real world have begun to import American beef, which is cheap and plentiful. The United States will not be happy if it does not import, this is part of the trade balance. Zhou Qingfeng simply helped to buy a batch from the United States to the United States, and the Americans were still eating.

The problem of mad cow disease is also that Americans are cheating Americans.

But Zhou Qingfeng can get the beef, which is very important to improve the happiness of the North American people. The priest who accompanied him was moved to tears, grabbed the back of his hand and kissed him: "Your Excellency, you are so important to us, you are really the gospel sent by God to save us."

The priest was really moved. Without Zhou Qingfeng, it would be impossible for the North American region to obtain a sufficient supply of materials, and it would be impossible to have an almost unlimited market for raw materials.

"Hahaha..." Regarding the priest's praise, Zhou Qingfeng smiled modestly: "This is a win-win situation, a win-win situation. As long as you dig the mine hard, dig hard, and dig hard. As long as you mine well, you can get anything you want." Easy to say."