Chapter 588 Minerals

Wang Zhong took 200 marines and used rifles to influence three small tribes nearby.

When more than a thousand aborigines were moved to Dingnan Port in a mess, Song Lu had already built a wooden stockade with nearby trees.

And Chang Guyu, who had completed the construction of the telegraph room, saw the aborigines who were naked or had some physical defects, and quickly asked the Gaoshan people accompanying the army to communicate with these people.

Wang Zhong shook his head and said, "These three tribes are relatively more civilized tribes. Three days ago, I met a headhunting tribe, and I wiped them out directly."

Chang Guyu has no doubts about this, the so-called headhunting tribes are actually cannibals, and there is no need for this kind of tribe to assimilate.

The consequence of long-term eating of the same species is that they are prone to prions, and such tribes are usually very barbaric.

Two days later, Chang Guyu got a document, which contained the household registration and physical census of the three small tribes.

"Sure enough, it is not optimistic. Among them, 17.6% of the aborigines have genetic diseases, and 26.4% may be carriers of genetic diseases. These must be isolated."

Wang Zhong, who was training the aborigines, quickly divided the population of the three tribes into three parts according to the survey report, namely, freedom, restriction, and isolation, which represent the management level of their marriages.

With the addition of this batch of labor force, the construction progress of the fleet has been much faster.

At the same time, they also discovered several gold-copper composite deposits in the mountains near the south side of the port, which is a characteristic of copper deposits in the Luzon Islands.

In fact, the characteristics of the mines in the Luzon Islands are similar to those of the Dongying Islands and Nanyang Islands, because these areas are located in the volcanic and seismic belt around the Pacific Ocean, which is a typical cause of plate compression.

Minerals such as gold, silver and copper are easy to form under such geological conditions. .

Wang Zhong led people to explore and found that this is an intermittent bornite vein, and the part exposed to the ground has a total of 6 mineable points.

In this relatively primitive area, the ore veins that are generally discovered are open-pit or semi-open-pit mines, because they have not been developed on a large scale.

In the Central Plains, the open-pit rich mines have already been mined, which naturally gives people the illusion that there are no rich copper mines in the Central Plains.

Wang Zhong made a preliminary estimate that the reserves of this gold-copper mine can probably smelt 2,000 to 3,000 tons of copper and 3 to 5 tons of gold.

Since it is an open pit mine,

Mining is not difficult.

However, Wang Zhong, Lin Sandao and others have no idea of ​​mining. Although the industrial value of copper is not small, the gold-silver-copper composite mine in Liuqiu Keelung is currently enough for the industrial consumption of the Human Revolutionary Union, so it can only be used as a reserve.

In fact, compared with gold, silver and copper, NRG lacks tin mines even more.

This is also one of the tasks of the Liuqiu Squadron, which is to complete the development of the Malay Peninsula in the next few years.

Because the Malay Peninsula is the core tin mine producing area in Southeast Asia, there are a series of tin mines on both the east coast and the west coast.

The tin mines in this area are actually part of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau-Indochina Peninsula-Malay Peninsula-Nanyang Islands Great Tin Belt, which is a series of veins.

Among them, the tin mines in the Malay Peninsula and the Nanyang Islands are the easiest to mine, because many mining areas are by the sea, and there are many rich ores that can be mined in the open pit.

Tin is very important to the metallurgical industry, especially in the manufacture of copper alloys.

Possessing copper and tin mines is also a unique congenital condition in East Asia. The bronze smelting process of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties is closely related to the mineral resources in East Asia.

Among other so-called ancient civilizations, there were no open-pit tin mines and rich ore near ancient Egypt and ancient Greece. This is a very "weird" situation.

The vast majority of tin mines on the earth are distributed in East Asia, Southeast Asia, Central America and South America.

There are several small mines in Western Europe, but none of them are open pit mines.

From a materialist view of history, an ancient civilization must meet some prerequisites in order to develop bronze smelting technology.

Including the surrounding areas must have open-pit rich ore, copper ore and tin ore are indispensable; relatively mature pottery technology, because pottery must have a kiln above 700 degrees Celsius, and copper smelting must have a temperature above 800 degrees Celsius Furnace, preferably can reach 1000 degrees Celsius.

However, in the Mediterranean region, except for some small open-pit tin mines in the Asiatic Peninsula, the tin mines in other regions are lean mines buried deep underground.

This creates a very "weird" contradiction. There is no open-pit bonanza and "developed bronze technology". Could it be that in the ancient Greek era, all tin mines were imported from the Asian Peninsula?

As the Asians who mastered bronze smelting technology, and they were hostile forces to the Greek city-states, anyone with a little IQ would not allow such strategic materials to be exported to hostile forces on a large scale.

The Central Plains Dynasty is a living example. In order to maintain its advantage over the northern prairie, copper and iron are strictly controlled strategic materials, and they will not be easily sold to the northern prairie people.

It is basically impossible to import tin ore, and there are no minerals in itself. Is it possible to conjure a large number of bronzes out of thin air?

In fact, East Asia is the birthplace of bronze smelting technology in the world, and West Asia should have obtained bronze technology from the Huns and the Great Yuezhi.

After all, tin mines in Asia are concentrated in East Asia and Southeast Asia, and the American tin mine belt was discovered only after the 16th century.

How did ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, which had no tin mines, and ancient Babylon, which had only a small amount of open-pit tin mines, develop bronze smelting technology?

Some people may refute, how do you know that there were no tin mines in the ancient Mediterranean? What if the open-pit mines in the area were exhausted by the ancient Greeks?

Anyone with a certain knowledge of geology and minerals knows that mineral veins rarely occur in isolation, and are generally a series of veins.

However, due to the underdeveloped mining technology in ancient times, only a part of the open-pit rich ore can be mined. The underground veins and the poor ore on the ground are difficult to be fully developed.

If minerals have been mined in a place in ancient times, there is more than 99.99% possibility of remaining undeveloped mineral veins around the mine.

For example, the current Daye is one of the ancient iron ore mining sites, and it is still being mined now.

Many mines that were considered exhausted in ancient times will be re-explored and mined due to the improvement of modern technology.

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If there were traces of tin mines along the ancient Mediterranean coast, they would be re-explored and developed now, instead of having no veins at all.

Just like the gold-copper composite mine discovered by Wang Zhong on the Big Island of Luzon, it is still being mined in modern times.

When many things are serious, you will find that there are many loopholes. Zheng Sen and others have always regarded the historical data of the modern West as myths and legends.

After all, the "historical results" researched by a group of liberal arts students, in the eyes of engineering students, simply cannot bear to look directly at them.

In addition, it is difficult for western historians to develop across disciplines, because their language has a fatal flaw. In order to adapt to the development of science, they must create a large number of new terms, and these new terms are often only learned by professionals in this field.

This is why, the official language of the Human Revolutionary League will choose Chinese.

At least Chinese can be guessed at a stroke, and things written in Western alphabets, let alone guessing, even if you use a dictionary to compare and translate, it may be difficult to understand the meaning of those professional terms.

Zheng Sen came out of the One Piece Universe, why can only a few people understand the text of the historical text? Not because of the natural shortcomings of this alphabet.

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The latest report from the Luzon Islands was sent back to Yangzhou City, the temporary capital, via telegram.

Zheng Sen marked the Luzon Islands as "Luzon State" and became the eighth state of the Human Revolutionary Union. The immigration work in this state is best carried out in winter, which can just take advantage of the northwest wind and quickly move southward from the mouth of the Yangtze River.

At the same time, a work report from Guangnan Prefecture was also received.

Under Song Zhi's management, Guangnan Prefecture has begun to return to normal, and the importance of Guangnan Prefecture is even higher than that of Lingnan Prefecture.

Because Guangnan Prefecture has the Yuanjiang Delta Plain, an agricultural area, as well as coal mines and iron mines.

Tang Feilin has already gone to Jiaozhi Prefecture in Guangnan Prefecture to prepare for the establishment of the Jiaozhi Industrial Zone.

In Jiaozhi Prefecture, the Yuan River flows down from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the northwest, forming a vast Yuanjiang Delta Plain, which is an agricultural area very suitable for growing rice and tropical crops.

At the same time, in Jiaozhi Prefecture, on the north side of the estuary of the Yuanjiang Delta, there is a large area of ​​high-quality anthracite coal. This is the famous Guangning-Hongji coal field, with a total reserve of about 3 billion tons, of which 200 million tons can be mined in the open pit.

Anthracite is a high-quality steam coal and the best fuel for steam engines and thermal power plants.

In addition, there are two iron mines in Huanglian Mountain in the middle reaches of the Yuanjiang River, one of which has a reserve of about 112 million tons and can be mined in the open pit with a grade of about 56-57%.

In Rinan Prefecture, the southernmost part of Guangnan Prefecture, there is also a large iron mine with a reserve of 660 million tons, and about 300 million tons can be mined in the open pit, with an average grade of about 58%.

If you add Qiongzhou Island in Lingnan Prefecture, there is a Shilu iron mine with a reserve of 466 million tons, but the average grade is only 48%; another Tiandu iron mine is only about 5 million tons, but this mine is by the sea, and It is an open-pit mine with a grade as high as 63%.

Compared with the pyrite with an average grade of 13-18% in Liuqiu Prefecture, Danshui Iron and Steel Works can't wait to relocate to Jiaozhi Prefecture immediately.

After all, the gap in mineral grades is too large, which will not only cause rising production costs, but also affect production efficiency.

Similarly, smelting one ton of iron ore requires 1.8 tons of coke.

Liuqiu’s pyrite can only yield 130-180 kg of iron; while Yongtian Du Mine can yield 630 kg of iron, Shilu Mine’s 480 kg, Jiaozhi Mine’s 570-580 kg, and Rinan Mine’s 580 kg.

This is the difference, production efficiency and energy utilization, resulting in several times the gap.

Therefore, Zheng Sen asked Tang Feilin to go south to prepare to build the Jiaozhi Industrial Zone, building a steel plant with an annual output of 50,000 tons, a coking plant with an annual output of 100,000 tons of coke, and a cement plant with an annual output of 100,000 tons of cement.

In addition, anthracite coal was to be mined to supply the ever-increasing steam engines.

Of course, Zheng Sen is also rapidly preparing for industrial zones and mining in the newly controlled Jiaodong Prefecture in the north.

There are three coal mines in Jiaodong Prefecture, Beihai Coal Mine in Beihai Prefecture, Longkou Coal Mine in Donglai Prefecture, and Lanling Coal Mine in Langya Prefecture.

These coal mines can be initially developed to supply thermal coal, fuel coal, coking coal and chemical coal to the northern states of the Human Revolutionary Union.

As for the iron ore in Jiaodong Prefecture, there is no rich ore, and the mining cost is too high. It is better to transport high-grade iron ore from Guangnan Prefecture and Lingnan Prefecture.

Zheng Sen sent a telegram to Longsha in Liuqiu Prefecture, asking her to go north to preside over the industrial layout of Jiaodong Prefecture.

After all, the demand for coal of the Human Revolutionary Union is rising steadily.

As of September 3 of the new calendar, there is a Keelung coking plant with an annual output of 150,000 tons of coke, and a freshwater thermal power plant with an annual coal consumption of about 8,000 tons.

There are 18 roaring-class steamships, 14 inland river tugboats, and a total of 87 sets of various steam engines put into use.

This number may increase by another 50% by the end of the year.

And in order to break through the problem of blocked rivers in various places, Zheng Sen plans to launch several steam dredging ships to quickly clean up sunken ships and rocks in the river.

With the arrival of September, the autumn harvest in the territory is also rapidly unfolding. It is estimated that 4.1 to 4.2 million tons of rice can be harvested in the autumn harvest.

As for early rice in summer, Strategic Grain Corporation has purchased 1.32 million tons of inventory.

Such a huge food stock is the confidence of the Human Revolutionary League to continue to increase the size of its troops. The current standing force of the Human Revolutionary League has reached 260,000, which has almost doubled.

With so many troops, it is to complete the liberation of the Jiangnan and Huaihe lines before the end of the year.

The Human Revolutionary League is making full preparations, while other princes are also joining forces.

It's just that the initiative in the war has already been joined by the Human Revolution, and Zheng Sen already has the strength to sweep Jiangnan.