Chapter 138: Minerals Worth 10 Billion

A radius of 100 kilometers is equivalent to radiating an area of ​​31,400 square kilometers.

The defense radius is 200 kilometers, which is enough for the base security circle to cover 125,600 square kilometers.

Such a huge area, if placed in the current Iraq, is enough to monitor more than a quarter of Iraq's land. After all, the total land area of ​​Iraq is just over 440,000 square kilometers.

The base ranges from the Zagros Mountains in the north to the large Arabian desert in the south, from the Syrian border in the west, and to the central part of Iraq in the south.

In the past, he could only guard a radius of 20 kilometers and saw very few things. Now, Cai Ruichen can build construction units and defensive weapons in Baghdad at any time.

If you can see far, you can prevent far. Cai Ruichen has already received two surprises with the newly elevated authority.

In the past, he always had a feeling of restraint and no way to spread the development, but now everything is different.

Especially recently, the Islamic State is planning a southward offensive in Iraq because of the long-term economic weakness.

The Kurdish armed forces are even more obvious that they want to build a country. The big powers want to control the situation in Iraq, and it is becoming more and more unbalanced.

At present, the United States, which single-handedly raised the Kurds, does not know whether it has begun to lose control of the Kurdish armed forces, or is deliberately indulging.

It has caused a lot of troubles for the Iraqi government recently.

Cai Ruichen has also been affected. For now, there is no conflict between him and the Kurdish armed forces, and there is no contact between the two sides.

But the Islamic State did not know why, so it targeted him, making him very passive.

Of course, sometimes these can be regarded as small problems, and the real big problem is those people in Mossad.

Some days have passed, and the surface is still so quiet, and Cai Ruichen will not be so naive that Mossad has given up taking action against him.

In recent days, once an Israeli plane approached the town of Marin. Cai Ruichen will return to the base carefully.

Beware of Israeli warplanes actually dropping missiles, but fortunately, such a situation has not occurred for the time being.

But that doesn't mean it won't happen in the future.

The previous twenty kilometers range. For the range of fighter missiles, it is really not enough.

Now that it has expanded to two hundred kilometers, there is no need to worry about sudden attacks from the air.

Even if an attack does come, a large enough alert area will give Cai Ruichen more time to deal with it.

but. What he values ​​most now is not these dangerous or not dangerous things, and he didn't continue to read the base upgrade instructions.

Instead, let the base immediately display the distribution of ores within a radius of 100 kilometers in images.

The augmented reality projection in front of him suddenly expanded the area covered by ten times. After a simple adaptation, Cai Ruichen's eyes soon brightened.

Two different maps unfold at the same time.

On the map of the wasteland world, more than 30,000 square kilometers are covered, and all of them are clearly displayed.

Mountains, rivers, plains and cities can be seen at a glance.

Beautiful, this is Cai Ruichen's first impression, it is completely different from Iraq in the present world.

on the map of the present world. Even the whole country is almost desertified, and there are barren areas everywhere.

One piece is a beautiful emerald green, and it seems to be full of vitality everywhere.

The other is desolate, withered and sandy, with dilapidated cities and dilapidated and rugged roads.

It's completely two extremes.

In Cai Ruichen's view, he even felt that Iraq in this world is more like a wasteland world.

Of course, this is only on the surface.

But I have to say. In Iraq in the wasteland world, both urban construction and environmental construction have been very successful.

Green life is everywhere. It is simply a far cry from Iraq in the present world.

The superficial beauty is not what Cai Ruichen wants to see. What he really cares about is the distribution of minerals marked on the map.

"The wasteland world is rich in minerals, deep in the mountains with a diameter of 15 kilometers. In the tentatively designated No. 1 basin, located 300 meters below the surface of the basin, there is a reserve of 15 million tons of copper. (There are still unexplored ones.) Under normal human technological mining conditions, only 11% of them are easy-to-mine copper mines, 68% are medium-difficult to mine, and the rest are difficult to mine.”

"Located on the edge of the mountain range 30 kilometers east of the wasteland world base, tentatively designated as the edge of the No. 2 canyon, there is an iron mine with a reserve of 27 million tons. Under normal human technology mining conditions, it is easy to mine... "

"Located in the wasteland world..."

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"A total of forty-eight large and small minerals have been found in the wasteland world above, with a complete range of major minerals, of which minerals with reserves exceeding one million tons account for 60%, and a total of 115 million tons of exploitable mineral resources. Mining is difficult, and it is impossible to quickly increase the capital income of the base in a short period of time. The above data, scanned by neutrino detection technology at the base, is the final exploration result, and there is no need for further exploration.”

The base also introduced the mineral exploration results of the wasteland world in a timely manner. Every time a place is mentioned, the mineral resources displayed on the map will also show the reserve value.

Immediately, a very intuitive mineral distribution situation appeared in front of Cai Ruichen.

And the base is very domineering, once scanned, there is no need to scan again, no matter how much there is, it will not be bad.

Unlike the current technology, only with deeper mining can it be detected whether there are more minerals below.

"Not bad, very good..." Cai Ruichen muttered to himself, wishing he could take out his computer and immediately calculate how much money these minerals could be converted into.

"One hundred tons of minerals equals 10,000 funds, and 100 million tons of minerals equals... 10 billion funds..." Cai Ruichen's eyes shone with excitement as he muttered.

"Commander, please restrain yourself, your saliva..."

The voice from the base suddenly sounded, Cai Ruichen instinctively wiped the corner of his mouth, his face was a little hot.

"The base should remind the commander that some of these minerals are difficult to mine. Even if the base has extremely advanced ore extraction technology, it is almost impossible to recover them on a large scale." The base then reminded.

"Uh! How far can the highest efficiency go?" Cai Ruichen asked after his excited mood cooled down immediately.

"Normal estimates, under the condition of ensuring smooth road repairs, the current mineable minerals in the wasteland world can recover almost two million funds per day."

"Two million is really a lot." After a flash of disappointment, Cai Ruichen said somewhat happily. (To be continued.)