On the fifth day when the exploration team explored the misty sea, the exploration ship finally encountered an insurmountable obstacle - a huge island.
According to the crew''s preliminary exploration, it is at least as big as Odin island. Considering the extremely distant reef groups near the island, I''m afraid the total area is no less than 300 square kilometers.
Of course, if Renault wants to, with the most powerful blockhouse means of migrant workers in history, he can dig a ditch with his bare hands to allow exploration ships to pass through the island and reach the sea area at the other end of the island.
But it''s stupid.
Why not abandon the ship and go ashore?
Renault did.
After personally leading the team to the island and doing some simple exploration, he felt a pity from the bottom of his heart. If only this island was not in the fog area
Not only because of its large area, it can greatly alleviate the shortage of land, but also because the team found copper!
It is an open-pit copper mine with rare metals.
Several tall copper yellow peaks stand alone in the boundless fog, like eternal silent guards, looking at this lonely and quiet island.
Near, you can see a large number of blue and purple brown spots on the surface of the mountain, as well as crisscross green and black streaks.
This is obviously chalcopyrite.
What''s more exciting is that many places are shining with silver.
An explorer walked into the mountain and took out a magnifying glass to observe it carefully. He looked more and more excited. At last, he cried out happily:
"Lord, this copper mine seems to have associated Magic Silver Mine..."
Renault was shocked and asked:
"Fran beirouge, what is the content of magic silver? Can you estimate a general range?"
The middle-aged explorer, known as "Fran beirouge", suddenly looked embarrassed.
Renault glanced at each other, shook his head with a smile, and said:
"I''m too anxious, you can explore slowly Don''t worry too much, follow the regular process... "
"Yes, my Lord." Fran beirouge bowed respectfully. He pondered for a moment and gave a surprising number. "However, in my personal experience, the content of Magic Silver should not be less than 50 grams per ton..."
Renault thought for a moment and laughed with satisfaction.
In today''s tide collar, magic silver has become a scarce material.
With the development of magic technology, more and more Rune groups have been mastered in the study of Rune. Correspondingly, the structure of Rune groups on various Rune magic devices has become more and more complex.
The more runes there are, the more magic silver will be consumed when making Rune square boards.
Taking the huge "subgrade weather magic sensor" built on Odin island last year as an example, the rune components of the core system and the subsystem use a total of 26 Rune square boards.
The largest Rune square plate has more than 12000 runes, and the smallest Rune square plate has more than 800 runes. This project consumed 1.2 tons of magic silver.
It doesn''t sound like a big number, but magic silver is not a Chinese cabbage.
Due to the extremely low output, its value is quite high, and the price is calculated by "kg".
In addition to other magic power machines produced by various factories, from powerful weapons such as fighters, warships and armored vehicles to household equipment such as refrigerators and fans, haichaoling consumes more than 350 tons of Magic Silver every year.
Due to such a large demand, the price of magic silver has soared seven times in just three years, from the original three jinnalkg to the high price of 22 jinnalkg.
All the nobles and merchants who owned the associated magic silver mines made a lot of money in this wave of silver mining boom.
If Haichao chamber of commerce did not use various means to purchase several small associated magic silver mines, and use "magic energy smelting method" to greatly increase the output, I am afraid the market price of Magic Silver will be higher.
The associated Magic Silver Mine in the misty sea is definitely a rich one.
Only by visual observation, we can judge that the total reserves will not be low. Even if it is only small-scale mining, it should not be difficult to extract hundreds of tons of Magic Silver every year, not to mention the by-product copper thousands of times more.
If calculated by the annual output of 100 tons of Magic Silver and 300000 tons of copper, the annual income will reach more than 6 million jinnals.
Renault has made up his mind to develop the associated Magic Silver Mine, no matter how dangerous the sea monsters are.
Hum, it''s a big deal. Every three months, the master pulls an armored force, plus dozens of fully armed supermen, to clean the mining area from beginning to end
Hehe, there are heavy machine guns, Katyusha rockets, and large incendiary bombs like "pidan". I don''t believe it. Who else dares to wander around the mining area
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After hearing his Lord''s latest plan, ottore asked carefully:"Lord, how do you plan to transport the refined metal?"
Renault gave a plan without thinking:
"it''s very simple that Moyin can be transported by air. The new" silver goose-2 "Moyin transport aircraft of the air force, with a carrying capacity of more than 20 tons, can easily transport 100 tons of Moyin only by running a few times a year."
"As for copper ingots, they are too many and can only be transported by ship..."
He frowned and his eyes drifted a little unconsciously.
"The transportation of copper ingots is a bit troublesome. If shipping is used, first of all, we need to open up a wide enough waterway and send a special escort fleet. There are so many water monsters in the fog that we can''t help but guard against them."
"However, casualties may be unavoidable. The abilities of these sea monsters are a little strange Well, let me see, maybe there are other modes of transportation... "
Under the gaze of ottore and egio, Renault suddenly clapped his head, "hehe" laughed a few times and began to talk to himself:
"I''m so stupid that I forgot this artifact Well, after the exploration of hell gate, we will start the relevant design work as soon as we go back... "
"As long as we get a big guy with enough load to transport hundreds of tons of copper ingots at a time, we don''t have to dig the waterway any more..."
Probably because of more scientific research in the past two years, Renault always looks like no one else as long as he thinks about professional problems, and even looks a little silly.
However, this silk does not damage the awe of subordinates.
Everyone knows that when the LORD looks silly, one or several great inventions will be born, which will profoundly change the world and the way of life of the common people.
What''s more, in the face of a terrorist who can crush you to death, even if the other party is really a fool, who dares to show a trace of slightness? Are you tired of living?
"Lord." Seeing that the Lord seemed in a good mood, Ejiao asked curiously, "what can transport hundreds of tons of copper ingots at a time?"
This sentence interrupted Renault''s thoughts. He glanced at egio a little unpleasantly, which made the guy immediately droop his head, and the atmosphere did not dare to breathe.
Renault was not interested in answering egio''s question and said to himself:
"now it seems that I underestimated the importance of hell gate To refine the Magic Silver in this copper mine, we need enough energy, and the gate of hell is the best source of energy. "
"It is an inexhaustible source of energy and can reduce smelting costs by at least 60% or more."
"So in the next two days, the exploration team must speed up, find the gate of hell, and draw a detailed map."
"As soon as you return to the territory, start planning, build mining and refining plants, and build a road connecting the mine and the gate of hell..."