Chapter 258 Platinum Age
November 25.
Jiang Miao and his wife are still in the capital.
However, Jiang Miao is always paying attention to the company and domestic and foreign affairs, and he will take at least two hours a day to check and deal with these things.
'The CEO of the Spanish company that mines mercury mines has a car accident? Haha, have you reacted? ’He looked at the contents on the laptop screen and sneered in his heart.
Open the internal resource reserve database of the company.
In the past four months, the Majia subsidiary of Hailufeng Company has imported a total of 12,700 tons of high-purity cinnabar ore from various overseas channels, equivalent to 10,000 tons of pure mercury.
These ore sands are stored in small coastal cities in Qiongzhou, Lingnan, Liaodong and Qilu respectively.
Jiang Miao had long anticipated the instability of foreign import channels. After all, mercury ore is a relatively rare and rarely used mineral because the Minamata Convention was adopted in 2013, restricting the mining and use of mercury and its products.
As for finding alternatives, Hailufeng Company's 147 Laboratory is currently doing research in this regard. The results are indeed, that is, using gallium element, which can also be combined with specific nano-silicon tubes to form a normal temperature superconductor.
The problem is that the global reserves of Gallium have only been discovered in only 280,000 tons, of which Cyrius is about 190,000 tons.
But gallium ore is not a simple mineral. It generally exists in bauxite, iron ore, coal ore, and lead-zinc ore in the form of associated ore. Therefore, the core method of producing gallium is mainly secondary refining through tailings after bauxite electrolyzed aluminum.
If gallium is extracted from bauxite alone, about one ton of gallium can be produced per million ton of bauxite, which can cause the vast majority of enterprises and countries to collapse.
You should know that producing one ton of electrolytic aluminum requires 14,000 kWh of electricity and about 5 tons of bauxite, and processing 1 million tons of bauxite requires about 2.8 billion kWh of electricity.
If the production line of gallium is not added in the electrolytic aluminum production system, the production cost of gallium metal will soar.
So who is the world's largest electrolytic aluminum production area at present?
The answer is self-evident.
Because electrolytic aluminum consumes a lot of electricity, who is the world's largest power generation region and who is the world's largest electrolytic aluminum production region, which is tied together.
According to data from the International Aluminum Association (IAI), the global electrolytic aluminum production in 2026 is expected to be 74.63 million tons. Among them, Cyris' electrolytic aluminum production is expected to reach around 46.97 million tons, accounting for about 60% of the global production, making it the world's largest electrolytic aluminum producer.
Without the electrolytic aluminum industry, there would be no gallium metal production industry.
At present, the global electrolytic aluminum industry has not only not moved to Southeast Asia and India as the West imagined, but is increasingly concentrated in Cyris.
The reason is that the electricity bill has dropped.
As each energy storage base is put into use.
The electricity bills in some areas have dropped a lot, for example, the electricity bills in Yunnan Province have dropped. The electricity bills of the electrolytic aluminum of Yun Aluminum Group have been from 0.47 yuan per kilowatt-hour to build self-built energy storage systems and photovoltaic power generation. The current electricity bill is 0.36 yuan per kilowatt-hour.
The electricity cost of electrolytic aluminum of Yun Aluminum Group has also dropped from about 6,345 yuan per ton of electrolytic aluminum to about 4,860 yuan per ton of current.
The decline rate is very obvious.
This further widens the distance with foreign electrolytic aluminum companies, making foreign electrolytic aluminum cost-effective and difficult to compete with Cyris' electrolytic aluminum.
However, although China is the world's largest producer of gallium metal, Jiang Miao does not intend to use gallium metal as the raw material for room temperature superconductors.
After all, the market price of gallium is about 1.8 million per ton, while mercury with a purity of 99% is only about 840,000 per ton.
In addition, gallium is widely used in the electronics industry, aerospace, precision instruments and other industries. If you add a room temperature superconductor now, the estimated price will be up.
Mercury is relatively better.
Of course, if news of mercury can produce room temperature superconductors are leaked, the price will also surge.
Jiang Miao looked at the map of the study and focused his attention on the southeastern part of Gansu Province he passed by some time ago. As part of the Qinling Mountains, there are many mercury mines here, including several large veins, with a total reserve of no less than 260,000 tons.
Some of these mining areas can be found to develop.
As for foreign import channels, although it is very unstable, Hailufeng Company will not give up and will continue to import in the future.
Although there is a problem with the import channels of mercury mines in Spain and Italy, it is not certain in other regions. After all, some areas do not have much other minerals and require money. Exporting mercury mines has become the lifeline of the economy.
Birds die for food, and people die for money.
Western capital forces cannot stop the local people from wanting to make money.
As long as Hailufeng Company does not announce the use of mercury mines for a day, it can reduce the price and continue to import mercury mines.
The industry that develops room temperature superconductors can only be used internally in a short period of time, and can only be used in some confidential industries to avoid information leakage.
After thinking about the idea of industrial layout, Jiang Miao called and instructed the investment department to invest in the southeast of Gansu Province, with the focus on winning the prospecting rights in several Qinling Mountains.
These mercury minerals will definitely be comparable to platinum in the future.
At the same time, he also instructed the vest procurement office to increase the import of various rare elements, especially the rare elements that the company needs to use in the future or is currently in use, as much as possible, even if it is not used up, it can be stored.
On the contrary, Hailufeng Company has shown little interest in energy minerals such as coal, oil, and natural gas.
The status of these energy minerals will definitely continue to decline in the future with the transformation of the new energy industry, leaving only the use of chemicals.
Even the use of chemical industry will be further weakened.
After all, bean silk products can replace many plastic products, and the new variety of rubber grass that will be planted on a large scale in the desert next year will produce huge natural rubber, further extruding the proportion of synthetic rubber.
This will definitely affect the chemical products of petroleum and coal to varying degrees.
On the contrary, in terms of rare elements, no matter how the times develop, the value of these rare elements will not decline much. As human science and technology become more and more advanced and more sophisticated, the demand for rare elements is also showing a growing trend.
So now the continuous import of rare elements from abroad is a better choice.
In fact, it is not only Hailufeng Company that is increasing imports, but other domestic companies with abundant cash flow and the officials are trying to increase the import of rare elements.
These import actions further increase the international prices of many rare elements, but this is also conducive to trade balance.
Many regions have formed a new economic cycle model by selling mines and then purchasing a large number of industrial and agricultural products from Cyris.
This has caused Western forces to block the plan of Cyris's enterprises from entering mining around the world to fall into an unsustainable dilemma.
After all, in profitable situations, local snakes in many regions are increasingly disliked to cooperate with Western forces to cause trouble.
Unless large Western consortiums are willing to purchase these minerals at similar prices, no matter who becomes a local snake, they will not give up on this kind of transaction.
Stop buying and selling is like killing parents.
To make others obedient, you have to give people a bite of food.
Although Hailufeng Company has brought durian into operation, the domestic durian price has dropped to around 15 to 22 yuan per kilogram, the scale of durian imports in Southeast Asia has not decreased, but the profit has been reduced.
The current durian planting scale promoted by Hailufeng Company is 2.5 million mu, producing about 15 million tons of fresh fruit durian every year, with an average of 10 kilograms of fresh fruit durian per capita. Based on a meat yield rate of about 35%, it means 3.5 kilograms of durian flesh per capita per capita per year.
This consumption is not large.
Especially after an average of 365 days per year.
And Malaysia's Maosan King and others still occupy the high-end market, and they are not as arrogant as before, and they dare not do anything casually.
Because after the impact of the durian from Hailufeng Company, all parties in Southeast Asia know clearly that if they still don’t know how to live or die, Hailufeng Company can promote the localization of other varieties of durian at any time, and can even capture all tropical fruits such as mangosteen and rambutan in one place, directly destroying the entire international market.
The fruit industry in Southeast Asia will be really over.
The durian impact is just a small lesson.
After June this year, the number of domestic companies that have obtained mining licenses in Southeast Asia increased by 16% in a short period of time, and it is obvious that the local government has relaxed mining restrictions.
Mine sites of various small metals and rare elements are constantly being explored. Many companies are like Hailufeng Company, gradually establishing their own resource reserve systems. After all, if they do not buy more minerals, they will not be able to eliminate the trade deficit.
In order to expand the sales of industrial products and the import of mineral resources, it has become the only feasible solution at present.
Thinking about the rare elements and small metals of minerals, Jiang Miao remembered another "platinum" product.
That is soybeans.
The soybean meal, soybean oil, soybean shreds, and other derivative products produced by it have basically become a kind of "platinum" when domestic soybean production capacity is rapidly increasing.
In the past, cotton was also called platinum because it has very important applications in the textile and chemical industries.
Now soybeans are also called platinum by many domestic practitioners.
Especially in the northwest region, with the transformation of several desert and sand farms this year, they have achieved a bumper harvest in autumn, and the industrial upgrading brought by soybeans has begun to fully affect all walks of life in China.
On the Internet, many current affairs commentators call this year the beginning of the "Platinum Age".
Of course, among the soybeans in the Platinum Age, Xianshi Soybeans are the real "platinum". The value of its soybean protein can reach about 6,000 yuan per ton.
The current price of fairy silk soybeans sold on the farm is about 4,000 yuan per ton.
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For Xianshi soybeans with a moisture content of 15% per ton, about 200 kilograms of soybean oil and 650 kilograms of soybean meal can be extracted. Among these soybean meal, about 450 kilograms of soybean protein can be extracted.
These products are of great value.
At present, all parts of the Western Regions are looking for relationships in the capital, hoping to meet Jiang Miao. Obviously, they hope that Hailufeng Company can invest locally and introduce high-value fairy silk soybeans into the local area.
Jiang Miao has also met many people these days, but he did not agree to invest in the past. To invest in a region, he must inspect the local situation in advance.
At present, areas suitable for fairy silk soybean cultivation are suitable for both the southern and northern Western Regions, but considering the confidentiality requirements, it is still more suitable for the Tarim Basin in the southern Western Regions, which has a relatively high degree of enclosure.
However, in addition to being closed, water resources are also a requirement.
Although Hailufeng Company already has efficient and low-cost water purification technology and can fully use urban domestic wastewater for industrial production, the local water resource limit still needs to be considered.
A more ideal investment method is to invest in the construction of soybean farms and a small part of the soybean deep processing industry in the local area, and then export the vast majority of soybeans to the eastern region through transportation airships.
Just after Jiang Miao dealt with some of today's things.
Shuya came into the study with a plate of cut fruit.
"Are you finished?"
"Well, you just finished."
He put up a piece of pineapple and took a bite: "Aya, how do you feel when you go to Wudaokou University for academic exchange today?"
"Fortunately, Wudaokou University has accumulated a good foundation field, and they also invited me to visit some research results." Shuya said calmly while rubbing his shoulders.
Jiang Miao didn't care too much: "After all, it is a top university in China. The accumulated talents must be huge enough, and it is normal to have some results."
"I saw a more promising project. Maybe the company could consider investing."
"Really? Sometimes technology has promising, but it does not mean that it has the value of investment." Jiang Miao raised a mango again: "Tell me, what project is it?"
Shuya did not refute this point. She smiled and said, "That project is a nanosensor project."
"Nano sensor?" Jiang Miao put down his fork.
"Dr. Gao Shuyuan, the head of the research team of this project, introduced me to part of the details of their project. Their project was established a few years ago and did not make breakthrough progress until this year." Shuya sat down and talked about what she saw today:
"Their project can make a breakthrough, but it is related to our company."
Jiang Miao raised his eyebrows: "Silicon carbide nanotubes?"
"I knew that as long as you mentioned this, you can definitely guess." Shuya continued with a smile: "Dr. Gao's team has made nanosensors before, but they have been unable to ensure that the nanosensors can operate stably for a long time due to material problems. This makes the nanosensors very expensive and the reliability cannot be improved."
"It was not until September this year that they came into contact with the silicon carbide nanotubes produced by our company that the project made a rapid progress."
Jiang Miao lay on the sofa and gently rubbed his eyes: "What field is the specific application of the sensors in their project?"
"Human testing."
"Human testing?"
Shuya explained slowly: "They used technical means to deposit, sinter, and combine specific structures inside the silicon carbide nanotubes. These structures are specific sensors."
Hearing this, Jiang Miao also became a little interested: "What can be measured?"
"At present, they have completed the detection of many blood indicators, including common blood glucose, triglycerides, blood uric acid, etc., and all of them can be measured."
Jiang Miao rubbed the stubble on his chin: "What about the accuracy?"
"According to Dr. Gao's description, the accuracy depends on the density of the needle."
"The density of the needle?" Jiang Miao immediately understood the general technical direction of the project: "Is their single sensor's accuracy not high, so he intends to increase the overall accuracy through dense nanoneedles?"
Shu Ya replied with a smile: "That's right, the accuracy of a single sensor is only about 20% to 30%, and It is easily disturbed by other components, so Dr. Gao’s team can improve the overall accuracy through dense nanoneedles, specially developed algorithm models, and AI assistance. "
"At present, about 15 nanoneedles for blood glucose detection sensors can ensure the accuracy rate of about 98%; 22 nanoneedles for blood uric acid can achieve 98% accuracy; other indicators are also within the range of 15 to 25 nanoneedles."
Jiang Miao thought about it and said that if we follow this indicator, it would be very good.
Although it seems that there are a lot of numbers, these are nano-level fine needles after all. Even if hundreds of them add up, the diameter is only about ten microns.
How big is the diameter of more than ten microns?
The average diameter of human hair is only 40 to 400 microns.
After such a tiny needle, you won't even feel pain.
In addition, the hardness and strength of silicon carbide nanotubes are very high, and even if they are subjected to violent impact, pressing, or impact, this thing will not break easily.
If ordinary silicon carbide materials have very high hardness, their strength is not good and they are easy to break, but the silicon carbide nanotubes are different, and their strength is also very high.
This prevents the nanosensor from remaining in the body after it breaks.
It should be noted that during the production process of silicon carbide nanotubes, the protection level is the same as the level of production and processing asbestos products.
Because the fine nanoneedles formed by silicon carbide nanotubes are difficult to decompose and discharge by the human body after entering the body, and their danger is almost the same as that of asbestos.
Fortunately, this thing is very strong and does not easily break and become fragments. After processing and fixing, as long as it does not forcibly destroy its structure, the risk will be greatly reduced after it naturally decomposes. "They should not be short of investment, right?" Jiang Miao asked suddenly.
Shuya nodded: "Wudaokou University does not lack funds, but after all, silicon carbide nanotubes are our company's patents. They hope to introduce our strategic investment through shares."
"Yes, you will hand over this matter to the investment department tomorrow and let them contact this team."
"Do you need to hold shares?"
"Yes, you will give this matter to the investment department tomorrow and let them contact this team."
"Do you need to hold shares?"
Jiang Miao shook his head: "There is no need for that. Just 20% to 30% of the shares, so we will do financial investment."
"Okay, I'll explain it tomorrow."
Although this kind of project is valuable, Hailufeng Company is not insatiable. Although the potential of medical equipment is huge, Hailufeng Company has mastered the basic raw materials of technology and does not need to worry about the other party turning against each other.
The other party even had to worry about whether Hailufeng Company would imitate it. After all, the technology of detecting nanoneedles is not difficult. In the final analysis, it is still a problem of materials, which is exactly the strength of Hailufeng Company.
(This chapter ends)