Anshan.

This steel base, which is famous in another time and space, is just a southern Liaoning city surrounded by mountains and layered on three sides.

Since ancient times, Anshan has been an important transportation town in the south of the northeast. As early as the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, it was the location of the transportation station and an important military fort. The ruins of the "Anshan Fort" are well preserved.

The name of Anshan is derived from its southern suburbs, which is like a saddle.

But the real precious thing lies in the rich iron ore resources on the surrounding mountains. In its surroundings, the magnesite mine in Dashiqiao, the limestone mine in Dalian, the clay mine in Fuzhou, the coal iron mine in Benxi and Fushun to the northeast, the coking coal in Fuxin to the northwest, and the manganese mine in Jinxi to the west, together form a huge metal mining, smelting and processing base.

Anshan has unique geographical conditions. The soil here belongs to the Quaternary impact sandy clay, which is rich in condensation and adhesion, is easy to absorb moisture and nutrients, and is suitable for farming. Especially in the northwest, it is a fertile land thousands of miles away, and is an important grain-producing area.

The Taizi River, a tributary of the Liao River, surrounds the east, north and west sides of Anshan City. It not only has overground rivers, but also underground undercurrents, providing rich water sources for civil and industrial use. There are Qianshan Rivers in the south of the city, originating from Shuangtaling; there is Sha River in the north, originating from Qianshan Mountain Stream, and the two rivers flow from east to west through Taizi River into the Liao River.

The climate of Anshan belongs to the northern temperate zone. The highest temperature that can be checked in the imperial climate archives in summer is 38 degrees, and the lowest temperature is minus 30 degrees below zero. The rainfall is relatively small and the water evaporates greatly. However, due to the long sunshine time and long frost-free period, coupled with the crisscrossing water system and surrounded by mountains, it is also suitable for the growth of soybeans, sorghum, corn, cereals and cold-resistant fruits.

As early as after going north in the 1895 years, Zheng Ying, who had long heard of the famous Anshan, confiscated the Manchu royal farms, royal estates and bannermen industries, did not rashly promote reclamation in key mining-rich areas such as Anshan. Instead, he first conducted preliminary resource encyclopedia and then conducted surveys, and only auctioned some plains that were not related to the mining industry. Most of them were auctioned by the royal industry and carried out large-scale mechanical farming in a modern farm model. The original early immigrants, because the royal fields or banner fields they rented were converted to state-owned ownership, were organized by the state and organized according to the farm model to become agricultural workers with guaranteed wages. Professionals appointed by the state were responsible for organizing production and sales, forming agricultural companies, and adopting the income sharing model internally.

After investigation, the economic reserves currently surveyed in Anshan area are bounded by 40. The rich ores above are about 50 million tons, mainly concentrated in the Gongchangling area. The poor ores below are scattered in Gongchangling, Qi Dashan and Yanqianshan, as well as the East and West Anshan and Dagushan, with a total of about 4.2 billion tons, mainly strip iron ore.

This iron ore is widely distributed in northern China. It starts from Wutai, Shanxi, passes through Luanxian and Qinglong County in Hebei, then through Fuxin County in western Liaoning to southern Liaoning, and then to Maoshan in North Korea. It is named "Anshan-type iron ore" in another time and space, and is the largest iron ore form in my country. It is mainly generated in the Anshan group-like rock system in the Sinian period, and is divided into clay and angular flashes.

Anshan has a long history of iron smelting. It was an important iron smelting base in Yan State. During the imperial geological survey, the iron smelting sites of the Warring States Period were discovered in Yangcaozhuang, northeastern suburbs of Anshan, and a large number of knives, iron farm tools, iron pots, etc. were excavated. In Pailugou and Taipinggou, the geological team also discovered iron ore sites in the cold zone, and the mine caves were filled with ore.

During the Song and Liao dynasties, this place became an important smelting base in Liao. It is recorded in the history of Liao that "the pit smelting was merged from Taizu. Its real estate was copper, iron, gold, and silver..." The Shiwei here did not refer to the Shiwei people, but the Shiwei Mountain (Thousand Mountains) around Anshan. The largest iron plant in the Ming Dynasty was located in Tiancheng Mountain, which is Gongchangling.

However, in the Qing Dynasty, under the order of the Qing ruler's "Mine is prohibited in the land of Longxing", and under the fear that miners would easily provoke civil unrest under anti-Qing propaganda, the iron smelting industry in Anshan declined in an all-out decline.

Since the situation in the north was always tense after the founding of the Empire, the Empire mainly conducted comprehensive surveys and mapping in Anshan and other places. Until the resource volume and production design plan were relatively complete, experimental production experiments were started in Anshan, Benxi, Fushun, Fuxin and other places to verify the process route.

For rich ores with a taste of more than 40, the Chinese Empire had accumulated many years of metallurgical technology, and the smelting technology was complete and mature. Since China's iron ore generally belonged to poor ore, the average taste was only 30. The imperial steel industry, which has accumulated a large amount of production practice in the south, Hubei, Hebei, Anhui and other places, has rich experience in smelting poor ore.

Internationally, including China, there is a complete set of solutions for poor ore: first, crushing, that is, crushing according to the size of the iron ore block, and then ball milling; secondly, ore dressing, that is, separating the iron-containing part of the ore from the inclusions. Generally, there are two methods of magnetic separation and flotation, and most of them use magnetic separation; finally, sintering, that is, sintering the iron concentrate with a high iron content after washing and selection, into blocks and sent to the blast furnace for smelting.

However, the poor ore in Anshan cannot undergo magnetic separation or flotation. One is that the ore grain is particularly small, with an average of less than 0.1 mm; the other is hard and difficult to break; the other is that it lacks magnetic properties and cannot be magnetic separation.

In addition, it not only has low grade but also has a large silicon content, which not only increases the consumption of limestone and coke, but also has a very technical difficulty.

The results of the exploration are disappointing. Under the current circumstances, only a few rich ores with a taste of more than 50 in Anshan iron ore area have mining value. In order to further expand the scope of utilization, the trial production method of mixing ore with a taste of 60 and 40 in taste of ore for smelting was adopted to solve the process problem.

Only that, the distance between Anshan Iron Mine is too far from the ideal Northeast Industrial Base of Zheng Ying and others, and the same problem also exists in other "Anshan Iron Mine" in the north.

According to the discussions of Zheng Ying and others, although they do not know how the other time and space solved the smelting problem of Anshan-style poor mines, they have to work hard and cannot give up. The rich mine of only 50 million tons really needs to support the heavy industrial base in the Northeast and cannot even hold on for ten years.

In order to solve the problem of smelting of poor mines, many nationalities and foreign experts from the iron smelting industry of the Chinese Empire gathered in Anshan, carefully investigated and discussed extensively, but in the end they still did not get a satisfactory plan. This result obviously could not satisfy the emperor Zheng Ying, who had high hopes for the development of Northeast China. The emperor announced with his unique stubbornness that the problem of Anshan iron ore must be solved. Then the emperor sacrificed his usual magic weapon: a reward of two million Huayuan and a title of earl. As long as the industrialized economic smelting of Anshan iron ore can be rewarded.

Stimulated by the bounty, experts from all walks of life tried their best. Gerendal, Krupp and Hobert of Sweden, and the Mining Institute of the University of Minnesota, and other professional smelting institutions and research institutes intervened one after another. Finally, in 1904, Maxi Schmidt, a German special expert in the Imperial Royal Steelmaking Industry, proposed a plan, which was to use a roasting furnace to reduce and magnetize the high-temperature before magnetic separation, and make the hard ore crisp and easy to break. After repeated discussions, this plan was submitted to the imperial prefecture and obtained special funding support to establish an experimental factory with 100 tons of ore per day. Schmidt personally presided over it, selected a batch of crushers, screening machines, and ore dressers from home and abroad, personally guided the construction of the reduction furnace, and conducted careful and careful laboratory analysis of the ore to design the process plan.

At this moment, the process experiment has entered a critical stage. Although the Chinese army in the south is already fighting with the Japanese army and some places are already evacuating important personnel urgently, the stubborn Schmidt publicly announced in a German-style stereotype: "I was entrusted by His Majesty the Emperor to conduct this experiment, and I can only succeed but not fail, and I cannot give up halfway because of some potential threats."

Under the leadership of this old German expert, the assistants, many process technicians, and even the workers at the bottom, were still working.

Schmidt quietly looked at the tall roasting stove in front of him.

This is his carefully designed product: the iron ore that needs to be processed is transported to a height with an electric conveyor belt, loaded from the top of the vertical furnace, and slowly descended in the furnace body. In this process, the hematite was reduced to magnetite, from non-magnetic to this line, and crunched. Heating and reducing use gas, and the coke oven gas from the coke plant next to it. A storage tank was installed on the top of the furnace, with a capacity of 25 tons, and the furnace lining was piled up with refractory bricks. The furnace shell was not wrapped in the iron sheet at the time, but was tightened by steel structure.

Schmidt's settlement in China was not willing at the beginning.

He was originally an engineer at the Lorraine Iron Mine, a German German, but had lived in France for many years. After Alsace Lorraine was ceded to Germany, the engineer was once very happy, but he was a little disgusted with the large-scale influx of German immigrants and discrimination against local French. In addition, he was obsessed with technology and was uncomfortable in the iron ore.

Twenty years ago, he received a warm invitation letter. His high salary, special status, and the mysterious power of the East that once defeated France, all of this made him feel a little moved. It just so happened that his daughter Elizabeth had just gotten married and her husband died of illness and did not want to stay sad, so he brought his daughter to China.

Originally, he had never thought of staying in this strange land, but his daughter soon fell in love with one of his students and talked about marriage. Poor old Schmidt finally stayed with his passion in China and chose to naturalize, and was named Baron for his outstanding contribution to China's mining mining.

Schmidt is now unwilling to do anything else, and his mind is just this production test.

He has done everything he can do: carefully selected Fuxin coking coal, the best mill imported from the United States, can grind iron ore particles to 150 mesh particles (equivalent to 150 particles per square centimeter) to ensure magnetic separation. The blast furnace was carefully designed by him, combined with the Anshan ore situation, reinforced the bottom of the furnace and strengthened the vents on the top of the furnace.

If it still doesn't work, then Anshan Iron Mine...

At this moment, an ecstatic voice rang behind you: "The teacher has made three batches, and all iron concentrates are above 60 and the ratio is only 1.15. You succeeded. Anshan Poor Iron Ore was conquered by you."

Schmidt turned around suddenly and looked at his student and son-in-law Fang Zhengxue: "What about the report?"

Fang Zhengxue quickly handed the inspection report in his hand to the teacher.

Schmidt looked carefully and finally smiled: "It's successful... Anshan Iron Mine can finally be truly developed. God, this is Lorraine of the East... No, it's Ruhr."

"Teacher, you will definitely be named Earl." Founder Xue's eye socket was deeply engulfed, but his face was filled with ecstasy. "Those Americans, Swedes, are all stunned and come here in vain."

Schmidt smiled and hugged his student: "No, Fang, this is not just my achievement, but our achievement... You are my partner, and we have made him a reality together. This prize metal belongs to everyone here..."

He turned to the people around him who were smiling and bowed deeply: "Everyone, you have stayed here at risk and witnessed this great moment and deserved their duty. Half of this bonus belongs to you, thank you."

Western United States, Utah, Salt Lake City, Oakle Mountains, Bingham Grand Canyon.

This other world of time and space is the "richest pit" in the world, the world's largest copper mine, and the man-made landscape that can be seen from space is not a pit at this time, but a mine.

A shocking explosion came from a huge mine, and a large piece of the strong mountain immediately collapsed.

The smoke and dust dissipate, and the tracked forklifts enter, shovel the scattered ore and load it into the dump truck, and transport it to the conveyor truck by these trucks and transport it to the conveyor bucket on the conveyor belt. The long conveyor belt transports the ore to the smelter, crushed, and water-sorted content reaches 28%, and then the refined copper concentrate is made into copper wires and supplied to electrification projects across the United States to meet the needs of electrification projects that this country is carrying out at an unimaginable speed, and exchange it for astronomical dollars.

Of course, there is another batch of copper ingots to be shipped to China and turned into shells, bullets, radiators and conductive wires for automobile engines. In the distant Pacific Xi'an, the ancient Eastern country is engaging in an unprecedented huge war, and he is also quietly advancing his electrification process.

As early as forty years ago, Binhan Canyon attracted astronomical mining due to the discovery of gold and silver. More than thirty years later, the gold, silver and copper content here was too low and was considered worthless until the tentacles of Zheng Ying and others came here.

Zheng Ying, Mu Tie, Xu Fan and Chen Lei naturally could not let go of this world's first copper mine and man-made landscape that supplied half of the Allied copper mines during World War II. They registered the Utah Mining Company early and completed the land enclosure with a symbolic amount. They even went directly to another time and space to propose an open-pit mining method, turning the waste mine into Kingsoft's young engineer Daniel Jacklin, and conducted systematic smelting tests and mining planning.

However, later, the Spanish-American War broke out and China and the United States were in conflict. The "Anti-Chinese Act" appeared. The Bingham Copper Mine, which had not yet been built, was once facing the danger of being forced to be taken back by the United States. It relied on the symbolic transfer of the middle to a Jewish person to avoid the limelight. Later, the United States fell into an economic crisis, and China proposed a large order. Coupled with the Japan-Russia alliance, Sino-US relations improved, and the first phase of the construction of the Bingham Copper Mine finally began.

Now, the first phase of the project with an annual output of 50,000 tons of copper mines and a total investment of up to 24 million US dollars has reached full production. With the help of national electrification of the United States and the stimulus of the Sino-Japanese and Russian war, the copper price has soared to 120 pounds per ton, equivalent to 600 US dollars.

In this world's largest open-pit mine, in addition to a series of high-efficiency mining and washing systems developed by Daniel Jacklin, as well as the diesel crawler engineering vehicle produced by the Chinese Empire, it also uses liquid oxygen explosives and refrigeration systems invented by Linde, a German refrigeration engineer who was named Earl of the Chinese Empire.

Liquid oxygen explosives are safe and reliable. They are wrapped into cylinders with solid combustible absorbers, namely carbon black, paper meal and wood chips. They are immersed in the liquid oxygen generated on site before blasting, absorb the liquid oxygen, and then installed at the blasting point to detonate with a detonator.

This explosive is safe and reliable, and has much lower cost, but it can only be used in open-air environments, which is exactly the same as Binham's situation. As early as more than half a year ago, the mine began to mine by using the carefully designed blasting plan. After this series of measures, Binham's waste mine became Kingsoft, and this year, the net profit can reach as much as 12 million US dollars.

The success of this plan undoubtedly encouraged the Chinese imperial royal industry's interest in the so-called "poor copper mine". Arizona mined for more than a hundred years, and the New Cornelia copper mine, which is considered to have no surplus value, was also taken down by them at a low price.

Daniel Jacklyn, who is the general manager of Utah Mining, is wearing a safety helmet and looking at the hot mine, but she is not very proud. Instead, she asked with some concern: "Mr. Carnegie, you are also an old friend of the Chinese. From what you see... can China really defeat the war?"

Andrew Carnegie, chairman of the United Steel Company of the United Steel Company, smiled slightly: "My little Daniel, look at all this in front of you... Do you really think that such a country is a lame old giant like Russia or a dwarf like Japan that can be shaken?"

"It can be a military analyst and political critic..."

"They are a bunch of idiots." Carnegie shook his head, "Daniel, I tell you that in countries like China and Russia, the outcome of war depends on two things: invisible and tangible. Invisible things, you just need to look at the performance of these Chinese people here. They are not lacking in wisdom, passion, and more confident and tough. The tangible things are these shiny hard things, steel, copper, all kinds of metals, and children. These are the essence of this world."

Carnegie narrowed her eyes and pointed out the window: "My little Daniel, look at everything in front of you, think about what happened in that country in the past and what is now doing. They are already supplying cars to the world, all kinds of household appliances, and the ships they built have become the overlord of the Pacific cruise routes. Then look at their enemies... I think the outcome of this war has been doomed from the beginning."...

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