A group of members and members of the board of directors of the company stayed in the Vladivostok Management Committee for more than ten days, inspected various enterprises one after another, and also visited the old experts of the company's science and technology committee, and went deep into the homes of ordinary workers at the grassroots level.

Everyone was very satisfied with the situation in Bac Ninh and Vladivostok City, and the scale of the company's industrial development shocked everyone. An industrial zone of this scale is not small even in modern society, and the Vladivostok industrial zone has a complete range of categories, and the future development potential is great. Perhaps in many years, the entire industrial zone will connect Vladivostok and Bac Ninh, and may even extend all the way to the southern shore of Hung Khai Lake.

Vladivostok is a comprehensive development zone integrating scientific research center, higher education base and industrial center of the Far East Company, and the Vladivostok Development Zone will occupy a pivotal position in the Far East Company now and in the future, and is also an indispensable part of the company's future development plan.

After the inspection in Vladivostok, Li Ming and his team also took an airship to Maoshan on the east bank of the Tumen River, where the company invested a lot of resources to build a town to develop the iron ore resources in the Maoshan area.

Located in Mosan County, North Hamgyeong-do, North Korea, the ore series deposits metamorphic iron ore deposits, and the main ore type is magnetite. Maoshan Iron Mine is the largest open-pit iron mine in Asia, with proven reserves of iron ore powder reaching 7 billion tons, rich in resource reserves, ranking first in Asia. Moreover, the content of iron ore powder is as high as 66%, which can be directly sent to the blast furnace for smelting.

With the continuous expansion of the Bac Ninh Iron and Steel Complex, the reserves of the iron ore in Dongfang Port can no longer meet the needs. At present, the company's development of the Northeast has just begun, and there are problems such as inconvenient transportation, so the development of Maoshan iron ore has become a top priority.

Since the company took control of Munseong-gun, North Korea, it has begun to requisition a large number of North Korean laborers and carry out large-scale development of Mosan. After several years of construction. An open-pit deposit has been developed.

Gao Jianguo, Li Ming, Wang He and others jumped off the airship pods one after another, and the person in charge of the company's Maoshan Iron Mine, who had been waiting here for a long time, as well as experts and technicians from various departments, all came up to greet the arrival of the company's board of directors delegation.

Their managers at the Maoshan Iron Mine were given a high ground and used binoculars to look down on the entire Maoshan Iron Mine. I saw that there were countless North Korean laborers busy in an open-pit iron ore deposit. Huge steam-powered units roared violently. Thick clusters of black smoke rose up.

Narrow-gauge railways dotted the entire mining area like spider webs, and small steam locomotives dragged wagons full of ore powder toward the banks of the Tumen River.

A row of wharves has been built along the Tumen River, on which are full of inland steam deck barges, and from time to time a group of river steam deck barges slowly sail away from the wharf, like the mouth of the lower reaches of the Tumen River.

Gao Jianguo frowned, turned to Liu Lianfa, the mine manager of the Maoshan Iron Mine, and said, "Old Liu, the hydrological situation of the Tumen River is not very good. Can the transportation capacity of the iron ore we mine be guaranteed? ”

Liu Lianfa shook his head with a wry smile and said: "At present, it is okay, our Maoshan iron mine has just been developed, and the output is not large." The company has started construction of a seaport in Cheongjin in eastern North Korea, and the company's railway department has also explored the route from Mosan to Chongjin Port, and plans to build a narrow-gauge railway. Exploration has now been completed and intensive construction of the railway has begun, and it is expected to be operational next fall.

Other than that. The company's railway department is exploring the railway from Maoshan to Mudanjiang Town, and the exploration work has not yet been completed. If this railway is completed and opened to traffic. The iron ore mined from our Maoshan iron ore mine can be transported directly by rail to the workshop of the Bac Ninh Iron and Steel Complex. With the reserves of Maoshan iron ore, it is not only enough for the current use of our Far East Company, but also enough to ensure that it will be able to ensure a long period of time even if the company vigorously develops the iron and steel industry in the future. ”

Everyone listened to his words and nodded excitedly.

Although China has large iron ore reserves. Iron ore grades are generally low. At present, the average grade of domestic iron ore is less than 30%, which is far lower than the level of countries such as Brazil and Australia, and also lower than the world average. The remaining reserves of poor iron ore account for 97% of the country's reserves, and can only be used after beneficiation and enrichment. The average grade of iron-bearing ore is about 55%, and the iron-rich ore reserves that can be directly fed into the furnace account for only 2.7% of the national reserves, and a certain mining scale has been formed. The amount of iron-rich ore that can be mined alone is even smaller.

Most of the low-grade iron ore needs to be further processed, and the iron ore powder produced must be sintered and formed into lumps before entering the furnace. China imports a large amount of iron ore lump ore from abroad every year, plus freight, the price is lower than that of domestic finished products, and it can be directly put into the furnace, and the effect is better than that of processing.

In most of the iron ore resources, there are many composite ores with multi-element symbiosis, and the ore body is complex, difficult to utilize, and high cost. Moreover, there are many types of iron ore, which are generally difficult to mine and select, and it is difficult to comprehensively utilize multiple components, as well as low iron ore grade, thin thickness of ore body, complex mining technical conditions and hydrogeological conditions, inconvenient transportation in mining areas, difficult to plan for ore body dispersion, unreasonable mining economic indicators, and mineral land belongs to natural environmental protection areas.

China's huge iron ore imports have not won corresponding market dominance for themselves in trade activities, but some multinational companies have used their monopoly position in the international trade of iron ore to squeeze high and unreasonable monopoly profits. At that time, he was bullied because of this, and he always faced the dilemma of being caught by the neck of a human being.

Since the Far Eastern Company has come to this era, of course, it will not let this situation repeat itself. In addition to the Maoshan Iron Mine, the company will also take Australia into its pockets in the future.

Australia is rich in mineral resources, oil and natural gas, with at least 70 kinds of mineral resources. Proven mineral reserves with economic mining value: about 3.1 billion tons of bauxite, 15.3 billion tons of iron ore, 511 billion tons of bituminous coal, 411 billion tons of lignite, 17.2 million tons of lead, 9 million tons of nickel, 40,600 tons of silver, 18,000 tons of tantalum, 34 million tons of zinc, 610,000 tons of uranium, and 4,404 tons of gold. Australia has 240 billion litres of crude oil, 1,360 billion cubic metres of natural gas and 174 billion litres of liquefied petroleum gas.

In particular, Australia's iron ore has the advantages of low phosphorus content, good quality, shallow burial, and most of them are suitable for exposure. The most awesome point is that the taste is super high. In some iron ore mines in Australia, after the iron ore is dug up, it can be directly loaded into the port for export. China's iron ore requires several processes to reach the grade of Australian raw iron ore.

Australia's iron ore is nothing short of an iron lump, not like iron ore, but like pig iron. Prior to 2000, the average mining grade of iron ore in Australia was as high as 65%. A grade of 60% is common in Australia, and a grade that is not reached can only be considered low-grade ore. (To be continued.) )