Chapter 2819
Chapter 2819
Chapter 2819
Beks and the others spent a little time reviewing the written materials, and then listened to the work reports of the bank and the person in charge of the gold mine. Then the group drove to the nearest mine pit to inspect the mining conditions here.
In fact, the mining method of this gold mine is very similar to that of the Fushan Copper Mine. After mining the ore buried in the ground, it is screened, crushed, and smelted, and then the metal product with extremely high purity is obtained.But if you compare the production capacity, the two are not in the same order of magnitude at all.
Walking beside the mountains of ore, Chen Yixin introduced: "These you see are ores that have been crushed. Every thousand catties of such ores can usually be refined into one or two gold coins, and about five coins is ideal. The situation is over."
Bai Letong was speechless: "So the gold dug out of the gold mine is still so rare?"
Chen Yixin said with a smile: "The gold bricks you saw in the treasury earlier required about 200 catties of ore to refine one piece. You can imagine how much manpower and material resources were spent during this period. That's why gold is so expensive. the value of."
Bai Letong suddenly said: "The so-called rarity is the most precious, that's the reason."
The same mining process, but the actual output is hundreds of times different, and the scarcity value of gold is reflected in this.However, Bai Letong thought of the banknotes he usually used. The printing cost is obviously much lower than the cost of mining gold, but as long as the currency value is linked to gold, it can have the same purchasing power as gold. The wisdom of people is greatly admired.
Although the main industry in Linglong Town is gold mining, except for smelting plants and bank vaults, there is almost no shadow of gold in other places. Even the currency circulation in the town uses paper money issued by Haihan.As far as the circulation level of banknotes is concerned, it is not inferior to areas with developed commerce and trade like Fukuyama Prefecture.
After visiting the mine, the group went to the smelter built next to the mine.The beneficiation and smelting process of gold mines is more complicated than that of copper mines, and more mechanical equipment is used here.The relevant responsible officials also introduced the whole process of smelting gold in great detail during their tour.
The ore mined from the mine is first sent to the jaw crusher for rough crushing, and then the cone crusher is used for secondary crushing. After the ore is crushed into small particles of a certain size, it can enter the next link.
The ore that has been crushed twice is sent to a ball mill to be ground into powder, and then sent to a spiral classifier for grading treatment to screen out impurities such as mud and vegetation in the ore.
After rough selection, the ore is sent to the cylindrical sieve, and the concentrate is screened out by high-pressure water washing, and then sent to the shaker by the elimination machine, so that the concentrate sand for smelting can be produced.
Bai Letong was already dizzy when he heard this, and he didn't know why. He couldn't understand the production processes such as heap leaching, adsorption, replacement, and precipitation after that.
Moreover, the smelting ore is not limited to this production line. In fact, there are different processing methods for different grades of ore. Even the low-grade gold-bearing "waste rock" that has been stripped during the mining process has a special processing technology.
The gold produced through these steps is only crude gold, and many processes are needed to remove the metal impurities contained in it to reach a higher purity, and finally it is melted and cast into gold bricks or gold bars.
After going through the entire production process, even a layman like Bai Letong has a deeper understanding of the value of gold.
Of course, what Chen Yixin wants to emphasize is not the complexity of the gold production process, but the various mining machinery and equipment used in the production process.He wants to use this to show Beks that the equipment provided by the Ministry of Industry to the Northern Region has played its due role, and he has received good benefits as a result.If the executive committee wants to promote the industrialization of mineral resource production, then the northern region is the most sensible choice.
After completing the inspection mission in Zhaoyuan County, Beks and his party turned southwest to Laizhou City.Compared with the areas in Dengzhou that have begun to enter the industrial age, the adjacent Laizhou is closer to the original appearance of this era.
There are no mineral resources being mined near Laizhou City. The reason why they came here was on the one hand to stop by for inspection, and on the other hand because the people from Jinan Dewangfu had been waiting for them in Laizhou for two days.
When Bai Kesi and his party stayed in Qingdao Port before, they had met Huo Mingxian, an aide of De Wangfu.At that time, Huo Mingxian rushed to Qingdao Port to ask Bai Kesi for help, hoping that Haihan could solve the pressure from the Ming court for De Wangfu.At that time, Bai Kesi gave a more rigid response, saying that measures including military measures could be taken to help De Wangfu.
However, the verbal promise probably couldn't make De Wang's Mansion completely at ease, so after Huo Mingxian went back to report the letter, De Wang's Mansion quickly sent someone over, planning to visit Chen Yixin and Bai Kesi in Dengzhou.When they reached the border of Laizhou, they heard that Chen and Bai were on an inspection tour, and that their next stop might be Laizhou, so they sent someone to Zhaoyuan County to deliver a letter explaining the situation, and then waited in Laizhou City.
Of course, if the person who came was still an aide of Prince De's Mansion, then Chen Yixin and Bai Kesi might not be qualified to change their itinerary to Laizhou.The main reason is the letter sent to Zhaoyuan County, signed by the current De Wang Zhu Youli himself.
After the Qing army attacked Jinan City in 1639, Zhu Youshu, the former king of Germany, was unfortunately captured and killed.A year later, his cousin Zhu Youli succeeded him.
However, since Jinan was looted inside and outside the city by the Qing army, the King De inherited only one title from his cousin.The imperial court was financially in dire straits, and could not even afford the money to rebuild Jinan City, let alone the salaries of De Wang's family.
After the war, nine out of ten households in Jinan City were empty. Although Dewang Mansion had land, no one cultivated it.As a last resort, Prince De's Mansion could only rely on its own efforts, selling and renting the land under its name. In short, the goal is to get enough food to survive.Later, I got relief from well-meaning people and finally got through the difficulty.
Of course, this is not a pie that fell from the sky. The so-called kind-hearted people bring not only relief, but also other purposes.De Wang's mansion is soft-spoken and short-handed. It was too late to find out the truth, so they had no choice but to cooperate, so they got in touch with Haihan.
Prince De's Mansion needs money and food to maintain their livelihood, and Haihan needs to expand his contacts in the upper echelon of Daming.For more than ten years after that, the Prince De's Mansion has maintained contact with the northern region and established a certain degree of mutual trust. That's why there was an arrangement to send their children to participate in the Haihan Imperial Examination last year.
(End of this chapter)
Beks and the others spent a little time reviewing the written materials, and then listened to the work reports of the bank and the person in charge of the gold mine. Then the group drove to the nearest mine pit to inspect the mining conditions here.
In fact, the mining method of this gold mine is very similar to that of the Fushan Copper Mine. After mining the ore buried in the ground, it is screened, crushed, and smelted, and then the metal product with extremely high purity is obtained.But if you compare the production capacity, the two are not in the same order of magnitude at all.
Walking beside the mountains of ore, Chen Yixin introduced: "These you see are ores that have been crushed. Every thousand catties of such ores can usually be refined into one or two gold coins, and about five coins is ideal. The situation is over."
Bai Letong was speechless: "So the gold dug out of the gold mine is still so rare?"
Chen Yixin said with a smile: "The gold bricks you saw in the treasury earlier required about 200 catties of ore to refine one piece. You can imagine how much manpower and material resources were spent during this period. That's why gold is so expensive. the value of."
Bai Letong suddenly said: "The so-called rarity is the most precious, that's the reason."
The same mining process, but the actual output is hundreds of times different, and the scarcity value of gold is reflected in this.However, Bai Letong thought of the banknotes he usually used. The printing cost is obviously much lower than the cost of mining gold, but as long as the currency value is linked to gold, it can have the same purchasing power as gold. The wisdom of people is greatly admired.
Although the main industry in Linglong Town is gold mining, except for smelting plants and bank vaults, there is almost no shadow of gold in other places. Even the currency circulation in the town uses paper money issued by Haihan.As far as the circulation level of banknotes is concerned, it is not inferior to areas with developed commerce and trade like Fukuyama Prefecture.
After visiting the mine, the group went to the smelter built next to the mine.The beneficiation and smelting process of gold mines is more complicated than that of copper mines, and more mechanical equipment is used here.The relevant responsible officials also introduced the whole process of smelting gold in great detail during their tour.
The ore mined from the mine is first sent to the jaw crusher for rough crushing, and then the cone crusher is used for secondary crushing. After the ore is crushed into small particles of a certain size, it can enter the next link.
The ore that has been crushed twice is sent to a ball mill to be ground into powder, and then sent to a spiral classifier for grading treatment to screen out impurities such as mud and vegetation in the ore.
After rough selection, the ore is sent to the cylindrical sieve, and the concentrate is screened out by high-pressure water washing, and then sent to the shaker by the elimination machine, so that the concentrate sand for smelting can be produced.
Bai Letong was already dizzy when he heard this, and he didn't know why. He couldn't understand the production processes such as heap leaching, adsorption, replacement, and precipitation after that.
Moreover, the smelting ore is not limited to this production line. In fact, there are different processing methods for different grades of ore. Even the low-grade gold-bearing "waste rock" that has been stripped during the mining process has a special processing technology.
The gold produced through these steps is only crude gold, and many processes are needed to remove the metal impurities contained in it to reach a higher purity, and finally it is melted and cast into gold bricks or gold bars.
After going through the entire production process, even a layman like Bai Letong has a deeper understanding of the value of gold.
Of course, what Chen Yixin wants to emphasize is not the complexity of the gold production process, but the various mining machinery and equipment used in the production process.He wants to use this to show Beks that the equipment provided by the Ministry of Industry to the Northern Region has played its due role, and he has received good benefits as a result.If the executive committee wants to promote the industrialization of mineral resource production, then the northern region is the most sensible choice.
After completing the inspection mission in Zhaoyuan County, Beks and his party turned southwest to Laizhou City.Compared with the areas in Dengzhou that have begun to enter the industrial age, the adjacent Laizhou is closer to the original appearance of this era.
There are no mineral resources being mined near Laizhou City. The reason why they came here was on the one hand to stop by for inspection, and on the other hand because the people from Jinan Dewangfu had been waiting for them in Laizhou for two days.
When Bai Kesi and his party stayed in Qingdao Port before, they had met Huo Mingxian, an aide of De Wangfu.At that time, Huo Mingxian rushed to Qingdao Port to ask Bai Kesi for help, hoping that Haihan could solve the pressure from the Ming court for De Wangfu.At that time, Bai Kesi gave a more rigid response, saying that measures including military measures could be taken to help De Wangfu.
However, the verbal promise probably couldn't make De Wang's Mansion completely at ease, so after Huo Mingxian went back to report the letter, De Wang's Mansion quickly sent someone over, planning to visit Chen Yixin and Bai Kesi in Dengzhou.When they reached the border of Laizhou, they heard that Chen and Bai were on an inspection tour, and that their next stop might be Laizhou, so they sent someone to Zhaoyuan County to deliver a letter explaining the situation, and then waited in Laizhou City.
Of course, if the person who came was still an aide of Prince De's Mansion, then Chen Yixin and Bai Kesi might not be qualified to change their itinerary to Laizhou.The main reason is the letter sent to Zhaoyuan County, signed by the current De Wang Zhu Youli himself.
After the Qing army attacked Jinan City in 1639, Zhu Youshu, the former king of Germany, was unfortunately captured and killed.A year later, his cousin Zhu Youli succeeded him.
However, since Jinan was looted inside and outside the city by the Qing army, the King De inherited only one title from his cousin.The imperial court was financially in dire straits, and could not even afford the money to rebuild Jinan City, let alone the salaries of De Wang's family.
After the war, nine out of ten households in Jinan City were empty. Although Dewang Mansion had land, no one cultivated it.As a last resort, Prince De's Mansion could only rely on its own efforts, selling and renting the land under its name. In short, the goal is to get enough food to survive.Later, I got relief from well-meaning people and finally got through the difficulty.
Of course, this is not a pie that fell from the sky. The so-called kind-hearted people bring not only relief, but also other purposes.De Wang's mansion is soft-spoken and short-handed. It was too late to find out the truth, so they had no choice but to cooperate, so they got in touch with Haihan.
Prince De's Mansion needs money and food to maintain their livelihood, and Haihan needs to expand his contacts in the upper echelon of Daming.For more than ten years after that, the Prince De's Mansion has maintained contact with the northern region and established a certain degree of mutual trust. That's why there was an arrangement to send their children to participate in the Haihan Imperial Examination last year.
(End of this chapter)