The Rise Of Space Technology

Chapter 418 Mineral Resources Plummet

“Liu Yuan, order a C-type spaceship for me. Of course, you have to order a bigger one. Will you sell your Star Catcher?”

“This is definitely not for sale, not for sale, not for sale.”

“You’ve always been like this. The real good things are hidden and reluctant to take out. The Star Catcher can catch 200 million tons of asteroids, and the biggest one sold to us can only catch 100 million. tons of asteroids.”

“The Star Catcher is individually designed and manufactured. It is a unique product. The products sold to everyone are all logo products, of course, there are differences.”

“You, you, I don’t believe it~”

“By the way, are there really asteroids in the asteroid belt that contain a lot of gold?”

“This is for sure. You can ask some scientists. The asteroid belt should form a planet the same as the Earth, but because of Jupiter’s huge gravitational pull, it never formed.”

“The gold reserves on the earth are actually very amazing. In other words, there is also a lot of gold in the asteroid belt.”

“It’s fine with your words. The spaceship I ordered must be the first to be delivered, right?”

“Pharaoh has already ordered a boat from me, and yours is behind him.”

“This old man is really fast.”

“…”

Liu Yuan ended the meeting and call with Lei Zheng in the virtual world, each of them came to him like crazy, tens of billions, hundreds of billions of spaceships were ordered one by one, as if money Not the same as money.

For these big bosses, their money may not be particularly large, but the resources they can master are extremely huge, and they can also take out tens of billions or hundreds of billions.

“Also, everyone is attracted to mining asteroids. In this way, there will be more spaceships in space, and more resources will be mined. I can build spaceships faster. .”

After thinking about it, Liu Yuan also thinks that this is a good thing, and it is also the effect that he wants to achieve.

Mining asteroids is actually the same as mining on Earth, all mining resources.

But there is a difference.

The mineral resources on the earth have basically been controlled and divided up. If you want to snatch it, it is basically impossible.

Domestic mineral resources are state-owned, while foreign mineral resources are locally state-owned, and some are owned by local giants. Even if you have money, you can’t get involved.

The mining of mineral resources is actually very profitable, and it is also something that is simple, fast, and has no technical content.

You must know that the rich in many parts of the world are inseparable from the mineral resources they master, and they are the tycoons of mineral resources.

Like oil tycoons, natural gas tycoons, mining tycoons, etc., these can easily and simply make a fortune by occupying certain important resources.

This is very different from doing business. In doing business, we also need to learn how to operate, control costs, engage in marketing, etc., so that we can make the enterprise bigger and stronger.

Excavating resources is not necessary at all. As long as the resources are occupied by you, you can sit and slowly mine resources to profit.

Sometimes they even feel that the price of mineral resources is too low, and deliberately cut production to reduce supply and raise prices, in order to obtain more benefits.

This is the characteristic of the mining industry, and it is also the reason why those capitalists are so crazy.

Just like the development of the lunar mining industry at the beginning, everyone saw a great opportunity to make money easily and stably.

Domestic mineral resources are state-owned and are being developed by state-owned and central enterprises. It is difficult for private individuals to enter these fields.

Now there is an opportunity to go to interstellar mining, to mine interstellar resources on a large scale, and no one is willing to give up such an opportunity.

You must know that the resources on earth are limited, but the resources in the interstellar universe are infinite.

Now is an era that has just begun to rise. As long as we seize the opportunity, there is great hope and opportunity to become an interstellar mining giant in the future.

Mining in the interstellar universe is not subject to any legal restrictions, because the resources in the interstellar universe do not belong to anyone, whoever mines it belongs to whoever, and if it is sold directly internationally, even taxes do not have to be paid, so A good deal is hard to find anywhere in the world.

This is why everyone came to Liu Yuan in a hurry, nothing more than seeing the huge prospects of the interstellar mining industry and the ultra-high and stable returns. Just like everyone’s minerals on the moon now, this is a precious asset, an asset that will never be easily sold. Occupying a piece of land on the moon, you can slowly and continuously develop the resources on it, compared to mining on the earth. Resources are even better.

“We have to step up the time to expand production and produce more spaceships. In addition, we have to build space factories, large Mars bases, solar power stations, etc. on Mars.”

“There’s just too much to do next.”

Thinking of these things, Liu Yuan felt a big headache again. There are too many things, and he needs to be very busy.

There is no way, for the sake of my future foundation and for myself to be able to control myself, I must work hard to do these things now.

When domestic capitalists and elders are like sharks smelling blood, they all want to buy spaceships to mine asteroids in the asteroid belt, but the world is full of mourning.

On the same day, when Xinghai Technology successfully smelted the asteroid, the whole world saw a new era of interstellar resources.

Iron, copper, gold, silver, aluminum and other metal futures on the international futures market almost plummeted, and the decline was very large, and even fell back to last year’s prices all at once.

You must know that due to the large-scale production and popularization of aircraft, the metal futures market has skyrocketed, which has lasted for more than a year, and the current price is more than double that of last year.

However, now it has been cut in half, and the price has fallen directly back to last year’s price, and this plunge is continuing, and it continues to plummet at an acceptable speed.

People all over the world are not fools.

The era of interstellar resources that Xinghai Technology said has come, Xinghai Technology can go to the asteroid belt to mine asteroids and come back, and others can also go.

It’s just the beginning, but from the very beginning it’s been showing something terrifying.

It is just an asteroid that has been mined back, and the iron ore resources contained on it weigh 200 million tons, which is one-tenth of the global steel production last year. .

This is just the beginning, and it’s just what a spacecraft brought back from a trip to an asteroid.

In the future, more and more people will be involved, and more and more spacecraft will go to the asteroid belt to mine asteroids and come back.

At that time, more asteroids will be brought back. I don’t know how many iron ore, copper ore, aluminum ore, etc., and the iron ore brought back to earth may be 2 billion tons, 20 billion tons, or even 200 billion tons. Tons, 2 trillion tons are entirely possible without any problems.

There is also this gold and silver, the prices are very high, mainly because the amount of mining on the earth is very small.

Now Xinghai Technology has directly discovered an asteroid containing 100 million tons of gold in the asteroid belt. If this asteroid is mined back, the price of gold will inevitably plummet.

Scientists have also expressed a lot of opinions and viewpoints one after another, believing that the resources and minerals in the asteroid belt are very rich, and they are not inferior to the resources on the earth. More importantly, the resources on the earth are basically buried deep underground, which is difficult to achieve. Mining, but the resources of the asteroid belt are very easy to mine.

In addition, the resources in the interstellar universe are not only limited to the asteroid belt, but also several major planets in the solar system, such as resources on Mars. At present, Xinghai Technology has established a base on Mars, and is exploring for resources on Mars. It is possible to mine resources on Mars.

In addition, the resources contained in the Kerinbo belt and the Oort cloud belt of the solar system are even larger. Where there are countless resources, it can be said that there are almost endless resources.

As Xinghai Technology said, in the interstellar universe era, the resources that humans can master will be thousands, 10,000 times, or even hundreds of millions of times that of the parent star era. Naturally, the price of related mineral resources will plummet. .

It is just the beginning, because the mining of asteroids has just begun, and there is no large-scale start yet. In another year or two, the price of mineral resources will continue to fall, perhaps more than the price of cabbage. It’s going to be cheaper.

Gold is plummeting, silver is also plummeting, and the prices of metal resources such as copper, iron and aluminum are also plummeting, returning to the prices at the beginning of last year almost overnight, which makes the global economy that was not too prosperous even worse. , but also let those international mining giants feel the blow of dimensionality reduction one by one.

In a manor in Australia, a group of international mining giants gathered to discuss the current situation.

“The price of gold has fallen by more than 50%, and the impact is very large.”

“Iron ore has fallen the worst, and it has fallen by nearly 70%. The key is that now the world’s largest iron ore consumer has begun to significantly reduce its imports of iron ore. Even if the price falls, sales have become a problem. They It must be the first to use iron ore from space, and there is no rush to buy our iron ore.”

“This also means that the current mineral resources are not just a matter of falling prices, but also that there are no buyers, and no one wants our goods.”

Harry, the president of Billiton Group, looked at the people in front of him and reluctantly said something even more terrifying.

Compared with the price drop, the lack of buyers is the real horror, which means that their ore can only be rotten in their hands, and they don’t even want to sell a single ore.

“They just don’t buy our ores now. When the easterners can mine resources from the asteroid belt on a large scale, they will in turn dump all kinds of cheap resources to the world on a large scale.”

“Gentlemen, get ready to drink the northwest wind!”