In today's world, resources are still the strategic reserves of various countries, known as "industrial monosodium glutamate" rare earths, even more so, because of the uneven distribution of rare earths, coupled with the world's largest rare earth countries, we control the export of rare earths, which makes the United States and other countries have a sense of crisis, they in order to find rare earths, the world runs, the result is really let them find. Recently, an Australian energy company announced that it has found the world's largest undeveloped rare earth deposit in the Hotgol region of Mongolia's South Gobi Province, and published various data on the deposit.
rare earth
According to the data, Hotgore's current ore reserves are 275 million tons, with an average grade of 0.91%, and the amount of rare earths after refining can reach 2.2 million tons, which is enough for all military countries in the world, in ten years, if it is to manufacture the fifth generation of stealth fighters, it can make 1.1 million, that is, a large stealth bomber like B2, it can also build 600,000 aircraft, if the data released by Australia is true, then this Hotgol, the value is limitless.
Rare earth ores
It is worth mentioning that this Hotgore, only 140 kilometers from our border, belongs to the same vein as our Baiyun Obo mine, which shows that this Australian exploration company is really very chicken thief, knowing that our country has many rare earth mines, so they look around our perimeter. It turned out to really let them find it. This also shows that Australia's prospecting technology is indeed very good.
Baiyun Obo Mine
Because of the discovery of the Hotgol rare earth mine, Mongolia has become the second country in rare earth minerals, for this reason, Western countries are very excited, thinking that they can finally get rid of China's rare earths, but there is another problem in front of them, that is, how to ship out!
Let's look at the location of Mongolia, is a standard landlocked country, surrounded by China and Russia, if they want to transport rare earths, then they have to pass through one of these two countries, this is not easy to do, sell to others is good to say, if it is sold to the West, it is not good, both countries will not let it transit a large number of rare earth mines, so, for Mongolia, there is only one way to go, that is, to purify and deep process rare earth minerals locally, so that the volume is greatly reduced, They can then be transported out by plane.
Rare earth refining technology
But who to process? Looking at the world, China's rare earth processing and refining technology has always been far ahead, which is also a killer tool for our Kaxi's neck, but this time, Mongolia did not look for us, but chose Australia, think about it, even if they find us to process, are we willing to say both, on the one hand, we have it ourselves, on the other hand, it is purified, and it is not sold to us, helping competitors, which is certainly not dry. The reason why Mongolia is looking for Australia, on the one hand, this deposit was discovered by them, on the other hand, in other countries, Australia's mineral refining technology, it can be said that in the past, the extraction rate of rare earths was more than 85%, although there was still a gap compared with our 99.999%, but they had no other choice.
In this regard, we must also attach great importance to it, the United States is trying its best to take the little brother to decouple from us, we can not have many means to restrain them, so the huge rare earth mines found in Mongolia undoubtedly give them some more chips, we cannot take it lightly.