The information in this article comes from Xinhua News Agency 2018-04-17 "Independent Rubidium Mine with Proven Reserves of 175,000 Tons in Guangdong"; The Paper2024-06-28How is rubidium priced? 》； Guangdong Provincial Department of Natural Resources 2019-06-16 "Provincial Land and Resources Archives Collect Two Typical Rubidium Ore Core and Other Physical Geological Data in Guangdong Province" and other official media news, but in order to improve the readability of the article, the details may be polished, please read sensibly, for reference only!
Preface
What is the essence of war? Many people say that it is actually a competition for resources, whether it is gold or oil, the importance of a country is self-evident, and some more scarce ore resources are the object of fierce competition among countries.
As a result, a piece of news in 2018 was completely detonated on an international scale, and a mineral deposit was explored in the Guangdong region of the mainland, which can even be called a "treasure" in rarity.
When the true face of the "treasure" was revealed, we knew why the roots of the Japanese gas itched, and it turned out that it had such a big effect on us!
Rare rubidium ore resources
In 2018, in Heyuan City, Guangdong Province, in a meticulous survey, explorers accidentally discovered an independent rubidium deposit near Tiantian Mountain, with reserves of 175,000 tons accounting for 58% of the total known rubidium deposits in the world.
Prior to this, the world has never found independent rubidium deposits, want to obtain rubidium resources, countries can only extract from associated ores, this time Guangdong found such amazing reserves of rubidium ore, or belongs to the easier to select and take deposits, so that the world's eyes red eyes also make sense.
You must know that all kinds of ore resources on the earth are limited, even if they can be regenerated, it will take a lot of time, for the short history of human beings, the evolution of hundreds of millions of years at every turn, obviously not reference, so the ore resources found now can almost be said to be a little less, and rubidium resources are no exception.
As a scarce resource, due to the special properties of rubidium itself, if it is in contact with air or water alone, it is easy to have violent chemical reactions such as open flames, therefore, it is rare to find a single rubidium in nature, and it can be found often because of the existence of other minerals as a companion, and the content is amazing.
It is precisely because of the difficulty of extraction and the small amount of existence in the world, so for a long time, rubidium has not been paid attention to, but with the development of science and technology, the value of rubidium has been gradually discovered, I did not expect its application to be so extensive, especially when it is widely used in high-tech products, its value is truly reflected.
Therefore, the valuation of one ton is as high as 4.6 billion, which depends on more than just scarcity and expensive.
Rubidium element is widely used
Due to the high stability and accuracy of rubidium, it can also be used in top technology atomic clocks, with an error of less than 1 second in 3.7 million years, which has almost reached the most ideal level, so rubidium has always played an indispensable role in the development of space technology such as launch systems for artificial earth satellites, launch vehicle navigation, and global positioning systems.
And researchers also according to the characteristics of rubidium, developed rubidium ion thruster, but do not underestimate this small thruster, spacecraft in space needs to consume a lot of energy, rubidium ion thruster can overcome this problem, with a very small consumption in exchange for powerful energy, is the most needed energy exchange method in the process of human exploration of the universe, so it is widely used in the space industry is not so difficult to understand.
In addition, in the fields of special glass, photocells, photoemitting tubes, etc., rubidium has a lot of uses, and even in medicine, rubidium can also replace potassium in the treatment of goiter and other diseases, with the in-depth research of scientists on rubidium, the application of rubidium has become more and more extensive, so its scarcity will be precious.
But although the application is very wide, but there are not many rubidium deposits in the world, otherwise only 17.5 tons will be found can account for 58% of the total, everyone understands the truth that rare metals are expensive, even if many people like to compare rare metals with gold, but it is obvious that the value of rubidium is much higher than gold.
This is also why when the mainland discovers rich rubidium ore, it will attract the attention of all countries in the world, especially Japan, as an island country, was crazy to expand outward because of its own lack of resources, and wanted to occupy the resources of other countries.
So how do we make use of these precious resources?
Maximize the value of scarce resources
In the past, if you want to obtain rubidium this scarce resource, you often need to introduce it from other countries, not only need to see people's faces, but also can not refuse the sky-high price proposed by the other party, at that time we can only break our teeth and swallow it in our stomachs, but we did not expect that there is such a rich rubidium ore in the mainland, and the passive situation has been reversed immediately.
Since it is a resource that makes the world blush, how to maximize the value of this rare resource has become a difficult problem that needs to be carefully considered, after all, having resources is an innate advantage, but in order to be able to really benefit from it, it depends on reasonable development and utilization.
Of course, such a precious resource can only play a greater value when applied to cutting-edge technology, and even make great breakthroughs in related fields, but this is not easy, but this does not affect our ability to have more imagination by mastering rubidium resources.
It is reported that the world's rubidium consumption is mainly concentrated in the high-tech field, only a small part of it is used in the traditional field, since such an important resource is found in the mainland, I believe that there will be many countries hope to cooperate with us to obtain some rubidium resources, which in some international relations let us have a greater right to speak.
In the past, because we started relatively late, we had to rely on imports for many resources and technologies, so some countries with ulterior motives always found various reasons to blockade the mainland's resources and technology.
Now this situation has been gradually broken, especially this global scarce resource, if you want to obtain from the mainland, you must obtain the consent of the mainland, although we will not deliberately block or raise the price, but this kind of want to sell to buy, do not sell if you don't want to sell the feeling is really good.
The development of rubidium ore is not as simple as imagined, especially considering the regeneration and recycling of resources, the technical requirements for development are very high, and the protection of the environment around the mining area is also a topic that cannot be ignored, after all, if in order to develop resources, and cause irreversible harm to the local environment, it is a bit more than worth the loss.
epilogue
The discovery of rubidium ore has undoubtedly greatly strengthened the mainland's right to speak in international exchanges, but this is not an overnight result, the hard work of every scientific researcher and industrial worker in the mainland cannot be ignored, what we lack is never the courage to move forward, but the opportunity that has come again and again, and it is obvious that the discovery of rubidium is one of the opportunities.
Fortunately, we have already made sufficient preparations, and when the opportunity comes, we will not hesitate to grasp it and firmly grasp this "priceless treasure" in our own hands, and we will certainly make an indispensable contribution to the development of the mainland and even all mankind in the future.