Introduction: Lake Baikal, the world's deepest lake.
Lake Baikal is located in Russia, with an area of 31,500 square kilometers, a circle larger than London, and has a depth of an astonishing 1,650 meters, 2,500 years ago.
Lake Baikal is not only the deepest freshwater lake in the world, but also the oldest freshwater lake in the world.
There are abundant gold reserves at the bottom of the lake, but experts say that the gold at the bottom of Lake Baikal cannot be exploited.
1,600 tons of gold at the bottom of Lake Baikal.
In 2012, a team of experts led by Frolov of Russia, during the salvage process in Lake Baikal, accidentally discovered the fact that 1,600 tons of gold were sleeping at the bottom of the lake.
This discovery has many people excited, because 1,600 tons of gold is almost equivalent to one-fifth of the world's existing gold reserves!
No matter what country it is, gold is always a presence that cannot be ignored.
If this large wealth can be salvaged, then the amount of Russia's treasury will be doubled, what a huge number.
However, the Panel did not begin the salvage process.
Exploiting gold at the bottom of the lake is not an easy task, and the first step is to overcome physical problems.
Lake Baikal is a huge lake, so its interior is naturally not flat, and if you want to salvage the gold at the bottom of the lake, you must send submarines down to search and develop it.
But it is well known that the depth at which a submarine can dive is limited, after all, the capacity of a submarine is limited.
Lake Baikal is not deep, but it is much deeper than a submarine can dive.
So this makes it much less likely to exploit gold in the first place.
Even if the submarine can be salvaged at a deep dive to the bottom of the lake, it will undoubtedly face great challenges.
Especially for submarines, submarines have to withstand a lot of water pressure and erosion when they go to the bottom of the lake, especially at the bottom of Lake Baikal, it is difficult for anyone to dive and salvage.
Even with the increasing development of technology and the continuous development of human science and technology, it is still difficult to achieve such a difficult technical challenge.
It's not a question of technological development, it's a limitation of human capabilities.
Even so, the Panel did not abandon the idea of developing gold, as it was not the biggest obstacle.
Support for the government and the possibility of development are very important, and this is the biggest challenge for the development of Baikal gold.
The development of Lake Baikal by the Russia government is unlikely.
Because Lake Baikal has its own peculiarities, it cannot be exploited at will.
Ecology of Lake Baikal.
Lake Baikal is known to be the deepest freshwater lake in the world, the water is crystal clear, and something at the bottom of the lake looms.
The water is not only clear, but also pollution-free, and as early as the fifties of the twentieth century, the water quality test results of the lake showed that the water quality was "clean".
This is a very remarkable achievement, because today, with increasingly serious ecological pollution, it is already very precious to have such a clean water body.
But Lake Baikal is affected by such a clean body of water.
Because of the special water quality of Lake Baikal, special organisms have gradually formed in the flora and fauna of the lake area.
Baikal seals live at the bottom of Lake Baikal, and the lake is rich in flora and fauna, including waterbirds.
More than 300 species of waterbirds live in the Baikal region.
There are more than 600 species of aquatic plants and 1,080 species of aquatic plants in Lake Baikal.
It's a very rich ecological environment, which is very fragile and can become very dangerous if it is polluted.
There are several reasons for the excellent ecological environment of Lake Baikal.
One of the main reasons for this is the fact that the water of Lake Baikal is extremely self-purifying.
This is a very special ability that cleans away contaminants from the water and keeps the water in a clean state.
Therefore, this is the main reason why the water bodies of Lake Baikal remain clean.
But with the continuous development of human beings, most of the polluted things are caused by humans.
Therefore, if human beings develop around Lake Baikal, it will inevitably have a certain impact on the ecological environment of Lake Baikal.
Therefore, the government decided to protect Lake Baikal, deliberately not allowing the surrounding area to develop, and preserving the natural state of Baikal.
The level of development of the Baikal region is limited under the protection of such a policy, but this does not affect the attractiveness of Baikal.
Tourist attraction of Lake Baikal.
Lake Baikal in Russia is not only the deepest lake in the world, but also the largest lake in terms of water volume and even the oldest lake.
The large volume of the lake, the depth of its water, its ancient waters, and its endangering natural conditions make Baikal a sacred lake.
Lake Baikal is surrounded by abundant natural resources, including abundant flora and fauna, rich mineral resources and some wonderful natural phenomena.
These are all important factors that attract humans to come.
Although it is not realistic to exploit the gold at the bottom of the lake, there are still a lot of mineral resources around Lake Baikal.
There are as many as 700 types of ores in Lake Baikal, including oil, gas, cobalt, titanium, zirconium and other ores.
These ores do not contribute to the pollution that affects Lake Baikal.
Because these ores are scattered in the mining areas around Lake Baikal.
These ores attract human mining, but due to the Baikal resource conservation policy, human mining is prohibited.
This also limits the development of the area around Lake Baikal.
But despite this, a large number of people still come to Baikal for tourism.
The beauty of Lake Baikal attracts people, as does the abundant natural resources.
However, the ecological environment of Lake Baikal does not allow human development, which makes Baikal face a very difficult situation.
The Russia government wants to develop Baikal economically, but it faces a lot of choices.
The Russia government considers the development of Lake Baikal in three ways.
The first aspect is the consideration of economic strength.
Extracting gold from the bottom of the lake requires huge investments and human resources.
The development costs will be much higher than the benefits, so it's not worth it.
The second aspect is the technical issue.
The current state of technology is not enough to support such a huge task, and the recovery of this gold requires the solution of huge technical problems.
This is also unrealistic.
The third aspect is ecological and environmental protection.
There is a trade-off between government policy that can control the development of the bottom of the lake, but not the surrounding development.
epilogue
Experts say that it is not for nothing that gold cannot be mined at the bottom of Lake Baikal, and that gold mining at the bottom of Lake Baikal is unrealistic due to various considerations.
Protecting the ecological environment of Lake Baikal and keeping it in its pristine state is the direction decided by the Russia government.
But someday in the future, when technology develops, it's a new direction of development.
Natural resources are limited, and the scientific and technological development of mankind is unlimited.