In the past few days, the news of the discovery of extra-large gold mines in Henan is not good on the Internet, and reporters from all walks of life have arrived at the scene to find out, and I and other melon-eating masses are also paying attention to the dynamics of gold mines through the Network.
It can be said that the thought of golden brilliant and shiny gold, everyone is excited, as a hard currency that passes between various civilizations, human love for gold can be said to have been carved into the bones, so this time the news of the discovery of a huge gold mine in Henan appeared, and many people's first reaction was whether anyone had picked up gold.
Judging from the historical records, many people in ancient times and in recent years, there are people who have picked up natural precipitation of gold elements in the mountains or rivers near the gold mine, which is commonly known as dog head gold, the small one may only be half of the palm, and the larger one can't even take a slap.
But unfortunately, there is no news that someone has picked up a gold lump, and geologists have found that this gold mine, before and after a total of 10 years, cost 160 million, hundreds of holes to succeed, the most expensive drilling cost is as high as 2 million US dollars.
Fortunately, these efforts have not been in vain in the end, the current extra-large gold mines found in Zhuzhuang Town, Tongbai County, Henan Province, there are as many as 16 ore bodies, gold reserves are initially estimated at about 31.55 tons, according to the current gold price market, these gold value of 11.6 billion yuan, until the end of the year after more detailed exploration reports come out, gold reserves are likely to exceed 50 tons, the overall value of gold mines more than 20 billion yuan is a sure thing.
In fact, although gold belongs to non-renewable resources, the hard demand for gold in the human world is not large, at most it is used in high-tech electronic components, and the rest are stored as jewelry or value-preserving items.
Take China, since 2012, China's proven gold reserves have begun to rise, as of 2019 has reached 14,100 tons, and from the perspective of the entire earth's 400 million tons of gold reserves, if all gold is mined, then everyone in the world can get 5 million tons of gold, so gold is not rare.
There is only one reason why gold has truly become a precious metal, that is, the current gold mining technology of human beings is too backward, and only the gold of the surface can be mined, and there is no mining capacity for gold with great distribution density and huge reserves in the mantle and core area.
For example, the extra-large gold mine found in Henan this time is located between 600 meters and 1000 meters underground, if it were not for its gold density of more than 5 grams per ton, according to this depth, the general gold mine will not have mining value after the mining cost is removed.
In addition, don't think that 31.55 tons of gold is a lot, and don't think that the discovery of Henan mega gold mine this time will cause the price of gold to plummet, because compared to the global gold plate, this 31.55 tons is just a mosquito leg.
Data published by the British Metal Focus Company in 2018 shows that the total global gold is 186,230 tons, calculated according to the global gold production of about 3503 tons in 2018, about 65 years, Henan's 31.55 tons of gold accounted for only a small part.
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Although the extra-large gold mine found in Henan has nothing to do with our melon-eating masses, it is certain that with the advent of future space mining and asteroid mining, the price of gold will definitely plummet, because it is really because of rarity and difficulty in mining to become valuable, when the future automatic mining robot is rooted in the gold-rich asteroid, gold is estimated to be similar to electrolytic aluminum.
The human world is essentially a world of energy and food, Kissinger once said that whoever controls oil controls all countries, whoever controls food controls all mankind, and gold, which is essentially just a pile of metal, can neither eat nor drink, nor can it refuel the car.
If nothing else, one day gold will fall to the altar and become an ordinary metal, and the real hard currency of the human world will likely become helium-3 on the moon, because it is the most ideal fuel for controlled nuclear fusion, a more promising energy source than oil, and even the ultimate energy.