After a thousand years of trading, start a million barrels of oil

Chapter 134 Lithium mine, found! (seeking a monthly ticket)
Jiang Fan took out a geological survey instrument like a full-screen mobile phone, followed the previous operation, tapped the glass screen twice, and the instrument turned on.

The surveyed minerals were adjusted to lithium mines. First, they aimed at one direction and took a photo. Some did come out, not many, and the location was marked.

Jiang Fan took a look at the normal map, and he went to Ah San's side.

Only then did I realize that there was something wrong with the direction I was comparing, so I quickly changed the direction and raised the geological survey instrument again.

Immediately, all the wide-angle mountain features on this side were presented, and they were directly transformed into translucent ones.
Adjusting the angle slightly, Jiang Fan showed the general outline and structure of the 500-kilometer underground on the screen of the instrument.

The translucent ones, among them, the mountains with high density, low density, and holes are all presented through the display screen after some easy-to-visualize processing.

In the Dabul area marked by the survey instrument, which is about 400 kilometers away from him, Jiang Fan found a large area of ​​solid block clusters glowing with light on the ground. The scale is very large, and it appears in the visual presentation of the entire transparent mountain. exceptionally prominent.

"There's something going on." Jiang Fan was overjoyed. The following is some relevant indicators for analysis. The information of reserves, type, and approximate depth are all presented.

And the result is also gratifying. Judging from the final data displayed on the screen of the survey instrument, the reserves of lithium resources in this block have reached an astonishing 800 million tons, and they are all spodumene, most of which are also shallow mines, so it is relatively easy mining.

"Yes, yes." Jiang Fan thought that 800 million tons is definitely the largest lithium mine in the world, and it is enough for Huaxia for many years.

With these mines, Huaxia may change from a lithium importer to a lithium exporter, which is enough to support Huaxia's development of the new energy battery industry.

"The harvest of this wave is not small." Jiang Fan quickly took out the paper map that he carried with him, and marked the location, reserves, and depth of the specific lithium mines according to the geological survey instrument.

Then without much stopover, we drove back to Gongga Airport and flew to the next destination.

Because of the great harvest in the first area, Jiang Fan didn't need to fly all over a dozen destinations. He spent two days surveying 5 destinations and then completed the entire survey.

The results are also gratifying. A total of 5 large lithium deposits were discovered in 3 destinations, plus some sporadic small ones, the total reserves reached 1100 million tons.

If estimated by value, the price of lithium carbonate for batteries has soared in the past two years. In June 2020, it was only 6 yuan per ton. By August 4, it will rise to 2021 yuan per ton in more than a year. tons, an increase of 8%.

And by May 2022, it will have risen to nearly 5 yuan per ton, and in more than half a year, the increase has reached 50% again.

Compared with the same period two years ago, it has reached a 2% increase, which can be described as appalling.

The reserves of 1100 million tons, that is, the value of 5.5 trillion yuan, exceeds the total GDP of Switzerland last year, and it is almost a wealthy country.

Jiang Fan smiled, with these, the tricks of foreign conspirators can be completely bankrupt, and by the way, bad newspapers like Jingbao can be completely shut up.

After marking the location of all the lithium mines, Jiang Fan returned to Rongcheng, handed the map to Zhang Feng, and waited for the result.

Jiang Fan has been busy looking for mines for the past two days, and other people have not been idle. Some, such as Biadi and Ningde, and the bosses of related power battery companies are actively communicating with various channels to try to see if there is a way to obtain them from other channels. Lithium resources, but the result is undoubtedly little effect.

Including the research institute, although Wei Qiang and the others are only responsible for research and not production and sales, if the researched and developed things cannot be mass-produced or sold, the value of research and development will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, on the one hand, they dare not relax their research and development work, and on the other hand, they are always paying attention to the progress in this area.

"Professor Sun, do you think this level can pass?" Wei Qiang chatted with Professor Sun from Ningde, who is also a specially-appointed professor, when he was taking a break from research and development.

Professor Sun smiled helplessly, and said: "Xuan, the core of our power battery is lithium, which has the highest natural energy density. If it is cut off, I really can't think of any alternative materials."

Wei Qiang thought for a while and said, "Where is your Ningde sodium-ion battery? Is there a chance?"

'Lithium hydrogen, sodium potassium, rubidium, cesium francium' are all elements of the same group and have similar chemical properties. Since lithium can be used as a battery, can sodium also be used?
This attempt has actually been done since the 80s, and around July 2021 last year, Ningde Times also released the first generation of sodium-ion batteries, which can be regarded as an alternative and supplement to deal with possible difficulties like the current one.

Professor Sun shook his head: "The volume of sodium ions is too large. As you know, the storage capacity of sodium ions with the same volume is only about half of that of lithium, and the number of cycles of sodium-ion batteries is relatively small, so they are not durable.

Although we try our best to take advantage of its strengths and avoid its shortcomings to a certain extent through some technologies, this natural defect is still unavoidable, especially in electric vehicles where the volume requirements are very high. If sodium ions are used as the main line, we will never It will be lower than the lithium ion used abroad. "

Professor Wei nodded. He actually knew this in his heart, but he had no choice but to ask in the last hope.

"Then it seems that we can only hope to solve the problem of lithium sources." Wei Qiang sighed, suddenly he thought of something, and said to Professor Sun:
"By the way, have you seen Director Jiang in the past two days?"

Professor Sun shook his head: "No, I didn't see him after he went to your Bi Yadi meeting that day, it seems that that day was to discuss the issue of the suspension of Li's confession, we would rather the boss go too.

You said that director Jiang is not here for the past two days, so you can't solve this problem, right? "

Wei Qiang smiled and said, "Director Jiang is really good at academics, I accept that. But the cutoff of lithium mine supply is a commercial or even diplomatic issue. It's impossible for him to solve it as a scholar."

Professor Sun also thought it was impossible, and the two sent messages to the two bosses to ask if there was any progress in the withdrawal of the confession. The answers they got were that they still had no clue.

There was no way, the two of them finished their rest and were ready to go back.

"Professor Wei, Professor Sun, good morning!" Suddenly a voice came from behind, and when I turned around, it was Director Jiang.

Director Jiang was walking towards them from the entrance with a smile on his face, and he seemed to be in a good mood.

"Director Jiang." The two also greeted Jiang Fan with a smile, but they were puzzled in their hearts. Why did Director Jiang seem to be very happy when the supply of the lithium mine was cut off?

Because it involves the follow-up research and development direction, Wei Qiang needs to ask whether Jiang Fan should continue to develop according to the existing lithium-based thinking, so he stepped forward and asked:
"Director Jiang, do you think we should start to consider other elements other than lithium as the technical solution for the negative electrode?"

Jiang Fan was surprised: "Why?"

Wei Qiang: "You know, our lithium resources are now being cut off by others. We don't know how to solve this problem. We have to make plans early."

Jiang Fan gave a sudden oh, looked at Wei Qiang and smiled and said, "It's okay, you continue to develop according to the original plan, we don't lack lithium resources."

"No shortage, others have let go of the restrictions?" Wei Qiang asked strangely.

Jiang Fan said: "No."

Wei Qiang was even more puzzled: "Then why is there no shortage?"

Even Professor Sun on the side looked suspicious when he heard this. They also contacted the bosses on both sides just now, but there was no progress at all.

Jiang Fan wanted to tell them about the discovery of the new mine, but it was too troublesome to explain, so he said directly: "You don't have to worry so much, just follow the original technical route, and someone will naturally provide lithium. .”

Wei Qiang and Professor Sun forgot to look at each other, well, you are the director who listens to you.

For the general public, the lithium supply cutoff incident became a little hot a few days ago, but two days later a celebrity got divorced, and everyone immediately started discussing if it wasn't who and who, he doesn't know what to do now, and put it away I forgot about the lithium resources choking the neck and cutting off the supply.

But there are some people who have been paying attention, that is, practitioners in the power battery industry, because it is related to their vital interests.

In a certain workshop.

"What happened to the lithium supply cut off?"

"I haven't heard any progress, but I can see that the production line hasn't stopped. There should be a way."

"What do you know, you can't deliver the batch of goods ordered by the user a while ago, you can't break the contract.

But after finishing these batches, you will have to look at it. It is estimated that there will be large-scale layoffs. I think the front-end sales are already tightening, including other power battery and electric vehicle companies. I know people who plan to cancel the bonus for this quarter. I am afraid that layoffs will follow. "

"Is it so serious? Hey, private companies are like this. When you work, you are always chicken soup. When you encounter something, you will lay off employees to reduce costs.

When I need you, you are my brother. When I don’t need you, you take a lot of money and work hard, so you are not worthy of being my brother. "

"Hehe, if there's still layoffs, you can do it generously, and call it graduation, isn't it disgusting."

"This is not the earliest one. The earliest person said that their company's layoffs are to send talents to the society, and that even those who have been baptized by their company will become talents, and put gold on their face, he tui!"

"Does Guan Xiaotong know that a popular actress has a net worth of hundreds of millions? She has passed the exam and it turns out that the end of the universe is the establishment."

"Forget it, let's not talk about it, I hope the company can tide over the difficulties this time, otherwise our thousands of dollars a month will be gone."

"Go ahead."

In the research institute, Zheng Kang is a researcher. He was the one who asked Jiang Fan about negative electrode materials when he first came here, so he admired the new Director Jiang very much.

But this time the lithium supply cutoff is a bit far away from him as a researcher, but after all, it is related to whether his hard work during this period can be converted into output, so he will pay attention to the situation while working hard.

But the result of observation during this period of time is that there seems to be no significant change, or even no waves, so I feel a little anxious for no reason.

But today, as usual, he was the first one to come to the institute early in the morning. Before starting work, he used to check the news and search for information related to 'lithium' or 'lithium cutoff'.

Originally, it was a habitual action, and he didn't report any expectations, but the results found this time made him feel excited.

(End of this chapter)