While everyone was listening to Sun Rutang talk about the newly purchased centrifugal extractor, they suddenly heard a loud noise outside the workshop.

Then, everyone heard that the noise outside turned into commotion, and then crying.

After a few minutes, all that was left was the sound of men cursing and women whimpering.

Everyone is now entering the extraction workshop. The length of the workshop is nearly 50 meters. It is a large workshop with a height of 8 meters and a width of about 12 meters. People are walking in the middle, and there are various solvent extraction tanks on both sides.

It is midsummer now, and the windows on the upper and lower floors of the workshop are all open, and the sounds from outside can be heard clearly.

Sun Rutang's face changed color and he ordered the staff who were following him: "Go and see what's going on."

The explanation couldn't go on anymore, so I had to take everyone to the conference room to rest.

In the conference room, after the staff served tea, someone called Sun Rutang out.

Five minutes later, Sun Rutang walked in and apologized to everyone: "Everyone is very sorry.

Some herdsmen come here to cause trouble, but the problems they report have nothing to do with our factory, but what happened at the Tawang Banner rare earth smelting plant that has recently joined the group."

Accompanying Chen Fenghe kept winking at Sun Rutang, and Sun Rutang realized that although the guests were investors of the Rare Earth Group, they were still "outsiders", and what they just said was "leaking" the news and exposing a family scandal.

Chen Lidong pretended not to hear, but secretly directed Edmund to find out the reason for the quarrel outside.

The mechanical servant has its own "wind ear" function, which is a secret weapon.

The visit report ended in a hurry, and dinner was arranged at Lugang Hotel.

During the meal, Meng Qinghe frequently toasted to Chen Lidong. Later, Chen Lidong realized that it turned out that Meng Qinghe's Ganzhou Metallurgical Industry Corporation was a supplier of Celeron. The other party hoped that Celeron would increase the purchase quota while overfulfilling this year's revenue.

Task.

Returning to the room in the evening, Chen Lidong asked Edmund: "Do you understand clearly? What is the situation?"

Edmund reported the situation he had to Chen Lidong.

This afternoon, there were more than 10 herdsmen making trouble at the No. 3 Rare Earth Plant, and the leader was named Agula.

He said that there are more than 800 sheep and 18 cows on his pasture. Their family of six rely on these livestock to have a secure economy and a happy life.

But when the goats were shedding their wool this spring, Agula accidentally opened the mouth of a goat to see how old it was.

But the teeth in the goat's mouth surprised him, "The goat's teeth are all straight, so why are they long, sharp, and uneven?" He opened the mouth of another sheep, but it was still the same, countless.

Just how many teeth there are, and the same goes for newly-laid lambs.

A few days later, while waiting for a bus on the highway, he met two young men with southern accents. While chatting with each other, the two young men told him:

The bones of the herdsmen who have lived here for a long time are brittle and cannot be reconnected because the smoke emitted by the rare earth plant is poisonous and harmful to the surrounding people and livestock.

Agula was dubious at the time. Two young men asked him if the teeth of the domestic animals were deformed. Agula thought that the goats' teeth were sharp and long, and they were indeed different from the original ones.

At this time, he felt very scared and hurried back to the village to tell the herdsmen in the village. The herdsmen made a commotion because they discovered that the children in the village also had abnormal teeth.

Everyone gathered together to discuss countermeasures and prepared to discuss solutions with rare earth manufacturers.

They found the rare earth smelting plant in Tawang Banner and the Lugang Baiyun Iron Mine Rare Earth Materials Plant. They reported the situation to several plant leaders, but no agreement was reached.

The common people's thinking is that if the people below don't care, they will look to the top.

When they heard that these factories were now owned by Lugang, the village sent them to Lugang to report the situation, and Lugang sent them to the Third Rare Earth Plant.

The villagers took the sick lamb to the third factory and opened its mouth for everyone to see. The workers who were watching also murmured: There is indeed something wrong with the sheep.

After listening, Chen Lidong cursed: "Damn it, something went wrong just after the capital injection."

He took out his phone and dialed Chen Shufen: "Auntie, did our money go to the other party's account?"

"We're here. What's wrong? Is there a problem?"

"Oh...it's okay."

Putting down the phone, Chen Lidong dialed Zhou Wenliang again, "Come to Lucheng as soon as possible and fly over. When you get to Erlihe Airport, contact Edmund to pick you up."

Later generations of Chen Lidong had never been exposed to the rare earth industry, so why did they come here to engage in rare earth industry?

Because there is a saying: "The Middle East has oil, and China has rare earths."

Rare earths are strategic resources and can be bargained with in the future.

Being able to play with rare earths in this life is also considered a kind of practice.

But now, Chen Lidong felt helpless as he got into the wrong sedan chair.

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The inspection will continue.

Next, visit Lucheng Magnetic Materials Factory.

Chen Lidong didn't care about this factory. He had a Celeron, and the Lucheng factory's equipment and craftsmanship were only average.

During the visit together, Chen Lidong approached Liu Pinchang of the Gan Province Rare Earth Research Institute and said, "Liu, I want to ask you something."

Liu Pinchang is in his 40s, not tall, and has the air of an intellectual.

Liu Pinchang already knew that Chen Lidong was a shareholder of the joint-stock company and a financial backer, so he was more polite and replied: "Director Chen, please tell me if you have anything to say."

"Look, the No. 3 Rare Earth Plant mainly uses organic solvents to extract rare earths. The herdsmen who came yesterday said that the smoke emitted by the rare earth plant is poisonous. Can rare earths also be refined by sintering?"

"Haha, Director Chen is not in this industry, so it is normal for him not to understand the craftsmanship here.

Rare earth is not a kind of metal element, but 17 kinds. The oxides, chlorides and extremely pure elements of these metals have a variety of uses, plus their compounds and mixtures, so rare earth products

countless.

Regarding the selection of rare earth ores, yesterday Sun Rutang talked about two processes: magnetic separation and flotation. That step can only be regarded as rough selection, and then there is selection.

There are many methods for decomposing rare earth ores, which can generally be divided into three categories, namely acid method, alkali method and chloride decomposition. Through these methods, various mixed rare earth compounds such as mixed rare earth chlorides are made. At this point, it can be regarded as a step forward.

After the pre-processing of rare earth ores, the next step is the refining of rare earths.

There are basically two methods of rare earth smelting, hydrometallurgy and pyrometallurgy.

Hydrometallurgy is what Sun Rutang talked about yesterday, using a box-type extraction tank and a centrifugal extraction machine.

However, here in Lucheng, rotary kilns are mostly used to process mixed rare earth ores and bastnaesite ores, and vertical chlorination furnaces are also used. Therefore, the gas and dust emitted contain a large amount of harmful sulfur, chlorine, fluorine and other harmful substances.

Materials, air, water sources, vegetation and the normal lives of cattle, sheep and people will all be affected."

Hearing this, Chen Lidong frowned and asked: "What should we do? Isn't there a better way, an environmentally friendly smelting method?"

"Environmentally friendly?" Liu Pinchang looked at Chen Lidong in surprise, "Dr. Chen also knows about environmentally friendly?"

Chen Lidong is a bit embarrassed. When recruiting investment in his later generations, he always checked the environmental protection level of the investment targets. The phrase "environmentally friendly" was often mentioned on his lips.

Liu Pinchang asked this, indicating that this concept has been proposed, but Chen Lidong could not explain the meaning behind this sentence, and could only vaguely say: "We are engaged in entities, we must pay attention to the impact of corporate production on the environment, and strive to use non-polluting

Or low-pollution technologies and processes.”

"Okay, Director Chen, it's really different for you to have such insight at such a young age.

The key to solving environmental protection problems is to adopt more advanced technologies and processes.

We and our comrades from Lugang Rare Earth Research Institute are studying a new flotation process. Do you know about flotation?"

Chen Lidong shook his head.

Liu Pinchang explained: "Flotation is also a mineral processing process, and Lugang Rare Earth Research Institute is developing a "cascade closed-circuit process" that can effectively reduce pollution.

In fact, the key to controlling pollution is not here."

"Oh? What's the key?"

"What we are discussing is hydrometallurgy, and what is commonly used here in Lucheng is pyrometallurgy, which is to replace the rare earth metals in rare earth ores through roasting. This method can be done with a kiln or an electric furnace.

As far as I know, in Lucheng, many small factories directly enter kilns and electric furnaces to reduce rare earths without beneficiation, so the pollution is serious.

This kind of fire smelting is low-cost and highly efficient. As for polluting the atmosphere, water and soil, who cares?"

Having said this, Liu Pinchang closed his mouth, with melancholy in his eyes.

Chen Lidong also understood, "Everything in the world is bustling for profit, and everything in the world is bustling for profit." Along the way, he did see many chimneys with billowing smoke, among which there should be companies that smelt rare earths by fire.

I estimate that the crafts I have seen in the past two days belong to the crafts that can be visited, and the crafts that cannot be visited are not allowed to be seen, and those are the ones that make money.

Fire roasting is actually not complicated. It is to heat the mineral to a certain temperature, and then use metal a as a reducing agent to reduce the compound of another metal b, and metal b is replaced.

Steel smelters use the fire method to smelt rare earths, and metal b here is a certain rare earth metal.

Chen Lidong lost interest in visiting when thinking about these messy things.

Zhou Wenliang rushed over after receiving the call, but did not show up. After meeting with Edmund, he went to contact the herdsmen as a reporter for a newspaper.

One day later, Zhou Wenliang reported back the news.

The situation reported by the herdsmen is true. Tawang Banner is close to the Baiyun Mining Area.

Dozens of rare earth smelting companies have been put into operation around the mining area in recent years, almost all of which refine rare earths by fire, emitting toxic gases into the atmosphere every day.

Cattle and sheep are getting sick, female animals are having abortions, and even pasture production is decreasing.

People's health must have been damaged. Some children's teeth have changed. Some of the teeth can be broken off by hand, and they cannot chew hard food.

Zhou Wenliang has advised herdsmen to report to the environmental protection department and go to the authoritative department for a physical examination.

Chen Lidong was silent after hearing this. Later, he had no contact with the rare earth industry and had never done business in Mongolia. He did not know the final fate of Lugang's rare earth shares.

When he thought about it, later generations of countries would be determined to "prefer green waters and lush mountains to mountains of gold and silver." These rare earth companies in front of them would definitely be targeted.

Will Donghua’s 80 million become black-hearted capital, or will it be wasted?

Has Chen Xiaoer, who has always had a unique vision and is good at investing, and monopolizes the investment decision-making power within the group, missteps?
Chapter completed!