Chapter 378 Bottlenecks in Ore Transportation

  Australia is the home base of Queensland Earl Li Fushou. It covers almost all important towns and contributes more than 90% of the profits. Just like Her Majesty’s crown, it is where the core interests lie.

  However, this pattern was completely broken after the development of the Koi copper-gold mine. With the continuous output of refined copper ore from the Koi copper-gold mine, the status of Shangri-La Island has been linearly upgraded with strong cash flow, and it has risen rapidly in the industrial structure of Hongbao.

  In the next 30 years that can be expected

  The Koi copper-gold mine can still play the role of currency, becoming one of the main engines of Queensland’s economic take-off, and has an indispensable and important strategic position.

Therefore, the newly established Jinli Mining Bureau will include Longmen Town, Longjin Road, Jinli Mine, Crescent Lake Reservoir Power Station and the surrounding 500 kilometers wide area, implement strict military control, and strengthen the regiment-level strength of the Longmen Security Area. Configuration, invested heavily in the construction of new bay fort, equipped with coastal patrol force, strictly seal the surrounding waters.

  Non-mining personnel are strictly forbidden to enter and exit, non-residents are strictly forbidden to do business, and they are not allowed to travel between Longmen Town and various territories without special permits. They are not allowed to open to the development of industries other than daily necessities without permission, and all unnecessary movement of personnel is prohibited.

Since the above measures were taken, the entire Koi Mining Bureau has been enveloped in a large and tightly guarded net, and even news about the mining area has been blocked. The external forces only know that there is such a huge copper and gold mine, and where is it in Shangri-La Island. , But inconsistent is confused.

   Say something bad

  In the eyes of European powerhouses, the entire Shangri-La Island plus Sulawesi and most of Borneo are not as valuable as a koi copper-gold mine.

The land of this era is worthless, and sovereignty is not sensitive. The most eye-catching thing is the shining pound, peso, franc and dollar. These currencies with strong purchasing power are equated with precious metals, or anchored to gold. , Or anchoring silver, its value is universally recognized by all countries in the world.

   Isn’t brass less important?

The answer is no. Regardless of the European powers, the East, and South America, copper coins are the most widely used and most widely circulated currency. Even if it is as strong as the British pound, it is impossible to put gold out of circulation. The shiny gold coins are more prominent. The degree of affluence is a good thing for each family to press the bottom of the box.

  Gold circulates very little on the market, mainly paper money, silver coins and copper coins. The rich brass resources represent abundant financial resources.

  According to the current mining capacity of the Koi copper and gold mine, it can easily support half of Queensland, which will inevitably greatly increase the temptation to secretly prying eyes, and fully enhance the defense response. Tightening the fence to prevent wolves is originally the meaning of the question.

  After the Battle of Borneo is over

The main force of    Shangri-La Division withdrew to rest, and stationed heavy troops and the main force of Shangri-La Squadron in Jayapura, which is more than 330 kilometers away from the Koi Mining Bureau, echoing the Longmen Security Area.

at the same time

  Engineering survey personnel are conducting in-depth surveys and are preparing to build a high-grade combat readiness road from Jayapura to the Koi Mining Bureau. The entire line of the combat readiness road is planned to be paved with asphalt concrete pavement, flat and wide.

  After the road is completed, the Jayapura Heavy Group can reach the Longmen Guard Area within 12 hours to provide nearby support.

  Because of the high level of security, the war preparedness road is planned to be built with indigenous prisoners of war. After the road is completed, the indigenous prisoners of war will be directly under the jurisdiction of the Koi Mining Bureau. Mining in the vast mountains requires a lot of manpower, the more the better.

  As for where so many indigenous prisoners of war come from?

There is no need to go into this issue in detail. The indigenous populations of East Kalimantan and South Kalimantan have been wiped out by the army continuously. The indigenous population of Central Kalimantan that has just been defeated is quite large, probably some. There are more than five hundred thousand, young men have at least one hundred and fifty thousand, as consumables, they can meet the mining needs of the Koi copper and gold mine for more than ten years.

  That...I was wrong, it was an indigenous prisoner of war.

  Shangri-La Chief Executive Wu Xuewen now has two important events at hand, one is the survey and design and subsequent construction of the railway line of the Jinli Mining Bureau, and the other is the development of Qixing Town in the Qingshui River Basin.

  He doesn’t need to bother about the previous thing. Naturally, the Koi Mining Bureau will take the lead in the overall work, and the construction funds don’t need to worry about it. Mining slaves mine more copper ore, then everything will be available.

  We do not produce copper coins, we are just porters of copper coins.

  Australia is rich in gold. From Cairns, Qingdao Town, Brisbane to Melbourne, more than 8.6 million ounces of gold are mined each year, enough to enable millions of people to live a prosperous life.

  Only Queensland gold mines can produce more than 3.7 million ounces of gold resources in a year. This production is still increasing steadily every year, so Australia is not short of money.

  Queensland Tianzi No. 1 project is undoubtedly the Longjin Railway. This is a major issue related to the money bag in the next 50 or even 100 years.

The railway line planned by the Jinli Mining Bureau will dig tunnels and erect railway bridges in the lofty mountains. The bridge-to-tunnel ratio occupies more than 1/3 of the entire railway line. The construction is very difficult and the construction period is 5-6. About years.

Correspondingly, the investment amount is quite large, but such a price must be paid, because the thick iron cap layer covering the copper-gold deposit is as high as more than 300 meters, and it must be excavated, otherwise the precious value below cannot be used. H.

  The Longmen Iron and Steel Plant under the Mining Bureau is under construction. Its location is about 24 kilometers away from Longmen Town. The ore terminal is adjacent to a wide river with a water depth of about 10 meters and can pass 15,000 tons of ships.

  After the completion of Longjin Railway

The iron ore mined from the koi mine will be sent directly to the Longmen Iron and Steel Plant through a special railway line, and the copper concentrate mined will be transported directly to the ore terminal, and set sail from here to the copper smelting center in White Tiger City, Australia, forming a complete line Industry chain.

  Prior to this, the ore resources mined by the Koi Mine could only be transported through the Longjin Highway. For this purpose, the Mining Bureau invested more than 500 tractors on the Longjin Highway day and night.

  15 horsepower tractors have amazing drag force. On average, each tractor can transport up to 6 tons of ore, and more than 500 tractors can transport more than 3,000 tons at a time.

  According to a four-day round-trip calculation, each month for 6 days of maintenance, the tractor team can run 6 times a month, and the total transportation volume reaches 18,000 tons, which can just meet the transportation needs of the Koi copper and gold mine.

  Mining Bureau is not satisfied. With the Longmen Iron and Steel Plant put into operation at the end of the year, the demand for ore transportation will be multiplied by ten on the current basis. By then, the transportation contradiction will be extremely acute, and there is an urgent need for new tractors with high horsepower and large load.

  Only relying on the current technical level of walking tractors, it is completely unable to meet the demand for the delivery of huge amounts of iron ore.

  For the transportation bottleneck situation, the Bureau of Mines has taken three effective measures to deal with it.

  In the long run, the construction of the Long-Jin Railway will fundamentally solve the transportation contradictions and is the ultimate solution to the problem.

  In the mid-term

  The construction of the Long-Jin Railway takes a long time and should be carried out in two steps.

The rapid construction of a railway line from Longmen Town and the Iron and Steel Plant (the two are located in two places) directly to the Sunset Valley, plus the branch line with a total length of about 130 kilometers, "Y" shape, can shorten the transportation distance by half. It is the first phase of the project.

  The hilly terrain that the first phase of the project passes through is relatively flat. Except for some bridges and culverts, there are no difficult tunnels to open, and a large amount of manpower and material resources can be built within one year.

  This requires the construction of a large ore storage yard in the Sunset Valley to realize the transfer of ore cargo.

Taking the railway line from Longmen Town to Luoyang Valley as an example, the hilly area from Longmen Town to Luoyang Valley is about 90 kilometers long, which cuts the total length of more than 180 kilometers of transportation lines in half, and the tractor team is only responsible for more than 90 kilometers of high mountains and steep mountains. Transportation can greatly improve the volume and efficiency of transportation.

  This section of the railway line will be constructed as the first phase of the Long-Jin Railway. After the second phase of the project across the steep mountains, the entire line will be connected and connected.

  In the short term

  The Bureau of Mines urgently needed high-horsepower tractors to transport ore. This demand had been put forward at the end of 1883.

  Under the urging of urgent demand, General Machinery is urgently developing a high-horsepower 4-wheel tractor using a 3.5-liter diesel engine with a design target load of 18 tons (mountain terrain). At present, several prototypes have been produced.

This is a new type of tractor with innovative changes. The steering structure has been upgraded from manual steering (hand-held) to rudder-wheel steering (steering wheel), a drive shaft design has been added, a two-speed gearbox design has been added, and a clutch design has been added , Added heavy-duty spring steel plate design, initially possessed the main features of later generations of four-wheel tractors, and belonged to the international cutting-edge innovative major inventions.

   Its revolutionary innovation lies in the use of diesel-powered 4-wheel engines instead of steam-powered 4-wheel engines.

  Note; (Walking tractors are two-wheel power tractors, and the rotary tiller and traction bucket can be attached to the rear, and the flatbed truck can be hauled.)

At present, 6 test prototypes have been sent to the Koi Mining Bureau. Durability and reliability tests, as well as maximum load and longest life tests will be carried out on the Longjin Highway to verify the advantages and disadvantages of the design. Make improvements one by one in mass production.

Four-wheel tractors are not a new thing. Steam tractors were born as early as 1849. The first self-propelled agricultural motor vehicle in the world was produced by Ransoms in the United Kingdom. It consists of a three-wheeled chassis and an upright boiler. It is composed of a steam engine, which drives the front wheels to work through a chain.

  In this field, the United Kingdom and the United States have always been the pioneers of exploration. In the later period, General Machinery Australia joined in and became the main force in the agricultural machinery market.

  The first practical four-wheel steam-powered tractor was born in 1868, manufactured by the British Garrett & Sons subsidiary. Its steam engine is a small locomotive, which can be operated by one person.

  The Garrett & Sons subsidiary was established in 1778. It mainly produces steam engines, traction vehicles, steam rollers, steam carriages and trams. It is especially famous for steam tractors and has a prominent reputation in the British steam traction motor vehicle industry.

  In the UK, in addition to Garrett, there are companies producing steam traction vehicles, including Ransoms, Fowler, Eveling, and Clayton. There are dozens of large and small companies.

  Steam tractors are not used much in farmland farming in the UK. They are usually used for road transportation, especially timber and bulk cargo transportation. They can pull more than horse-drawn carts and are less expensive.

  The other steam machinery power is the United States, which greatly stimulated the development of western agriculture and animal husbandry during the Western Development Movement in the second half of the 19th century.

  In May 1862, US President Lincoln promulgated the Homestead Law, allowing farmers who have cultivated western land for five years to obtain the right to use 64.75hm2 (160 acres) of land after paying a certificate fee of $10.

  The objective demand for the expansion of agricultural arable land and the technological basis of the "steam industrial revolution" in Europe and America formed the twin engines of the rapid development of agricultural mechanization in the United States in the second half of the 19th century.

Since 1860, the United States has promoted the use of steam-powered wheeled tractors. Nicos and Shepard are the main manufacturers of steam tractors in the United States. In addition, the Pert Huron Company also produces steam tractors. Upton Manufacturing Company in 1851, with more than 20 years of experience in the production of steam tractors.

After the emergence of diesel power, Detroit Cargill Steam Machinery Co., Ltd. took the lead in developing and producing walking tractors powered by diesel engines. It was known for its reliable quality, durability, small body and great power, and quickly occupied the original steam tractors. The market has swept Europe and the United States and has become the main force in transportation and agricultural production.

  Not long afterwards, General Machinery Australia also joined in to produce a more complete range of small and medium-sized walking tractors and diesel combined generators, which fully occupied the world market in just a few years.

Due to the dull sense of smell, the company produced a large number of unsold steam tractors, which led to high debts. The once brilliant companies closed down or were merged. Among them were British Fowler, Eveling and Clayton, as well as the old American steam. Tractor manufacturers Nicos and Shepard, and Pert Huron, the latter two were acquired by Cargill Steam Machinery, and have been completely delisted.

  Market competition is cruel, and if you do not advance, you will retreat.

General Machinery Australia took the opportunity to recruit a large number of experienced European and American engineers to join. The four-wheel high-horsepower tractor powered by a 3.5-liter diesel engine continues the characteristics of many steam tractors, with two small steering wheels at the front and two large driving wheels at the rear. , Steering wheel steering, leaf springs and other designs, you can see the shadow of the four-wheel steam tractor, which has been proven to be classic designs by time.

  In the actual experiment, the high-horsepower 4-wheel diesel tractor can easily tow large carriages with a load of 30 tons in the transportation in the plains with little undulations, so the testers are excited to call it "iron cow".

  Because of this, the first-generation high-horsepower four-wheel tractor with a 3.5-liter diesel engine was called the "350 Iron Bull", and the world-renowned "Iron Bull" brand was born for a century.

  "Tie Niu" brand series of high-horsepower four-wheel tractors has become a trump card in the hands of General Machinery Australia, a weapon to establish its dominance in the agricultural machinery industry, and it has been conquering cities and territories in the world market.

  The initial research and development opportunity originated from the huge export demand for ore from the Koi Copper and Gold Mine.

  No one would have thought that the products built out of a few months of surprises will trigger widespread demand after being put on the market. After years of polishing and technical improvements, they become the pressure box bottom product series that supports General Machinery's long-lasting prosperity.

The characteristic of   Tieniu brand tractors is that they are resistant to damage. Even if they are broken, repairs are simple. They are simply the best partner of farmers. There is no one, so refutation is not acceptable.

  (End of this chapter)