China He wants to fly Himalayas Because of the air because it has found a treasure below. A vision that we cannot avoid to compare with the moon, including the future itself. The “golden fever” of the 21st century is here. Remember the mine fever that has been released California In the middle of the Nineteenth century, although this time it has nothing to do with gold itself.
The current focus is positioned on a different type of materials, of vital importance for the technological sector: Rare earth. These correspond to a group of chemical elements of large industrial value in whose exploitation and distribution chain China He has won an important weight. In Beijing They are not willing to lose their Hegemonic position and that is why they are already looking near the valuable mining sources of the Himalayas.
He Himalayas It is a mountain range on the Asian continent that extends through different countries: Bután, Nepal, China, Burma, India and Pakistan. This is the highest mountain range of the TierraWith 8,850 meters above sea level. There are more than a hundred peaks that are more than 7,000 more than 8,000 m high.
China finds rare metal minerals in the Himalayas
As reported in 2023 the media South China Morning Post (SCMP)A group of Chinese geologists discovered a huge potential reserve of rare metal minerals in the Himalayas that could strengthen the location of the location of China As the most important global provider.
A decade ago, Chinese scientists found rare and lithium earth in some samples of rocks taken out Tibet. It was a casual discovery that would become the first issue of something bigger. Now they determine that the mining reserve of Himalayas It can be comparable or larger than it registered in various of the large deposits exploited by China.
In 2017, the magazine Science China Earth Sciences He distributed a study that gave some important indications about the origin of mining in the Himalayas. Experts then warned the existence of two stripes of more than 1,000 kilometers with a great potential.
“Rare metal mineralization was observed both in the belt of the Tethyan as in the Alto Himalayas. Our preliminary study in the region shows a great extra potential for the mineralization of rare metals in what can be the most important economically important metalogeneous belt in the country, “they explained.
Himalayas, China’s new challenge to continue to lead the industry
However, it is assumed that the mineral belt has more than 1,000 kilometers long and the deposits in such a wide and remote area can last for years or even decades. Another inconvenience is the location. Along the southern border of the Tibetalmost Nepal and in an area in which China Hars an old territorial dispute with India.
Already in 2019, the Institute for Rare Earth and Metalle AGorganism based on SwissHe warned the mining of China In the mountain chain could lead to even greater tensions in diplomatic relationships between Beijing y New Delhi.
So, so, China It had already started with his large scales mining activities in his part of the boundary of the Himalayas. This after intercepting an extensive reserve of gold, silver and other valuable minerals.
China tries to keep his hegemony and exploit the Himalayas
Under these circumstances, artificial intelligence as the great ally of mining rises. Chinese researchers have been working for years, with the support of the GovernmentIn a tool that can take advantage of the data from the satellites and other media with the aim of finding rare earth offenses on the Tibetan plateau.
His artificial intelligence is so refined that the specialists of the State laboratory key of geological processes and drugsfrom the Chinese Geosciences University in WuhanThey estimate that it has achieved an accuracy of 96%. For his part, SCMP He points out that the tool still needs to be tested more before it is taken into use.
China He wants to fly Himalayas Because of the air because he has found large treasures inside. An ambitious goal that can take longer than expected. In the meantime, it is crowned with initiatives such as the inflammation of the mother of all sun plants.