Uncovering the secrets of the counterattack of the unpopular mineral boron iron ore

🔥【95% of people don’t know about national strategic resources! Revealing the secrets of the counterattack of unpopular minerals】🔥

You are lucky if you read this! Today, I will introduce you to a strategic mineral that directly affects your mobile phone screen + new energy vehicles + national defense security - "boron iron ore" that many people have never even heard of!

1. Mineral properties

Chemical composition: Fe²+Fe³+₂(BO₃)O₂ (containing boron-iron composite oxide)

Physical properties: ▶ Color: black to dark green, dark green streak ▶ Hardness: Mohs 5-5.5 (medium hardness) ▶ Density: 4.3-4.5 g/cm³ ▶ Magnetism: weakly magnetic

Occurrence: commonly found in contact metasomatic deposits, often coexisting with magnetite and skarn minerals

2. Core uses

Boron resource extraction: ▶ Industrial boric acid/borax raw materials (10-15% of global boron comes from boron iron ore) ▶ New energy field (raw materials for lithium battery electrolyte additives)

Use of associated iron: ▶ Smelting boron steel (improving the hardenability of steel) ▶ Special alloy additives

Special applications: ▶ Neutron shielding materials (nuclear industry) ▶ Functional ceramic raw materials (high-temperature refractory materials)

3. Development suggestions (need to be combined with project actuality)

Innovation direction of metallurgical technology: ▶ Optimization of ferroboron separation process (current recovery rate is about 65-75%) 

▶ Comprehensive utilization of tailings (recovery of magnesium-silicon components)

Extension of the industrial chain: ▶ Layout of high-purity boride production lines ▶ Connection with new energy battery manufacturers

4. 🔍Underestimated industrial gold (characteristics)

 ✅ Rare ingredients: the only natural ore containing boron metal (Fe₂B) ✅ Contrast in appearance: silver-gray metallic luster + mysterious black-brown oxide layer ✅ King of hardness: Mohs hardness 7.5-8 (comparable to top sapphire!) ✅ Amazing magnetic force: one of the strongest magnetic minerals in nature

5. 💥Strategic materials that major powers must compete for (uses) 

⚠️Key points: 70% of the world'  electronic products rely on its derivative materials! 1⃣️ Lifeline of national defense ✔️ Core material of missile insulation layer ✔️ Neutron absorber of nuclear reactor ✔️ Special steel additive for stealth fighter

▶️ Mobile phone screen: Raw material of boron oxide glass substrate ▶️ New energy vehicle: Key element of permanent magnet motor ▶️ Aerospace material: High temperature resistant ceramic composite material

☑️ Agricultural boron fertilizer: Improve the pollination rate of crops ☑️ Medical beauty artifact: Essential catalyst for hyaluronic acid synthesis ☑️ Water purification expert: Heavy metal adsorbent for industrial wastewater

6. 🌏China's counterattack code (strategic value) ❗️

 Global reserves distribution: Turkey 35% | Russia 28% | China 12% (crazy technological breakthrough!) 📈The price has soared 400% in 3 years! The truth behind the crazy stockpiling in the US, Japan and South Korea: Each ton of smartphones consumes 1.2kg of boron products, and each wind turbine requires 0.8 tons of boron steel

💡 Cold knowledge: ① The hardness is much better than ordinary blades, and it can scratch glass ② After oxidation, it will turn into a starry blue gradient color ③ Similar minerals were found in the moon rocks brought back by the Apollo spacecraft

Now you finally understand why the country has included it in the "Strategic Mineral List", right? Tell us in the comment section what other unpopular strategic resources you want to know? The next issue will reveal another mysterious mineral that controls the lifeblood of semiconductors! 👇

Author: Xingaonai
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