As we all know, mineral resources are of vital importance to the development of a country. For a country, the development of industrial manufacturing is inseparable from the support of mineral resources, but now the mining of mineral resources has reached a bottleneck period, and some minerals Resources are on the verge of exhaustion, but some mineral resources are extremely precious. There is a little-known place in China that has mineral resources envied by all countries and is guarded by armed police around the clock.

This place is Chaerhan Salt Lake, located in Golmud City, Qinghai Province. It is a very large salt lake in China and one of the most famous inland salt lakes in the world. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway passes by. The salt lake is surrounded by flat terrain, boundless desert, and unique scenery. Its surprisingly rich salt mine resources and the 32-kilometer-long bizarre "Wanzhang Salt Bridge" scenery made its name resounding for more than half a century.

It is difficult for all green plants to grow in the Chaerhan Salt Lake, but it has bred the crystal-like jade, the miraculous salt flower, which is the beautiful shape of the crystal formed when the salt crystallizes in the salt lake. The brine is crystallized due to its concentration. Different, different time lengths, differences in composition and other reasons have formed salt flowers with different shapes and extraordinary skills. The salt flowers here are either shaped like pearls, corals, or like pavilions, or like birds and beasts, standing in clusters and pieces in the salt lake, decorating the salt lake as a beautiful fairyland.

The Chaerhan Salt Lake is the lowest and most core area of the Qaidam Basin. Hundreds of millions of years ago, Qaidam used to be a vast ocean. Due to the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet land, Qaidam became a basin. There are more than one hundred large and small lakes, among which the Chaerhan Salt Lake is the largest and most famous. The Chaerhan Salt Lake is the largest salt lake in China and the second largest in the world, with a total salt reserves of more than 60 billion tons.

Someone made such a calculation. If a salt bridge with a thickness of 6 meters and a width of 12 meters is built, the salt here can pass from the earth to the moon. Experts also estimate that the reserves of the Chaerhan Salt Lake can be consumed by the people of the whole country for 5,000 years. , People all over the world eat it for 1,000 years.

Due to the constant evaporation of water all year round, a hard salt cap is formed on the salt lake. The world-famous Qinghai-Tibet Railway and Qinghai-Tibet Highway were built directly on the salt cap. The Chaerhan Salt Lake is rich in sodium oxide, potassium oxide, magnesium oxide and other inorganic salts. With a total reserves of more than 2 billion tons, it is one of China's mining bases. The salt lake is more than 160 kilometers long from east to west, 20-40 kilometers wide from north to south, with a thickness of 2-20 meters, an area of 5,800 square kilometers, and an average altitude of 2,670 meters. The lake stores more than 50 billion tons of sodium oxide, and is famous for its production. The carnallite, which is crystal clear and bright, is very cute, accompanied by a variety of minerals such as magnesium, lithium, boron, and iodine, and is extremely rich in potassium and salt resources. The development value of the Chaerhan Salt Lake is as high as about 12 trillion yuan. This astonishing figure was told by salt experts in Qinghai.

As for the resources in the Chaerhan Salt Lake, the potassium chloride reserves in the lake alone account for 97% of China's. Other resources are not inferior. Various resources account for the first place in the country. Because of this, the country is very important. Inspect the development of Erhan Salt Lake. The state has built a fertilizer plant next to the Chaerhan Salt Lake, which has made great contributions to agricultural production, and the scale of various projects has gradually expanded. Even the state has sent troops to guard it around the clock because of concerns about the safety of the Chaerhan Salt Lake. I want to know how important the Chaerhan Salt Lake is.

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