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Why is Japan so hungry for the return of the Kuril Islands? The thing is, that it’s not just part of the land that is needed for living the large population of a relatively small country of the sun, the Kuril Islands – this is the richest land of minerals. And this confirmed by Russian geologists.
They discovered the richest on the Iturup island of the Kuril ridge rhenium deposit, which is considered the rarest, and therefore the most valuable metal in the world. Moreover, rhenium is very popular in industry and the need for it is growing over the years, because without it does not cost the manufacture of the necessary alloys needed for manufacturing the strongest turbines, jet engines and so on. That’s why rhenium is highly regarded in the world, especially since its only about 60 tons are produced per year on the entire planet – more simply no. It is no coincidence that in the future they plan to mine rhenium … Mars.
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Now we can say that he already is in sufficient quantity and on the ground. The fact is that on the island of Iturup, rhenium reserves almost inexhaustible, moreover – they are easily accessible. Rhenium it doesn’t even need to be mined, it “splashes” on surface together with the gases of the local volcano “Kudryavy”, and in quite a lot. Unique volcano can give per year up to 30 tons of this priceless metal, namely – to give, since the cost of rhenium mining in this case will be penny.
Why will it be? The fact is that rhenium mining at Kudryavy is still not yet underway, although the necessary technologies have already been developed for even economic models are built of this. Case, as they say, overcoming bureaucratic barriers. And they, unfortunately, are, Moreover, Russian liberals are still pushing the idea return of the Kuril Islands of Japan, you think, they say, some a piece of land at the end of the world, some kind of “Kemsk parish”.
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