"We'll talk about this later. Let's all rest first. What I mean is that we will go to the river again tomorrow. If we don't gain much, let's go out of the mountain..."
Zhuang Rui followed him into the mountains this time because he originally wanted to see jade mining. Now that he has achieved his goal and discovered a jade vein, there is really no need to stay in the mountains anymore.
"How about we search again and go back a few days later? The food we brought can last for half a month."
Zhang Dazhi was a little hesitant. After such a big harvest on the first day he arrived, he wondered if he could find some more high-quality jade materials. He had just discussed with Wang Fei that after going back to sell these jade materials,
We went back to Sichuan together. Maybe this time was their last time picking jade.
After hearing what Zhang Dazhi said, Tie Zi shook his head and said, "I agree with Brother Zhuang. This jade mining depends on chance. I have been into the mountains more than ten times, but I have only made seventy or eighty thousand yuan."
Money doesn't mean you can find jade if you stay in the mountains for a long time."
Tiezi is an old jade collector, and his words are very important. Zhang Dazhi and Wang Fei thought about it for a moment, and nodded in agreement. After all, the harvest this time was enough for them to return to their hometown to build a big house and marry a wife.
Already.
Before dawn the next day, Tiezi, Zhang Dazhi and others got up and went to the river in the dark to start looking for jade. Zhuang Rui and Mengzi guarded the jade they found and picked up some dry ones.
The branches were collected with river water, boiled, soaked in the dried meat and flatbread, and started making breakfast.
Zhuang Rui was not very interested in jade mining. After breakfast, he wandered to the entrance of the river and looked at the stream rushing down from the towering snow-capped mountains and the holes carved out of it as if they were made by heavenly craftsmen.
He couldn't help but frowned.
This jade vein has been discovered, but we have to find a way to explain it. This jade vein is hidden within the mountain, not in the open air. The Jade Prince will not believe it just based on Zhuang Rui's empty words.
"what is that?"
Looking at the stream rushing down in front of him, Zhuang Rui was suddenly attracted by a stone next to the mountain rock wall. It was a granodiorite mass, the same stone that wrapped the jade in the rock wall.
It's just that there is no jade in this rock mass. I may have thought that jade collectors have come here. There are traces of digging in the rock mass. They dug into it to a depth of more than one meter. I guess those people didn't find the jade and thought that this rock mass was mined.
Shi Yan was also washed down from the mountain, and the rock wall next to Shi Yan was not surveyed.
You must know that except for explosives, it is very difficult to carry mountain-opening equipment into this place. This rock wall was washed by flash floods over thousands of years and was forcibly divided into two halves by the stream.
You can also see the cross section, but it doesn't look like jade, so no one dares to take the risk and use explosives to blow up this mountain pass river channel.
The formation of nephrite is due to the contact between granodiorite body and dolomite to produce a series of contact metamorphic rock series. The dolomite changes into dolomite marble. The hydrothermal fluid in the late magma undergoes metasomatism along the structural fissure channels of the dolomite marble.
Only then will nephrite be formed.
In other words, when there is granodiorite or dolomite, there will often be jade veins. The reason why the granodiorite next to the rock wall has been excavated is also for this reason.
, and the people who came here to pick jade later paid less attention to this place after seeing the traces of excavation.
"When I got back, I said that based on that piece of granite, I judged that magma had flowed underground and formed jade veins."
Zhuang Rui found a reason for himself to discover the jade vein. Although it was a bit far-fetched, after digging out the rock wall, he believed that others would only think that he had a good eye and would not have any other ideas.
Taking out his camera, Zhuang Rui took pictures of the terrain on both sides of the river and the excavated granite. When he went back, these photos were the evidence to convince Lord Jade. Even if he still didn't believe it, Zhuang Rui would
I plan to invest my own money and find someone to mine it. After the jade is mined, I will discuss cooperation with the Jade Prince. However, in that case, Zhuang Rui's share will not be half of one person.
Tiezi and the others just thought that Zhuang Rui was from the city, coming into the mountains to see something new, and they didn't pay much attention to his behavior of taking pictures everywhere. The day passed quickly, and everyone's harvest was not very ideal. They only found three people.
Five pieces of sapphire of very low quality, even an experienced jade collector like Tie Zi could not look down upon.
Several people discussed it at night and decided to go out the mountain the next morning.
When we came out of the mountain, we took a different route, so we didn't have to go around Death Valley, but the journey took half a day longer. By the time we got back to the transfer station, it was already three days later.
There are two minibuses at the transfer station, which are specially used to transport jade collectors who come down from the mountains back to Hotan. However, like the private minibuses that solicit tourists in the city, they will not drive until the seats are full.
Zhuang Rui was a little impatient while waiting, so he simply negotiated the price with the car owner and chartered a car back to Hotan. Tiezi and others had no objection. After all, they were carrying millions of jade and they wanted to return to their own territory as soon as possible.
To be able to settle down.
After five or six hours of turbulence, Zhuang Rui finally returned to the Jade Prince's manor. A full week had passed since he entered the mountain.
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Adila looked at Zhuang Rui in front of him, who was unshaven, had dirty hair, and had several holes in his jeans, and asked solemnly: "Xiao Zhuang, this is not a joke, are you sure?
"
Just now, when Adila and Gu Tianfeng were tasting the wine that was just brewed last year, Zhuang Rui came to him hurriedly and told him that he had discovered a jade vein.
Adila didn't take Zhuang Rui's words seriously. You know, Adila had visited almost all the places where jade was found in Kunlun. He didn't believe that Zhuang Rui could find jade veins the first time he entered the mountain.
"Xiaozhuang, this is no small matter. On what basis do you say it is a jade vein?"
Gu Gu looked at Zhuang Rui's current embarrassed appearance and handed him a glass of red wine.
"Uncle, if you're not sure I'm going to say something nonsense, you see..."
Zhuang Rui took out his digital camera and pointed out the rock wall he had photographed to the two of them.
"Haha, you are talking about this place, Xiaozhuang, that is not the jade vein, and that stone was also washed down from the mountain..."
Seeing the photo, Adila's expression relaxed a lot, and he laughed disapprovingly. He had been to the Buffalo Valley countless times, and he could tell at a glance where the scenery in the photo was. A lot of jade had indeed been produced in that river.
, but they are all water and materials washed down from the mountains, so there should be no jade veins.
"Uncle Tian, I'm talking about this place..." Zhuang Rui pointed to the location of the rock wall in the camera.
"I suspect that this jade vein is deep inside the rock wall, because the rock at the outlet of the river is a bit like dolomite. In other words, before the earth's crust changed, this was where the underground magma flowed. There was
The possibility of jade veins is very high.”
Zhuang Rui's words made Adira's expression become solemn again. Although he had specially inspected the river, he didn't pay much attention to the mouth of the river. This was also due to the darkness under the lamp, and the more conspicuous it was.
The place is more likely to be ignored.
"This is also possible. Jade veins have appeared on Maka Peak not far from here, and are now being mined. It is reasonable to form jade veins here, but..."
Adila looked at the photos on the camera and frowned.
"Uncle Tian, what's wrong? We can drive in from the rock wall first and see the structure of the rocks inside."
"Xiaozhuang, it is summer now, which is the season of flash floods. Now this is just a stream. After a while, I am afraid that half of the canyon will become a river. It will be very difficult to mine, unless it is at the foot of the mountain.
Block the flow and blast another outlet of the river."
Adila is very familiar with the terrain there, and is even more familiar with the seasonal climate changes in the Kunlun Mountains. It is rainy in summer, and only one heavy rain can cause flash floods, making mining there impossible.
Zhuang Rui thought that Adila was afraid that she would not be able to find the Jade Vein after spending money and effort, so he said: "Uncle Tian, just blow up a river outlet. I will pay for it."
Adila laughed when she saw Zhuang Rui's look and said: "You little guy is very confident. This early preparation costs a lot of money. The cost of manpower and equipment alone costs several million."
,Aren't you afraid of wasting your time?"
"He is a rich man, and millions are nothing to him. Brother Adila, do you think it makes any sense?" The old man also laughed. He didn't have much experience in jade mining, so he didn't dare to jump to conclusions.
"It's hard to say, but as long as you open a tunnel twenty to thirty meters from here and look at the rock layers inside, you will know."
After Adila finished answering the old man's words, he turned to Zhuang Rui and said: "Little guy, let's do this. I won't take advantage of you. I will provide the equipment and you will provide the labor. Let's open a tunnel here first and take a look.
, if there really is a jade vein, I will do the work of intercepting and diverting the traffic. How much investment is required, we will each contribute half, and each of us will hold 50% of the shares. What do you think?"
Zhuang Rui thought for a while and said: "Okay, just do as Uncle Tian said, but I don't care about the sales after the jade is mined. My shares will be regarded as venture capital. Uncle Tian, just give me a dividend every year."
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Adila laughed loudly when he heard this. If there was a jade vein, he was really afraid that young man Zhuang Rui would be gesticulating inside, so he said: "Okay, let's do it like this. You kid, go and have a rest tomorrow."
Let’s go into the mountains early in the morning.”
Adila has been in the Xinjiang jade industry for decades, and he is also a daring person. Now that he has made a decision, he immediately stood up and gathered people to make preparations.
