Although they are thirty or forty meters apart, Han Peacock can hear the conversation between the two people as long as he wants to. What's more, although their voices are lower, ordinary people in the distance can also hear them, but they can't hear clearly.
That’s all.
"You have also seen our treasure, so if a real geological fault is found, our Hu family will cover all your future research funds." Old Hu said firmly.
"?" Professor Wang sighed.
The piece of mutton-fat jade is delicate and moist, with a pure inner quality. It is partially ink-colored, and the overall appearance is a soft and pink mutton-fat color.
This kind of top-quality seed material is almost extinct. It can be said to be a rare treasure. There is no one like it in the world today.
He really didn't expect that the mutton-fat jade that Lao Hu regarded as a family heirloom was actually obtained from here. If this was the case, no matter how high the price was, he would still have to find the veins here.
However, it is very difficult to find jade in the mountains. Water materials and seed jade are relatively simple. As long as you are willing to endure hardships, you can just look for them in the streams in the mountains. There is no need to think about bulk mountain materials.
Although the price of mountain materials is not high, there is so much mountain material! But there is no way to get in and out of machinery in the mountains, so no matter how much mountain material there is, people cannot collect it on a large scale.
Now we can only place our hope on water and seed materials. Although such jade is rare, their price is much higher than that of mountain materials.
After Professor Wang and Lao Hu stopped talking, Han Kongque left quickly and arrived at the place. He was sure that the top quality jade was really found here, so Han Kongque really didn't believe that he couldn't find it.
It is very difficult to mine jade from deep mountains. Explodes are often used. The force of the explosion causes serious internal cracks in the mountain materials. Some pieces of aniseed weighing tens of kilograms cannot even be used to produce several handles and bracelets. Only small pieces can be made.
Therefore, many people do not like mountain materials and think that buying them is risky.
This is the reason why many people don't like mountain materials. But now, they haven't found anything. Only when they find it will they study how to mine it.
At this time, Lao Hu could only use the simplest method, the crowd tactic. There were too many people, and as long as he searched carefully, he would be able to find it if there was no "jade" that slipped through the net.
In other places, there are often hundreds of thousands of jade miners, and they often have to invest a lot of production costs or time costs before they can obtain a piece of Hetian jade.
There are not so many people here, but there are not many stones at all, so if you want to find a piece of jade here, it is easier said than done, but it is really like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Easy, maybe just a big stone, a rough stone containing beautiful jade, difficult. You only need to look at the situation in the river bed to know.
When you see cobblestones, you know it is a river bed. When you see countless cobblestones accumulated over the years, you know how difficult it is to find a piece of jade among so many stones.
Normally in Hotan outside or in other places, the riverbed there has been dug up for unknown meters, but here it is still original.
So, don't look at how many rocks there are on the river bed now. If you turn it over, there will be even more rocks below.
Outside, excavators and bulldozers do the work, but here, we can only use humans.
Although it is the people who are tired of doing this, as long as it is proved that there is a jade mine here, jade diggers will flock here.
Like Manasi Jade, the reason why the jade diggers on both sides of the Yulong Kashgar River cannot be driven away is that profit is undoubtedly the biggest driving force.
During the dry season in October every year, hundreds of meters of beaches on both sides of the river have almost turned into quarries. There, using "three feet of digging" to describe the depth of excavation is a misnomer.
It's not an exaggeration to say a ruler.
Now, Han Peacock and others walked into the widest river, which is the main river here. Almost all the creeks merge into this river.
Now is the dry season, so the water flow in the river is very small, so the river bed is exposed in the downstream river, which is more than 100 meters wide. This season is also a good time for jade pickers to "try their luck".
However, the riverbed downstream must have been searched countless times, so if you want to go upstream, according to Lao Hu, if you want to continue deep into the mountains, you must bring enough water and food, because to pick up jade, you have to at least go back and forth in the river.
It takes about 10 hours to walk about ten kilometers without stopping.
Continue walking along the river, which is the upper reaches. There are various strange stones with pictographic patterns in the river. They are very beautiful. The quality of the strange stones here is really good.
The bottom of the river is where jasper seeds are found. It should be noted that when jasper is observed against the light under strong sunlight, the dark green, bean green, etc. will turn into true green, and the bluish-white background of the blue-white jade will become whiter.
Yes, this is the experience of experienced jade collectors.
Walking further upstream, there is a creek there. On the south bank of the creek, there is a relatively flat hillside with lush vegetation. It is a place where herbivorous animals gather. Of course, it is also a place where predators pounce.
A place like this, as long as it has enough capacity, can naturally provide enough food for everyone, so after entering the mountains, there is no shortage of food. This is provided by the escort team. Today, everyone is moving around, and no one is around today.
We started to continue along the river and into the mountains, so we just came back for dinner after a while.
Many local herdsmen came to the mountains this time. Without them, let alone going into the mountains to find jade, it would be good to be able to get out of the mountains smoothly.
Therefore, if you want to pick up jasper seeds, be sure to find a guide first and bring the necessary tools. It is best to bring a small hammer and a strong flashlight. Some people even bring rubber waders.
Although you can definitely pick it up, it will be very hard and you have to be prepared to spend the night in the mountains.
If jade is really abundant in deep mountain valleys, the chances of finding jade are still very high. For example, the Manas River originates from the depths of the Tianshan Mountains. When Hotan jade became popular in the 1990s, it also gradually
It was found that a large amount of jasper seeds were produced.
Different from the Hotan jade seeds produced in the Kashgar River of Hotan Yulong, the Manas Jasper seeds are quite large, with large ones weighing tons and small ones weighing kilograms. There are very few that are smaller than the size of a fist, like Hotan
There are few pendant-sized pendants made of jade seed material that can be worn directly.
Therefore, although it is not easy for them to find jade, once they find it, the harvest will be huge. This is why so many people are trying to follow Lao Hu and his son into the mountains.
The biggest difficulty encountered by jade hunters is how to get the giant jasper out of the mountain. Now, with the stone-breaking machine brought in by Lao Hu, this problem has been greatly solved.
Although the original stone is big, as long as it is untied, no matter how big the jade is, someone will take it out of the mountain.
The life of jade miners is very difficult. It often takes a long time for jade miners to find jade. Going over mountains and ridges is just the beginning of jade mining. After several days of arduous journey, when they reach the place where jade can be found, other difficulties arise.
will follow.
The biggest difficulty is not food and accommodation, nor hard work, but facing the number of large and small rocks like stars.
Thousands of gold are easy to come by, but good jade is hard to find. It’s no wonder that Weiwei’s prices are so high. Perhaps only they know that good seed materials are getting less and less and harder to find, which is why the price is so high.
Han Kongque does not need to hire a guide. Qian Mingyuan is a veteran. Although he is not a local, he follows Lao Hu into the mountains almost every year because of his familiarity with Lao Hu, so he is very familiar with this place and has rich experience in picking jade. .
After the rainy season, this is the best opportunity for jade hunters to look for jade. The key to treasure hunting is: search facing the sun to find jade easily.
The characteristic of landscape materials is that after strong winds or heavy rains, newly exposed colored stones appear. At this time, facing the sun, it is easy to see colorful stones. Such stones are likely to contain jade.
Qian Mingyuan told Han Kongque and Huangshan that this river is very long and has a long history of producing jade. In the river bed, starting from the iceberg where the water flows out of the mountain, and going down for more than 20 kilometers, you can pick up jade. There are a few rough stones from mountains and rivers.
In the riverbed from 20 kilometers down to more than 200 kilometers, there is no jade at all.
From about 200 kilometers down to 270 kilometers, these 70 kilometers of riverbed are the main seed production section.
Some people say that there is no jade in the nearly 180 kilometers in the middle section because the water flow is too fast and the jade materials cannot be preserved, so the jade is washed downstream by the flood.
This raises a question: isn’t the flow of the river more than 20 kilometers ahead more rapid?
Why can you still pick up jade more or less in that section?
And in this 180-kilometer stretch, why can’t we pick up even a single piece of jade, no matter how big or small?
There were pebble-shaped stones everywhere in the river bed, and not a single jade stone remained. Only the jade stone, which had a much larger specific gravity than the stone, was washed away by the water. Therefore, "because the water flow was too fast, the jade stone was washed away by the water." The explanation that the material cannot be preserved is untenable.
So here, experience is secondary and luck is the most important thing. If you are lucky, you can find rough jade stones weighing dozens of tons in places where jade is least likely to be found.
If you are unlucky, even in a highly productive mineral vein, all you may pick up are stones.
This is the source of jade. It stands to reason that it is more cost-effective and easier to collect jade here, but the fact is completely the opposite. Because the veins here are too scattered, the cost of opening the road is too high, so few people come here.
Here, even if the ore is mined, it can only be transported by mules. Each mule can transport only about 50 kilograms at a time, once every two days. No wonder the mountain materials are so expensive!
If you are not careful, the mule may be thrown down the mountain and die. Some people may be injured in accidents, die of illness, or freeze to death in the mountains...
It can be said that jade is earned by jade pickers at the cost of their lives. Here, it really proves the saying: It is difficult to pick jade, but it is difficult to reach the sky!
Just as Han Peacock was listening and walking, there was a loud noise in front of him: "I'm so lucky, I found jade! But it's very difficult to mine it!" (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!