Legend has it that emeralds can also prevent diseases. Women wearing emeralds can avoid epilepsy and other serious diseases.
In addition, it is also said that emeralds have great potential. An ancient person recorded that there was a stone lion in a place on the island of Cyprus. The eyes of the lion's head were decorated with two beautiful emeralds.
These two green eyes flashed with sharp light, penetrating deeply into the sea, making the fish in the sea feel scared and flee one after another.
For a while, the fishermen were confused because they couldn't catch any fish. They didn't know what happened. Finally, they removed the emerald eyes and replaced them with other gems, so that the fish in the surrounding sea became normal.
Legends are just legends after all. Let’s not talk about whether the eyesight of fish is that good, but who would be willing to put this kind of gem on the beach?
At least Han Kongque couldn't bear to part with it. No matter how much emeralds he had, he wouldn't waste them so much.
It took a day to clean up the entire quarry. Almost every stone was carefully observed and analyzed to confirm that there was no emerald before it was let go.
"It seems like it was really an accident. With so many stones, we found three large and small emeralds. It's really not easy." Chen Jiayi said.
The golden demon also said: "Maybe we have found just three emeralds. Such luck is rare."
Han Kongque didn't think so: "This is not lucky. Haven't you noticed that these three emeralds are all produced in the same place? And that place has only opened a corner."
Han Kongque's words immediately made Chen Jiayi and Jin Yao, who were discussing, quiet down.
Chen Jiayi said in surprise: "You mean, you found this emerald vein?"
Han Peacock pointed to a place with a smile and said: "Look here, this rock has been exposed to the ground for I don't know how many years. However, the rock area is not large and relatively smooth, so even if there is a tourmaline vein next to it,
, and no one touched him, until someone quarried here and dug it until it was a little suspended, and then a corner was smashed off, and it was in this corner that several pieces of emerald were wrapped."
"Are you so sure?" Chen Jiayi didn't believe it.
Han Kongque pointed to the huge rock that had lost one corner with a smile and said: "Look carefully. Are there any particles similar to glass crystals on it? That should also be emerald. This is indeed gneiss, and gneiss
It’s perfectly normal for rocks to be wrapped in emeralds.”
Chen Jiayi and others got closer to the boulder to examine it. The area of the rock was not small, but the area exposed on the ground was hundreds of square meters. In addition, its shape was a bit concave, so it was difficult to mine it from the ground.
That is to say, due to quarrying, a large pit was dug below, which turned a corner of the rock into a suspended existence. I don't know why. Finally, part of this corner was cut off and fell to the quarrying ground.
In the pit.
After comparing the emerald gneiss, Chen Jiayi, Jin Yao and others all laughed.
Han Kongque's observation skills are amazing. He is right, these gneiss rocks are the same.
"How can we mine the emeralds in such a big rock?" Chen Jiayi was happy enough, but Chen Jiayi was a little confused.
This is not a country. Not to mention that the land is not theirs, and they have no mining rights. As long as they move here, people will definitely notice it. It will be difficult to say who this mine belongs to.
"Now that we have found the target, let's restore the original appearance here and prevent others from discovering our target." Han Kongque said.
"If we don't mine? That's not a treasure trove, right?" Chen Jiayi was a little unhappy. He didn't want to compete with Han Kongque for this mine, but simply hoped to dig for treasure.
Han Kongque said with a smile: "This rock is so big, how do you dig it? Let's go into the mountain and explore this vein. If we find a suitable location, it will be logical to mine some emeralds."
"It's not easy to find a suitable location, unless you can find a cave that extends underground." Jin Yao said.
Chen Jiayi also said: "I heard that this kind of mineral deposits are hidden deep underground. It is not easy to find them this time."
Mu Ling also said: "Tourmaline veins are almost all deep wells, and most tourmalines are mined from depths of tens of thousands of meters underground."
Han Kongque listened to their discussion and just shook his head without explaining. After they completely destroyed the surrounding environment and buried the abandoned tourmaline mine again, he led a few people and slowly walked into the mountain.
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Tourmaline veins are naturally hidden deep underground. Even if one occasionally emerges from the ground, the area is very small. This is entirely due to the formation of tourmaline and other gemstone veins.
Of course, this does not mean that gemstones such as tourmalines, emeralds, rubies and sapphires cannot be found on the ground. Otherwise, how would they have found various gemstones if the mining technology in ancient times was low?
The same goes for emeralds. Some are buried deep underground, while others have pushed their emerald deposits to the surface due to crustal movements. This vein is obviously how it was created.
What's more coincidental is that there are tourmaline mines nearby, and a natural mine was discovered here, which makes the tourmaline veins easier to discover.
After a tourmaline vein is discovered, even if someone finds emerald nearby, they will only think it is an associated mine of tourmaline. In this way, their search direction will definitely be concentrated in that mine, not on the surface.
In addition, emeralds are hidden in gneiss. The gneiss here is not completely exposed to the ground, so it has not been weathered. Without weathering, the emerald cannot be separated, and it is even more difficult to be separated.
people discovered.
However, Han Kongque was still able to determine that there must be a part of the gneiss that had been exposed to the ground for a long time, not just the one they discovered now, but there must be others in the mountains.
Otherwise, it would not be possible to explain why he found fine emerald particles in the river below.
Han Peacock played with a handful of gems in his hand. The largest gem in it was only about the size of a pea. It really didn't have much value, but it was a gem after all.
Most of them are tourmalines, and a few of them are emeralds. Although the quality is so poor that Han Kongque thought they were tourmalines at first, but after careful comparison, he discovered the difference.
If he had not accurately known that the source of the creek was the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Han Peacock would not have re-identified the gems found in the creek. As a result, after careful identification, Han Peacock actually found two emeralds inside.
Not to mention, these two emeralds are small, light green in color, with many transverse cracks on them, and are not transparent. This is the lowest-grade emerald, not even gem grade, and is actually of no use value.
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If this were not the case, it would have been impossible for Han Kongque not to notice them. When he discovered these gems, he only focused on the few he found at the beginning and the ones that were of better quality than the ones he found later.
At that time, I had preconceptions and thought it was tourmaline, so Han Peacock also identified it based on tourmaline.
Only when he discovered the huge rock exposed on the ground did Han Kongque realize that this emerald vein might have been weathered for a long time. As long as it was weathered, there would definitely be emeralds washed away by the rain, and the most likely occurrence was
The place is the small river below.
Of course, even if there are emeralds washed down, it is definitely not where they are now, but the source of the small river deep in the mountains.
The Sierra Nevada Mountains are part of the western edge of the Cordillera Mountains in North America. They are located in eastern California, USA. They start from Lassen Peak in the north and end at Tehachapi Pass in the south. Together with the Cascade Mountains, they are mountains on the Pacific coast.
Connected, with a total length of 640 kilometers.
The Sierra Nevada was formed from the end of the Jurassic to the beginning of the Cretaceous. Due to drastic changes in the earth's crust, such as strong folds and lava eruptions, natural changes and long-term erosion, granite was widely exposed, thus providing the necessary conditions for the formation of the Sierra Nevada.
However, it also allowed various minerals that should have been buried deep underground to appear on the surface due to violent changes in the earth's crust.
Of course, don’t think that it will be easy to find various gemstones exposed on the ground, such as tourmalines and emeralds. These gemstones are too small, and the terrain of the Sierra Nevada Mountains is too complex, so it is definitely not easy to find them.
Of course, if it was too easy, we would not be able to wait for the arrival of Han Kongque and the others, but would have been occupied long ago.
The Sierra Nevada Mountains are majestic, steep, and continuous, with an average altitude of 1,800 to 3,000 meters, and 10 peaks above 4,300 meters. Among them, Mount Whitney, with an altitude of 4,418 meters, is the highest peak in the continental United States.
The mountains of the Sierra Nevada are unevenly distributed, with steeper east slopes and straight and steep cliffs towering over the large basin, with a relative height difference of 1,500 to 3,000 meters.
The western slope where Han Kongque and his friends are located is gentler, but is full of rivers, forming many deep canyons, such as the 1,600-meter-deep Yosemite Grand Canyon.
Han Peacock's target is in these deep canyons. Only in this kind of place can the rocks be corroded and emeralds can be brought out.
Of course, even if you have a clear target, it is not easy to find it. Due to the influence of the Pacific humid air flow, the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada receive more precipitation, which promotes the growth of green plants and makes the forest denser.
Plants such as ponderosa pine, sugar pine, Douglas fir, and redwood grow all over the mountain here. It is an important forestry production area in the United States, so even if all the rocks are on the surface, it is not easy to see.
In addition, Nevada’s long and deep mountains are filled with rivers and lakes. More than 10 rivers such as Feather and Merced flow slowly through the western slope. The Sacramento River and San Joaquin River that lead directly to California’s Central Valley make the place rich in water. (Unfinished)