Chapter 165: The mine cave is in danger

The Pagan City where Tang Han settled in is the main production area of ​​jadeite and a region with complex political relations. It has both official government forces and local ethnic minority armed forces, and the public security conditions are very poor. A group of talents arrived, and Jin Neng, the conscientious intelligence officer, told them not to run around. Even if the time is not over, even his government personnel may not be able to save them.

The group has experienced it along the way. It is so troublesome to have government relations. If you don’t have any background, you can’t even think about it. Unless you know Burmese and have a Burmese identity certificate, it will be more convenient to pass the pass.

When I arrived at the hotel, the first thing I did was to take a bath. My eyes were bright, and the rest of my body was covered with dust.

After resting for a night and adjusting one mindset, the next morning, the visit to the source of jade officially began.

This time, it was the leader of Jingu Company. Most of the things I was going to visit were the entrances of Jingu Company, but a group of people heard that the entrances of Red Baolong Company had a piece of jade weighing 3,000 tons, which had great academic reference value for studying the causes of jade and the causes of high-quality jade, so Jinneng went to handle relevant procedures to open up the joints and wanted to see the truly huge jade.

Fortunately, Major Jin Neng has a lot of power and has successfully handled this matter.

This huge jade was also given to the Myanmar government by the Red Balcony Company. The Myanmar government was also preparing to use it as a tourist attraction, and several experts and professors got what they wanted. Professor Yang Fangzhou and others were so excited, but Tang Han and several businessmen just thought they were watching the fun. Tang Han wanted Qin Yue to be there, and he could talk to these professors. Just forget about his own words, just look at it.

Jinneng's off-road vehicle was still leading the way. Tang Han and the other two fell to the end. He was so happy that he took the opportunity to take a good look at the scenery around Pagan, the hometown of jade.

Rather than saying that Pagan is a city, it is a small town. Pagan is surrounded by wild mountains and mountains, and the Wulu River flows through the middle of the town.

The town is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and is composed of banana garden, Pagan and Lemagong. The commercial central area is mainly Pagan, which is the distribution and trading center of the jadeite raw stone production area.

There is an iron cable bridge connecting the two banks of the quietly flowing Wulu River. Even in the early morning, people can still be seen passing by on the bridge, and they are constantly coming and going.

There is a reason why Pagan is so prosperous. In addition to the king of jade, jade, it also contains rare wealth such as gold, platinum, amber, teak, etc.

Pagan's jade factory stretches for hundreds of miles, and is divided into new and old factories. With Pagan as the center, it includes Longtang, Dongmo, Daomkan, Xiangba, Huika, Mengyi, Molu, Houjiang, Grape and other places. Laokeng jade is mainly produced along the Pagan section of Wulu River, and Johor Bahru jade is mainly produced in Dongmo, with a block-like exposed and no complete sofa shell.

The place Tang Han and the others are going to go today is the Namo Mine in the old factory. After catching up all the way, Tang Han also saw this piece of jade weighing 3,000 tons.

According to Professor Yang Fangzhou, who was traveling with him, the Namo Jade Mine is a native ore body, and Tang Han remembers that the native ore body is not as high-quality as the secondary ore body.

The excavation of this 3,000-ton jadeite has some origin. When people dug a flat hole from the foot of the mountain and entered the mountain, they discovered this huge native ore body. Afterwards, they dug horizontal holes and vertical shafts along the ore body to isolate the ore body.

According to previous data, combined with the actual measurements of several geologists: this 3,000-ton jade ore body is 35 meters long, with a depth of 12 meters, and a true thickness of up to 8 meters. The ore body is lens-shaped, and is the largest in the world of the original jade ore discovered so far.

Most of this 3,000-ton jadeite rough stone is white, with relatively coarse crystal grains. It is a new type of jadeite and is not very valuable. The rough stone has a large area of ​​violet color. Under the strong light, the purple-red red is very bright, which makes people shine.

Tang Han and several others watched the fun while watching the fun. Yang Fangzhou and Tang Han were still a little familiar with each other, and explained, "Because there is obvious late-stage invasion of hydrothermal fluids in the white jadeite, especially the invasion of hydrothermal fluids containing cr3+, chromium ions are the green elements that jadeite produces. Therefore, these parts of jadeite have become light green and are distributed in a vein-like manner."

"It can be clearly stated from here that the cause of jade is formed by the dissolution of magma..."

Tang Han fainted after not listening for a while. Lu Xiangdong was still in a state of mind. He smiled and said to the two, "It would be great if these 3,000 tons of jadeite rough stones were all green glass."

Liu Yifeng and Tang Han immediately laughed, but Yang Fangzhou frowned and conducted a detailed investigation with several old professors to study the causes of jade. I don’t know if I want to make a report or what.

Tang Han was idle and looked around. Now the mining of Pagan jade mine does not require shoulder-to-carrying hand as before. Generally, jade mining in large companies adopts mechanized mining, which is mainly converted into "strange hands" mining.

As the mining rights are gradually concentrated, the number of mining personnel has decreased and the scale of mining has expanded, and it has changed from a simple situation of people digging to large-scale mechanized mining, especially in major production areas such as Lao Pagan, Longken, Huika. This is especially true for large jewelry companies such as Red Baolong, Jin Gu, and Fuji, digging jade and waste from the ground together.

There are many types of jade mining, such as open-pit mining, vertical holes and flat holes. The jade holes with holes on Pagan Mountain are the best proof.

Open-pit mining is a bit simpler. After removing the skin, you can directly use the monster hand to dig it out and then pour it out. The skilled workers carefully distinguish which jade is and which waste stone is. Some can only screen it based on their eyesight, and some can poke it on the stone with steel chisels. They can judge whether it is jade based on their sound.

Not only Liu Yifeng and the others, even Tang Han couldn't help but worry whether they would miss a lot of high-quality jade in this link. Tang Han's ability to see through perspective could have been a little useful here, but unfortunately, the mental power could not be infinitely overdrawn, and there were so many jades and wastes screened every day, so Tang Han didn't fantasize that they could have the ability to see through like himself.

After a day of close contact with jadeites, Tang Han heard these miners and managers complain that there were not many jadeites and very few high-quality jadeites. Indeed, Tang Han also looked at a few pieces of waste materials abandoned by skilled staff. Sure enough, even the white jadeite raw materials were not as good as that, and their accuracy was still very guaranteed.

However, Tang Han did not see the hardships of these jade pickers this day. Today, with the large-scale mechanization adoption, the danger of human beings has also been greatly reduced.

But looking at the riddled holes on the mountain, Tang Han could understand the difficulties and dangers in it. Many hills were collected by these jade diggers. No wonder the price of jadeite rough stones rose so high.

"Everyone says bloody diamonds and violent diamonds. I think jade is not much different. Moreover, before that, the forces of all parties were not fighting for it." Tang Han said with sigh after looking at it.

But Liu Yifeng made a booing gesture at him, "No matter how beautiful the thing is, there is an ugly side!"

Tang Han Xiaoxiao kept silent. In recent years, the situation in Myanmar has eased and the mining of jade has only started to get on track. In the past, local forces and government armed forces have been constantly clashing, and with the forces of ethnic minorities, it is even more difficult to mine jade wool.

The next day, a group of people went to the most famous Lao Pagan to inspect. Lao Pagan was located next to Wulu River. Lao Pagan has always been an important jadeite production place.

It turns out that Lao Pagan usually mines open-pit methods. During the cold season, he uses the dry water of Wulu River to intercept and divert the main channel of Wulu River and then mine. The biggest problem is that when the rainy season comes, the river water surges, and the open-pit mining pits are flooded by the river water and cannot continue to be mined. There is only a few months of mining in a year, which is not cost-effective from the perspective of economic benefits.

Therefore, the jewelry company that successfully bidded by Lao Pagan adopted a cooperation with the government to establish mines by the Wulu River and mine them in the form of pit mining, so that mining can be carried out all year round.

The mine that Tang Han and his party visited was a relatively regular mine. The entire derrick was built of square wood and could be taken to the elevator and down the vertical shaft.

The entire mine has all communication and lighting facilities, and the monitor is used to monitor the working surface below. On several large screens outside, you can see the working conditions under the vertical shaft.

All of the following are mechanized mining, and the layers are dug out with a boring machine, and then sorted down the well, put the waste stones into a weaving bag and transported to the ground, and then sorted again, and finally poured the waste stones into the Wulu River.

The vertical depth of this mine is about 500 meters. Judging from the schematic diagram of the mine found by Yang Fangzhou and several professors, there are two layers in total at the mining level.

Moreover, according to him, the upper layer is more than 100 meters away from the ground surface, which is a conglomerate layer containing jade in the riverbed, and the lower layer is more than 400 meters, which is a conglomerate layer containing jade in the bottom of the Quaternary period.

In order to increase economic benefits, the mine adopts a 24-hour working system. Anyway, there are many employees who come to Pagan to hope to get rich, so manpower is definitely not a problem.

"Do you want to go down together or just stay on the ground to see? There is a risk when you go down there." As a geologist, it is natural to go down the mine, but Tang Han and others are different. This is also the place where people at the professor level look down on several businessmen.

"It's not that weird!" Tang Han replied with a smile. He didn't want to be looked down upon. The most important thing is that he felt that his luck was not that bad. So many people were working in the mine!

Unlike those small mines, these large jewelry companies have done very well in safety measures, which can be seen from the large screen outside.

Moreover, the jade mine is relatively wide, unlike coal mines, which have gas, and will die if it explodes. But the most feared thing about jade mines is that it collapses after being leached and buried alive is not pleasant.

"Then let's go downstairs first and wait for you below!" Yang Fangzhou finished speaking and got on the elevator and prepared to go down for on-site inspection.

Tang Han and his team were undoubtedly the alternative. In order to inspect the field mining situation, several old professors went to the elevator and left them with a malicious look. Although Tang Han did not think he was a complete businessman, he was still too snobbish compared to these professors doing research and investigation, at least, not as selfless as them.

"Let's go down and have a look! Otherwise, I'll be looked down upon by others and I really think we only love money and don't dare to take the risk." Lu Xiangdong was also angry by these old guys. If he goes down, he will go down. Who is afraid of whom!

Liu Yifeng smiled and said, "They are all going down, are we afraid?"

"Maybe we can find a few high-end jadeites when we go down!" Lu Xiangdong also changed into a heroic smile.

Tang Han stopped talking, and the staff of the travel agency next to him who was responsible for escorting a few people down spoke at this time, "I haven't seen several senior leaders of the company go down. You have to think clearly when you go down!"

"What are our leaders!" Lu Xiangdong said with a smile.

"We are foreign guests!" Tang Han laughed, regardless of the gaze of the professors.

They joked all the way around and got on the elevator. The elevator roared down. In a few minutes, the group arrived at the shrouded rock formation of more than 100 meters above the upper floor.

After a brief darkness, light also reappears in front of you. It is unlikely to say that you are not nervous.

Fortunately, there were electric lights installed in the mine and the roar of machines. Everything was so busy, and Tang Han was also laughing at himself for being worried too much.

Yang Fangzhou and several old experts taught as soon as they got off the lift and rushed to the front along the well dug in the flat floor.

As you see on the big screen, the mine cave is very wide, and the entire mine cave is very formal and is basically supported by wood. The worries of several people gradually disappear and they are at ease to follow them.

"We are worried too much!" Lu Xiangdong said with a smile as several people moved forward.

Liu Yifeng said with a smile, "There are still machines ringing in front!"

The air underground was fine, and there was a busy scene everywhere, and Tang Han gradually relaxed.

After marching for about 100 meters, Tang Han also saw the excavator working below. It was this big guy who dug out the jade raw materials and waste stones together.

Yang Fangzhou and a group of experts and scholars were on the front line to investigate the situation, and Lao Pagan's charm was indeed unmatched.

Tang Han was curious, and in order to relieve the tension in his heart, he followed Liu Yifeng to see the jadeite rough stones that others selected and piled together.
Chapter completed!