NOVEL WEB Chapter 223 Jade Mine
After the meal, Nuwen took the four of them into the family's big truck. After a bumpy ride for almost half an hour, they finally arrived at the Zibi Mining Area.
This place is desolate everywhere. It is a paradise for jade mine owners and businessmen to make fortunes, but it is also a purgatory for countless people at the bottom of Myanmar.
The best time to mine jadeite is the dry season, but in the eyes of profit-seeking mine owners, not only does it have no season, some even do it day and night.
Rain or shine, day or night, the mining area is always working.
Myanmar has a rainy season for most of the year. When the rains flood, the mines are filled with mud and collapse, making it impossible to walk. In summer, the climate in Myanmar is hot and humid, mosquitoes are rampant, and plagues and diseases are prone to outbreaks.
Mine owners and jade merchants have made fortunes from the jade mined by workers in the mines, but the lives of the workers in the mines have not improved at all.
The harsh high temperatures, cramped environment, high-intensity work and meager food have made almost every mining worker emaciated.
The resting environment of the jade diggers in the mine can be described as very bad. The conditions are limited and the environment is harsh. You can eat grains of sand when eating. There is no electricity. They repeat heavy labor day after day.
Jade mining in Myanmar has a history of more than two thousand years, but the mining methods are still very backward. In this era, manual labor combined with some simple homemade equipment is still the main jade mining method.
Entering the mining area, Luo Yunhang and his party saw a group of people manually mining on the cliffs. The crowds were like ants, climbing on the rock walls and mining with their lives as a bet. If you don't pay attention, you will fall into the abyss.
There is also a piece of muck above that may collapse at any time. If hundreds of tons of muck collapse, the devastation will be self-evident, not to mention that we humans, who are so small in the face of nature, have almost no chance of survival.
Miao Cuihua turned her head away unbearably: "This is too cruel, you are almost working with your life."
Nuwen smiled slightly: "The risks of mining in mining areas are gradually increasing year by year. The longer the original mineral veins are mined, the deeper the mines will be, and the greater the natural danger.
These workers have to support their families, and mining rough stones allows them to receive relatively high remuneration.
The reason why jade is so expensive is not without reason. It carries the blood and tears of countless jade diggers. "
Luo Yunhang opened his mouth, but didn't say a word. He wanted to say why they didn't change to a relatively stable job, but after thinking about it, he felt like eating minced meat, but he didn't say it after all.
Everyone is forced to leave by life. As long as there is a way, who would want to work with his life in his belt.
As the truck went deep into the mining area, a creation of nature appeared in front of them.
"These are mines that have been mined. My two mines are right in front." Nuwen pointed ahead.
“Look, these are my two mines, right next to each other. These two mines have been mined for two years and are expected to be mined for another seven or eight years.
There are also many violets that produce high-quality ice seeds. "
The group of people looked in the direction Nuwen pointed.
Continuous mining areas appear in front of you.
The first two mines are Nuwen's.
From a distance, there are also many workers mining rough stones above.
Luo Yunhang stood in the big truck and looked at the mine. An idea came to his mind. Maybe he could take a look at the quality of the rough stones in Nuwen's mining area.
So he looked with his clairvoyant eyes, and the entire mountain turned into dots of colors before his eyes.
There is a large area of green on one side and a large area of purple on the other.
The overall quality of the Nuwen mine is quite good.
Luo Yunhang looked around curiously.
In a nearby mining area, less than half of it was mined, but there was only a small amount of rough stone left, and it seemed that the quality was very poor.
The jade in this vein is less than one-third of Nuwen's mine.
Nuwen was very curious about this young man who had been silent and seemed to understand what he was saying.
Following Luo Yunhang's gaze, he explained: "More than half of the mine has been mined and it has been losing money. It is estimated that if the money is not recovered in another month, the mine owner will abandon the mine."
Luo Yunhang thought to himself that it was really time to give up. This was a tasteless meal and it was a pity to abandon it.
He raised his head and looked into the distance, and suddenly asked Nu Win in Burmese in surprise: "U Nu Win, do those connected veins in front also have owners? Why is no one mining them?"
"Wu" is not Nou Win's surname, but a respectful name for elders or people with status in Burmese.
Nou Win did not expect that this young man could not only understand Burmese, but also speak fluent Burmese, which was more authentic than the translator's Burmese, and he immediately felt friendly.
When he answered, his tone was lighter.
“Those veins are abandoned, so no one is mining them.
They originally belonged to a large mine owner, but after a quarter of the mining, they still failed to produce a few pieces of valuable jade. The quality was worse than the mine just now, and they lost a lot of money to enter it, so they were abandoned. Its owner gave up. "
"I see." Luo Yunhang was thoughtful on the surface, but his heart was beating like a big drum.
This is not a waste mine, this is a gold mine.
In Luo Yunhang's eyes, the entire mineral vein is covered with a dreamy violet color, but its location is indeed a bit strange, slightly below the center.
If its owner did not have enough patience and determination, he would not have discovered such a magnificent treasure hidden underneath.
Judging from the surface of the veins, the mine owner also put a lot of thought into these veins.
There are traces of mining in every corner of the vein.
It can be seen that the owner was eager to dig out the jadeite ore.
But he couldn't withstand the pressure after all, and the traces of mining stopped abruptly only two meters away from the jade ore.
What a pity, he only needs to persist for another two months or a month to find the best vein.
This vein is of better quality than the two mines in Nuwen. It is continuous, large in quantity, has a correct color, and has good water quality.
What a pity, what a pity.
"The mine was very popular at first, and I wanted to get it, but I lost out to the mine owner on price, and ended up buying two smaller jade mines. Unexpectedly, by some strange combination of circumstances, the mine was now abandoned. Yes, the quality of my two small mines is pretty good.
This may be because there is a saying in your country called "Blessings come with misfortunes". "
"Blessings come from disasters, misfortunes come from blessings." Luo Yunhang said.
"Yes, that's it. Sometimes you really don't know what God will arrange." Nuwen said with a smile.