Chapter 231
Chapter 231
After 12 o'clock, the mining area was basically quiet.
At this time, the masters, whether they were digging stones or grinding stones, were off work.
Lin Xiao observed Gansha next door with a perspective eye, and she had also fallen asleep peacefully.
Although there are a lot of mosquitoes here, there are mosquito nets in the rooms, and as long as the air conditioning temperature is turned on to the lowest, there is very little mosquito activity.
Lin Xiao didn't fall asleep, he wanted to take advantage of the night to observe this gem mining area.
Gem mining areas are very different from emerald mining areas.
The rough stone in the jadeite mining area is often a few tons, even if it is small, it is the size of a fist, and tens of kilograms or hundreds of kilograms are the most common existence.
Gem mines, on the other hand, have small grains or some gems set in small pieces of ore. Because of this, digging a gem mine is much more difficult than a jade mine. The first is to dig up gem ore, and many workers have to bag piles of gem ore, carry them to a uniform place, and then sort them. A few tons of mineral sand, often not a few raw ore that can be used as gemstones.
It was a very tiring and undignified job, because the gems were so small that many of them were probably not the size of a fingernail that they were easy to hide, so the workers were carefully examined, not only for clothes and shoes, but also for some organs with holes on the body.
For the mine owner, there is no way, just steal a small ruby ore, it is enough for a worker to pay for a few months, and even a slightly better quality particle with larger particles can top the worker's salary for several years. Therefore, there will always be people who take risks, so the inspection and monitoring of workers is becoming more and more stringent.
Lin Xiao's current body is very fast, although there is still night patrol security in the mining area, but with Lin Xiao's body style, no one will find him at all.
The area of the mine is very large, and some of the pits are dug very deep just to extract the mineral sands. Looking for gems here is not an exaggeration to find a needle in a haystack.
It is mainly a ruby and sapphire producing area, but in addition to this, there is also a large amount of spinel.
Although spinel is an accessory product, the amount of spinel is much larger than that of ruby sapphire, but most of the spinel quality is average, mainly because the color is not up to standard, looking sparkling, the actual value is only tens to hundreds of carats.
The ruby sapphire is different, especially the ruby, the slightly better quality may cost tens of thousands of carats, if the quality is good, and the size is more than five carats, it is basically something that starts at a million.
And how big is five carats, but only one gram, and it is bigger than soybeans when you put it on.
According to Gansha's description, this mining area has been mined for a long time, in fact, there are not many red sapphires that can be mined, and their family has also made enough money in this mining area, and now the business conditions here are average, and the quality and quantity of gems dug up every year are declining, but a large number of workers need to spend money, and a large number of security personnel need to be raised, this expenditure is not small, maybe it will not take a few years, this place will be closed.
But in Lin Xiao's view, there is still a lot to be done here.
Under his perspective eyes, Lin Xiao saw a lot of red and blue treasure particles, many of which were high-quality goods.
However, these are some distance from the main mines, some of which are even under ponds, and it is no wonder that they have not found them.
Lin Xiao pondered, it would be good if he could get the mining rights here, in fact, there was no need for permanent mining rights, it only took a year, or even half a year, for Lin Xiao to dig up all the top red and blue treasures here.
In the past, I didn't dare to think about this kind of thing, but now with the relationship of Gansha, the key is that this mine is almost like a waste mine in the eyes of the Ivory Elephant family, plus the relationship of the Qiu family, it is not impossible to get a year's mining rights.
Lin Xiao looked back and forth at the mining area, and then went back to sleep satisfied.
Lin Xiao woke up early.
I thought Gansha would get up late, but I didn't expect her to get up before six o'clock.
"Hey, you woke up so early.
"Yes, I used to spend time with animals every day, and I woke up very early every day, so I got used to it. It's you, who actually got up so early, is it uncomfortable to have a bed here? "
No, let's go, let's go to the mine now." "
It's early in the morning, but there are already miners at work.
Just like in the Emerald Mining Area, although Gansha is a beautiful scenery here, no one dares to look at her.
"The workers here seem to be working harder than in the jade mines.
"There's no way, now the output of this mine is declining year by year, and the mining value is not very large, if they don't work hard, the money they make may not be enough to pay them." Obviously
, Gansha's words are against her will, and the wages of the miners are actually not worth mentioning compared to the profits of this mine.
"What will happen if this mine is not mined?"
"Then turn it off for the time being, and leave it like that, or exchange equivalents with other families."
"Have you ever thought about contracting out the mining rights of this mine?"
"I don't know about this yet, but I know that in the past, the family has contracted out jadeite mines, and they are all waste mines that the family doesn't want, and the contractors are basically blood losses, and then no one wants this kind of waste mines." Lin
Xiao really wanted to talk about the issue of contracting mining rights now, but Gansha didn't know enough about it, so he didn't speak.
This matter is not in a hurry, Lin Xiao is optimistic about it, and I believe that the people of the ivory elephant family will not be able to find it in their lifetime.
Lin Xiao had already visited the entire mining area last night, and today the main thing is to see the work of the workers and familiarize himself with the working methods of the mining area.
"Let's go, we can go back now.
"Are you leaving, I thought you'd have to stay until the afternoon." "
Haha, since you said that the mining here is about to end, I don't have anything to look at, let's go back, I guess I'll go back to China tomorrow, and you can go and do your business."
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It's not that we can't meet in the future, maybe I'll come back to Myanmar soon, after all, I still have to come here to pick up stones."
"That's right, you can come over whenever you want. When he
was about to leave, Lin Xiao met with Lu Run again, this time it was different, it was the two of them meeting alone.
"You've been with Gansha for the past few days.
Lu Run didn't seem to mind her daughter messing around with a man she had just met.
"Yes, I didn't expect that coming here would be so close to your eldest daughter, all because of the fate brought by that elephant. "
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