The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

The latest website: There are several mining areas in Yutian Jade Mine, all of which are basically exhausted. Even if it can be mined, the quality of the ore extracted is average.

If you want to make a profit, or even make a lot of money, you must find new mineral veins!

The mountain is there, and there are definitely new mineral veins, but it is easy to talk about and difficult to do. It is impossible for the two partners to bloom all over the place to find them. They have to concentrate on tackling tough problems and take the most valuable!

The focus is on the Hanilak mining area, where everyone is concentrated on mining and exploration for the entire mining season, and the other mining areas that can produce blue and white jade and sapphire are all abandoned.

The old mining area of ​​the Hanilak Mine continues to be mined. Good materials can always sell for dozens of pieces per kilogram. The large quantity does not depend on luck, but the amount will always be a little bit.

Excluding a large proportion of labor expenses, you can earn some capital back more or less.

The main focus is on finding new mines. This is a gambling on luck. In April, Maiti-Nyazi took a man lying on the ice and stepping on the snow.

Liao Kaifeng originally wanted to go up together, but it was very unlucky. He had appendicitis, underwent a minor operation, and some infections before, so he became alive and alive this month.

I only went to the jade mine department yesterday. I drove my own jeep and pulled a car from the area to supply it.

The conditions in the upper mining area are too difficult. The miners usually eat some naan cakes and jerky. This time they plan to send them some fruits and spirits.

Thanks to the mining farm for decades, there is a simple road 60 kilometers from Yutian to Aqiang Township, and a jeep for 40 kilometers from Aqiang Township to Liushui Village can also be used. Usually people use donkey carts to pull things.

This second-hand Jeep is really omnipotent, otherwise you have to ride a donkey cart, or simply walk or ride a donkey.

You can send supplies to the Hanilak Mine, which is 30 kilometers away. The donkey can't reach the final resting place of the mining area, and the last few kilometers have to be manpowered.

Originally, the donkey could still walk on the last part of the road. He went to send supplies the last two times. The miner who was on the support mission told him that there was a section of the upper part that should have collapsed during the snowmelt season. The path that was still there last year is now completely gone.

Back it.

At this time, I saw a middle-aged man wearing a shabby suit and a moustache walking over and saying in fairly proficient Chinese: "Boss Liao, we are ready and we will be able to set off in 5 minutes."

"Okay, Sadiq, I'll come right away."

Liao Kaifeng can speak Uighur, and communication is generally fine, but this person always likes to speak his mother tongue.

Sadik has gone to school, and he has also worked with supply and marketing before, and his Chinese is still good.

Turning around and returning to the cave where I lived last night, I picked up an army green satchel from the Chase shop and took a pack of Snow Lotus cigarettes in one hand, and went out.

The baggage to be carried is already on the back of the donkey team. The bag contains some beef jerky, a thermos cup with green tea, a few pairs of new socks and a few packs of cigarettes.

The old-fashioned satchel, issued in 1992, is very practical, with a little bit of odds and ends.

Wearing an old 87 winter thick workwear version of the training suit, and a pair of new high-top anti-skid liberation shoes on the feet.

The shoes were bought by the Military Service Department of Urumqi, and they were still brought over by the old men in the army. They were genuine military supplies.

During my ten-year military career, I was used to wearing these outdoors when I went out. They were durable, comfortable and comfortable.

Walking outside the compound, there is a strong early summer atmosphere, green grass and green trees, and an oasis in the mountains.

Eight donkeys are ready, and there are nine people in the supply team, all of whom are Han nationality.

Several women were seeing off. Two of the workers were from the village. One of them was seen hanging another bag of naan on the back of a strong donkey. This time, most of the people in this group had to stay in the mining area for at least two months and could not see their family members for a while.

Moreover, going to the mine is always dangerous, so family members usually come to give it away.

Liao Kaifeng walked over, said hello, and easily removed the cigarette in his hand. Everyone stuffed their bag, including Sadik, all smiled and took it.

They are all employees of jade mines, and they have basically smoked cigarettes for so many years, but they are also used to cigarettes, let alone the high-priced goods in the snow lotus brand that Mr. Liao brought.

The leader Sadiq took the reins of the donkey casually, and carried the pole 56 and a half slantingly behind his back. As soon as everyone was gathered and ready, he said loudly: "Go!"

Liao Kaifeng glanced at his watch, and at four o'clock in the afternoon, the sun would not go down until eight hours later.

You need to camp for two nights on the road, and you can get to the mining area at noon the day after tomorrow, so you don’t have to be too hurry, or if you want to arrive in two days, you will have to get up early and be greedy.

After walking 35 kilometers for three days, Wangshan's dead horse is not enough to describe the situation, because the road is too difficult for the **** horse to run.

The Hanilak jade mine is on the high mountain south of Liushui Village, but according to the old miners, it is about 35 kilometers away from the village.

Regarding this distance issue, Liao Kaifeng was joking with Sadik this time: "I said, the 35 kilometers you mentioned was used to deceive yourself?"

Lie to yourself, it is said that you will not feel so far.

It's like Wulidi in the countryside, but after walking for an hour, five kilometers is almost the same!

Sure enough, Sadik smiled and said: "It is possible, anyway, there is no way to measure how far..."

Starting from Liushui Village, to the third group of settlements higher in the south, there is a way to this section, and two people can walk side by side and chat.

After passing the settlements of the three teams, there is no way to go up. You must honestly march up the Keriya River, otherwise you can't go at all.

The journey to the mine is difficult and dangerous, most of them go up, and in the middle, you have to cross Daban at an altitude of 4,500 meters!

It takes 6 hours to go up to Daban and 4 hours to go down to Daban. You have to cross the rapids and even climb the rock wall in the last part, which is completely testing the physical strength and perseverance of the jade collector.

Daban, a high mountain pass, but the second half of the upper Daban will be tomorrow morning, and this section is pretty good to go this afternoon.

The donkey team is walking in the densely rocky channel of the Keriya River, and people have to be careful when driving, let alone take care of the donkeys.

After nine o'clock in the afternoon~www.wuxiaspot.com~ the donkey team arrived at a relatively flat place, not far from the river, and there was some grass beside the river.

Except for Liao Kaifeng, everyone knows that the camping place tonight has arrived.

Unload things from the donkey's back and let them go to drink water and eat grass. They have been fed with food for a while before, and there is no problem eating grass for a while.

Tired enough after walking all afternoon!

Each took back his own luggage. A few stones were set up to form a firewood stove, and the dead branches picked up along the way were firewood. A big pot was boiled with water, which was considered ready for camping.

A few people set up a simple big tent on a fairly flat pebble floor. This is the house for the night tonight.

Extremely simple.

In fact, this is not bad, because in the mining area, the miners live in tents during the working season for several months.

Hard work, this is the life of a jade picker.