The four major Hetian jade mines in Kunlun Mountain, the westernmost Mildai Mountain jade mine is in the upper reaches of the Yecheng Qipan River in Kashgar, and the two jade mines in the middle are the Agjugai jade mine located in Hotan, and the other is the Alamaas jade mine located in Yutian, these three jade mines are all located in the mountains, and the lowest altitude is the Mildai Mountain jade mine, which is also more than 3,000 meters above sea level.Only the largest of the four jade mines, the Tatleksu jade mine, is located at the foot of the mountain.The Tatleksu jade mine is located at the foot of the Altun Mountain Range, about 65 kilometers southeast of the county seat, the altitude of the jade mine is only more than 1,000 meters, and it is not in the mountains, so the mining conditions are very convenient.The reason why the Tatleksu jade mine can become the first of the four major jade mines is also directly related to its convenient geographical conditions.Of course, among the jade mines found in Kunlun Mountain, only this jade mine is at the foot of the mountain, and the other jade mines are deep in the mountains.Otherwise, if most of the jade mines were the same as the Tatleksu jade mines, then Hetian jade would not be a rare thing for a long time.Rare is expensive, why is Hetian jade ranked first among the four famous jades in China?
Why was the price of the best Hetian jade fried to tens of thousands of yuan a gram in later generations?
One is that Hetian jade is really beautiful, and another very important reason is because the number of Hetian jade is too small.But in fact, the amount of Hetian jade is really a lot, at least compared to the other three famous jades, the number of Hetian jade is definitely large.It's just that because mining is too difficult, people can only look at Baoshan and sigh.People who have not personally experienced jade mining in the mountains will not be able to appreciate how difficult and dangerous it is to mine Hetian jade.It's like Yang Jing is just taking a plane overlooking the mountains below, and he can't help but feel numb on his scalp.This is the Kunlun Mountains, which are higher than the average altitude of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau!
If ordinary people climb Mount Tai at an altitude of more than 1,500 meters, they are still tired to death, but in Kunlun Mountain, just take out a small hill to be more than double the height of Mount Tai, and there is no comfortable mountain road for you to climb, here, if you want to enter the mountain, you must follow the path that has been walked out with the lives of countless predecessors, and its danger is simply outrageous.Yang Jing didn't want to open his jade mine in this environment, not to mention the high altitude, the danger of entering and leaving the mountain alone was enough to make Yang Jing stop.Therefore, if you want to open a mine, you would rather find a jade mine with not very large reserves in a good mining location at the foot of the mountain, rather than find jade ore in the depths of the mountain to mine, which is purely uncomfortable for yourself.However, seeing those red-glowing locations, Yang Jing was really greedy for the Yun-7 plane flying in the sky at an average speed of 500 kilometers per hour, because Yang Jing did not let the pilot continue to fly south after flying for a period of time, so now the plane is flying eastward in the middle of Kunlun Mountain at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters.After flying eastward for more than half an hour, Major Wang spoke: "Mr.
Smith, shall we continue to fly east?"
Ahead is the junction of the Hotan area and Bayingol. ”Major Wang also knew that although this Mr.
Smith said that he wanted to admire Kunlun Mountain, he actually knew very well that the reason why this huge rich foreign boss asked to fly this time was probably because he had a pedigree to inspect the location of the jade mine.Moreover, Major Wang also knew that the investment of this foreign boss would eventually fall in the Hotan area, and if a jade mine was selected in Bayingol, then the investment would not be considered Hotan's, so he opened his mouth to remind him.Yang Jing was stunned for a moment, then shook his head slightly and said, "Don't fly forward, let's go around the north in a circle, and then fly back from a lower altitude." ”Major Wang nodded, then stood up and walked towards the cockpit, and after a while, Yang Jing felt that the plane began to turn.There are many places where you can see treasures, although not as many as the areas covered by the glaciers in the south, but if you choose a random location to mine from them, the quality and quantity of jade are definitely very good.But it is a pity that most of these sites are more than 80 kilometers away from the northern edge of Kunlun Mountain, if it is on flat land, 80 kilometers is nothing, but in Kunlun Mountain, this is a trench that cannot be crossed at all.Yang Jing could only endure the reluctance in his heart to give up these places, and then prepared to retreat and see if there was a suitable place to choose from the lower altitude mountains in the north.Not to mention, surprises sometimes come so casually.From the beginning of the flight back, Yang Jing was nervously observing the mountains on the ground.Generally speaking, the altitude of the northern part of the Kunlun Mountains is much lower than that of the central and southern mountains, but the elevation of the mountains here is usually more than 3,000 meters, and the geographical conditions of several very good jade mines found along the way are actually very harsh, and they are not suitable for jade mining.This made Yang Jing very disappointed, although he was ready to not be able to choose high-quality jade mines, but seeing so many high-quality jade mines just pass by him, to be honest, this is a very torturous thing.Just when Yang Jing thought that there was no good harvest this time, and he even wanted to choose a jade mine that was not very rich in treasure as his mining location, a red light that rose to the sky in front of him suddenly lifted Yang Jing's spirit again.The ancients, including the modern people, searched for jade ore according to the river.As long as you can find seed jade or mountain water in the riverbed, then you can usually find mineral deposits along the river.In fact, the four major jade mines of Hetian Jade were found through this method, and the remaining thirty or so mining sites in Kunlun Mountain were also found through this method.But Yang Jing flew in the sky once this time, and through the Tianyan skill, he found that it was not wrong to use this method of finding jade ore through the river, but that the limitations were too great.After flying this circle, he realized that most of the jade deposits in the Kunlun Mountains were not distributed in the upper reaches of the river, and the jade deposits found according to the river were not even one percent of all the jade deposits in the entire Kunlun Mountain.Most of the high-quality deposits are not carried downstream by the rivers because there are no rivers around them, or because glaciers and rivers have not penetrated into the ore body, so the primary ores are not transported downstream by the rivers and thus discovered.In other words, the high-quality deposits that have been missed by people are grabbing a lot in the Kunlun Mountains.However, most of these deposits are located deep in the mountains, and these precious jade deposits are destined to remain deep in the mountains until the means of human transportation and exploration reach a certain level.Of course, among these high-quality mineral deposits that have not been discovered, there are also areas where the altitude is not so high, such as the red-glowing site that Yang Jing has discovered now, which is located between a mountainous area with an altitude of 26,700 meters.And what made Yang Jing feel most incredible was that a raging river roared next to this deposit and rushed downstream, but it just didn't penetrate into the deposit.With a distance of less than a few hundred meters, this high-quality deposit has never been discovered.Although the altitude is not high, it is also in a no-man's land, and there are scattered villages in the lower river valley a few kilometers away from this area.Yang Jing pointed to the faintly visible river in front of him and asked Major Wang, "What kind of river is that river?"
What is the upper reaches of the river?
”Major Wang looked down at the atlas in his hand again, and then said: "That river is the Aqike River, and the upstream area of this river is not small, and it belongs to Luopu County. ”Yang Jing nodded when he heard this, and after carefully observing the geomorphological characteristics of this area again, he closed his eyes a little tiredly.This way flying, he has been constantly using the Tianyan skill, the energy consumed is another story, the key is to just keep looking at it like this, it is really tiring to look at it Fortunately, this hard work has not been wasted, at least here you can find a high-quality jade mine that no one has discovered, and this hard work is definitely worth it.Judging from the treasure light that emerged from this location alone, the quality and quantity of Hetian jade contained in this jade deposit were definitely not stronger than the Agjugai jade mine seen before.This jade mine is actually composed of more than 10 smaller ore sites, which are distributed in a range of about 15 kilometers long and about 07 kilometers wide.When I saw the Agjugai jade mine before, the situation there was also more or less the same, and the jade mine was also composed of more than a dozen mines, and people are now only developing a few of them.However, if we analyze the treasure light emitted by each individual ore site, the quality of the treasure light emitted by the individual ore sites in this area is more abundant than that of the individual ore sites of the Agjugai jade mine, which shows that the quality of the Hetian jade contained in the ore sites here is even higher than that of the black mountain material.This is definitely a really great jade mine!
And judging from the location of this jade mine, it is far better than the Agjugai jade mine in the deep mountains, although it is not as good as the Tatleksu jade mine at the foot of the Altun Mountain, but the appearance of such a top jade mine in this geographical environment is definitely taken care of by God.Although this area is surrounded by mountains, it is not far from the northern edge of the Kunlun Mountains, and the straight-line distance is only about seven or eight kilometers, and because the Aqike River valley is very straight in this mountainous area, if you want to enter the mountains from the outside, you only need to walk along the Aqike River valley, and then turn a little east for two or three kilometers to reach this area.In particular, there are many villages and cultivated land in the valley of the Aqik River, which makes it easier to get here.This area is simply the result of God's admiration.The transportation is relatively convenient, the terrain is not so complicated, and the altitude is not very high, as long as it is slightly developed, it can form a top-level jade mine.Even if this area is not developed now, it is definitely worth waiting for when the conditions are more ripe in the future.As the saying goes, if you don't take it, you will be blamed.God gave such a jade mine with an excellent location, how could Yang Jing let it go?
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