Chapter 302 A Gift for an Idol

Eminem's father and daughter finally ate the yellow croaker in the soup, and Hayley vividly showed everyone what it means to be 'so delicious that I cried.' ’

Because she was really excited to cry after eating.

Eminem wanted to film Xiao Peng's process of making fish, but Xiao Peng didn't let him photograph himself, Eminem was puzzled by this: "What a great opportunity to become famous, I guarantee that as soon as this video is released, many people will know your name." ”

Xiao Peng just smiled at this: "I don't want to be famous." ”

Eminem asked curiously, "Why? Who doesn't want to be famous?"

Xiao Peng replied lightly: "It's too tiring to be famous." In fact, I also understand that as my wealth increases, my popularity will definitely increase day by day. I've started to lose my old life. Let's cherish this easy life now. ”

Eminem was stunned for a moment and patted Xiao Peng on the shoulder: "You live better than me." "Random thoughtful.

While fame brought Eminem wealth, it also cost him even more. Living in the spotlight every day, every word and deed is infinitely amplified by people. When he was young, Eminem's domineering personality led to his relationship with the media, family, and peers always on the opposite side, with constant negative-negative-negative. It wasn't until his friend Proof was shot dead that he took a break from the music scene and re-examined himself, which led to a rebirth and eased his relationship with his family and friends.

Of course, he and the media have not changed much, and he is still the 'ruffian Eminem' who makes the media love and hate. ’

After dinner, Xiao Peng asked Eminem and Hailey to rest first, and made an appointment to take the two of them to have a good time at sea tomorrow.

watched Eminem's father and daughter go to rest. Xiao Peng took advantage of people's inattention and carried a few tools with him to dive into the sea himself, instead of using his mind to doppelgΓ€nger.

Because he had an idea and wanted to prove it.

In this auction, the 'blue cat' was sold. Ever since he knew that this was a unique sapphire in the world, Xiao Peng began to regret it. Who wouldn't want to keep the best of the world for themselves?

But now it's too late to regret it, and it's already sold. So what should I do? Xiao Peng's solution was: find another piece.

But Xiao Peng didn't have the idea of sinking the ship stupidly. There are many shipwrecks and many riches, but to find a better sapphire from a shipwreck? All the shipwrecks in the world have been overturned, and they are impossible to find.

Xiao Peng's solution: find the gem mine by himself.

It is no exaggeration to say that there are almost all kinds of resources in the oceans that are on land, and there are some resources that are not available on land. However, the ocean is too big and too deep, which makes it more difficult to exploit, so a large number of seabed resources are still sleeping on the bottom of the sea. Waiting for the development of humans.

The world's major gem mining areas are almost all at the collision boundary of major plates. For example, Myanmar, Russia, Afghanistan, and the Japanese state are on the border of the Eurasian plate. India and Sri Lanka are located on the Indian Ocean plate, Madagascar is located at the junction of the Antarctic plate, not to mention several countries in the African plate, such as Tanzania and South Africa.

Which of these is not the source of the famous gem veins?

Due to changes in the earth's crust and other reasons, China is also a major producer of various gemstones: diamonds from Liaoning, Shandong, rubies from western Yunnan, sapphires from Changle, not to mention the veins of the Tianshan Mountains.

And Xiao Peng chose to search the bottom of the Qianliyan Fishing Ground, which was not without purpose. After all, there are extinct volcanoes at the bottom of the Thousand Miles Rock. Wherever volcanoes have existed, there are often gems and minerals.

In nature, more than 3,000 minerals have been discovered, but there are no more than 20 minerals that can be called gemstones. Among them, diamond, corundum, beryl, chrysoberyl and jadeite are also known as the five great gemstones. It is a precious ore among the treasure ores.

Of course, even if these five gemstones, it also depends on the quality, take diamond as an example, if the transparency is not good, the color is not beautiful, or contains impurities, or the particle size is not enough, then it cannot be made into a diamond, and the price is very low.

The excellent ones of these five gem minerals, such as diamonds, are used as diamonds, and the bad ones can only be used as grinding wheels.

And corundum is represented by rubies and sapphires. The top grade of beryl is emerald, the jadeite loved by the Chinese people belongs to jadeite, good jadeite can be sold at a sky-high price, and those that are poor, it is too ugly to pave the way, and opal and alexandrite belong to chrysoberyl.

There are also some gem minerals, which belong to the middle and low grade gemstones, such as precious opal, tourmaline, turquoise, lapis lazuli, olivine, etc. Of course, even the same gemstone is not of the same quality, so the price of a good low-to-mid grade gemstone is often higher than that of a low-quality precious gemstone.

Because the gem minerals in nature are generally relatively small in particles, the value of gemstones usually increases in the flat direction of the individual weight of the gemstone, and especially large gems even become priceless.

Of course, because natural gem minerals suitable for making high-grade gemstones are very scarce, people have developed artificial methods to synthesize gemstones. It is called man-made gemstones or synthetic gemstones. Like rubies, diamonds, crystals, etc. can be artificially made. Take rubies, for example. Although rubies are extremely rare, their prices are lower than diamonds, and in addition to factors such as market operations, the main reason is that artificial rubies are flooding the market.

Xiao Peng soon swam to the bottom of the sea - the location of the volcano. As a result, there was a face full of regrets: the sea mud and sea sand covered the ground, how can we know if there are mineral veins on the seabed?

Xiao Peng thought about it, and simply swam to the Qianliyan Trench, found a submarine cliff, and went all the way downstream.

To say that Xiao Peng was lucky, he didn't swim out for long, and he found a cluster of crystals. Xiao Peng took out the small hammer he carried with him, carefully knocked down the cluster of crystals, and put it into the net pocket he carried with him.

This is a cluster of amethysts with a darker root and a lighter tip color. Because the crystal is common, the price is not expensive, Xiao Peng picked it for two reasons, first, to give it to Hailey as a gift. Second, according to magmatic pegmatite mineralization, if crystals are found near a volcano, it generally means that there are topaz, tourmaline, beryl, etc. nearby. Xiao Peng patiently searched around, and sure enough, he found a few clusters of beryls. Looks like there should be a beryl mine here.

Beryl is still very recognizable, generally hexagonal cylindrical crystals. The color is generally green, but there are also golden yellow, pink, etc., and honey yellow is also more common. The most precious of these are probably emeralds and aquamarines.

That's right, although aquamarine is called sapphire, it belongs to beryl. The reason for the difference in color is related to the minerals contained in beryl ore, which contains chromium, the color is green, the iron is blue, and the color is rose red.

The few beryls that Xiao Peng found were almost all light green colors that were close to transparent. This is of lower quality in beryl, with only one cluster being pale pink. But it also gave Xiao Peng hope. If the beryl mine here is a bonanza, you will definitely find a good emerald. Although the price of the finest emeralds is slightly inferior to several other gemstones, in recent years, it has been on the market for thousands of kilometres of gold. In the auction market, the price of more than 100,000 meters of gold and one carat has been reached.

And Xiao Peng also found a small amount of tourmaline in the crevices of the rocks.

Tourmaline is the only gemstone in the world with piezoelectric and hot spot effect, which can absorb dust and grass clippings, and the most direct way to distinguish the authenticity of tourmaline is to see if it can absorb dust. Huaxia obtained this gemstone in 644 A.D. when Tang Taizong conquered the west and carved it into a seal. During the Qing Dynasty, a large amount of tourmaline entered the imperial palace. According to Qing Dynasty classics, among the funeral goods of the Empress Dowager Cixi, she stepped on a lotus flower carved from tourmaline.

With the progress of science and technology in human society, scientists have re-understood the only charged ore on the earth, and improved the environment and human health by generating trace currents.

Of course, those that are popular are the fine products inside tourmaline, which are known as tourmaline. What Xiao Peng found was only tourmaline rough, tourmaline rough and beryl in general, which are also relatively easy to identify, because tourmaline is a tripartite crystal, the common crystal is like a trigonal column, and the end part is three cones.

Xiao Peng looked at the black tourmaline, he was really not interested, and after staying at the bottom of the sea for most of the night, he returned to his room.

Although he found the beryl vein, Xiao Peng was still not satisfied, what he wanted to find was the corundum vein. That is, rubies and sapphires, after all, it was because of the sale of the 'blue cat' that Xiao Peng had the idea of undersea prospecting.

But looking at the mud and sand all over the seabed, Xiao Peng was a little desperate again.

Searching for ore veins on the seabed cannot be mined in large quantities like land, at least Xiao Peng does not have that much capacity at present. I had to look along the surface.

The formation conditions of corundum are nothing more than two points, or the high temperature and high pressure conditions formed in the mantle, with the magma erupting out of the surface, corundum in Thailand, Australia, China, Stars and Stripes, Wa and other places are all from this way of formation.

Otherwise, it will be formed by contact metamorphism and mined from placer ore. Various primary rubies and sapphires are enriched by weathering, such as Myanmar, Kashmir, Anhui and other places.

If there really is a vein of corundum in Qianliyan, it can only be from the first condition of formation. But if you want to determine whether there are corundum veins here, you can't empty all the sediment on the bottom of the sea, right?

Thinking of this, Xiao Peng couldn't help but be disappointed. However, seeing the beryl ore on the table, Xiao Peng was a little happier, at least it wasn't for nothing, at least there was a beryl mine in his fishing ground, and if he found an emerald, it would be developed.

Xiao Peng took a closer look at the beryl rough that came up. The color is mostly pale yellow-green, and some irregular associated ores are attached to the hexagonal column.

Xiao Peng thought about it, and his eyes lit up: "There you have it!"

Xiao Peng found the Eight Winds Knife and wanted to start carving, but the result was 。。。。。。 The carving does not move. After all, the hardness of beryl is much higher than that of jadeite.

However, Xiao Peng was not without a way, and directly injected the magic power into the knife, and sure enough, the hard beryl was as soft as tofu in front of the Eight Wind Knife infused with magic power.

Xiao Peng focused on carving beryl. He wants to make a small gift for his idol.