Chapter 44: A Day in the Diamond Cave!

"It's here! get off. "After an hour and a half of driving from the ground, the truck finally stopped at the hole.

"Lei! It's here, get up. Wu Niu's second uncle Yi Milang pushed Jia Lei, who was spread out on the chair, and said.

"To ...... Is it ~~?" Jia Lei opened his eyes and asked in a fluctuating voice.

"Yes, let's go down quickly! I'll take you to the mine while the truck is lined up to load, and I'll be back in a moment to catch the truck back." Imiran said.

"It's finally here!" After Jia Lei helped Imirang's men get out of the car, he stood on the stable and solid ground and let out a moving wow-spit out!

"Vomit! vomit!" Jia Lei held on to the cave wall and vomited wildly.

The road to the Peace Diamond Mine is like a huge plate of mosquito coils, or the circle of incense that is common in temples, but the kind that is upside down with small heads lying down.

Jia Lei sat down in the car for nearly an hour and a half, and he couldn't count how many times he turned!

"Uncle Imirang, won't these drivers faint?" Jia Lei took out a tissue to wipe his mouth and asked.

"Yes, although everyone is trained and rigorously selected, they still get dizzy occasionally! At that time, they will pull over to the side of the road and let the other cars go first, and then continue driving after a while. Uncle Imiran said.

"Are you alright?" asked Uncle Imiran.

"No, let's go see the diamond mine!" Jia Lei said categorically, his desire for diamonds overwhelmed Jia Lei's physical discomfort.

"Okay, you come with me. Uncle Imiran said.

"It's a lot warmer down here than it is up there. Jia Lei said after feeling the temperature.

"Of course! There is a huge furnace burning day and night to keep warm, otherwise there would be no diamond mining in the permafrost of Siberia. Uncle Imirang introduced Jia Lei.

"Your country has really worked hard to mine diamonds!" Jia Lei sighed.

"Let's take a look here, it's too far inside, and there is a machine over there, I'm afraid that the stone will hit you!" Uncle Imiran said as he led Jia Lei to stand more than a hundred meters away from the mining machine, and Jia Lei watched many workers in front of him busy near the mining machine.

"This ...... This is the diamond mine?" Jia Lei said, looking at the surrounding mine walls.

"It's so beautiful!" Jia Lei said as he looked at the cave walls that glittered in the light.

The countless ores on the wall emitted yellow-green flashes after the reflected light, and occasionally a particularly dazzling white light flashed among them, which was the brilliance of diamonds!

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The villain in Jia Lei's heart was sad and knelt on the ground and cried!

"Ahhh......h It's all stones!, how can I steal diamonds like this!" Jia Lei thought in his heart.

Kimberlite diamonds are mined in kimberlite – as we all know, the process of diamond mining is usually a black man with a shovel and a sieve to sift the stone, and then another black man with a plate and repeatedly scouring the river to find a clear rough diamond in the washed stone.

But the rough kimberlite diamonds from the Peace Diamond Mine are not like this! It's all wrapped in rocks, and most of the kimberlites aren't diamonds - most of them are peridot and garnet except for the rock layers!

"How many diamonds can be found in so many stones?" Jia Lei couldn't help but ask.

"There are only a few gem-quality diamonds in a cart of ore! "Uncle Imirang began to introduce Jia Lei.

Not all rough diamonds become jewelry-quality diamonds, with an average of only 20 percent of the diamonds mined reaching gem quality, while the other 80 percent can only be used in industry.

It takes 250 tonnes of kimberlite to get a 1 carat rough gem diamond from an ordinary mine, and it only ends up polishing about 20 to 50 points of finished diamond.

Rough diamonds are carefully selected from a large number of raw ores and cut with thousands of cuts to become sparkling diamonds.

"The Peace Diamond Mine is a bonanza! It produces more than a million carats of gem-quality diamonds every year. Combined, our mines here and around us produce 23 percent of the world's diamonds. Uncle Imiran said proudly.

"Wait!, are you talking about how many diamond mines there are around?" Jia Lei asked in surprise, as an ordinary person, he only knew about the Peace Diamond Mine, the largest diamond mine in the world.

"Yes, and some of them belong to the same mining company as us. Uncle Imiran said.

"There's nothing to see here, let's go!" Jia Lei said with a blood in his heart, his original plan to directly buy miners and guards to steal diamonds was shattered.

"Would you like to bring a piece of ore back as a souvenir?" asked Uncle Imiran.

"Is this okay?" asked Jia Lei suspiciously.

"No problem, no one will have an opinion on pulling out tens of thousands of tons of ore from the mine every day. Uncle Imiran said.

"Then bring me a piece as a souvenir!" Jia Lei thought for a while and said, as a Chinese person, how can he go back to this kind of scenic spot without bringing some souvenirs to the mine! Jia Lei even took a photo to commemorate the occasion......

"Did you bring the cigarettes I told you to bring?" asked Uncle Imirang.

"Bring it!" Jia Lei took out a few boxes of cigarettes from his arms and handed them over.

"Everyone come and share the cigarettes!" shouted Uncle Imirang, holding up the cigarette case, and immediately the workers who did not have any machines in their hands came running.

"My nephew wants to come here to see if he's disturbing everyone's work, which is a little interesting. Uncle Imiran said.

"Is this the child born to your sister who married into Huaxia?" asked a miner.

"Yes, this is my nephew Wu Lei. Uncle Imirang said that Jia Lei once again pretended to be Wu Niu's younger brother.

"It's pretty!" complimented the others.

"Tell me, what else do you have to do?" asked the foreman of the place where he worked.

"My nephew wants to bring a piece of ore back as a souvenir, okay?" asked Uncle Imiran.

"Okay! Pick and choose, but you can only take one piece! You can't take it out if you have more. The foreman said.

As soon as Jia Lei heard that he could pick at will, he hurriedly ran to the vicinity of the conveyor belt to pick up the ore that fell on the ground.

"Poof!" an old worker next to him laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" Jia Lei lifted the ore up a little more to prevent it from slipping down.

"Silly boy! It's not big, there's diamonds in it, you have to look at the color and texture of the ore. This color is greenish and full of peridot!" the old man kindly told Jia Lei.

"Then what kind of diamonds are in it?" Jia Lei asked.

"Hmm...... Like this one, there are diamonds in it!" the old man glanced at the ground, picked up a fist-sized piece of ore from Jia Lei's feet, and handed it to him.

"So small?" Jia Lei asked him to put the ore on top of his big ore and take a closer look - Jia Lei was still reluctant to throw away the big ore in his hand.

"If you look closely, there's a diamond in this ore. The old workers said that they would occasionally secretly pick out the exposed diamonds and hide them to take home.

That's how Jia Lei exchanged brown sugar for rough diamonds!

"Bang dang!" As soon as Jia Lei heard that there were diamonds in the small stone, he immediately threw away the big ore without hesitation.

"Oh! I said why is this ore so close to my eyes, this is fate!" Jia Lei said affectionately with the big fist-sized ore.

"Take it and go, but if there's a diamond on it, you'll find it out when you get out! The old miner said, Jia Lei nodded hurriedly.

"You help me find out, is there anything better than this. Jia Lei secretly took out $100 from his pocket and handed it over.

"For so many dollars, you can buy a one-carat rough diamond. The old miner said in surprise.

"Hmm...... Are your rough diamonds here so cheap?" Jia Lei asked in surprise.

"Of course, the rough diamonds that have been screened up above are less than $1,000 a gram! But if they buy them secretly, rough diamonds under one carat are $100 a carat. The old miner said that he told Jia Lei that he was planning to change the leaders in the mine recently, and many leaders were secretly selling rough diamonds.

"The leaders of your mine are all from the original Soviet government, right?" Jia Lei asked after thinking for a while.

"Yes! Now that Russia is independent, they are also trying to take back the diamond mineral rights here, but the top has not yet made a decision! It is estimated that after the Russian presidential election, there will be a change of people here. The old miner said. This kind of thing is obvious, everyone knows it, he collected the money and spent his time finding a better diamond ore for Jia Lei.

"Thank you. Jia Lei put the piece of ore the size of an egg in his pocket and said.

"Let's go, the car is going to go. Uncle Imirang shouted in the distance, and Jia Lei hurriedly ran over.

"Wait, what's that?" Jia Lei suddenly asked as he passed by a building in his car.

"What's wrong with the lift? Uncle Imiran asked, puzzled.

"Stop, stop!" Jia Lei hurriedly shouted, and the driver didn't stop at him.

"Stop!" Jia Lei snapped on the steering wheel and said, the driver immediately stopped the car with a foot of the brake this time.

"This $50 is for your fare, thank you this time!" Jia Lei pointed to the dollar on the steering wheel and said, it is useful to talk about money at all times.

"What are you going to do?" Uncle Imirang asked when he saw Jia Lei jump out of the car door and hurriedly chased after him.

"I'm going to take the lift back. I don't want to do this car anymore, and I vomit all the bile when I get down. Jia Lei said as he walked to the elevator.

"Impossible! Generally, the elevator will be opened only when the workers come to inspect it, except when the workers commute to and from work. Uncle Imirang told Jia Lei.

"Nothing is impossible with me!" Mr. Jia said.

"As long as it's right, everything is possible!" Mr. Jia said.

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"I'm going to take the lift!" Jia Lei said to the guards.

"No! It's not open to outsiders. The guard refused.

"I'm going to take the elevator up!, okay?" Jia Lei took out two hundred dollars and slapped them on the guard who spoke, and the guards and the colleagues around them looked at each other and immediately put away the dollars.

Ten minutes later, Jia Lei sat in the creaking elevator and slowly approached the ground.

"When I finally came out, I was always worried that a rock would fall on my head when I looked at the sky below. Jia Lei looked at the ground that was getting closer and closer and complained to Uncle Imirang.

"Who?" asked the guard above, looking at the elevator that had suddenly risen up.

"Passerby!" Jia Lei said as he took out ten ten-dollar bills, and when the other party saw the money, he immediately called the door of the elevator.

"It's yours! It's yours!" Jia Lei first stuffed twenty dollars for the guards who opened the door, and then ten dollars for each of the others.

Jia Lei is already on the ground, so he doesn't plan to spend more money, just stuff ten dollars per person.

"Who are you, what are you doing here?" someone behind Jia Lei suddenly asked.

"Truck, card!" Jia Lei turned around stiffly, and saw Minasdaq, the deputy mine manager who had come to inspect the work.

"Help...... What should I do if I steal something and am bumped into by the owner? Wait online! It's very urgent!" Jia Lei said in his heart.

"I'll just say come up by car, if we take the car at this time, it will be on the wall of the cave, and we won't collide with the mine manager at all. Uncle Imiran said, covering his face. You have to find the latest chapters by yourself to read books?