Wind and sand erosion: Most of the stones in the Northwest Gobi have undergone this process.

What can be left behind by the erosion of wind and sand in the Gobi Desert is usually very hard stones, most of which are siliceous.

The surface of the stone is very delicate and smooth, and often forms a lot of local concave forms on the surface of the stone, and in addition, there will be a layer of oxide film on the surface of some stones, such as desert paint.

Artificially cut: Some stones have very good natural textures and pictures.

But these natural textures are often blurred by weathering of the surface, or the stones are quarryed from the mountains and have a poor shape.

So people cut and polish these stones.

The stone is polished and cut, not to give it a moving form, but to make the texture of the stone clearer, or to make the form simpler and more regular (the purpose is also to better represent the pictorial texture of the stone).

When he thought of artificial cutting, Jiulong thought of his agate heart again.

The artificially cut picture stone is still recognized, this naturally cracked agate heart, not more fireless, more should be recognized, think about it, Jiulong heart brightened a lot.

Now there is only one question left, whether it is the best or not.

There are other special causes of strange stones: meteorites, volcanism (lava, hydrothermal fluids), lightning, crystallization (such as desert roses), precipitation.

According to their apparent causes, strange stones can be classified as follows:

(1) Weathered mountain stone (mainly formed by weathering), such as part of Taishan stone;

(2) Water washed pebbles (mainly formed by abrasion of flowing water), such as Yangtze River pebbles and Yellow River stones;

(3) Water flushing (type) stone (mainly formed by in-situ erosion of flowing water), such as water flushing granite and moore stone;

(4) Water erosion of mountain stones (mainly formed by groundwater dissolution), such as Taihu Lake stone and Lingbi stone;

(5) aeolian stone (mainly formed by wind and sand erosion), such as Gobi agate and desert paint;

(6) Cutting stone (mainly formed by manual cutting) (1) polishing pebbles, such as Qingjiang stone, (2) cutting and grinding slates, such as grass flower stone.

3. Occurrence (output geography, etc.)

The strangeness of the Gobi stone also lies in the fact that it is easy to form a thousand strange stones, so there are "chickens out of the shell" and "years" These 100 million yuan stones have come out, and it is too difficult for the water to be formed, which is basically pebble-shaped.

This would explain why Gobi Stone is so easily popular.

The owner of this strange stone museum, Naren, used to be a herdsman in Yingen Sumu in Azuoqi, and after retiring from grazing in 2004, she started a stone business.

Naren also told Kowloon that the strange stone culture in Alxa has developed rapidly, and when she first ran the jade industry, she only earned tens of thousands of yuan a year, and now she earns hundreds of thousands of yuan a year through strange stone trading.

Like Naren, more than 40,000 herders in the Alxa League have become rich because of stones.

The local government of Alxa has built a herdsmen's strange stone museum for these herdsmen according to local conditions. The annual trading volume of each strange stone is worth more than one million yuan or even tens of millions of yuan.

After bidding farewell to President Shi, Little Apple continued to take Kowloon to wander around the stone market, and happened to meet Huang Zilin, a collector of strange stones from Taiwan, who also came to Bayanhot Town, Azuoqi to inspect the strange stones, and he was amazed by the prosperity and scale of the strange stone market here.

He said that he has long admired the strange stones of Alxa, especially the Gobi strange stones and agate stones produced in Alxa.

In August 2006, the first "Alxa Stone Cultural Tourism Festival" attracted many strange stone lovers from home and abroad.

Since then, this event has been identified as one of the three major festivals in Alxa, and named "Alxa Jade Cultural Tourism Festival", which is held once a year.

Alxa also invites famous experts and enterprises in the cultural circles of strange stones at home and abroad to enter Alxa and participate in the construction of Alxa strange stone cultural industry by holding various forms of strange stone cultural exchange activities.

In 2010, the Alxa government issued the "Implementation Opinions of Alxa Left Banner on Accelerating the Development of the Service Industry" to encourage the development of the strange stone industry. In 2012, the Gem & Jade Summit Forum was held. Through the holding of various activities and the strengthening of infrastructure construction, the cultural industry of Qishi has been further developed.

After more than 10 years of mining and sales, some rare stones have been gradually depleted. In order to protect this precious strange stone resource, Alxa has adopted "three restrictions" measures, that is, limited production, limited personnel and limited time, and carried out planned protective mining of strange stone resources.

At the same time, a protective fund was also set up and a strange stone collection was built, so that the "first city of ornamental stones in China" deserved its name.

With the rapid development of Alxa's strange stones, many foreign strange stone merchants have also taken a fancy to the influence of the Alxa strange stone market and have come here to develop their businesses.

Jiulong came to a shop and found that the owner, Zhao Gang, was a strange stone dealer from Xinjiang, who had moved his strange stone museum from Shanshan, Xinjiang to Bayanhot, Alxa Left Banner, three years ago.

He came to Azuoqi to open the strange stone museum, mainly to see that the Alxa strange stone is famous, it is easy to do business here, and the stone can be sold at a good price.

It is understood that there are currently more than 200 foreign bosses doing strange stone business in Azuoqi.

In recent years, jade lovers who make money while enjoying and playing have a common concern: what to do when the stone is mined?

At this time, the Alxa government introduced agate jade deep processing technology, turning many stone scraps into treasure, and forming a new industry in the local area, promoting the development of Alxa jade cultural industry to depth and breadth.

Jiulong saw in the stone carving processing factory of Bayanhot Business Incubation Base that the unpretentious agate rough stones have been carefully carved by skilled craftsmen and turned into pieces of high-quality, exquisite and gorgeous handicrafts.

Dolphins in life, goldfish in life, horses in spirit, and the kind and kind Maitreya Buddha are all crystal clear and colorful, and people can't put it down.

"At present, hundreds of thousands of pieces of Alxa colored jade carved out of our factory are sold all over the country and are deeply loved by people. ”

Jiang Zhenghua, a jewelry and jade sculptor of Azuoqi, said proudly.

Little Apple really has the ability, not only called Jiulong to visit the stone market, but also took Jiulong to visit Alxa Vocational and Technical College, the teacher and classmates of the colored jade carving class are taking a practical course at this time, cutting, water grinding, polishing, after a process, a process, a lot of raw stone blocks, in their hands to complete a gorgeous turn.

Teacher Li of the colored jade carving class proudly introduced that in recent years, in order to develop colored jade carving, Alxa has opened an Alxa gem processing and marketing class in Alxa Vocational and Technical College, with a duration of 3 years.

The college waives all tuition and miscellaneous fees for students majoring in this major, and provides certain technical and equipment support.