Another method of panning is to place the gem-bearing gravel in a large trough and rinse it with running water to move the gravel a few feet in the trough and then fall with a small drop. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After falling, the miners use baskets to stop the gravel and shake the basket to remove the remnants, where the gravel that has not been intercepted continues through several falls, and there is another basket to store under the water.

After that, the concentrate is hand-sorted, and the gems are sorted, and usually, the mine owner is responsible for picking the gemstones, and depending on the size of the mine, one or more people can assist in the work.

The general method of operation is to remove the gravel with some kind of tool in one hand and pick the gemstone with the other.

Place the gems in a bamboo basket and push the selected gravel off the platform.

Because there may be small pieces of gemstone in the discarded gravel, cheap labor can be hired to continue hand-picking.

These materials are usually sold to the families of mine owners at very low prices for further hand-sorting.

Small-scale mining operations typically have very small stripping surfaces, typically 20 to 30 square feet, and such small pits must be carefully supported with bamboo, then a rattan basket containing gravel is lifted to the surface by a small winch, and then the gravel is washed and hand-sorted using a similar method commonly used in larger mines.

Currently, the Myanmar government is working to modernize mining, but in some environmentally complex areas, modernizing mining is a dream.

Mo Xie naturally didn't have to go into the ditch to get gems like those absentees, he could directly drill into the mountains around the river valley to collect rubies.

And the mountains here, most of which are dirt mountains, have the help of super biological detectors, and Mo Ye can completely select the soil layer to drill, which is fast and efficient, and this is also the reason why Mo Ye chose this direction.

Mo Ye's map marks a lot of mining areas, this is a very rare mud mining area, that is, the so-called mud gem mountain, as the name suggests, such a mining area, most of them are composed of soil, such a mining area, for Mo Xie Lai, it is easier to drill, so his harvest is destined to be more than the workers in the entire mining area.

However, the vigilance here is much stronger than the outside, at least the machine guns and artillery barbed wire that Mo Ye has never seen before, and he has seen them all here.

On every hill inside the ruby mining area, there is a position, trenches, machine guns, guards, and heavily guarded.

Mo Ye knew that this was a normal situation, because almost all the local armed forces in Myanmar had set up companies in the ruby mining area, and there were guards everywhere.

And this gem mountain, since the large-scale development in 92, the main peak has fallen more than 100 meters.

After decades of mining, the entire mountain peak is now full of holes, not to mention the river on the ground, manual excavation, but the underground has been dug into a hornet's nest.

There is a large mine not far from Mo Ye, the mine is sometimes more than 800 meters deep, sometimes as big as an auditorium, sometimes as small as a dog hole, the caves are connected, the layers are connected, and they continue to radiate in all directions, like a beehive-like mountain, almost not even a supporting pillar can be seen.

In such a place, there are no supporting pillars, and this is simply a joke on human life.

However, this situation is normal here, so, seeing that the cave is connected, Mo Ye can only feel safe when he is away from them.

After probing the situation within a radius of a kilometer, Mo Ye saw a lot of things that he couldn't laugh at, such as this mining area, which was actually controlled by countless gangs of all sizes.

The same mining area, the same boss, but the internal situation is very complicated, sometimes the holes of the armed gangs open up each other, and no one in the hole can tell who has encroached on whose territory, and then it depends on whose power is greater.

All the ore in the mine is blasted with explosives, and at least thousands of cannons are fired in the belly of the mountain every day, so it is not uncommon for people to die in cave-in-and-earth collapses.

Armed men will constantly carry out checks to prevent theft, simply because rubies are full of countless temptations.

In addition to armed protection of their own turf in the mining area, there are also strict inspections to prevent workers from carrying rubies.

In order to prevent workers from stealing rubies, security guards of both sexes and men are required to conduct full-body checks on them at the end of the day, and the Burmese government and local ethnic armed forces have even set up machine-gun emplacements at every entrance.

Strict vigilance and harsh working conditions are such places that have attracted a large number of workers to pan for gold here.

Mo Ye heard a lot of information underground, such as the fact that in this ruby mining area, the daily salary of female workers is 900 kyats, which is about 8 yuan.

The daily wage of the male workers in the lower cave is 1,500 kyats, about 14 yuan.

Porters are 1,300 kyats per day, which is about 12 yuan.

With such a low salary, coupled with the high price of rubies, everyone knows what to do, as long as he or she succeeds in hiding a better ruby, it is equivalent to his or her income for several months, so stealing gems is inevitable.

Ant-nest-like caves and ant-like miners, ronin searching for treasure in the slag heaps, groups of female treasure scavengers working mechanically under the watchful eye of security guards, and gun-to-gun muzzles on the mountaintops, miners stake their lives on rubies day in and day out.

The raw ruby ore will be placed in a steel gemstone jar with two locks.

Rubies of good quality are now extremely rare, usually for every 500 tons of ore mined, only 1 carat of rubies can be obtained, and there are very few of them of excellent quality.

And the ruby that can be called "pigeon's blood red" is even more rare.

It is not difficult to imagine how much sweat and hard work of mining workers has been condensed to gradually sift through the delicate and beautiful gemstones from a large amount of gravel.

He didn't want to grab food from others here, so Mo Xie avoided places where there were people, this mining area was not small, and he didn't need to rob others of their possible interests.

Avoiding the cave and the river, Mo Xie locked on to a place with rolling hills, where the most were small hills, and there were no gem deposits on these small hills.

So, there are no people here, and just under these barren hills, there are some gem deposits.

"Dark red, pink, peach, pig's blood, why is there no top-notch pigeon blood red?"

Within a radius of a kilometer, a lot of rubies were scanned, and the ones that could not reach the gem level were removed, and then the ones that were too small were removed, and Mo Xie actually did not find a few superb gems, which made Mo Ye a little anxious.

This mining area is not small, and the scanning distance of his super biological detector is a thousand meters, isn't it too strange that there is no pigeon blood red in such a large range?

This is a real ruby mine, and if you can't find pigeon's blood rubies here, where else can you find them?

A lot of rubies were collected, but Mo Ye didn't find a single one of the really top rubies, which made Mo Ye a little impatient.

Therefore, he began to look along this mining area, slowly searching, and walked around the mining area for half a circle, almost scanning two-thirds of the mining area, Mo Xie finally made a discovery.

Looking at the scanned pictures inside the super biological detector, Mo Ye found a ruby with a dazzling color.

It is a pale red gemstone, or light red gemstone, perhaps because of its lighter hue, so it is more brilliant and dazzling than the ruby previously found.

"It's so similar to a Sri Lankan ruby!" After getting this ruby, Mo Ye found that it was just an ordinary ruby, and such rubies are often seen in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lankan rubies are light red, very light red, or light purple in color, and because of their lighter hue, they are more brilliant and dazzling than rubies from Myanmar and Thailand.

Mo Ye was a little disappointed, and finally found a conspicuous ruby, which was actually a mass product.

"Hey, the reflection of those rough stones seems to be unusual!" After scanning, Mo Ye began to find more rubies, and in a place where rubies gathered, Mo Ye actually found a few special rubies.

Looking at the picture, Mo Ye was a little suspicious, before coming here, Mo Ye had never seen a real ruby, so his impression of the ruby came almost entirely from the Internet.

Therefore, Mo Ye has seen a real ruby, and even if he has seen it, he must carefully analyze it and compare it with the knowledge in his memory to determine what grade of ruby it is.

"Is it the Star Ruby?" A gemstone that can refract like starlight is naturally a star ruby.

Star rubies have the color of rubies and are often opaque or translucent.

The Myanmar Mogok Star Ruby is the only ruby with star in all the rubies in the world, one of the world's five treasured stones, crystal clear, very beautiful.

Only two inclusions that are unique to the gemstone distinguish it from rubies from other origins.

Star ruby has silk rutile inclusions, and the formation of six-ray starlight and milky white flocculent patches, because of the diffuse gas-liquid inclusions, thus forming a high transparency, so it is expensive.

Slowly approaching the ore layer, Mo Ye finally collected the three rough stones, and when he got it in his hand, after the light, Mo Ye was sure that this was the Starlight Ruby.

"I didn't expect it, if I didn't find it, it would be just three pieces!" Holding it in his hand, Mo Ye carefully observed it for a while, and immediately determined that the gem in his hand belonged to the Starlight Ruby.

And the rough stones of these three star rubies are not small, but I don't know how much can be left after cutting.

This piece is an unmined ore layer, so there are more rubies, the most brilliant of which are the three that Mo Ye collected just now.

Collect all the ruby ores around him, Mo Xie continued to move forward, and the more he advanced, the more ruby mines there were in front of him.