By the river, Mo Xie found several people cleaning the gems, one of which was a finely broken gem that emitted a touching flush. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As soon as Mo Xie approached here just now, the Super Creature Detector sent out a prompt, so Mo Xie immediately saw the pigeon blood red.

The price of the top "pigeon's blood red" from Myanmar is generally more than 3 times higher than the price of pigeon's blood rubies from other sources, and the price of pigeon's blood rubies from Mogok is the highest.

However, this pigeon's blood ruby is so small that even if it is not cut at this time, it is not much larger than a grain of rice.

Mo Xie shook his head, there are many gems here, but very few of them are on the ground, so Mo Ye did not immediately go to hunt for treasures, but thought about setting up camp here.

Set up the tent and pack up his belongings, Mo Xie took out his satellite mobile phone and sent a text message to Chen Erlei and them.

After all, Zhou Weiqiang didn't have an in-depth understanding of Mogu, so he didn't know the situation here, he just followed others into a few important gem producing areas, and thought that this place was heavily guarded, but in fact, the area here is not small, such a large area has gathered more than 500,000 people, how can it be tightly sealed?

Therefore, this time Mo Ye planned to let them in as well, after all, there were still some things that they needed to deal with.

After informing Chen Erlei, Mo Ye thought of walking to an area with dense tents, where not only were people looking for gems, but also people were buying and selling gems.

After just looking at it for a few minutes, Mo Xie found that there were people here who were classifying the color and size of the gemstones, and some people were waiting for the trade, and the gems in their hands needed to go through steps such as weighing.

Listening to their arguments, Mo Xie translated the local language through the super biodetector and learned some about the situation.

For example, there was a guy who got a ruby that was close to 20 carats, not a raw mine, but a cut ruby, and he had to buy a million dollars.

Obviously, though, the gem buyers couldn't have made that price, but there was a reason for the high price because his gem was of similar quality to a 27.35-carat Burmese ruby that sold for $4 million at Sotheby's in Geneva in 1995.

"And a ten-carat ruby sells for a million dollars? Then why don't you cut it into twenty-six carats and sell it for thirty million dollars? Perhaps annoyed, one of the takeover businessmen shouted loudly.

"A twenty-six-carat ruby that once sold for $30 million?" The local man with a slightly dark face said with a look of ignorance.

The buyer was furious, referring to a 25.59-carat Burmese ruby that sold for more than $30 million in April 2015, well above Sotheby's estimate of $12 million to $18 million, a world record.

Therefore, as long as he is in the gem business here, there are few who do not know, and he said this sentence in a clear irony of the worker.

However, the workers are serious, and the workers who have been hanging out here all year round want to find the best rubies and become rich.

Hearing them bargaining, Mo Ye was also amused, although the locals are not too deceitful, they are not so easy to deceive, so it is not so easy to pick up the leak from them.

Here, starting with breakfast every day, jewelry merchants buy gemstones, which are immediately sent for cutting and then traded in the market, forming a complete industrial chain.

In this innumerable open trading market, large and small, two or three thousand people buy and sell ruby sapphires every day.

In the market, only the gems of low color are rolled up on a piece of paper and traded in whole packs, and the high-quality gems are sold individually on yellow plates.

Locals also give these gemstones names, but more often than not, they simply replace them with their own names.

The local way of life and trading methods in Mogok are very traditional, and the way of trading is also very peculiar, which is similar to the trading method in the fifties and sixties in China, which is a handshake transaction.

Handshake is an ancient transaction method that has been passed down for more than 100 years, during the handshake, the buyer will indicate the price to the other party by gesturing his finger, and the entire transaction information is secretly passed during the handshake, and only the buyer and seller know.

At the same time, the local government never uses any banking system and uses all cash transactions.

Handshake deals are difficult and impossible to get right all at once, from the inquiry to the price comparison to the negotiation to the final deal, sometimes lasting days, sometimes even months.

Both parties are serious about the whole process, so after the transaction is completed, both parties are often exhausted.

Of course, this is to see the gem and think that the gem is worth trading, but in fact there are more fakes here.

Don't think that there are no fakes in the gemstone-producing areas, because there are more fakes because the trade is prevalent here.

Mo Ye was a little emotional, he saw a lot of rubies today, but many of these were synthetic rubies, not real natural gem-grade rubies.

There are very few gem-quality rubies that are natural, so there are a lot of fakes on this market.

Although rubies are all natural products, in the international jewelry industry, in order to make the beauty and luster of natural ruby products be perfectly displayed, they will be optimized by a "heating" process before selling.

The process of optimising the ruby to make it shine brighter, has been internationally recognized and used for a long time, and even the certificates of rubies sold for one or two million yuan at major international auctions clearly indicate that they have been heated and that they have been filled to a certain extent.

The general filler is scientifically called "silicon", commonly known as "glass powder", which is completely harmless to the human body and will not affect the quality and value of the ruby itself.

The process of heat treatment of rubies is a "physical treatment", which is recognized by the international jewelry community as a purely physical method.

Over the course of a long period of geological history, rubies have suffered a large number of defects after being repeatedly subjected to the effects of natural heat, and the physical treatment of rubies has completely made up for the shortcomings of nature.

Therefore, this kind of treatment is still within the scope of acceptance.

Because large gemstones are very rare, the larger rubies that are commonly seen are generally fake.

For example, the 20-carat ruby just now must be a synthetic gemstone, in this kind of abandoned mining area, it cannot be said that there is no such a large ruby, but such a large and superb ruby is extremely rare.

Even if it can be discovered, it will be sent away as soon as possible, and it will definitely not stay here to trade, so don't say a million dollars, even if you buy it for 10,000 dollars, you will be fooled.

Here, there are two cases of fake rubies: the first is to pass off a low-grade red color gemstone as a ruby, and all fake rubies do not have the color shape and brilliance that are characteristic of rubies.

The second type is man-made rubies, which are very similar to natural rubies in terms of specific gravity, hardness, color, etc.

Intuitively, the texture of artificial rubies is uniform, there are no natural impurities, the color is uniform and positive, and the particles are often large and lack a sense of naturalness.

And this kind of processed ruby must be a counterfeit and shoddy product.

Now in this world, as long as there are interests, there are artificial fakes, there are some red gemstones in nature, these gems are easily confused with rubies, red spinel is more common in the market.

Ruby is purer in color and more saturated, while spinel has an orange tint.

There is also a synthetic ruby on the market, which is a man-made ruby.

These man-made rubies are generally clean, free of impurities and cracks in the crystals, and have a particularly uniform color.

Sometimes there are characteristics that are not found in natural rubies, such as arc patterns, etc.

There is another kind that is easier to identify, that is, red glass, because of its low thermal conductivity, red glass has a warm feeling to the touch, and some will have bubbles inside.

After seeing too many fakes, Mo Ye no longer cared, so he shifted his attention to his feet.

As he walked, Mo Ye inspected the geological structure under his feet, which belonged to the earliest gem mining area, and there were abandoned mines underground.

However, the mines are already dangerous, and large parts have collapsed, so those who come here now can only look for rubies that may be left behind in the broken rock that was originally brought up from the mines.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Mo Xie was ready to start acting, and through these observations of time, Mo Ye found that this place belonged to a shallow ruby mine, and it was not so difficult to find gems in this kind of place.

So this was the first gem mining area, and in the past, it was enough to transport the metamorphic limestone that might have contained rubies from the mine to the surface, and then use a large hammer to chisel the stones to find traces of the gems.

To this day, mines are still being dug for metamorphic limestone where gems may be present, but this has had little effect.

After staying here for a long time, Mo Ye found a few veterans who could find gems at a glance in the ore pile.

Mo Ye also discovered a very interesting detail, in order to prevent the loss of the gems that they had worked so hard to find, the locals generally put the gems in their mouths, which they thought was the safest.

Local children start treasure hunting around the age of 2 and by the time they are 20 years old, they are already super experts.

The local people are very strong, you can't touch their stuff casually, they might kill you.

Of course, things are much better here now, because the enthusiasm for treasure hunting has been so great over the years that since 2000, Mogok has almost run out of easily mined gems.

After 10 years of mountain closure, Mogok did not reopen until a few years ago.

Most of the remaining mining areas are now remote, more difficult to mine, and the increased cost of supplying power to these mines and transporting coarse material from the ground has made it more difficult to mine Mogok rubies.

It's hard for outsiders to imagine how difficult the ruby discovery process was, because the gem was so found on the ground that the mine had to be re-drilled.