Rubies are highly valuable, and most of them are produced in remote mountainous areas, and both the Burmese government and the local ethnic minority armed forces strictly guard the ruby mines in their jurisdictions, hardly allowing outsiders to enter, and the inventory of people entering and leaving is also extremely harsh. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

There have been cases of foreign traders sneaking into ruby mines only to be caught by guards, and many have been sentenced to prison terms.

But the lure of ruby is hard to resist, and many people go on adventures every year with dreams of making a fortune.

Some local ruby miners say that there are indeed some small roads in the ruby mining area that can avoid the surveillance and search of guards, which is probably a kind of "ruby passage" in the legend.

Mo Xie said it so clearly, Chen Erlei couldn't say anything more, he already knew that there was a hidden force behind Mo Ye, otherwise who would help with smuggling or something?

Since Mo Xie has said that someone can keep him safe, Chen Erlei can't continue to follow.

At this time, Mo Ye was already itching, and when he entered the periphery of this mining area, he found some rubies, but because Chen Erlei and the two followed, he didn't stay.

But now, he couldn't wait, so, shortly after leaving with his backpack, he found a deep red gem mine in a small ditch.

It looks like a red crystal, not very transparent, and the color is deep red, and such a gemstone should be the least valuable.

Color, clarity, weight, and cut determine the grade of ruby, among which color is very important, generally speaking, dark red is the best, and the price is low if the color is too dark.

However, fortunately, there are no cracks in this gem ore, otherwise Mo Xie would never have made a detour of several hundred meters of mountain roads for it.

Since he came here to look for rubies, Mo Xie naturally learned about rubies, so he knew that rubies generally have cracks, and it is very rare to have no cracks.

The crimson ruby in Mo Xie's hand is not small, enough for the size of a fist, although the quality is not high, but there are no cracks, if you look closely, the color distribution is not uniform, it is flocculent and lumpy with different shades, showing a vortex shape with flow characteristics.

Such rubies belong to the "molasses-like" structure, which is also one of the characteristics of Burmese rubies.

However, this is a low-grade gemstone after all, and compared to the famous pigeon blood red in Myanmar, this one is slightly more expensive than crystal.

The gem of "pigeon's blood red" produced in the Mogok area is the best in the Burmese ruby, the pigeon's blood ruby is rich in quality, the color is as strong as fire, like the blood of a local pigeon, so it is named.

However, ruby mines are relatively scarce, the market supply is unstable, and the price is often higher than that of diamonds.

Nowadays, even local gem merchants who are familiar with the situation here say that good rubies of more than two or three carats are very difficult to find, and it is even more difficult to make a necklace.

However, this is for ordinary people, and for Mo Ye, as long as there is still a piece of gem ore hidden in the ground here, Mo Ye can find out.

Along the way, a kilometer radius on both sides of the road was within Mo Ye's detection range, so even if there were few ruby mines here, he had found a few pieces.

After collecting this gem ore, Mo Ye quickly approached the next target, at this time he held a sapper shovel in his hand, walked the mountain road to open the mountain, and found a place with gems, so he used it to dig gems.

After walking for a while, Mo Xie found a piece of blood ruby raw ore full of cracks, although it could not reach the level of pigeon's blood red, but the color was also very positive, so even if there were more internal cracks, Mo Ye still spared a few hundred meters of the road, returned here, and put away this gem.

After putting away the raw gem, Mo Xie took out a self-made map, which was a treasure hunting map that Mo Xie reprocessed according to the satellite map here.

There are a large number of mines marked on it, so Mo Xie must be very careful, because he may accidentally break into the gem mining area with a strong realm.

The Mogok Mining District is broadly divided into four parts and subdivided into 17 sub-districts, with a total of more than 150 independent mines.

In the community alone, there are 13 mining areas and nearly 120 independent mines, ranging from large consortia of government and private companies to small-scale mining activities.

Each area has its own small mining farms and large-scale mining farms, so Mo Ye only went a little deeper into the mining area and saw a lot of people.

Seeing the local people's clothes, Mo Ye directly changed into clothes, mainly camouflage clothes, after all, many local people work in this kind of clothes, so after changing clothes, Mo Ye doesn't look so conspicuous.

Walking around, I found a lot of red sapphires, but these are in some mining areas, and there are too many mining areas around, such as the gold grid sapphire mine, the mud gem mountain, the Qiangji ruby mine, the Geledan gem mine, and the Bolongji ruby mine.

The mining environment here is different, there are dirt mountains, that is, mud gem mountains, those absenteeism can only rummage in the dirt.

There are also real mines, and there are many rocks in the mountains, and you have to dig the rocks and go deep into the mountains to find gem mines.

And there are other rivers, canyons, and other terrains, and most of them are rivers, which have become mud ponds, and all absenteeism looks for gems in the mud

Mo Xie couldn't get close to these places, because he was a stranger, so he just paid attention to them for a while and left.

However, after paying attention to it for a while, Mo Xie found that the Mogu locals here were very good at finding gemstones, and they used buckets to pan for spinels in muddy red water.

Every time they dig for a lot of stones, they will pick them, and they will look at the selected stones to the sun, and the ones that will glow red are the "spinel" they want.

However, because of the large amount of mining in recent years, it is already difficult to find good spinels, so even in the mining area, a large number of Burmese workers can only be hired and carefully selected!

Many Burmese people will come here as a family to treasure stones, children play on the side, beat people to hunt for treasures, and work and lead people at the same time.

It can be said that every grain is hard, even one in a million!

A few years ago, when no one wanted this kind of stone, the locals of Mogok did not pay attention to it and regarded it as an ordinary stone.

However, now spinel is loved not only by Europeans, but also by Chinese.

Many treasure hunters who come to Mogok have the same goal, to get a blood-red "pigeon's blood" gem.

If you can buy gemstones from these Burmese people at a low price, you will also make a lot of money.

Therefore, even if the environment is not good at this time, there are many people who come here just to make a profit.

The location of the small town of Mogok is special, the whole mining area is surrounded by hills and jungles, and there is only one exit, many people name it "Mogok", which means Mogok.

Now, Mo Ye had just crossed the cordon and blended into this small city surrounded by hills and jungles.

However, because there are more people, Mo Ye is even more inconspicuous, so it is not very noticeable.

And when he really entered the small city of Mogu, Mo Xie knew that there were more people here than he imagined.

There are about 500,000 workers in Mogok who are looking for gemstones, and if you say you want gems, there will be a lot of people coming up to you with gems.

The opening price is very high, but it is easy to bargain, and many outsiders have a very low counteroffer, but the people here will not be unhappy because you have a low counteroffer, and will smile and show you other gems, even if you don't buy it, they will not say anything.

The vast majority of the people here are absenteeism, and each of them wants to find the best rubies and make them rich, because at the beginning of mining, there were people who did get rich overnight, but now the probability of this is getting lower and lower.

After walking for a while, Mo Xie understood the situation and put his mind at ease.

Now it is different from the past, it turns out that outsiders are coming, and the locals are very defensive, but now the rise of tourism has made treasure hunters the norm, so Mo Xie can be here for a long time.

He even joined a small treasure hunt and entered an abandoned gem mine.

Although the gemstones in the Mogok area are of high quality and famous, many of the famous mines have been depleted, so high-quality gemstones have become scarce.

And there are fewer really good gemstones, which stimulates the gemstone market even more, making the price of gemstones higher, so as long as there are high-quality rubies on the market, they will soon be bought.

As a result, the demand for gemstones is increasing, but because the production of high-quality gemstones is getting less and less, and the people who come to hunt for treasures are getting fewer and fewer, the gemstone industry in Mogok is in the winter period, and the Myanmar government can only vigorously support the development of tourism.

The mining area that Mo Xie entered was a gravel field, and I heard that thousands of gravel workers and treasure buyers often gathered here, and the gems from the crushed stone on the spot could be traded on the spot.

That's why many people look for gems in gravel sites, but the process of finding gems is not so easy.

Mining gemstones is hard work, with miners digging up large amounts of soil and gravel where the gems are buried, and then rinsing them to extract the few gems that are extremely rare.

It is then sent to the workshop where the stones are processed, and the technicians carefully cut, plane and polish the stones with semi-mechanical, semi-manual tools to create a brilliant and colorful finished product.

After arriving at the destination, the treasure hunt team dispersed, including professional treasure hunters, as well as first-time tourist backpackers, who were not familiar with each other anyway, and came here just by the way, so after entering the mining area, they immediately dispersed and went on a treasure hunt.

At this time, Mo Xie was smiling and observing this abandoned mining area, there were many tents around, but at this time, there were few people hiding under the tents to enjoy the shade, but all of them were digging for stones in the river under the scorching sun.