Chapter 725: More than half of the gem-quality diamonds
Many forces and organizations in Africa, watching the Dragon War Organization in full swing mining diamonds, but only greedy, so many people went to the forest to take advantage of it, and disappeared without a trace, they didn't think that they could rush to the diamond mine alive.
For the Dragon War Organization to be so lucky to be able to discover the diamond mine, everyone gritted their teeth, hating that they were not lucky enough to find out.
As for the Longyou Investment Company, it must have a close connection with the Dragon War Organization, otherwise, it would never be possible to get the all-round protection of the Dragon War Organization, in their eyes, the Dragon You Investment Company is equivalent to the Dragon War Organization, but the leader of the Dragon War Organization is very mysterious, and no outsiders have seen his face at all, even if it is just a figure.
Among so many forces, Dell Bess Company, which also controls about half of the world's diamonds, was directly rejected by its head Dong Qilin, the head of the company, who was arrogant and direct in the last negotiation with Longyou Investment Company, which made the top management of Deer Bess Company furious.
No one has ever dared to refuse them so desperately, but as Dong Qilin said, they did not dare to go directly to Longyou Investment Company, which spent 500 million US dollars to obtain the mining rights of a 200 million carat diamond mine.
Most of their mines in Africa were bought by others after exploration, or they only bought the exploration rights and preferential mining rights of one area, but they never bought a 200 million carat diamond mining rights at such a low price, 500 million US dollars, which is really just a few hundred fine diamonds, and they can earn back the wealth.
Although they had great anger in their hearts, they had to endure it, and many directors of the company did not have a clear policy on how to punish Longyou Company.
It's just that in the end, they felt that although they couldn't start a full-scale war against Longyou Investment Company, they could privately tell the jewelry companies that had a cooperative relationship with them not to buy the diamonds of Longyou Investment Company, and as long as they didn't publicly announce war with Longyou Company, then no one could do anything to them.
For the Dragon War Organization, they hate it even more, if there is no Dragon War Organization to protect the Dragon You Investment Company in an all-round way, then it is absolutely impossible for a small auction company to snatch the diamond mine with them.
Gazaka diamond field, in several days of continuous excavation, several large mining and excavation machinery finally excavated the rock formation where there are diamonds, looking at the rough diamonds mixed in the kimberlite rock formation, several masters from China introduced by Li Lao couldn't help but be excited, and hugged together with tears.
Exploration is one thing, the truth is another, sometimes there are a lot of diamonds in the rock formations that are explored, but after mining, it is not uncommon to have nothing, and now seeing the diamonds in the rock formations, they can finally determine that this is a huge primary deposit of diamonds.
The mining of diamonds is a difficult work, most of the ore mined from the ground is just the ore containing diamonds, which must be sorted, sorted, and the ores containing diamonds are put on the conveyor belt after mining, and sent to the crusher for crushing, because the hardness of diamonds is the largest in natural substances, so when passing through the crusher, the rock will be crushed, and the diamonds with great hardness can be retained, and the first crushing process is underground. It is then sent to a surface concentrator for a second weak crushing.
The crusher in the concentrator has its own unique specifications, and the crushed ore is within a certain diameter, in order to prevent large diamonds from being crushed and destroyed, there are special workers waiting next to the conveyor belt, and the ore containing large diamonds is selected by eye.
After two crushing processes, there will still be rocks on the surface of the diamond, which requires another process to completely remove the rocks on the surface of the diamond, and after the diamond rock is removed, the result is a rough with a high proportion of diamonds.
The diamonds are then manually selected and sorted, and the mined diamonds are divided into four categories: gem-quality diamonds, which can be used directly for jewelry setting; Near-gem-quality diamonds, which cannot be cut into jewelry stones according to general standards, can still be used for jewelry setting after special cutting; Industrial grade diamonds, as well as melee diamonds, are the two types of diamonds of the lowest quality and cannot be used in settings, but can only be ground into a powder for industrial use, or used to cut other diamonds.
This complete set of diamond mining processes was completely sorted out by several masters, and then handed over to Fang You and others to purchase equipment.
In addition to Dong Qilin, who is no stranger to diamond mining, Li Zhijun, Feng Wenzheng, and even Fang You are a little surprised by the complicated process of diamond mining.
Fang You was a little grateful, if it weren't for the fact that Elder Li had sent him these extremely experienced masters in diamond mining, I am afraid that he would not know how to mine diamonds and what to do after they were mined.
In addition to these ores containing diamonds, which do not require too many manpower and only need to go through equipment, in the process of large-scale mechanical mining, some rock formations will be crushed, so that the diamonds inside fall into the mine, which requires a large number of people to enter the mine and use various tools to select these diamonds from the sand.
On the first day of excavation of the rock formations of the deposit and the official diamond mining phase, the Gazaka mine mined about 10,000 carats of diamonds, more than half of which were gem-quality diamonds, which made everyone at the mine excited, especially several masters.
Although they had expected the quality of the diamonds in this deposit to be very high through the rock formations, they did not expect that more than half of the gem-quality diamonds would be reached, which simply broke the best quality mine in the world, and on the sixth day of official mining, the first day of official mining, the mine once again resounded with continuous firecrackers to celebrate the great victory of the first diamond mining.
Li Zhijun and the others didn't think there was anything yet, but Dong Qilin, who had a certain understanding of diamonds, felt deeply shocked, more than half of the gem-quality diamonds, which would bring them incomparably huge benefits.
After this news spread, it caused a huge sensation in Africa and even the world, just like the news that the Dragon War Organization announced last time that Longyou Investment Company had explored a diamond mine with reserves of more than 200 million carats.
More than half of the diamonds mined are gem-quality, which is unbelievable, even the world's diamond power Uros, more than 10 million carats of diamonds mined every year, only about 20% of the gem-quality, even the world's largest diamond mine, located in southern Africa, the world's largest diamond output value in Botswana, its diamond reserves of about 150 million carats of the Orappa mine, its gem-quality diamonds only account for 15% of the diamonds produced by the mine.
They really didn't expect that the diamond mine discovered by the Dragon War Organization had a reserve of 200 million carats, and the proportion of gem-quality diamonds accounted for about half of all diamonds produced.
If this is just a few examples, it may be able to calm their hearts a little, but if half of all the diamonds in this diamond mine have reached gem quality, then this mine has 100 million carats of gem-quality diamonds, what is this concept, 100 million carats, even if the diamonds are somewhat lost in the decomposition process, but this is enough to make everyone frightened by the wealth.
The eyes of all the African forces are once again focused on the small town of Gazaka, but even if they are extremely frightened and fanatical in their hearts, they do not dare to make any attack.
What calmed these people's minds was that gem-quality diamonds accounted for only about 30% of the diamonds mined on the second day of the Gazaka diamond mine, which made everyone feel much more comfortable, after all, a mine with more than half of the gem-quality diamonds was what anyone wanted in their hearts.
The proportion of gem-quality diamonds remained the same for the next few days, but after the first day of news, almost everyone who deals with diamonds in the world knows that there is a staggering reserve and high-quality diamond mine in Gazaka, located in Nigeria.
Reducing the proportion of gem-quality diamonds, this is Fang You's order, the news of the first day has already made a name for their diamond mine, and if it continues like this, the forces will attract the envy and jealousy of all the forces, which is not good for them.
The rest of the publicity work is the responsibility of Longyou Auction House, and among the first batch of diamonds mined, the ten largest and best quality rough diamonds selected will definitely promote the prestige of their mine and Longyou Auction House to the world.
As the name suggests, the rough diamond is to remove the excess rock, only the diamond itself, the unpolished cut diamond, each rough diamond must be designed based on its size and shape, and the taste and design ideas of each jewelry company are different, so most of the jewelry companies come to the African diamond mines, and most of the diamonds they buy are this kind of rough diamonds.
The same is true of some of the diamonds selected by Dong Qilin, who are brought back by the craftsmen of the beautiful jewelry store for detailed design and then cut and polished.
The grinding and cutting of the rough diamond is a work that consumes a lot of time and energy, just like the world's largest diamond, Cullinan, after it was discovered, it was sent to the most authoritative company for diamond polishing, and was designed, processed and decomposed by three assistants led by the world-famous craftsmen at that time, and several of them worked 14 hours a day and pondered for eight months before the Cullinan rough diamond was cut and processed into many diamonds according to the plan.
(To be continued)