814. Carved gems (3/5)
The miners and miners in Lightning Ridge are not stupid. They are all people who crawl out from rumors and deception. It is not easy to make them believe in a piece of news.
However, people believe that the relationship between Li Du and Brache is not what was rumored at the beginning, saying that Brache cheated Li Du.
Because Li Du never had trouble with Brache, someone saw Li Du visiting Brache with a gift. Brache received him and invited him to a big meal.
Everyone in Lightning Ridge knows what kind of bird thing Brache is. If this guy cheats people, he will never receive this person, let alone invite the other party to a big meal.
So people began to wonder, was the news that Li Du really took the initiative to buy the shit mine in Brache and dug out the gems?
The next day after visiting Brache, Li Du went to an ore cutting workshop in the morning. This shop has water knives, angle grinders, hand grinders and other tools, which specializes in ore grinding.
Their group entered the workshop and immediately came to receive it: "Hello, everyone, do you have anything to help?"
Godzilla opened the box and exposed about a dozen ores inside. Li Du said, "Help me polish it and polish the gems inside."
He had already polished it out and the figure of Black Opal was faintly revealed.
Seeing these ores, the employee exclaimed: "So many gems? Oh my God, you are so lucky. You must have discovered a black opal vein?"
Li Du urged him: "Yes, I'm lucky. A friend sold me a good mine. Hurry up, I can't wait to see these gems."
It costs 100 Australian dollars to polish a piece of ore, and these combined are 1,200 yuan.
When Li Du paid the money, someone immediately launched the tools and guarded him to start polishing.
The stripping work of black opal is quite complicated and requires a variety of tools.
First of all, there is a water saw. This thing is a bit like a water knife, but the process is simpler. It uses an iron saw for cutting, and the main techniques include cutting and rubbing.
The advantage of water saw is its high efficiency, and its disadvantage is its large cutting loss, extremely dangerous and prone to accidents.
However, the employees who operate the water saw are veterans, and their mastery of this thing is like using their fingers.
He picked up a piece of ore and put it on the water saw operating table. The operating table is about one meter high, 60 cm wide and 80 cm long, which can be used to deal with thicker stone skins.
Turn on the switch, the water saw splashed and splashed and quickly rotated. The worker rubbed a piece of ore on it. With a burst of "hissing" noise, the ore fragments flew out.
The worker stared at the ore attentively. As long as there was a trace of gems in the ore, he immediately stopped and changed to another angle.
After looking at it for a while, Li Du felt that the money was worth it, but the people polished the ore but couldn't hurt the gems at all. This was rare.
There were still some miners buying things in the workshop. When they saw someone coming to polish the gems, they came up excitedly. As the water saw cut, the gems became clearer and clearer, and they exclaimed:
"A big baby, Virgin Mary is on it, I bet its area has four standards."
"It's definitely a big baby, the color is so good. Judging from its color change, even if there are no four standards, this guy is priceless!"
"My God, why have I never had such good luck!"
"It's not just good luck, man, it's just a blast of luck! How long has it been since I've seen such a brilliant gem?"
As the water saw cut off the ore's edges and corners, the gems were probably displayed, attracting more people onlookers.
There were good gems in the twelve ores. As they were cut into pieces, the screams started to sound one after another.
After cutting the water saw, it is also necessary to use an angle grinder to polish it.
Angle grinder is the most common hand-held processing tool. It can be used to cut, grind, polish stone, or peel black opal rough stone.
When using this tool, people can no longer get close. The stone broken by the angle grinder is very small, and it splashes very much, which can easily damage the eyes.
After these two tools, the Black Opal was almost completely displayed, but there were other tools behind it, such as the final sweeping and grinding of the machine.
A dental machine is a commonly used tool for dentists. It comes with a very sensitive and tiny drill bit that can maintain human teeth.
The gem tooth machine is the result of transformation based on human-used tooth machine. It becomes more sensitive. There is a small spring behind the drill bit. As long as the drill bit feels the pressure changes, it will retract backwards.
Black Opal is relatively brittle, but it is harder than the rocks that wrap it.
Therefore, the gem tooth machine can polish away the small pieces of rock that end up attached to it, but will not harm the gem itself.
After a series of processes were completed, black Oppas with original posture appeared in everyone's sight.
There are many gems polished at one time, and even the workshop owner is attracted.
After the polishing, the boss carefully handed the black Oppa wrapped in deer skin to Li Du, saying, "Sir, please taste it, are you still satisfied?"
Li Du picked up the largest piece of opal, and the sun shone through the glass. He put the gem in the sun, and suddenly, a dazzling light appeared.
The gem is made of a gray-black embryo, with blue, purple and red color on it. The sunlight passes through the gem, and different colors shine with different lights.
Li Du slowly turned his wrist, and as the light angle was different, the color combination also changed.
Someone exclaimed: "This is a real black opal, at least at n2 levels!"
Black opal is divided into nine levels, from n1 to n9, of which the highest level is n1 and the highest value is n1. The black opal of this level has a pure black embryo.
The n2 level is already very high, and the n1 level black opal is particularly rare. Lightning Ridge may not be able to come out for a month. Once it appears, it will inevitably be snatched by gem merchants.
The gem in Li Du's hand will also cause gem merchants to rush to grab it. It is at the n2 level, which is already a high level. At the same time, it is still very large, which is very rare.
Turning this opal, the group showed an intoxication.
And this is not the true appearance of black opal. Just like diamonds, black opals also need to be cut, and only after cutting can they show their most unparalleled style!
After watching the twelve gems one by one in the sun, Li Du collected them.
Before he could go out, a gem dealer came to him and asked, "Sir, are you interested in selling these gems? I'm willing to give a good price."
Li Du asked: "What price?"
Chapter completed!