Chapter 815 814. Carving Gems (3/5)

Chapter 815 814. Carving Gems (35)

The mine owners and miners in Lightning Ridge are not stupid. They are all people who have crawled out of rumors and deceptions. It is not easy to convince them of a piece of news.

However, regarding the relationship between Li Du and Blatche, people believed that it was not what was widely rumored at the beginning, saying that Blatche cheated Li Du.

Because Li Du never troubled Blatche, someone saw Li Du visiting Blatche with a gift, and Blatche received him and treated him to a big meal.

Everyone in Lightning Ridge knew what kind of bastard Blatche was. If this guy cheated someone, he would never receive him, let alone treat him to a big meal.

So people began to wonder, could it be that the news that came out was true, that Li Du really took the initiative to buy the shit mine in Blatche's hands and dug out the gems?

On the second day after visiting Blatche, Li Du went to an ore cutting workshop in the morning. This kind of shop has tools such as water jets, angle grinders, and hand grinders, and specializes in ore grinding.

A group of them entered the workshop, and an employee immediately came to receive them: "Hi, everyone, do you need any help?"

Godzilla opened the box, revealing a dozen pieces of ore inside. Li Du said, "Help me polish it, and polish the gemstones inside."

He has already polished it preliminarily, and the figure of black opal is faintly revealed.

Seeing these ores, the employee exclaimed: "So many gemstones? My God, you are so lucky, you must have discovered a vein of black opal?"

Li Du urged him: "Yes, my luck is good, a friend sold me a good mine. Hurry up, I can't wait to see these gems."

It costs a hundred Australian dollars to polish a piece of ore, and these add up to 1,200 yuan.

After Li Du paid the money, someone immediately rolled out the tool, guarding him and began to polish it.

The peeling of black opal is quite complicated and requires the use of multiple tools.

The first is the water saw. This thing is a bit like a water knife, but the process is simpler. It is cut with an iron saw. The main processes are cutting and rubbing.

The advantage of the water saw is high efficiency, and the disadvantage is that the cutting loss is large, extremely dangerous, and prone to accidents.

However, the employees who operate the water saw are veterans, and they have a good grasp of this thing.

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, and can be used to process thicker stone skins.

When the switch was turned on, the water saw splashed small water splashes and spun quickly. The worker rubbed against it with a piece of ore, and with a burst of 'chi chi' noise, the ore fragments flew out.

The worker stared at the ore intently, and as soon as there was a trace of gemstones in the ore, he immediately stopped and changed to another angle.

After watching it for a while, Li Du felt that it was worth the money, and it was rare for someone to polish the ore without damaging the gemstone at all.

There are still some miners in the workshop who are buying things. When they saw someone coming to polish the gemstones, they came up excitedly. As the water saw cut, the gemstones became clearer and clearer, and they exclaimed:

"A big baby, by the Holy Mother, I bet it's four measures in size."

"It's definitely a big baby, the color is really good, look at its changing color, even if there are no four standards, this guy is priceless!"

"My God, why have I never had such good luck!"

"Not just good luck, man, it's a blast of luck! How long has it been since I've seen a gem like this?"

As the water saw cut off the corners of the ore, the approximate figure of the gem was revealed, attracting more onlookers.

There were good gemstones in the twelve pieces of ore, and as each piece was cut, exclamations rang out one after another.

After cutting with a water saw, it needs to be polished with an angle grinder.

Angle grinder is the most common hand-held processing tool, it can be used to cut, grind, polish stone, and also can be used to skin black opal rough.

When using this tool, people can no longer get very close. The stone skin broken by the angle grinder is very small, and the splash is very large, which can easily damage the eyes.

After these two tools, the black opal is almost fully displayed, but there are other tools behind it, such as the final grinding with a dental machine.

The dental machine is a tool commonly used by dentists. It has a very sensitive and small drill bit, which can maintain human teeth.

The gemstone dental machine is the result of modification on the basis of the human dental machine. It has become more sensitive. There is a small spring behind the drill bit. As long as the drill bit feels a change in pressure, it will retract.

Black opal is brittle, but it is harder than the rock that surrounds it.

Thus, a gemstone machine can grind away the small fragments of rock that end up adhering to it without harming the gemstone itself.

After a series of procedures were completed, pieces of black Ouba in original posture appeared in everyone's sight.

The number of gemstones polished at one time was so large that even the owner of the workshop was attracted.

After polishing, the boss handed the black Ouba wrapped in deerskin to Li Du carefully, and said, "Sir, please taste it, are you satisfied?"

Li Du picked up the largest piece of opal, and the sunlight shone through the glass. He put this gemstone under the sunlight, and suddenly, a dazzling light appeared.

The gemstone is made of a gray-black embryo body with blue, purple and red color changes on it. The sun passes through the gemstone, and different colors shine with different lights.

Li Du slowly turned his wrist, and with the different light angles, the changing color combination also changed.

Someone exclaimed: "This is a real black opal, at least N2 grade!"

Black opal is divided into nine grades, from N1 to N9, of which the highest grade is N1, and the highest value is also N1. The embryo body of this grade of black opal is pure black.

The N2 level is already very high, and the N1 level black opal is extremely rare. Lightning Ridge may not produce a single piece in a month. Once it appears, it will inevitably be snapped up by gem dealers.

The gemstone in Li Du's hand will also cause the gem dealers to snap up it. It is N2 grade, which is already a high grade, and it is also very large, which is very rare.

Turning this opal, a group of people showed fascination.

And this is not the true face of black opals, just like diamonds, black opals also need to be cut, and only after cutting can they show their most unique style in the world!

After looking at the twelve gemstones one by one in the sunlight, Li Du collected them.

Before he left, a gem dealer came to his door and asked, "Sir, are you interested in selling these gems? I am willing to give you a good price."

Li Du asked, "What price?"

"I'm willing to buy that gem N2 for 500,000 yuan." A middle-aged man behind said scrambling.