Chapter 1724 95 Yu Tian
"It seems that another batch of materials has just been discovered." Zhou Zhi said to Zhu Qinghong: "Maybe the news has not reached Beijiang Gongmei yet. You can pay attention to it recently."
"Really?" Zhu Qinghong was shocked: "How did you know?"
"Hahaha... I have many informants in Northern Xinjiang now..." Zhou Zhi had no choice but to laugh.
There is a story circulated in later generations. One day in May this year, a shepherd on the mountain picked up a palm-sized snow-white stone and sold it to a nearby mine owner.
The whiteness, density, and smoothness of this stone can be said to be unprecedented! The mine owner immediately gave the shepherd five yuan and another one hundred and fifty yuan for his hard work, and asked him to take him to the place where the stone was found.
After arriving at that place, they searched for several days but did not find any mineral veins. Just when the tired mine owner was about to go home. Looking up, I found some white jade material exposed under the snow on the cliff.
It’s really hard to find anywhere, and it takes no effort at all!
This top-quality mutton fat material, which has never been seen on the market, was discovered in such a dramatic way! Since it’s almost June, it will be difficult to get down the mountains with snow and ice afterwards.
Considering that the mining contract period is approaching, it is uncertain who will sign the contract next year. Therefore, the mine owner had no choice but to take the last resort and use explosives to blow up the mountain and retrieve the jade material.
It took until November to transport the mineral materials down the mountain in the snow.
This batch of jade material totals 8,000 kilograms. Although it is mountain material, it is known as "mutton fat" because of its whiteness, fineness, and oiliness, which even exceeds some of the best suet seed materials. "King of", and because it was found in YT County, it was called "95 Yutian".
This is the famous legend of "95 Yutian" in later Hetian jade circles.
Regardless of whether this was true in the previous life, the story of this life is actually completely different from the legend.
Yutian has actually been the main producing area of Hotan jade since ancient times. There has always been a record of ancestors mining jade materials, and the peak period of mining was in the mid-Qing Dynasty.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, a mining area was re-established in the Hotan area, mainly responsible for the mining, purchase and operation of Hotan jade in the entire region. When Zhou Zhi collected jade materials in northern Xinjiang, he mainly did it here.
The jade material produced in Hotan mainly comes from two rivers. The jade material washed by the river is called "seed material".
The jade materials produced in Yutian come from streams or "ice pits", as well as raw ore veins found in the mountains. These two materials are called "mountain flowing water" and mountain materials.
By the time Zhou Zhi arrived in northern Xinjiang, the mining of Yutian mines was in decline due to the depletion and collapse of the traditional "ice pits".
Because Zhou Zhi purchased jade materials and the Li family created a shopping whirlwind for Hong Kong people in the domestic Hotan jade market, the northern Xinjiang government saw another opportunity to attract investment.
So they put out mining tenders for these waste veins, allowing outsiders to enter the mining industry. The county government proposed an individual contract for the mine, and proposed a management idea of signing it year by year, taking responsibility for profits and losses, and taking risks.
But no one is stupid. Yutian is still a poor county. The annual contracting fee of 160,000 yuan is not a small amount in today's northern Xinjiang.
Although each has their own way of thinking, the county government, district government, industrial art, jade carving factory, and even Xu Gang's father and cousin Xia Mili all unanimously thought of a wise man who likes to spend money. ——Thoughtful.
Because of Zhou Zhi’s good investment performance in Northern Xinjiang, he was listed as a key target. Xia Mili is Xu Gang's cousin. He had been driving for his boss. The boss himself was a mining company, but he only ran copper and lead-zinc mines.
But as the person closest to the boss, Xia Mili is no stranger to the mining industry.
Now that there is such an opportunity, and the boss also supports it, Xia Mili wants to jump out and go it alone.
However, no one’s money comes from strong winds. Although the boss supports Xia Mili to go it alone, it does not mean that he is optimistic about the jade mining industry, so he only agreed to sponsor Xia Mili’s old mine truck. The old jeep is the biggest support.
When Zhou Zhi went to Northern Xinjiang, the driver Xu's father found for Zhou Zhi was Xia Mili. He was not only enthusiastic, but also hard-working and flexible, and he was very happy to get along with Zhou Zhi.
Several parties worked together to get Zhou Zhi here, and finally Zhou Zhi agreed that AXA Fund would bear the investment, but put forward several conditions.
The first is to invest in Xia Mili, who will sign a mining contract with the county government as the mine manager. In addition to paying the government an annual contract fee of 160,000 yuan, the rest of the mining expenses and profits will be borne by Xia Mili's newly established company. .
Secondly, given that the conditions in the mining area were too difficult, the exploration and mining periods were actually only able to start normally for four months in a year, so Zhou Zhi asked to extend the contract, and AXA Fund gave the county a one-time payment of 480,000 yuan. , the contract was changed to three years.
After that, he invested another one million in Xia Mili, who borrowed two exploration teams and mining teams from his former boss, and the stall was considered to be supported.
Afterwards, Xia Milili led a mining team to the old Alamas mining area deep in the Kunlun Mountains for exploration and investigation.
He doesn’t know why Zhou Zhi is so persistent in YT County. Zhou Zhi’s requirement is that within the three years of signing the contract, the first two years will focus on exploring several old mining areas in YT County. If nothing is found after two years, , only then can we explore old mines in other counties in the third year.
For Xia Mili, he had just left the Novice Village and needed to hone his team and business skills. Even if the exploration failed and the loss was Zhou Zhi, he could still get training. At most, it would be a waste of two years.
Since the sponsor’s dad is so persistent, he will just follow it.
In the first few months, the team only discovered a few tailings, which were of no mining value for various reasons.
Seeing that the best mining period was about to pass, just as the team was preparing to leave the mountain, a surprise finally came. They discovered a previously unknown white jade vein at the bottom of a cliff deep in the old Alamas mining area. .
This jade vein is very narrow, and it is not worth mining based on the production estimate. However, as the sampling went deeper, Xia Milili discovered that the color of this jade vein is quite white.
Xia Milili immediately asked people carrying explosives and blasting equipment to rush to the new mine.
After an explosion test, more jade materials were mined. Not only was the color white and white, reaching mutton-fat level, but the fineness even far exceeded most of the seed materials!
Although it is mountain material, its oiliness is also exaggerated. The month he followed Zhou Zhi in Northern Xinjiang was an eye-opener for Xia Mili. Jade materials of this quality are rare.
The only problem lies in the mining method. Because it is an explosion method, although the jade material is hard enough, it is brittle, which causes the exploded jade material to reduce in size due to fragmentation, affecting the Utilization.