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There is a lake in the Gobi Desert in Inner Mongolia, China, named Agate Lake because the bottom of the lake is covered with colorful agate
There is also such a large river in the distant African island of Madagascar, called "Bezibuka", which is also covered with glorious red agate
The "Bezibuka" river is a mother river in north-central Madagascar, the water is yellow all year round, similar to the Yellow River in China, feeding a large area of land and population, and the terminal meets in the Mozambique Strait
Red agate is produced on a small tributary of the "Bezibuka" river, in a small town called "Horses Sleep You" (harmonic) in northwestern Madagascar
Bezibuka River
They also grew up drinking "Yellow River water"
Red agate entered China in the past few years, when many people did not know it, and they did not know what kind of value such a small stone contained
When I first came to China, I was because the number of stones was not enough when Chinese shipping containers, so I took some to make up the numbers, and the treatment of returning to China was to lie in the fish tank
Madagascar red onyx real shot, enough gorgeous
On this face value, there is no downwind of the fish
It is gold that always shines
These colorful, pearlescent small stone seeds soon attracted everyone's attention, and initially attracted a batch of carvings, because madagascar agate is not only rich in color, but also excellent in density and permeability, which not only meets the requirements of carving but also meets the aesthetics of the Chinese people
The main reason is that the domestic market awareness is not high, so the price is low, so it began to slowly gain a foothold in the domestic processing market
The real moment of the outbreak of red agate in Madagascar was when he met his own Bole, Yu Changshun, president of the Guangdong Ornamental Stone Association
He inadvertently harvested several Madagascar agates that set shape, color, quality, texture and rhyme, and one of the golden toads was sold for more than 5 million yuan, which was listed in several newspapers and television stations of the year, and then the words "horse material" (short for Madagascar red agate, now renamed ice color agate) quickly detonated the entire ornamental stone world
At that time, the "horse material" was really a fire, which made the collectors and players of the whole country flock to it, especially under the leadership and promotion of Xu Qing, Zhao Jinyuan, Hu Chengwei, Hua Zhenshan, Agate Laoye and other stone appreciators in Guangzhou, Guangdong and Chen Village in Foshan
We also earned the first pot of gold in Madagascar Ice Agate, selling a number of stones with a unit price of tens of thousands
5.38 million ice color agate "Fortune Golden Toad"
This picture is personally authorized by President Yu Changshun
Exquisite horse material, collected by Shenzhen collector Mr. Hu Zhiwen
Unfortunately, I did not have time to participate in the growth of horse material, in 2014 when I went to Madagascar, the horse material in the domestic market has been "crazy", naturally there are many Chinese stone merchants flocking to Madagascar to find treasure, and our focus has also shifted to the marine chalcedony mining area because of insufficient manpower
In the first year of going to Falklands, I asked my relatives to take me for a trip to the horse mining area to see if I could regain the glory of the past, and I went to "horses to trap you" for half a month
"Horses trap you" is a small place, as soon as there is a Chinese settled, it will immediately spread throughout the village, and relatives used to be the local goods receiving large households, so many people brought stones to show us
Unfortunately, because the domestic horse material was too fast, many Chinese stone merchants flocked to madagascar to receive goods, and the price had long been messed up
In the face of the black man's exorbitant price, my relatives and I were stunned
Relatives said that when he collected horse material in 2011 and 12, he was only a few yuan a kilogram, and it was only a dozen yuan a kilogram to buy goods
However, with the stimulation of high-priced horse material in the domestic market, many Chinese merchants who have friends in the Falklands can't sit still, directly buy tickets to Fly to Madagascar to find treasures, and they can't speak French and Ma language to entrust Chinese friends to find a local translator for them
It turns out that the black-hearted translation is the first wave of killers to push up the price of horse material, because the currency of Madagascar is very strange, obviously it is a paper currency of 10,000, but it is read fifty thousand ma francs (a ten thousand banknote is equal to 20 yuan, and the black usually says fifty thousand is 20 yuan)
The 10,000 speaking horse language in the middle is 50,000, and the 20,000 is speaking 100,000
Chinese indistinguishable, and after translating to the mining area, it became a lamb to be slaughtered
The black man took the agate to the Chinese to see, Chinese a good look at the stone, in the country can sell a few hundred pieces, so ask the black man how much money, the black man said 50,000 (20 yuan), Chinese listened to the translator said 50,000, not expensive! Immediately brushed and brushed out 5 sheets of 10,000 yuan (5 sheets of 10,000 yuan equal to 100 yuan), making the black people and translators stunned
But the translator remained silent, drawing three sheets for two, and cooperating very tacitly
So it immediately spread in the local area, and the blacks took stones to the door one after another, and the Chinese were very happy, and the Malaysians were very happy, and even the bargaining Chinese made them very happy
Malaysians have no concept of ornamental stones, so a little shape is called for thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan, let the Chinese to cut, and then translate and then make a stem from it, the price is even more outrageous
Other Chinese heard that there were new Chinese price increases, so they immediately followed the price increase, the domestic can sell 500, they can spend 200, the domestic can sell 1000, they can spend 500, the domestic can sell 10000, they dare to spend 3000, so the price war intensified
Perhaps what makes Chinese stone merchants happiest is not that the price of domestic horse feed is getting higher and higher, but that competitors in the place of origin have fallen down one more
After staying in the mining area for a while, I really felt that the level of stone appreciation was not enough, the market was not accurate, the price of the place of origin was too high, and I could not stay
Whenever they asked if the blacks could be cheaper, they always said you should dig up your own, you don't want money
Then reluctantly, I asked my relatives to take me to the production area of the mining area to have a look, and finally chose to leave silently
The mining area, which was originally full of agate in and out of the river, was as many pebbles as there were in Chinese rivers
After the surface is picked up, it begins to dig into the ground, but the quality of the agate underground is far worse than that of the surface
Booty, but this kind of product can not be sold for money, and the country is only a dozen or twenty yuan a piece
Carefully select the classification, whether you can earn more depends on whether there are fine products
Returning with a full load, the bag contained money
Admire the agate seeds on the surface of Madagascar
"Bezibuka" water, my tears ...
Let's go, pick up the stones and go
This is what I picked up in the river in the Malagasy mining area
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