Picking up stones in Xinjiang is a very interesting thing, but also a very boring thing, especially in the summer, the Gobi Desert and the desert in the skin of the people to open the flesh, and you have to wear sunglasses radar to search around, since the sandstorm, if you are not willing to give up, it will scrape like terracotta warriors.
But there are pros and cons to everything, a strong wind will often turn some good stones out, what are they? In northern Xinjiang, Shihezi, Karamay, Kuitun, Hutubi Gobi Desert have sapphires, golden silk jade, silicified wood, mudstone, meteorite, chalcedony, lapis lazuli and so on. In southern Xinjiang, Ruoqiang, Lop Nur and, by the way, hami, there are Hetian jade, topa, mudstone, opal, crystal, agate, black tourmaline, picture stone and so on
First of all, everyone should know two points in their hearts: First, picking up stones in the Gobi Desert is different from digging seeds in the Kashgar River in Hetian Yulong, digging seeds to destroy environmental protection and breaking the law, and no one cares how long they are willing to pick up stones, which is legal. Second, there are too many people picking up stones, but the Gobi Desert that can produce good stones has made people sparse millions of times, it is not easy to reduce, and picking up a good stone is more difficult than the middle six lottery.
Talking about the author, the author lived in Ruoqiang, Xinjiang for 11 years, along the 315 National Highway to Hotan and the end of the direction of 27 kilometers, from the highway down the Gobi Desert, 5 to 15 kilometers south, east and west 20 kilometers with the most stones in Xinjiang, the author and this gadget for more than 20 years. In 1995 and 1996, the stones were not valuable, and we could pick up half a sack of Gobi jade in an hour. As for those mudstones, crystals, agate, chalcedony, etc., who wants those things, they can't sell them, a good piece of Hetian Gobi jade 20 yuan no one wants, but now a gram is 2000.
When I returned to Xinjiang in 2013 in 14 years and 15 years, I drove to this place with my friends and picked up stones several times, met many professional Uyghurs from Hotan, Yutian and other places, looked at their harvest for a week, 2,000 yuan could not be sold, more than twenty pieces of Gobi jade with fingernails, there were white jade, there was green white jade, there was green jade, there was yellow mouth. Who are these people? Professionally picking up stones, sleeping in the Gobi Desert at night with a tent, picking up at dawn until night, do you have the time and patience?
After talking about southern Xinjiang, and then talking about northern Xinjiang, northern Xinjiang is of course dominated by golden silk jade, the best of the golden silk jade is gem light, one gram of high-grade gem light can be sold to 10,000, and then there are 5 or 6 grams of smaller ones, and luck can pick up sapphires (alumina). However, in 2017, when the author went to Shihezi to pick up stones, he encountered twenty or thirty small teams, and the team that harvested more than 1,000 yuan a day did not, and Karamay was the same. Not only can you not find the best gem light, but the quality of the good topaz is not very good, with gray heads, and it cannot be sold for a price
You would definitely say that this thing has a lot of contingency and depends on luck.
This editor never denies that picking up stones really depends on luck, and sometimes you walk in front. There is a piece of good Hetian Yu Gobi material or gem light under your feet, you can't see it, but the people behind you pick it up, and they want to die alive.
But thousands of people have gone through it over and over again, and everyone's eyesight is so poor or sloppy? How lucky are you to be 1 in 10000?
Secondly, in the matter of picking up stones, you have to find time to find a place, the sandstorm just stopped to pick up, the power of the storm is like a hoe plowing the ground, will roll the surface of the ground again, this stone is prone to some good stones, gem light, meteorites, aquamarine and other precious stones, encounter a piece is a suite.
Sincerely, the golden stone is open, and luck plus the efforts of more than 10 people can pick up good stones. But how good is the stone? A piece that sells for 3,000 is a good stone, better than other people's luck, better than someone who picks up some mudstone, agate, crystal, lapis lazuli, low-grade protein, right?
You must ask, did you pick up a good stone? In the 90s, when the stones were at their most, they were either given away or thrown into the fish tank, and after moving several times, they were thrown away, and only one piece of Gobi topaz that was originally prepared for his wife to play with him went. 6700 grams, now the price of jade next door is so high, of course, the bracelet can not be hit, can not be sold, such a large piece of Gobi jade market has not been seen, why no longer put it?
There is no technical content for picking up stones, just have an off-road or pickup truck. Experience life with a little water, bring some fruit to eat. Professional pick up and bring tent daily necessities on the line, the Gobi Desert wash does not wash the face no one looks, there is money and leisure can try, do not pick up a sky-high price stone.
Those who want to get rich often find it difficult to pick up good stones, and this law has always been very strange.
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