MTL - Stone Gambler (Orc)-Chapter 2 Gambling stone information

Gambling stone or gambling goods means that when the jadeite is mined, it is wrapped with a layer of weathered skin, and it is impossible to know whether it is good or bad. The quality of the jade can only be known after cutting.

The jadeite produced in the old factory has skins, but the water stone jadeite produced in the riverbed is also old factory jade, with thin or no skin. Most of the jadeite produced in the new factory has no skin, but the jadeite produced in the **** accumulation layer has skin. The thickness and thinness of the skin mainly depend on the degree of weathering, and the higher the degree of weathering, the thicker the skin. A piece of raw jadeite has a colored skin and a very good surface. It is common to see green in the first cut, but it may disappear in the second cut. Away from the emerald mines, only one ten-thousandth of the gamblers (referring to pigments) have a much higher chance of gambled in the emerald mines. Gambling up a jade can make you rich overnight, but most of them end up in failure. Ended. Advise jade players to be cautious when betting on stones. Unprocessed raw jadeite is called "wool". In the jadeite trading market, wool is also called "stone", and wool full of green is called "colored goods"; Uniform wool is called "flower material", and large pieces of wool without high emeralds are called "brick material". The whole is covered by leather shell, and the jadeite that has not been cut or opened (also called open door) The wool is called "gambling stone", or "gambling goods". The outer skin of the gambling stone is wrapped with thin or thick original stone skin. Different gambling stones have different colors, red, yellow, white and black. Mixed colors. The most profitable, the most tempting, but also the most risky in jade trading is stone gambling. There is a saying in the jewelry industry: betting on stones is like betting on life. If you win the bet, you will earn ten times and a hundred times. If you fail to gamble, you will lose everything. Compared with gambling on stones, risky transactions such as stocks and real estate are tender and pale in comparison.

In the past, the trading of rough jadeite was the most mysterious transaction in the jewelry industry. Her mystery lies in the word "gambling", so buyers have the saying of betting on jade and betting on stones. Generally, the true face of "Mount Lu" cannot be seen at a glance only from the appearance. Even in today's prosperous science, there is no instrument that can quickly judge whether it is "precious jade" or "bad catkins" through this outer shell. Therefore, trading is very risky and "exciting", so it is called "gambling". Gambling won a lot of profit, so this kind of business has been enduring since ancient times.

Stone gambling has become a jade trading method that has emerged and prospered on the border between China and Myanmar in the past ten years. A piece of unopened rough stone, except for its shape and weight, no one can tell what is inside. Only when it is cut and cut open can there be a real conclusion. Make guesses and judgments to estimate the price. When you buy it, you may cut open the color and water inside, and it will be worth millions immediately, or it may be colorless and waterless inside, and become worthless in an instant. This is the risk of betting on stones. A stone can make a person rich or bankrupt overnight.

Stone gambling is a unique high-grade rough jadeite trading method popular in the Yunnan-Myanmar border area. Because of its strong gambling color, strong excitement and high risk, it attracts jade merchants from all over the world to participate in chopsticks, and it can be described as enduring. If the seller is knowledgeable, he will gamble on his good eyesight and luck, and if he buys top-quality products, he will become an upstart, a millionaire or even a multi-millionaire in an instant. At the beginning of the 20th century, a group of stone gambling experts emerged in Tengchong and became famous. Mao Yingde became rich because he won the "Mao Family Jade". Since the reform and opening up, Kunhua Company has also prospered because of stone gambling. There have been many discussions on the skills and knowledge of stone gambling, and it can be summed up by grasping the following points.

Shichangkou: The Oolong River Basin, a tributary of the Qindun River in northern Myanmar, is a high-quality emerald mine. There are hundreds of new and old mines (pit) within the range. The terrain is hills and valleys, with lush forests and grass, abundant rainfall, and the annual rainfall is as high as 3000mm or more.

According to the production environment of jadeite, it is divided into mountain material and baby material. The former is not broken by weathering and grows in one body with the original rock without foreskin inside and outside. The latter is subject to weathering cracking. The foreskin is formed by the erosion and transfer of water, soil or rivers. The characteristics of the shell are closely related to the geology, soil, vegetation and water quality of the place of origin, that is, different sites have different gambling stones. The famous Changkou has typical characteristics of its gambling stones. For example, there are 27 Dachangkou located in the old field area of ​​the middle stream of Wulong River. It has been mined below 20 meters and is divided into three layers from top to bottom. The first layer is yellow sand skin, the second layer is yellow red sand skin, and the third layer is black sand skin. There are more than 10 changkou in the Houjiang field area. Xinchangkou has a large output, good quality and is highly valued by merchants. The stones produced in its deep part are marked by red wax, black wax and white yellow wax shells. It should be pointed out that there are many jadeite outlets, and each one may produce jadeite.

In addition, cracks vary in size and open and close, which has a great impact on the evaluation, processing and utilization, and is a major defect of jadeite. People in the industry said that if you are not afraid of a big crack, you are afraid of a small lock, and you would rather bet on **** than bet on a lock. In the stone gambling transaction, pay attention to the observation of large outer locks, such as leather locks, large locks, and evil locks, etc. The observation of small locks and inner locks is relatively weak, so we must be cautious. After research, experts pointed out that the degree of damage can be judged by the color of the lock. It is generally broken if it is white, and it is serious if it is red, yellow, or black. These are the characteristics of open clefts, and those without obvious color are slightly open or closed clefts. Finished products and bright goods (open-door jadeite) should be carefully observed for internal cracks such as porcelain cracks, horsetail cracks, etc., especially green cracks and dislocation cracks have a direct impact on their pricing and sales.

Counterfeiting and anti-counterfeiting The origin of counterfeiting in the trading of jadeite rough stones and finished products is varied. Of course, people are also adopting advanced identification techniques and methods today to prevent counterfeiting and crack down on counterfeiting. Gambling stones have their particularity as rough jadeite. Therefore, it is also very knowledgeable to bet on stones for counterfeiting and anti-counterfeiting.

1. Fake leather shell: Paste high-quality emerald shells on inferior materials, waste rocks, and fakes, and then bury them in soil soaked in acid and alkali to make them resemble "real leather" and cover up artificial traces. When appraising, it must first be cleaned with water, check every point and surface of the leather shell, not to miss the small holes, seams, and holes, and compare the changes in color and particle size.

2. False openings: Cut small openings on low-grade stones with poor water head and colorless stones, and paste high emerald flakes, so that the inferior ones can fill the superior ones. During the appraisal, the adhesive marks around the opening (door) should be carefully checked, and the influence of the shape of the gap and the change of temperature difference on it.

3. Counterfeit heart: Take out part of the high-grade emerald core, leave the high emerald part close to the skin, inject lead and other substances, and seal the incision. If the weight is too heavy or too light during identification, it may be a fake. For the outer skin, you can use a chain or a knife to mark whether there is any soft material at suspicious points, and look for signs of sticking.

4. False coloring: use soy coloring, dyeing to make colorless light coloring materials into bright emerald green, and methods such as painting, waxing, and deep mud. When identifying, use a color filter to see that the color turns red, and use a magnifying glass to see the distribution of the color. The artificial coloring is heavy in the small cracks, and the other parts are light or colorless. Scrub, warm up and watch the changes. The predecessors of my country's jewelry industry have summed up a lot of experience about jadeite in the long-term practice of jadeite processing and production, and expressed these characteristics of jadeite in the form of concise aphorisms. Remember these maxims, and be able to understand and appreciate the profound connotations, which will benefit you throughout your life.