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Chapter 176 Pyroxene Mineral!Shui Moyu?
Not long after, the sample was delivered to Chen Cheng's home.
The staff in formal attire held a red box in their hands and rushed to Chen Cheng's home quickly, not daring to slack off at all.
Following him was a man with dark skin and a strong body.
Chen Cheng stood up enthusiastically, clasped his hands, nodded and greeted the other party.
Then he put his shoulder on his shoulder and introduced Lin Ran: "This is our agent in Myanmar, Mr. Ne Win."
"This is our Chinese jade appraisal expert, Mr. Lin Ran."
Chen Cheng casually gave Lin Ran a title. He felt that Lin Ran deserved the title.
"Mr. Lin Ran, I give you my regards." Ne Win clasped his hands together and bowed slightly to express his respect.
Myanmar is a traditional Buddhist country, and Buddhist etiquette has been integrated into their lives.
Lin Ran also followed their way of saying hello.
Afterwards, the three of them took their seats, with Yang Jianlong and the clerk standing behind Lin Ran and Chen Cheng respectively.
After Chen Cheng nodded, the clerk placed the red box on the table and opened it respectfully.
Inside is a pile of jade stones the size of an adult's thumb, about ten pieces in total.
"Can you pick it up and take a look?" Lin Ran asked.
The agent seemed very polite and told him to look at it as he pleased, and Chen Cheng nodded in agreement.
Lin Ran first took a piece of transparent jade to observe.
After he picked it up, the agent introduced with a smile: "This is Xiaobing jadeite, the transparency is slightly lower than that of glass. This sample is high ice, with few impurities, and the transparency is close to the texture of glass. Only the texture of Xiaobing jade is used." You can buy it at the right price, and you can only make a profit without losing money.”
Lin Ran nodded noncommittally.
Among jadeite, the ice type with high transparency is called high ice. The price is slightly lower than that of glass jadeite, but it is extremely cost-effective. It was often used to make jadeite bracelets after the 90s.
But it's still relatively rare in this day and age.
Lin Ran held it in his hand. The surface was very smooth and looked like natural high-ice jade.
However, Lin Ran still felt something different.
But he didn't show it and just continued to look at the next piece of jade.
He picked up another piece of cut jade, and it turned out to be full of green pendant material!
The incision is smooth, the meat is delicate, there are no cracks on the surface, and the color is still dark green.
Among jadeite, the greener the color, the higher the price.
"This piece is imperial green, with a bright emerald color and very good quality. It gives people a solemn and noble beauty. It can be used to make special jewelry and will definitely sell for a good price." The agent continued.
"It is indeed precious." Lin Ran nodded. From the surface, it was indeed a good piece of wool.
Put the imperial green down and look at the next piece of yellow wool.
"This is Xiaobinghuang from Damakan. The material is very beautiful and suitable for you Chinese nobles to wear." The agent smiled and took a sip of tea.
Every time Lin Ran picked up a piece of wool, the agent would reveal his name in detail, even remembering the color of the planting water clearly.
Both he and Chen Cheng were observing the agent's face, which was calm and composed, with no sign of guilt at all.
Chen Cheng might be worried that the agent's words would affect Lin Ran's judgment, so he took the initiative to find a topic and let the agent's eyes temporarily leave Lin Ran.
Lin Ran understood and took the woolen material from before and looked at it carefully.
Chen Cheng had actually seen the previous pieces of jade and thought there was nothing wrong with them.
What really made Chen Cheng curious was the last jadeite stone.
Lin Ran took out a flashlight and shined it on the surface of the original stone. The density was indeed the same as that of the original jade stone.
Looking at the incision again, the flesh is delicate and looks like a piece of imperial green. It has good permeability and you can see the structure inside.
"How can such a good rough stone be mass-produced?" Lin Ran couldn't help but feel suspicious.
Even the largest jade factory in Myanmar cannot mass-produce imperial green!
But when he observed it with a flashlight or with the naked eye, he couldn't see anything strange.
Then he glanced at the agent who was chatting with Chen Cheng again. The agent seemed a little absent-minded and looked at him from the corner of his eyes from time to time.
There is a hint of coldness in his eyes, which is a common expression among Burmese jade merchants.
On the surface, they appear to be a country with a strong Buddhist culture, but in fact they are a bit barbaric.
With Lin Ran's many years of experience in dealing with Burmese traders, he believed that the traders must be hiding something.
Feeling the strange weight of the rough stone in my hand, a long-lost memory came to my mind!
Is it...
Lin Ran held the original stone in his hand and felt a little tight.
He picked up the flashlight again and shined it on the incision.
I saw some pyroxene minerals inside!
What is in front of me is not the jade stone at all, but Shui Mozi!
Shuimozi, whose full name is jadeite water-foam symbiosis, is an associated mineral of jadeite.
Its main component is albite, accounting for more than 90.00%.
The businessman in front of him obviously cut out part of the jadeite to show Chen Cheng, and then when he cut it inside, he could see the albite.
However, in this era, people mainly believed that jade was faked as quartz stone.
With a deep understanding of albite, Chinese businessmen have experienced a large number of cases of being deceived when doing business with Burmese businessmen.
This thing involves paying with one hand and delivering the goods with the other hand. Even if you are cheated, there is no way to get it back.
As a direct result, Chinese businessmen were unwilling to cooperate with Myanmar jade merchants for a long time, preferring to go to the mines to purchase raw stones in person.
After guessing that it was albite, Lin Ran began to conduct further observations.
Jade belongs to jadeite and contains the minerals sodium chrome pyroxene, tremolite, diopside and other elements.
It looks exactly like water foam jade on the surface, crystal clear.
However, there will be some tiny bubbles in the rough stone, which look like water splashes. The Burmese people call water splashes foam, so it is called water foam jade.
I took a flashlight and shined it inside. It seemed that the light transmittance was very good, but in fact the light was significantly refracted.
In fact, this was the first time Lin Ran saw albite. Because the identification technology of later generations has become very advanced, albite was also sold as a cheap jadeite and used as jewelry.
This was also the first time he saw someone selling albite disguised as raw jadeite.
"How much does this rough stone cost?" Lin Ran asked after seeing the conversation between Chen Cheng and Chen Cheng end.
"Mr. Lin, do you think this jade is good? You can get this rough stone for only 300 yuan, which is very cost-effective." The agent took advantage of the situation to promote his rough stone.
"This stone is indeed good, but is it really jadeite?" Lin Ran looked at the agent with a smile.
After confirming that the agent was a liar, he finally discovered the problems with the stones he had looked at earlier.
I'm sorry that the Burmese people regard Chen Cheng as their enemy and dare to send any inferior products to Chen Cheng's warehouse.
When the two people who were drinking tea heard this, their teacups stopped in the air!