Chapter 1557 - Hard Work Pays Off (2/2)

Du Enhai seemed skeptical of his response and continued, “If you’re planning on doing what I think you are, I’d advise you to drop it So many people have been to Dena Mountain in search of jade but not even one of theh”

As Du Enhai picked up the bills froes to be taken away first The set-up of his place was si area was fully utilized Theand dogfighting; all they had to do was throw the animals into the shafts Du Enhai had mentioned earlier that he had had the pits renovated, but he ain with Li Du for a better price on the place

Li Du paid no attention to thes up and prepared to leave He strolled around the periain to fly around and check out the situation with the rocks underground According to Old Thaw, and based on what he found out fro of Old Hpakant had tried to le one of the their lives here Li Du believed that even if the King’s children were fools or had terrible personalities, they would at least be good with jade There must have been a reason why they decided to mine in this area

The process of ore formation was a complicated one and required a co diamonds, which hy jade was so rare and expensive Jade ore did not exist on its own It was mostly present in the form of deposits and veins; the body of the ore was composed mostly of veins and bead-like structures that would be distributed on the surface

In addition, ore bodies of jade cae fro, so on for six kilometers, albeit intermittently The ore body could be anywhere between three to five meters thick, but it would so areas like Hpakant and Huika, the jade veins would stretch on for a significant distance; so hundreds of meters deep

In a jade vein, the core of the ore body was a belt of pure jade Froot closer to the walls Even further out, the albite would become a belt of chlorite Further yet and it would be surrounded by a belt of peridotite that had heavy traces of serpentinite In simpler terms, these were the unique features of mountain rocks in a jade mine For exareen, or yellow outer surfaces, which were the most common features

However, this was a feature absent froe and thick and often grayish-white, grayish-yellow, or yellohite in color; texture-wise, they seeranite and appeared to be completely unrelated to jade in any way This was the reason why many people eventually left the place e all the way to Dena Mountain on the rumor that there was jade here: no matter how you looked at it, it just did not seem like there was a jade vein

Li Du knew that there was definitely jade here; there was no way Tang Chaoyang would have had the wrong infor Li Du had in his hand was definitely from the jade mines of Dena Mountain On top of that, the vein was , and the location that was s He sent the little bugs out to canvas the area as he tried to guess where the vein could possibly he hidden

He did notroad The road was rather long, stretching out for close to 30area and sloped down to the base of thearea but people blocked it, so there was no way of discovering the road from within

Li Du had initially assumed that Du Enhai had the road blocked so he could use the opening of the h things again and realized that could not be the case

The fra area was composed of steel bars, wooden boards, and stone slabs so the entire area was rather sturdy Inside, there was a bunch of tools scattered about: pickaxes, mountain axes, pneumatic hammers, hydraulic hammers, hydraulic shears, and even a remodeled mini excavator These tools orth quite a bit so unless Du Enhai had neglected to check the area, there was no way he would have had the cave entrance blocked without taking the tools

This made sense especially because Du Enhai had coh tinize howarea, especially the re arh the structure was simple, the workmanshi+p was intricate and it orth quite a bit

Through the eyes of the little bugs, Li Du carefully checked the tools If he were to hazard a guess, he would say that it had been more than a decade since they had been abandoned Aside fros in the area, all of which had o After he exaed for the little bugs to continue down the s delved about 20, 30 meters deep into the mountain rocks, he found a layer of black rock! His heart filled with joy at the sight of this — hard work really did pay off, and this was likely an iht in jadeareas; it was the infas flew into the black rock and, as he had expected, a deep green filled his vision

He had been looking in the right direction — there was a jade vein here after all The sixteenth son of the King of Old Hpakant and several of the jade merchants had received accurate inforht here in this area but it was buried rather deep in the earth, unlike the jade mines in Hpakant, but that made sense Hpakant was home to the best jade mines in the world The deposits were already exposed without the need for reckless excavating, so there was no need to dig deep into the ground to find jade A top-quality jade mine like that was rare, so it was no surprise the jade mine in Dena Mountain was more difficult to find