Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 880 Industrial Diamond
Transporting the found treasures to the ship was a very difficult task, as most of these boxes were very heavy, while some were slightly oversized.

Judging from the search work in the cave, those people should have cut down part of the trees temporarily, and then nailed the trees into wooden signs to transport these heavy boxes.

Because after searching in the cave, they found some broken and simply treated wood in the cave, which were obviously the means of transportation in those years.

Fortunately, Liang En and the others had considered these issues before and brought a simple trolley, so using these tools, they successfully transported the things to the seaside.

"There must have been other things on that ship back then. I don't believe that a ship with a weight of more than 1000 tons was only loaded with more than 70 boxes." When returning to the big ship in a small boat, Liang En asked Nelson on the opposite side.

All the information I read before indicated that the ship was almost fully loaded when it left the port, and this obviously cannot be done by the more than 70 boxes in front of me, which means that the main things on the ship are other things.

"According to the information I received, the ship was mainly loaded with nickel and tin at that time." Nelson said seriously. "But it's obviously not worth salvaging that stuff."

The reason why Nelson said this is also very simple, because his biggest previous harvest in the process of treasure hunting was a salvage work completed three years ago.

During that work he spent two months discovering and salvaging a 19th century steam ship, from which he obtained industrial silver worth 110 million euros.

It's a pity that the profit from the salvage was not too much. After deducting the miscellaneous expenses, it was found that the cost alone cost nearly 80 euros.

That's why he chose to invite Liang En in this operation, because this search for the missing ship brought back some bad memories from his last ocean salvage.

As for the things on board, both tin and nickel are important materials needed in the war. At the same time, these two metals are also rich in minerals in Southeast Asia, so it was very reasonable to take these things to Australia at that time.

It's a pity that they don't know where the ship is now, so the cost of searching plus salvage will most likely easily exceed the original cost of those things.

In this case, Liang En and the others would naturally choose to give up. After all, this salvage was purely for profit, so such a money-losing business must not be done.

In particular, the number of things containing important materials such as the World War II group is not small, so these things do not even have historical and academic value.

The top priority of the next job is to bring these things to the ship. During the whole hoisting process, I have been worried about the disintegration of those old boxes. Fortunately, although the boxes made some strange sounds, they finally held up. .

"Look at what's here." After they moved all the boxes on board and put them in the cabin, Nelson said excitedly.

Because the things he found this time can be said to be the most he found in his long treasure hunting career, at least now it seems to be more valuable than the silver ingots on the ship last time.

"Of course, let's start with the smallest box." Liang En pointed to one of the 15 metal boxes that looked almost identical.

"This should be the small but heavy box uploaded by the stage in the diary we read before, but now it seems that the heavy thing may not be the things in the box, but the box itself."

The reason for saying this is because this box is different from other boxes. It is not a wooden box or a box with iron sheets outside, but a real metal safe.

The box opening tool is not a key, but an air impact drill. After all, they don't have a key, and these things have been stored in the cave for so many years, even if they really have a key, they probably won't be able to open them.

After being busy for a while, they opened the door of the safe, but unlike what everyone had guessed before, there was no gold or silver inside, but five or six round metal boxes, which looked like two enlarged beer bottle caps combined. together.

"This box looks familiar—" When Liang En looked at the box with a dazed expression on his face, Nelson came up to take the box, then grabbed the box and twisted it hard.

There was no doubt that the box was not very rusted, so after a squeaking sound and some brown rust spilled, the round box was opened.

Clinking—the moment the round metal box is opened.Some items tumbled out of the boxes and onto the table, and a few even fell to the floor.

"Diamond!" Liang En's eyes widened after looking at that thing, and he immediately recognized what these octahedrons or dodecahedrons of different sizes were.

These boxes contain some rough diamonds. The Dutch colony of Kalimantan was also considered an important diamond producing area, so it is not surprising to find original diamonds here.

"But then again, these rough stones look a little different from the diamonds we built before." When the two men were excited, Joan stepped forward to pick up the largest one, which looked like a small piece of rock candy said Diamond.

"The diamonds we saw before were like ice, they were all transparent, instead of the whole diamond looking like a solid fog like now, or those polluted fog."

"Solid, polluted fog?" After listening to Joan of Arc's words, Liang En calmed down from the excitement, and then carefully observed these diamonds, and found the difference between these diamonds and the ones he had built before.

To be honest, he is also a person who has seen a lot of diamonds, especially when he went to India last time, he almost saw diamonds that other people have never seen in their lifetime, so number one, I think these diamonds may not be as valuable as we thought before.

"Let me see." Liang En immediately walked to the table and checked the diamonds. After checking all the diamonds, he immediately found the problem and raised his head and said.

"Nelson, the diamond we found this time seems to be different from what we imagined. It may not be as valuable as we thought, because these diamonds are industrial diamonds."

There is no essential difference between industrial diamonds and gem-quality diamonds, they are all carbon crystals.However, impurities contained in natural diamonds can cause diamonds to show different colors and different degrees of purity.

According to the current international rules, the clarity of gem-quality diamonds is above i3, that is, flaws are easily visible to the naked eye, and industrial diamonds are lower than this clarity.

Now, the gemstones that Liang En and the others unearthed from those iron cabinets are this kind of industrial gemstones with turbid interiors. Although the price of industrial gemstones of this size is not low, they are completely incomparable with gem-quality diamonds.

"But it should be a good start, shouldn't it?" Although Nelson was a little depressed at the beginning, he quickly became optimistic again.

"Now open all the other boxes. I guess there should be a lot of valuable things inside, at least more valuable than these things."

(End of this chapter)