Nanyu historical materials

According to the Records of Xinyi County, in June of the sixth year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (1856), the rocky mountains in Dashui and Deliangwei (now Liu Si Village, Jin Dong Town) in Xinyi collapsed, and the jade was washed out, showing turquoise, soft luster and delicate and hard texture. Local farmers used manual mining and began to polish handicrafts such as bracelets and incense burners by hand. In 1960s, geologists in this province discovered 60,000 tons of southern jade in Xinyi, Guangdong. Xinyi once became the hometown of jade in the south of China. By 1970, Xinyi county organized a large number of labor exploitation, and set up a jade carving craft factory in the county town to process bracelets, rings, jade pendants, tea sets, peaches, sailboats and other products by machinery. After 1982, with the increasing export and domestic sales of jade carving crafts, the demand for Nanyu jade is increasing. In the heyday of Nanyu jade mining and processing, Xinyi jade processing factory reached more than 500, and there were more than 1000 individual enterprises selling jade, with thousands of jade varieties.

The only Liu Siyu mine in xinyi city is open-pit mining. Jade veins are complete, mostly a whole piece of mountain material. Occasionally, associated serpentine inlaid jade and talc jade are seen, but no seed jade is found. At present, there is a single variety of southern jade in the jade market. Except for mountain materials, most of them are associated jade, and collecting jade is becoming a trend. The photo of the title map is an ornamental stone processed by jade.

After decades of exploitation, the original resources of southern jade mining points in Xinyi have been exhausted. 1998, Xinyi jindong siliu jade mine, the only producing area of nanyu, announced the suspension of production and completely closed the mine in 2000.

The jade market in Xinyinan, western Guangdong, which has always been neglected, has been rising all the way, and the demand for fine products is in short supply. According to experts, because Jasper, known as the "green material", has been exhausted and cannot be regenerated, the price of jade materials has increased from 65,438+6,000 yuan per ton to 400,000 yuan in eight years, and the momentum has not diminished. Guangdong Arts and Crafts Treasures Museum also held an exhibition of southern jasper works made of "green materials" from June 18 to the end of this month.

Xinyi city Liusiyu Mine is the only jade producing area in South China. Jade processing is one of the pillar industries in Maoming in the 1980s, with an output value of 80 million yuan/year. At present, Liu Siyu Mine has stopped mining, so it is urgent to find a reserve base for jade mine exploration to replace jade resources and maintain and expand xinyi city's jade processing industry. Three exploration blocks, xinyi city Fandoupo Jade (Southern Jade) Mine, xinyi city Beidipu Jade (Southern Jade) Mine and xinyi city Jin Dong Town Guli Jade (Southern Jade) Mine, are scheduled to be completed in 2008 ~ 20 10, but there are no relevant reserves reports so far, and there is no mining point in Nanyu.