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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
Gemstones and Minerals
❓Your Mineral Identification Questions answered here
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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 404170" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>I doubt that sapphires are rarer - we see them all the time in central Victoria but too small to cut in the main. I've never panned a diamond anywhere. However they are not all that rare in pipes, and De Beers would buy up competitors and close the mines, to control the flow onto the market. The best gem diamonds were on beaches in Namibia though - they had been carried hundreds of km down the Orange River to the sea and flawed diamonds broke up in the process, leaving mostly gems (gems are outnumbered by industrial diamonds in the pipes, although the giant gems are mostly from pipes).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 404170, member: 4386"] I doubt that sapphires are rarer - we see them all the time in central Victoria but too small to cut in the main. I've never panned a diamond anywhere. However they are not all that rare in pipes, and De Beers would buy up competitors and close the mines, to control the flow onto the market. The best gem diamonds were on beaches in Namibia though - they had been carried hundreds of km down the Orange River to the sea and flawed diamonds broke up in the process, leaving mostly gems (gems are outnumbered by industrial diamonds in the pipes, although the giant gems are mostly from pipes). [/QUOTE]
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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
Gemstones and Minerals
❓Your Mineral Identification Questions answered here
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