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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
Lapidary
⭐ Show Us Your Cut Stones - Before And After Photos
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<blockquote data-quote="SneakyCuttlefish" data-source="post: 326889" data-attributes="member: 3340"><p>Treasure man, I am learning pricing from a gem dealer up this way and he recons I could get $350 - $400 for it at retail price. Unless I'm selling to the Chinese. Then its $700 with a 10% discount. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> </p><p></p><p>White topaz comes out of the ground in huge slabs in certain parts of the world so the value of rough is down as much as 50 cents a carat internationally. (thats a good price for the miner) Here the Aussie miners try to sell it for $1 a carat rough and claim you are getting a bargain. Blue topaz is very much the same because of the mass amount of irradiated material on the market. Unless of course it is big, rich colour, clean and guaranteed untreated. Then it has some value. The only valuable topaz are <u>natural</u> yellow/golden, pink/cherry or Imperial which is a kind of rich yellow/orange or orange/golden coloured stone. </p><p></p><p>White topaz looks fantastic when cut but is just too common to hold any significant value. Mind you this is based on internationally competitive pricing. A stone is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it so its a win if someone wants to pay the inflated Aussie prices for it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SneakyCuttlefish, post: 326889, member: 3340"] Treasure man, I am learning pricing from a gem dealer up this way and he recons I could get $350 - $400 for it at retail price. Unless I'm selling to the Chinese. Then its $700 with a 10% discount. :P White topaz comes out of the ground in huge slabs in certain parts of the world so the value of rough is down as much as 50 cents a carat internationally. (thats a good price for the miner) Here the Aussie miners try to sell it for $1 a carat rough and claim you are getting a bargain. Blue topaz is very much the same because of the mass amount of irradiated material on the market. Unless of course it is big, rich colour, clean and guaranteed untreated. Then it has some value. The only valuable topaz are [u]natural[/u] yellow/golden, pink/cherry or Imperial which is a kind of rich yellow/orange or orange/golden coloured stone. White topaz looks fantastic when cut but is just too common to hold any significant value. Mind you this is based on internationally competitive pricing. A stone is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it so its a win if someone wants to pay the inflated Aussie prices for it. [/QUOTE]
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