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⭐ Show Us Your Cut Stones - Before And After Photos
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<blockquote data-quote="Dihusky" data-source="post: 561251" data-attributes="member: 10304"><p>A stone with some history and a story. I first saw this piece of rough around a year ago, the owner lived not far from me so it allowed us to get together an discuss this special piece of Sapphire rough and other stones his father had left the family. I'd seen some interesting stones but nothing like this so we planned it's future life, not as a piece of rough but as 3 Gems that could be shared between the family.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/10304/1593250782_88ct_rough.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Though the stone had been cleaned up, we still needed to see inside, so a polish on a couple of faces helped this. Yes there were inclusions plus a clearly defined fracture line across. These defined the first cuts, one to remove the rubbish then one directly through the fracture. This yeilded two stones, one 30.8ct and the second 48.25 ct, they still needed a final clean up to get rid of the last pieces of junk. The larger ended up at 38.15ct and the smaller 24.25ct. The larger was split in two giving two stones 13.15 and the second around 18ct.</p><p></p><p>The final result of the mission is these 3:</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/10304/1593250907_trilogy.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>6.43cts, 4.52cts & 3.60cts. </p><p></p><p>The lucky owner is a friend of everyone here; Martyz</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dihusky, post: 561251, member: 10304"] A stone with some history and a story. I first saw this piece of rough around a year ago, the owner lived not far from me so it allowed us to get together an discuss this special piece of Sapphire rough and other stones his father had left the family. I'd seen some interesting stones but nothing like this so we planned it's future life, not as a piece of rough but as 3 Gems that could be shared between the family. [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/10304/1593250782_88ct_rough.jpg[/img] Though the stone had been cleaned up, we still needed to see inside, so a polish on a couple of faces helped this. Yes there were inclusions plus a clearly defined fracture line across. These defined the first cuts, one to remove the rubbish then one directly through the fracture. This yeilded two stones, one 30.8ct and the second 48.25 ct, they still needed a final clean up to get rid of the last pieces of junk. The larger ended up at 38.15ct and the smaller 24.25ct. The larger was split in two giving two stones 13.15 and the second around 18ct. The final result of the mission is these 3: [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/10304/1593250907_trilogy.jpg[/img] 6.43cts, 4.52cts & 3.60cts. The lucky owner is a friend of everyone here; Martyz [/QUOTE]
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