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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
Lapidary
Another experimental cab - black spinel
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<blockquote data-quote="Lefty" data-source="post: 112524" data-attributes="member: 2976"><p>Cheers guys.</p><p></p><p>Yep, they do scrub up quite nicely. I have a tray of pieces but the biggest is probably about 15 carats. Don't seem to see them much bigger than that on the Anakie field, at least I haven't anyway. Yeah, getting little things that size to come to a perfectly round pre-form by eye is a bit tricky! :/ Took me a while. I wonder if there's a better way? They're too small to scribe a proper mark on but maybe the very small ovals and cicles that some of the templates have could be used as a guide of some sort?</p><p></p><p>I've got a piece of hornblende that would be about 25-30 carats if it were a sapphire, I reckon that would come up the same as the spinel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lefty, post: 112524, member: 2976"] Cheers guys. Yep, they do scrub up quite nicely. I have a tray of pieces but the biggest is probably about 15 carats. Don't seem to see them much bigger than that on the Anakie field, at least I haven't anyway. Yeah, getting little things that size to come to a perfectly round pre-form by eye is a bit tricky! :/ Took me a while. I wonder if there's a better way? They're too small to scribe a proper mark on but maybe the very small ovals and cicles that some of the templates have could be used as a guide of some sort? I've got a piece of hornblende that would be about 25-30 carats if it were a sapphire, I reckon that would come up the same as the spinel. [/QUOTE]
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Another experimental cab - black spinel
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