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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
Gemstones and Minerals
Are Australian sapphires really worth anything?
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<blockquote data-quote="user 1769" data-source="post: 175005" data-attributes="member: 1769"><p>Hi Lefty,</p><p></p><p>My friend tests them by measuring the specific gravity, the colour ranges of our sapphire, chrysoberyl and zircon can overlap. Particularly pink stones can be either corundum or zircon, evidently much more valuable if corundum.</p><p></p><p>This locality was pretty much worked out as soon as it was discovered, but was not in a known sapphire-bearing area. The stones in the pictures came from working a couple of cracks in the granite bedrock that everybody else had missed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 1769, post: 175005, member: 1769"] Hi Lefty, My friend tests them by measuring the specific gravity, the colour ranges of our sapphire, chrysoberyl and zircon can overlap. Particularly pink stones can be either corundum or zircon, evidently much more valuable if corundum. This locality was pretty much worked out as soon as it was discovered, but was not in a known sapphire-bearing area. The stones in the pictures came from working a couple of cracks in the granite bedrock that everybody else had missed. [/QUOTE]
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Are Australian sapphires really worth anything?
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