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<blockquote data-quote="Lefty" data-source="post: 82602" data-attributes="member: 2976"><p>Cheers Joe - some nice colour there mate, especially that aqua one. I like that really pale green/aqau in the middle of the left hand side - is it a cutter?</p><p></p><p> Many of the blues from much of our field - including the old place at Russian gully - were just too dark, a real midnight blue. Very dark blue with a green cross and cut a stone that looks almost black. That said, some very nice blues are still produced. I've been told that green stones predominate in this part of the field and that zircons are more common in the mix than back nearer to Rubyvale. At Russian gully, blue was the predominate colour and sapphires outnumbered zircons about 5 or 6 to 1. Also, in 10 years of digging at Russian gully, we never once found any zircon that resemble the Hartz range type like the one above but I've been told that pale purple and pink are not uncommon in this area. Gives weight to <a href="http://www.australiansapphire.com/sapphire_formation_theory.htm" target="_blank">Jim Elliot's theory of sapphire formation and distribution</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lefty, post: 82602, member: 2976"] Cheers Joe - some nice colour there mate, especially that aqua one. I like that really pale green/aqau in the middle of the left hand side - is it a cutter? Many of the blues from much of our field - including the old place at Russian gully - were just too dark, a real midnight blue. Very dark blue with a green cross and cut a stone that looks almost black. That said, some very nice blues are still produced. I've been told that green stones predominate in this part of the field and that zircons are more common in the mix than back nearer to Rubyvale. At Russian gully, blue was the predominate colour and sapphires outnumbered zircons about 5 or 6 to 1. Also, in 10 years of digging at Russian gully, we never once found any zircon that resemble the Hartz range type like the one above but I've been told that pale purple and pink are not uncommon in this area. Gives weight to [url=http://www.australiansapphire.com/sapphire_formation_theory.htm]Jim Elliot's theory of sapphire formation and distribution[/url] [/QUOTE]
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