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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
Gemstones and Minerals
Finds from Sapphire bend, Oberon NSW
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<blockquote data-quote="Heatho" data-source="post: 191742" data-attributes="member: 487"><p>Mostly when you get stones cut you'd be lucky to get 30% of a Sapphire back, 50% would be a very good quality stone, almost perfect shape with no inclusions or cracks occuring during faceting and very lucky. </p><p></p><p>That little dogtooth is a nice blue on blue and would be able to be done in Thailand but you would get a very tiny stone back, wait till you've done a few trips and have quite a few stones, then put a parcel together to send to Thailand to be cut, save anything nice over 5ct to be cut here in Australia. </p><p></p><p>I've had hundreds of stones where you look at them and think hmmmmmm what a shame it's not clear or the right shape, has inclusions is too small etc. Finding a true valuable gem is difficult and they are few and far between but they are certainly out there, just gotta be lucky to get a good sized one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Heatho, post: 191742, member: 487"] Mostly when you get stones cut you'd be lucky to get 30% of a Sapphire back, 50% would be a very good quality stone, almost perfect shape with no inclusions or cracks occuring during faceting and very lucky. That little dogtooth is a nice blue on blue and would be able to be done in Thailand but you would get a very tiny stone back, wait till you've done a few trips and have quite a few stones, then put a parcel together to send to Thailand to be cut, save anything nice over 5ct to be cut here in Australia. I've had hundreds of stones where you look at them and think hmmmmmm what a shame it's not clear or the right shape, has inclusions is too small etc. Finding a true valuable gem is difficult and they are few and far between but they are certainly out there, just gotta be lucky to get a good sized one. [/QUOTE]
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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
Gemstones and Minerals
Finds from Sapphire bend, Oberon NSW
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