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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
Gemstones and Minerals
Sapphire Formation and Deposit Theory
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<blockquote data-quote="charlie123" data-source="post: 74518" data-attributes="member: 908"><p>My understanding of sapphire or diamond is they are damn near impossible to track or loam to the source and that the majority of miners on sapphire or diamond are following ancient alluvial beds, either close to the surface or 30 feet down. I agree with the fact that if a sapphire diamond is harder than anything in the river than it would have to be impossible to wear down, wich means they are they shape they were formed as, I also know that you can break the sapphire or diamond just with your shovel with enough force. The old ways of africa diamond mining would smash potential diamonds with hammer to see if they were they were the real thing. My beliefe is that after a volcano thousands of years ago that old rivers may have flown through the bassalt and broken down the rock that holds the sapphire then depossiting it else where. I also find it very hard to understand where a river might have run even 500 years ago let alone 100,000 yrs</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="charlie123, post: 74518, member: 908"] My understanding of sapphire or diamond is they are damn near impossible to track or loam to the source and that the majority of miners on sapphire or diamond are following ancient alluvial beds, either close to the surface or 30 feet down. I agree with the fact that if a sapphire diamond is harder than anything in the river than it would have to be impossible to wear down, wich means they are they shape they were formed as, I also know that you can break the sapphire or diamond just with your shovel with enough force. The old ways of africa diamond mining would smash potential diamonds with hammer to see if they were they were the real thing. My beliefe is that after a volcano thousands of years ago that old rivers may have flown through the bassalt and broken down the rock that holds the sapphire then depossiting it else where. I also find it very hard to understand where a river might have run even 500 years ago let alone 100,000 yrs [/QUOTE]
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