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This is a very interesting address given by Jim Elliot, 2003. A very good understanding for diggers when assessing a sapphire and the area it was found in. THE FORMATION OF QUEENSLAND SAPPHIRE RESOURCES - AN ALTERNATIVE THEORY! Taken from an address by Jim Elliot at the Central Queensland...

I will try and add a Youtube vid on what the title calls Yooperlites. Two days before this video appeared I picked up a stone almost identical to the stone at 19 seconds, stop the vid and see. In daylight the stone is mottled / speckled grey, whites and blacks. So I got into the hall closet with...

I am having the hardest time finding, in search engine, businesses who sell vibra sonic tumblers in Australia. Apart from Gemcuts does anyone know of anyone else who sells these machines?

Has any one here done any Osmiridium prospecting? I was looking for the easy way to get information about the process as to whether there is much difference to gold sluicing and washing. ??

In the last two days I have met two people who have picked up expensive stone on the side of the footpath in Rubyvale. One stone was a 4+ct green sapphire in its purchase bag, I saw the stone, beautiful; the other was a large skin polished sapphire, wire wrapped, laying in the grass beside the...

This is a post that has just been put up on an American faceting website. Every so often the question of dopping will arrive on a forum. This information, following, was posted by Wayne Emery, a high profile facetor in the USA. In my opinion it is very good information, though it is not the way...

It is reported on the 'Australian Lapidary Group' Facebook page that a miner in Tasmania has had a portion of his mined supply of Pyrolusite stolen from his secured diggings: "Shane Stanfield 21 hrs Hi all! I wish there was a nice way to say this but... Some low life piece of shit has been...

My lady had a dream last night, it was about an app, a phone app. Take your newly dug stone, get out your mobile and hit the gem identification app. The app comes out of your phone and floats, in real time, before you. You place your newly dug gem into the app and the gem blobs around in a gel...

Found a garage sale instead with $5 samples - a 1.5 kg sample of chrysoprase and various quartz species, smoky, citrine and amethyst and a tourmaline on mica sample. Some of the quartz smokies eventuate into citrine and are good size cutters. So, a good day! :perfect:

http://www.osirisgems.com/Designs.html I often think when finished gems are posted the designs should be posted with it, not just the name of the design but the plan as well (indexes and angles).

Below is a link that appears to assist prospectors/fossickers. It would be valuable if the survey develops into a support group that has the promotes the interests of prospectors and fossickers in the parliamentary establishment. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Prospectorsunitejune

I have had an online search and a search in this forum but so far no luck. Does synthetic ruby have the same density as natural ruby? I have what I believed to be 2 specimens of natural ruby. One I have tested and it appears to be Apophyllite, not ruby with a density of 2.38. The other is Sri...

I am taking a journey from Victoria, through Wagga to Condoblin on to Cobar up through Bourke to Cunnamulla then turnoff at Tambo and go on to Alpha. Anyone along that path have locations for specking gemstones suitable for faceting or cabbing? Or is anyone likely to have stone for sale along...