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Hey everyone happened across this today 250ct fully formed garnet as well as a whole heap of smaller stuff. Found it in a dump pile in the host rock

Grandidierite is in the top 10 rarest gemstones. Its very rare to find a stone that has no inclusions and the colours vary through the blue green scale. Its a interesting stone and its possible to use in jewellery. Heres a screenshot of more information and Ill reread this tomorrow once Im not...

Decided to give swinging a wand around a go, thinking about wandering beaches with it to see how I like it. Its about a week away but Ill try review it as I go. It was cheap and not expecting to find much with it but I think toe dipping with this will let me know if Im keen to continue or not...

Hey everyone hope everyone has some epic trips planned for the next few months. Please take care out on the roads, I drive hundreds of thousands of km for work each year and come across at least 10 rollovers a year. Dont forget preventative maintenance, patience, commonsense as well as tyre...

:lol: :lol: 8.( 8.( :lol: :lol: this almost killed me from choking after laughing so hard https://ministryofmorale.com/?p=1655

Im going through some of my finds over the past year or so and found this. Thought I might have got the purple on it by mistake but its in the stone. Anyone else find anything like it before?

I have a lot of Hessonite Garnet from Brazil just under 126ct ranging from 1.1ct to 21 ct asking price of $30

Up for grabs is a 1.65ct pear cut emerald its colour is medium very slightly bluish green, clarity is included. The first few photos came out the blue hue and finally got the colour its closest to with the eye in the 2nd last photo. Asking $1000

Hey PA land I have been trying to work out what I found a few months back but Im completely stumped as to what it might be. Hardness of less than 4.5 (A paper clip scratches it) and more than 2.5 cant scratch it with my nail. It has no fluorescence either. I found it in thin seam maximum...

Up for grabs is a nice 17.97 ct Afghanite piece asking price is $60 Heres a page with more info on it https://m.minerals.net/mineral/afghanite.aspx

Origin is Brazil 111.290ct parcel 19 stones ranging from 3.2ct to 9.2ct throw me offers Second photo is on a light background to see through the stones

Logged on last night and had a good laugh at this

Found this while looking through old photos quite interesting not sure when its from at a guess early 90s nice colour to it as well

Yesterday I almost became a statistic because of a idiotic act from another road user that was to impatient to wait 10 seconds for a clear part of the road to overtake instead of overtaking 50m from a blind crest. Thankfully it was a car that came over the crest not a truck and that my breaks on...

Heres a GIA expedition from 2016 to Tasmania, also some information about the TRAPICHE-TYPE SAPPHIRE FROM TASMANIA (sorry bout the capps was cut and paste) interesting read http://www.giathai.net/video-hunting-sapphires-tasmania/ http://www.giathai.net/sapphire-from-tasmania/

The 4 Cs are everything when it comes to gemstones (carat weight, cut, colour and clarity), the one part of the 4 Cs that can have the greatest effect is cut. The cut dictates the how the other 3 turn out. Theres 2 types of cuts precision cuts and commercial cuts, the difference between the 2 is...

Some reading material for the current known gemstone enhancements/treatments available and their codes that identify the specific treatment/enhancement on certificates. Theres also a care guide to reduce any premature wear or damage. Note if theres a different treatment identified thats not on...

I found this the other day not sure if its a fossil or just a cross section of a magma pipe all help with this will be greatly appreciated

Playing with my uv light and thought I would share some information with everyone. What it comes to rubies theres one very easy way to tell if you have a Burmese ruby. All rubies will fluorescence under a uv light but to differentiate the difference between Burmese, a natural ruby from somewhere...

Hey everyone, lets talk valuations. Theres the national council of jewellery valuers that you can find out gem and jewellery values. All I know are gemstones so what other avenues can you go to for fossils, old treasures, furniture and anything else of age to get a valuation and certification?