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<blockquote data-quote="NuggBugg" data-source="post: 445971" data-attributes="member: 13732"><p>Hey everyone. So my mate at work kindly gave me a couple of bags of gravel from a Glen Innes Sapphire mine he bought near a decade ago. I've classified one bag down into 1/4", 1/8" and concentrate and found 3 yellowish sapphires out of the larger stuff, ones got a bit of pink in it and a few little blue shards. Plus a piece of pyrite <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> once I can post pics up I'll show the little beauties off.</p><p>I have a couple of questions if anyone would be kind enough to answer. </p><p>1st: How can I be sure they're sapphires?</p><p>2nd: Is it possible there might be fine gold dust in the concentrate?</p><p>3rd: Will running the material through a sluice seperate the gems from the gravel?</p><p>Cheers in advance <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NuggBugg, post: 445971, member: 13732"] Hey everyone. So my mate at work kindly gave me a couple of bags of gravel from a Glen Innes Sapphire mine he bought near a decade ago. I've classified one bag down into 1/4", 1/8" and concentrate and found 3 yellowish sapphires out of the larger stuff, ones got a bit of pink in it and a few little blue shards. Plus a piece of pyrite :D once I can post pics up I'll show the little beauties off. I have a couple of questions if anyone would be kind enough to answer. 1st: How can I be sure they're sapphires? 2nd: Is it possible there might be fine gold dust in the concentrate? 3rd: Will running the material through a sluice seperate the gems from the gravel? Cheers in advance :) [/QUOTE]
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