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Hello,
My misses and I have spent the last 4 months zig zagging across Australia (we're Canadian) and have discovered the joy of fossicking. She may have taken to it only because i promised her that i would marry her but she had to gather her own gems and gold layful: before we made it into a ring, but in any case we managed to gather many rocks on our travels.
Now that we arrived back in Brisbane, we have gone through some of our Inverell sapphires and think that we may have a couple cutters in the mix. But due to the lack of experience we have, we don't know if these are worth cutting nor the quality of the stones.
I understand that we may lose around 60% of the stone in the cutting process, but in your expert opinions do you think these rocks would be worth cutting in Australia ? And, does anyone know of someone in the Brisbane area that would be willing to cut these for a reasonable price ?
We did speak with Lambert's but after reading some recent reviews here it has placed an air of doubt in me and thought that maybe we should get the bigger stones looked at locally (we figured that the numerous little stones probably don't warrant cutting).
The photo attached doesn't show the true colours of these stones, some are very dark blue, and some are beautifully coloured lighter blue/yellow/green parti stones.
I plan on going to the MGLS and becoming a member as we would like to cut some of our other stones down into jewelry, so i will ask around there as well, but thought the experts here may be able to chime in as well.
Cheers
My misses and I have spent the last 4 months zig zagging across Australia (we're Canadian) and have discovered the joy of fossicking. She may have taken to it only because i promised her that i would marry her but she had to gather her own gems and gold layful: before we made it into a ring, but in any case we managed to gather many rocks on our travels.
Now that we arrived back in Brisbane, we have gone through some of our Inverell sapphires and think that we may have a couple cutters in the mix. But due to the lack of experience we have, we don't know if these are worth cutting nor the quality of the stones.
I understand that we may lose around 60% of the stone in the cutting process, but in your expert opinions do you think these rocks would be worth cutting in Australia ? And, does anyone know of someone in the Brisbane area that would be willing to cut these for a reasonable price ?
We did speak with Lambert's but after reading some recent reviews here it has placed an air of doubt in me and thought that maybe we should get the bigger stones looked at locally (we figured that the numerous little stones probably don't warrant cutting).
The photo attached doesn't show the true colours of these stones, some are very dark blue, and some are beautifully coloured lighter blue/yellow/green parti stones.
I plan on going to the MGLS and becoming a member as we would like to cut some of our other stones down into jewelry, so i will ask around there as well, but thought the experts here may be able to chime in as well.
Cheers