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<blockquote data-quote="Heatho" data-source="post: 651537" data-attributes="member: 487"><p>Still quite a few places around the Inverell Glen Innes area to go Maccka. The QLD gemfields have some fantastic stones with incredible clarity and great colours but my number 1 choice for colour is the Inverell area, the cornflower blues and royal blues from there are second to none, in my opinion. . </p><p></p><p>It's interesting about the price of stones though, I've been told by a few people that the Thai buyers would come over and buy a lot of stones, take them back, heat treat and sell them as Ceylon sapphires for top dollar. Aussie labelled stones have never been appreciated fully globally though no wonder as the best of the best were usually sold overseas and labeled as from elsewhere. </p><p></p><p>I reckon Australia has the best sapphs in the world and they were very undervalued for a long time, good to see them going up in value. </p><p></p><p>Some nice Inverell stones in the pic below, not mine but a bloke I know from Inverell. Not all there are a great colour but a few are and the rest are still pretty decent.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Heatho, post: 651537, member: 487"] Still quite a few places around the Inverell Glen Innes area to go Maccka. The QLD gemfields have some fantastic stones with incredible clarity and great colours but my number 1 choice for colour is the Inverell area, the cornflower blues and royal blues from there are second to none, in my opinion. . It's interesting about the price of stones though, I've been told by a few people that the Thai buyers would come over and buy a lot of stones, take them back, heat treat and sell them as Ceylon sapphires for top dollar. Aussie labelled stones have never been appreciated fully globally though no wonder as the best of the best were usually sold overseas and labeled as from elsewhere. I reckon Australia has the best sapphs in the world and they were very undervalued for a long time, good to see them going up in value. Some nice Inverell stones in the pic below, not mine but a bloke I know from Inverell. Not all there are a great colour but a few are and the rest are still pretty decent. [/QUOTE]
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