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Gemhunters Cutters Desk

Recently the gemstone has been more popular ‘in the rough’ rather than the cut faceted gemstones. More so with the sapphire – this gives the cutters a chance to own a large genuine sapphire that they have had the pleasure of faceting themselves into desired shape or cut.

We offer only real genuine gemstone rough with no treatments so you can know that you are getting the best.
At present the sapphire rough sold from our mine has been so popular that we are selling to a waiting list rather than listing the sapphire as we find it.
So please don’t hesitate to email us to enquire about a particular colour / shape or weight in carats that you may be after.

If you do not cut gemstones yourself – please don’t hesitate to email us and ask for special cut or shape that you would like and we can try to produce the gemstone that you desire.
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Colours of desired rough is still biased towards blue sapphire, although a strong demand for green’s has been very strong, both in rough and cut stones, my own personal preference is green followed by good parti coloured stone.
Good Cutting.
From Lou

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Mining for sapphires in QLD
A day at the mine

New holeLou is in a new hole about 7 foot deep to the floor, we have had good stone from here, Lou is fairly excited as he is getting closer to an old tunnel dug before the flood cave in.

This area produced around 100-200 carats of sapphire per day for a couple of months and we were looking forward to getting back to this area eventually.winching to the surface

Now the dirt is looking very good, heavy black broken ironstone with white bits of clay and green rocks. The old timers say you are on the sapphire when your wash has salt pepper and chives – the black broken ironstone - white ash / clay - green floor/arsenic rocks (don’t put these in your mouth).

So Lou has been jack hammering this morning to loosen the dirt, he shovels it into buckets and then winches them to the surface.

buckets are lined upSince we are working away from the machine and open cutting this hole, it is easier to winch to the surface. The buckets are lined up, ready to be put through the machine.


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