Sapphires

[flagold]

Movie shot while in Montana this season. I have not gone through but 12 of the 50 five gallon buckets of river gravel I brought back, but would dare say I'll have a 1/2 gallon of sapphires by the time I'm through soaking the material, breaking it up, and putting it through the gold wheel and tumbling the clumped material (conglomerate).

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kyv2C_yYww[/youtube]

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[fossis]

Those are some 'beautiful stones', I would like to take a trip up in that area someday, & do some collecting.

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[M3R1IN]

I sapphire mine and gold prospect in the Helena and Townsend area and plan to go to the Phillipsburg area in the summer, but Montana is one of my favorite treasure states and seeing as i live only 4 hours drive from this area its so convenient. Do u mind telling me what area you were shooting in this summer?
I have a few hundred carats of sapphires being heat treated and faceted as we speak and i am hoping for them do be done by the end of November. I am currently in Thailand Volunteering for a charity organization http://www.isara.org and I have scheduled some time to go gem buying and possibly mining while i am here. You probably know that Thailand is a major producer of sapphires but i bought some finished gems here 2 years ago and gave them to my mother for Christmas and she has finally gotten around to having them set. I would really like to get a lot in the Yogo Gulch area in Montana those are some superior stones but thats mostly a pipe dream at this point.