4.05ct sapphire

[M3R1IN]

I almost pooped my pants when i found this beauty
its a green star sapphire by the looks of it weighing 4.05 ct or 4.10 ct my scale cant seem to make up its mind
I got it from the El Dorado Sapphire mine near Helena, MT 2 weeks ago. I brought some gravels back and just got the chance to go through them right now and i was at the last scoop of the 3.5 gallon bag and lo and behold my patience paid off. Overall i got lots of nice specimens about 25 in total, one small .4 ct orange one and one larger orange specimen im hoping is a sapphire. I have about 5 sapphires over a carat and most are over half a carat. Got a few large garnets as well... one that looks about 5+ct. anyways heres some pics. I know theyre not very good quality but all my professional equipment takes film... i think film has richer color... anyways...
oh yeah a Canadian penny and a U.S. penny are the same size if anyone is wondering.

 

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[Prober]

Very nice stones. Do you get them cut and polished?

 

[jimmatt_43]

Nice finds ,cool way to look for treasure

 

[CarolinaDigs]

Really great stone !

 

[Functional]

As I posted elsewhere, see chart half way down this web page:
http://palagems.com/gods_graves_sapphires.htm



After posting this, I was wondering if this shouldn't be in the Best Finds forum ?

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[M3R1IN]

are you saying i should move this post to the best finds forum?

 

[dano91]

Killer find..Hey did you declare that? LOL
Dano & Yogi.

 

[Functional]

are you saying i should move this post to the best finds forum?

You might want to have your find checked out by a jeweler first, so you know for certain what its value is.
Check out the info on submitting to the Best Finds forum in Marc's post here:
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,22029.0.html

Unless your concerned about the tax man. I thought about posting a recommendation to The Best of TreasureNet here:
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php?board=301.0
But I don't like to do that sort of thing without asking first. If someone has concerns about taxes, or duty, or whatever, they might choose to delete their post instead.

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[M3R1IN]

screw the tax man, do whatever you like i dont care...a couple grand extra isnt gonna push me into another tax bracket anyways.

 

[M3R1IN]

heres an update on those sapphires
im having the green one and another large 2.3ct purple one finished as we speak.
I have about 35 other smaller stones ranging from .3 to 1.5ct being finished as well
theyre off to thailand where i can get skilled cutters to finish them for only a few dollars each so i dont have an
expected time of return for them yet but im thinking about mid august so i will post when i get them back and some pics as well

 

[ohannos]

heres an update on those sapphires
im having the green one and another large 2.3ct purple one finished as we speak.
I have about 35 other smaller stones ranging from .3 to 1.5ct being finished as well
theyre off to thailand where i can get skilled cutters to finish them for only a few dollars each so i dont have an
expected time of return for them yet but im thinking about mid august so i will post when i get them back and some pics as well

sweet find! hope you get much stone out of it.
i got a bunch of saphires o dug in australia but hav`nt got any of them cut yet so i wonder if you could recomend a cutter in thailand. price would also be nice. green, purple, orange and white stones. you got great variation of colours there.
///ohannos

 

[M3R1IN]

heres the faceting service i use
http://www.facetingservice.com
hope it helps

 

[ohannos]

thanx a lot!

 

[M3R1IN]

I got my gems back finally theyre all faced and finished now so I will post some pics of them later

 

[mamabear]

M3rlin, please post pix of garnets too. & the other gems you had cut. sweet find. did you go to a pay mine or just trampin?

 

[Urban Grund]

Nice find!

 

[M3R1IN]

i go to a pay to mine place and just dig up a few 5 gallon buckets of gravel then bring em home and process them.
Sorry I havent gotten any pics to you guys yet ... been extremely busy taking a course here.
i might get a chance to take some pics of the finished gems this weekend.

 

[DJ_Quinn]

That is a great find! There's a ruby mine in North Carolina, where I am moving this weekend, and I was thinking of giving it a try.

 

[allen]

beautiful find...

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Looking forward to the pictures.............