Ruby Day........

[goldhog]

Had to shoot a new video of the Monster Hog running for some ops overseas.
Dealing with high viscosity materials and feed rates.
One side benefit........ lot's of gems.
Ran maybe 15 - 20 yards in about 4 hours and picked up about 300 gems.
Here's some of the rubies / sapphires / corundum.......

 

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[H&F909ORO]

Any gold?

 

[Got_4by4]

Don't see them could you separate them out and show close-ups?

 

[goldhog]

Any gold?

Haven't had time to work the cons.
It's pretty crappy "gold dirt" by nature, but it produces the right viscosity for the testing we needed.
It's not really a "pay layer".
My guess is $5 - 9 a yard.
But man... was it gemmie....... that day.

 

[goldhog]

Don't see them could you separate them out and show close-ups?

Every stone you see in the pan except the green one is a a corundum of sorts.
Either ruby, sapphire, or just plain uncolored material.

Total count was over 300 gems.

 

[rodoconnor]

Dang Doc, Way to go!

 

[delnorter]

That's a really neat pan of material Doc. Are any of the gems of good enough quality to use in jewelry? Do you sell them?

Thanks Doc,
Mike

 

[goldhog]

Dang Doc, Way to go!

Between all the gems, some 300 or so, there were a bunch of facet quality stones.
However, it's tough to find quality rubies and sapphires in GA.
In this batch there were probably 5 rubies and sapphires that were facet quality and cuttable.
However, I like to cut the lesser quality stones too as they produce some amazing effects.
A GOOD ruby native to this area can bring $500 cut but they are hard to come by.
Hence the price.
Most of these just go into our concentrates.
We don't sell the raw stones separately.

Here's some from that day.



Here's a picture of some smoky quartz I had done.