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[Sapphireminer]

Hi  all put up a couple of photos of 2 sapphires I dug today the first is 12 carats and the second I put on the flat lap to tidy it up it is 11.1 carat

[Jhon P]

Very pretty. Do you facet them?
Do you ever find any of the Black Star sapphire? Or dose that come from s different area

[Sapphireminer]

Hi Jhon P I haven't done any faceting for a few years as my eyesight isn't much good anymore. We have what we call a bronze star which is a dark sapphire with a bronze star usually a 6 leg star . I haven't found any larger ones for a while but found a few small ones (1 to 5 carat ) posting a photo of 3 rough bronze stars the larger one is about 13 carat you can just see the bronze sheen on the bottom 2.

[hummingbirdstones]

Beautiful colors on those sapphires.  You're so lucky to be able to go and find these.  Those black ones are cool, too.  Do you have a picture of a finished one with the star?

[vitzitziltecpatl]

Good to know you find the "dark stars" there. It's one of my favorites, and have a small one in a ring from '94. Bronze star is a more accurate name for most of them anyway, right? Even the darkest ones I've seen aren't a true black.

Sometimes at shows people offer to sell us a black star "sapphire" that's really black. They're usually either offended or convinced we're idiots when we tell them it's a diopside - even after explaining it has four rays instead of six. 

Thanks for posting photos of your beauties!

[ileney]

Those are large! Where do you find them?

[Jhon P]

I have an affection for star stones. I bought this scarab ring from a guy (he was selling off some of his excess that he didn’t wear)for $35.00 I thought that was a sapphire but it may be a doipside being it is a four Ray?  Do you sell the rough and be willing to mail it to the USA? It may be fun to cut a cab

[Sapphireminer]

Hi hummingbirdstones I found these stones 30m from my front door as I live on our mining claim just have to walk out the door to go to work. I don't have any cut to take a photo of.
Hi ileney we found these stones on our sapphire mining claim in Queensland Australia
Thanks for your comments vitzitziltecpatl
Hi Jhon P pm sent

[ILMSteve]

Great color! Great finds!