I better see some decent rough today or I will be moving hotel. There is a very loud disco, and I do mean disco, every night plus the pillows are like trying to get comfortable on a block of cement.
Okay its better, I’m seeing some rough in the quality and size I want. Throughout the morning and afternoon I pick up, Orthoglase, Rhodolite, some Chrysoberyl, Danburite, facet Rose Quartz, Hessonite Garnet and some gorgeous Sphene. The sphene is only about 10% facetable so it will take some work to cut out the facetable areas from the big pieces but it’s a lovely apple green colour.
I also got some specimens of Rhodizite crystals (that spelling is right), Danburite crystals and about 30 slices of Polychromatic Tourmaline (Liddicoatite). The tourmaline slices are only about 1-2cms across but just about all show the triangle in the middle, not cheap but nice.
Just about to head to dinner and bought a parcel of about 40 grams of green apatite. This is the material they heat to the neon blue and they are 2 gram+ pieces. The seller has promised me more. One of the sellers keeps coming back with small parcels of material, but high quality. I have named him, after what he says every time I ask for a price “Veryyyy Cheap Price”. He has also shown me some very bright red tourmaline, unfortunately already cut, but I may buy some as the cutting is very good and the colour is tops.
Getting the same story here as up north, everyone moved to gold. Another story that I have now heard several times, is the Australian company SIAM, that was mining the top Ceylon coloured blue sapphire in the south, has sold their leases to a large company that now owns all the rights to a huge tract of land in that area. Worse thing is everyone is telling me they are not going to mine the sapphire but the cobalt that is under the sapphire wash. What a waste!
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