Such wonderful comments about this ring!! I wanted the mount to be simple yet elegant. I can’t tell you how much I enjoy wearing it and knowing that its from the Mine and I found it and followed through to its completion. As I said before..The stone was found at the Spokane as a 7ct.+

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We just wanted you to know the sapphires in our photo range from a 6.5carrot weight to a 2.0.  You can easily spot the 6.5 in the photo.   We also enclosed a photo of outsorting table set up in our garage.  It’s designed especially forscreening and sorting gems.   Hopefully it will inspire others imaginations…  Just

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I hope this email finds you well….. I am sending you the pix I sent back in Oct.2004 if you want to use them you are welcome to….These are finished gems from Elliot Essher and are from the Spokane.. and in the case of the large blue sapphire with the dime, The Eldorado. The sapphire faceted out

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I have gone thru about 2/3 of my last monster mine bag and couldn’t wait until the end of searching to show you what i have found. I was pleased with the nice varieies of colors including some nice red, blue and peach colored ones I was finding in this bag but my eyes popped

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I thought you’d like to see cooked and faceted sapphires from the Mine…This was the result of our findings since about 6 months ago. It takes a while to get the rough cooked and then faceted. After seeing these as the “fruits of our mining” experiences, it is well worth it! These stones range in

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Thank you I had a good time going through the gravel.  So did everyone that came along and saw what I was doing. Thanks. Paul Edwards, Paulgoldfinners@aol.com  

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Here are stones from both the El Dorado and Spokane mines.  The big, light blue, is just under1.5 carats.   I think it is destined for a pendant. The light yellow is 54 points, and the dark yellow (almost a Padh, a little too yellow) is 15 points.  The dark one in the front is an

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We ordered a Monster mine just before Christmas and divied it up so everyone could try their hand.  Needless to say it was great fun! We found over a hundred sapphires and several were of a respectable size. I sent them off to be faceted and they turned out beautiful. I will be ordering more

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I updated my web site :  http://www.huntforgems.com/sapphiremt.html   I have to say WOW I just finished going through the El Dorado Sapphire gravel bag #2 the second time, this time with the light box and wow I found 130 more Sapphires. For a total of 153 Sapphires from that bag. I had a great time doing

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I ordered some gravel from you and I must say I had a blast going through it all. I found one really nice sized cornflower blue sapphire. I can’t find the paperwork that came with my order so I am hoping that you can tell me what I can do with this marvelous find. I

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