Sunday, September 21, 2008

The Journey, Process, & Discovery of Gem Hunting

We have lots of heavy buckets we have to go through. It's fun when you discover a Sapphire or garnet. When you visit, you can help us. Sorry, the photos don't really show how beautiful they are. When big ones are found they have to be sent to be heat treated, polished, and faceted into rings, necklaces, etc.

We found two sahppires which were 2.23 carrots and 1.88 carrots. It would cost $69.00 to have them faceted into jewelery.

1 comment:

Melissa said...

I didn't know you guys were doing this. What fun! I think you should totally have your sapphires made into jewelry and post the pictures of it!