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Sapphire from
Promise Mines, Gara Dam, Sandon Co., New South Wales, Australia


Classification
Species:Corundum var: Sapphire
Formula:Al2O3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sapphire data
Locality Data:Click here to view Promise Mines, Gara Dam, Sandon Co., New South Wales, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1255878
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1255878:6
GUID (UUID V4):61f7c5e7-a2e1-486e-8271-887159d88c11
Nearest other occurrences of Sapphire
23.1km (14.3 miles) ⓘUnnamed deposit, Armidale Gully, Sandon Co., New South Wales, Australia
32.8km (20.4 miles) ⓘGwydir River alluvial gold, Yarrowyck, Hardinge Co., New South Wales, Australia
47.0km (29.2 miles) ⓘOaky River, Yooroonah, Clarke Co., New South Wales, Australia
51.4km (31.9 miles) ⓘAnn River (Oban River), Oban, Clarke Co., New South Wales, Australia
52.3km (32.5 miles) ⓘBiscuit Creek, Round Mountain, Clarke Co., New South Wales, Australia
55.1km (34.3 miles) ⓘGeorges Creek, Wandsworth, Hardinge Co., New South Wales, Australia
57.7km (35.9 miles) ⓘBackwater Creek, Clarke Co., New South Wales, Australia
63.6km (39.5 miles) ⓘThe Falls alluvial tin, Hardinge Co., New South Wales, Australia
65.2km (40.5 miles) ⓘLoxton Sapphire deposit, Hardinge Co., New South Wales, Australia
65.8km (40.9 miles) ⓘBaxters sapphire deposit, Hardinge Co., New South Wales, Australia
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enables you to maintain optimum ground balance ‱ New Automatic Tuning Control - simply push a button... LIMITED 118 Hayward Avenue, Torrensville South Australia 5031 Telephone: (08) 8238 0888 Facsimile: (08)...nuggets 30 TOURISM IS THE FUTURE FOR ANAKIE SAPPHIRE It's a hard school when you have to recover $3...I l r- How a chance encounter in Marble Bar's Mines Department office lead to almost 30 ounces in gold...screen showed the lease to be 300 metres to the south east of where I was standing. Just over the next
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Volume 26 No. 1 EDITORIAL The 1980s in Review: New Realities of the Gem and Jewelry Industry Richard...Synthetic Gem Materials in the 1980s Kurt Nassau New Technologies of the 1980s: Their Impact in Gemology...(10) 4.82-ct emerald, Colombia; (11) 8.31-ct pink sapphire, Sri Lanka; (12) 5.79-ct pink spinel, Pamir Mountains...(13) 10.15-ct pink topciz, Pakistan; (14) 6.70-ct sapphire, Kashmir, India; (1516.14-ct fancy intense yellow...purple-pink diamond, Argyle diamond m i n e , Western Australia; (19) 5.05-ct D-color, internally flawless diamond
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Patchick EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD Robert Crowningshield New York, IVY Alan T. Collins London, United Kingdom...there is a widely accepted procedure for naming a new mineral. The name proposed is either accepted or...scientist (e.g., lzornerupine); the chemistry of the new mineral (e.g., fluorite); the relationship of this...of a name for a new mineral that does not have any gem potential. However, if a new species or variety...measure of opportunity, either by control of the new source or by access to an important market segment
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h o m a s a n d Hing W a Lee I . . NOTES AND NEW TECHNIQUES 35 A Gemological Study of Turquoise...People's Republic of China, including diamond, sapphire, t~rrquoise,ond peridot. This vose is port of...exchange to finance development projects and introduce new technology has generated significant interest among...the country's gem wealth. One consequence of this new interest in gems was the invitation extended to G...the diamond-mining operation at Changma and the sapphire deposits at Mingxi. With the invaluable cooperation
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But image forth the far-famed tales— But seem a new Arabian night. And when engirdled figures crave,...Auriferous Quariz Veins, General Character of .153 ‱‱‱ Australia, Gold in ... 2, 5, 12, 35, 63 Auwardt, Mr. . 70... 106, 111, 116, 119, 128, 1.37 Sandstone . 94 Sapphire 98, 122, 137, 140 Schorl ... 97, 139 Selenite...gentleman formerly connected with Messrs. Delmege, Reid & Co., Galle, but now for several years engaged in mercantile...rivers in Ceylon very nearly resemble those of Australia —their beds, which are-nearly dry in the hot season
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the colorful palette Ruby: divine crystal spark Sapphire: symbol of the firmament Beryl: the palette of...skarns, and so forth (alexandrite, jasper, ruby, sapphire, emerald, spinel, etc.) 8 Yellow wavy Sedimentary...(peridot in lava, e.g., Hawaii), sapphires in Australia, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam 14 Glowing red...(aquamarine), chrysoberyl, euclase, kunzite, moonstone, sapphire, topaz, tourmaline, again some of the zircons...emerald formation in Brazil, Russia, and Africa or sapphire formation on Madagascar). The gemstones originating
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SPECIMENS G. IN je ILLUSTRATED COLOR AND P. NEW KOZMINSKY 22 OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS PUTNAM’S YORK...including stones, the Queen,” and especially for co-operation, without which this book could not have...and Mrs. William her Australia; Mr. to M. Mr. G. Henry T. Australia; Mr. James Susman, whom...whom this Mel- Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; C. Howat, Kozminsky, Melbourne, my wife England;...England; help in preparing Mr. S. Australia; my and other gems from Mr. Walker, Melbourne, Adelaide
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................................... . Union of South Africa ..................................................................................... . Australia ........................................................................................... . Sapphire ................................................mined in the United States during 1912 was Montana sapphire, of which there was a large output for use both...great.er part of the gem sapphires came from the mines in Fergus County, where they occur in a rock matrix
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precious minerals that will be used by God to build the New Jerusalem. You will discover that most of the metals...on the descriptions in the scriptures, draw the New Jerusalem or the Temple or Aaron’s Breastplate. Also...California. Left: Brown, red and orange agate from Australia. Right: Colorful agate from Mexico. Color each...discover a new mineral, you will have the privilege of naming your new discovery. Today, all new minerals...approved by a special committee whose task is to verify new mineral discoveries and approve their proposed names
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