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Re: Help identify this sapphire (could be sth else) piece

Posted By: Bill H
Posted Date: May 11, 2010 (01:35 PM)

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John,

If you and your family are gem dealers, you ought to be moderating discussions of gemstones in this forum instead of asking someone else to comment on a photo of a piece of apparently amorphous watery blue rock. I lived in Burma for a number of years and knew one of the most respected families of Shan gem merchants and manufacturers in the country. The closest thing I ever saw to this was masses of small pink ruby crystals in a natural quartz matrix which had been dynamited out of a 'private' mine somewhere in the Mogok area. Judging from what I know of the value of that related material, a half-way good piece of carved lapis is worth a lot more than what you've shown us here.

Good luck,

Bill H.

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Re: Re: Help identify this sapphire (could be sth else) piece - Trish Wilson - May 13, 2010 (07:05 AM)