Australian Sapphires: Follow a gem from the mine all the way to finished jewellery.
Join gemmologist and geologist Charles Lawson as he investigates the fascinating story of how a sapphire is mined in Rubyvale, Queensland, how it is cut and polished and finally set into a finished piece of jewellery.
Special thanks go out to the Tiffany & Co. Foundation, the University of Queensland, the University of Delaware Rubyvale Gem Gallery and Lawson Gems for supporting the making of this film.
The Story of Our Sapphires
Over 50 million years ago..........30 feet underground..............watch this video and learn about our unique Australian Sapphires.
Searching for Sapphires in the Sapphire Gemfields in Queensland, Australia
Searching for Sapphires in the Sapphire Gemfields in Queensland, Australia. This is the Glenalva Fossicking Area. The towns in the Sapphire Gemfields are Anakie, Rubyvale and Sapphire. At the end of the video you can see what I found in a half day of doing this same routine.
Music is Solitary Man by Johnny Cash.
Jim the Gem
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The Minerama Fossicking, Gem & Jewellery Show Glen Innes Australia part 3
Gem Festival in Glen Innes Highlands
The Minerama Fossicking, Gem & Jewellery Show
March 10, 11 and 12 in 2017
Minerama Fossicking, Gem & Jewellery Show in Glen Innes is NSW’s largest annual gem and jewellery show, attracting visitors and dealers from all over Australia. Held every year on the 2nd weekend in March, Minerama is perfect for all gem and jewellery lovers, rockhounds and outdoor adventurers.
Search for buried treasure in Glen Innes Highlands with a 3-day program (Thursday, Friday and Saturday) of guided fossicking field trips to suit both beginner and experienced gem hunters. It’s great fun for the whole family with a wealth of gems waiting to be unearthed and jewels waiting to be worn.
There are over 100+ stalls trading in gemstones, fine jewellery, facet rough, lapidary tools & supplies, crystals, beads, fossils, mineral specimens, arts, crafts and more. Whether you are after a two-dollar special, a gemstone of world-class quality or a unique piece of jewellery you’ll find it at Minerama.
Minerama also featured gem cutting and beading displays, advice from gemmologists, dealers, lapidaries & jewellers, and plenty of free entertainment throughout the weekend.
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Rubies at the Bangkok Gem Show
Nick Hodgson of Astrogems.com interviews Navratan Manihar of Manihar International Co Ltd at the Bangkok Gem & Jewelry Show about the prolific supply of heat treated Ruby which is very different from natural but used extensively in the conventional jewelry industry.
Australian Outback Mining- 2018 Featured Vendor Tucson Gem and Mineral Show A Trailer
Australian Outback Mining- 2018 Featured Vendor Tucson Gem and Mineral Show A Trailer...... Subscribe @ KRAZTV.com and bid on OUR $10,000,000 Auction !
Milsi Gems at JOGS Tucson Gem and Jewelry Show
Milsi Gems, representing Bangkok and Los Angeles, presents us with a variety of beautifully colored cut-stones including yellow and orange African sapphires along with blue Ceylon sapphires, Burmese and African rubies, natural blue zircon and more here at JOGS Tucson Gem and Jewelry Show.
Visit us at: jogsshow.com
Australian Gem Show April 2016
Directly from the land down under, Australia, comes some of the most unique and exotic colored gems and opals found in the world. These rare finds from Lightening Ridge, Australia are now here for you to see and own only at Moody’s Jewelry.
Featured at Moody’s Sheridan at 51s April 28-28-30, Moody’s Harvard at 12th May 3 & 4, and Moody’s 68th at Memorial May 6 & 7. Come see some of the most beautiful and rare gems from Australia and around the world including amazing Black Opals, South Sea Pearls and some of the rarest and most incredible colored gemstones. You will never see a more extensive collection anywhere!
Spend some time with two of our favorite Aussies, Robert Hunt and George Palos, and find a amazing gemstone as special as you. And you’ll only find them at the Moody’s Jewelry Exotic Australian Gem Show. For dates and locations go to moodysjewelry.com.
Gemstones - Zircon find
Series of Videos showing how to look for Gems in the Australian Gemfields, Willows, Sapphire and Rubyvale. more to come, better quality videos when I return to the fields later in 2016.
Gemstone seller Mae Sai Thailand
Selling gemstones in the streets of Mae Sai. In the Netherlands we have raw herring-vendors, in Mae Sai they have gemstones-vendors...tiny difference...
Gem Faire
Gem Faire is one of the largest gem, jewelry & bead shows in the United States. Ashley Williams is here to tell you more!
Vlog | Tucson Gem Show 2018
Vlogging the Tucson Gem Show 2018!
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Tucson's Amazing Gem Show 2019!
This year the vendors at the Tucson Gem, Mineral & Fossil show brought some fantastic finds to offer for sale. This is the largest gem show on earth and lasts for over two weeks every year. There are about 50 venues scattered all around Tucson with thousands of vendors.
Gem shows presented in this video are:
Rapa River Gem & Mineral Show
GIGM Globex Gem & Mineral Show
22nd Street Mineral, Fossil & Gem Show
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Digging for sapphires at the Bottom End, Yarrow Creek Glen Innes, NSW Australia
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This part of Yarrow Creek takes its name from the fact that it is at the bottom end of the property where we do most of our fossicking.
It's bound to produce more magnificent gems as its abundant holes and rocks are explored.
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Flore Opal Exhibit [Liluushka 2011-2012]
Indulge in a sensuous, earthy, expressive and playful Liluushka World, here is a video from the Exhibit Flore Opal in Val-david. A profound play between the dark and the light, the Emotional and the Spirit, the exaltation of the denied parts to dance in full colours to open a compassionate feel in our being. The Floral plant-like quality of a forgotten divine self is echoing from the future and the ancient past. The Nakedness of me.
Anakie May 09
Trials ride in central Victoria, Australia
2012 NY / NJ Mineral, Fossil, Gem & Jewlery Show
This perspective from above the Fine Mineral and gem Gallery shows about 100 dealers at the inaugural 2012 NY / NJ Mineral, Fossil, Gem & Jewelry Show. It was taken early Friday morning before it got busy. The 2012 show was at the Meadowlands Exposition Center but the 2013 show (and beyond) will be at the NJ Convention & Exposition Center in Edison, NJ.