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No 113 Helena Montana. Cy checking the screen for sapphires.
No 114 Helena Montana. Diane, Kevin and Larry removing gravel for screening.
No 115 Helena Montana. Rob is screening gravel.
No 116 Helena Montana. Cy, Diane, Kevin, Larry. Rob and Joel all trying their luck digging sapphire gravel.
No 117 Helena Montana. Kevin sifting gravel down to half inch size for washing later.
  No 118 Helena Montana. Rob sifting gravel to take to the wash trough. .JPG  
No 119 Helena Montana. Larry doing the gravel sift while anxiously watching for those elusive sapphires.
No 120 Helena Montana. Larry, I think this is the lucky one.
No 121 Helena Montana. Larry, hey I think I just found my first sapphire.
No 122 Helena Montana. Sure enough I found a yellow sapphire that weighed 3.3 carats.
No 123 Helena Montana. Another view of my 3.3 carat stone.

No 118 Helena Montana. Rob sifting gravel to take to the wash trough. Download
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