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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 124 Helena Montana. Rob, Larry and joel hard at it. The sapphires are found in these ancient river gravels.JPG  
No 125 Helena Montana. Joel sifting the gravel before washing it.
No 126 Helena Montana. This is a view of the main Spokane Bar Sapphire Mine near the shore of Lake Hauser.
No 127 Helena Montana. How about this for the mine office. We purchased pre- screened concentrated sapphire gravel here for washing.
No 128 Helena Montana. This is where everyone brings their screened gravel for the washing and final search for the sapphires.
No 129 Helena Montana. Larry doing the final wash.

No 124 Helena Montana. Rob, Larry and joel hard at it. The sapphires are found in these ancient river gravels Download
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