WOULD YOU LIKE TO VIEW ANY OF THESE SELECT GEMS?

 If outside of Australia:  

Contact Us!

If within Australia, then simply;

1. Contact a Jewellery store or your personal Jeweller

2. Give them Surfsands’ phone number: (02) 9267 7765

3. Quote our stock number for gemstone(s) that you would like to look at, AND/OR

4. provide photo and/or details of: Shape, Colour and Size that you are looking for.

5. The store or your jeweller will then contact us and we will send them whatever is available, as per your information.

6. The store will then contact you and arrange a time for you to view the gemstones.

PLEASE NOTE;

If you are looking for something very specific, but you can’t see it anywhere on our website, it is still quite possible that we may have it in our stock!

And; if we haven’t got the exact stone, we may have something that is quite similar.

On occasions, we have been able to offer stones from our stock that’s been  even nicer than what a customer originally had in mind and expected…

Click   HERE!  to see  a list of  

UNHEATED Sapphire & Rubies

11045.2 - 3.02 cts

9.49 x 6.34 x 4.85 mm

10913.1 - 9.35 cts

21.05 x 9.91 x 5.94 mm

30691._ - 4 Emerald Cut = 5.79 cts

 8.0 x 5.1-8.9 x 5.2 mm

11969.0 - 1 Round Cut = 8.00 cts

12.17 x 12.02 x 7.53 mm

10971.1 - 7.05 cts

17.86 x 8.35 x 4.24

More than 100 people have visually identified this to be a Tourmaline.  

Our “Gemmologist” Gem Tester instantly identified it to be a Green Sapphire.

31971.1 -

31196.1 - 1.92 cts

7.78 x 7.76 x 4.64 mm

10979.1 - 5.38 cts

12.04 x 8.94 x 5.85 mm

11851.6 - 1.18 cts

7.05 x 7.05 x 3.44 mm

11984.4 - 6.29 cts

11.34 x 11.34 x 7.00 mm

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Certified:

“Natural, Unheated Australian Sapphire”

The rough stone, which “The Golden Boomerang” was cut from, was 155 carats (31 grams) when found in the late 1960’s.

The rough was a perfect Parti-Coloured stone; one half was pure Yellow and the other half was pure Green.

It was sold to a Thai Gem Merchant who specialised in Aussie rough Sapphires.

He sliced the rough stone into two pieces; one piece being cut into a spectacular square emerald cut (Octagonal) Green Sapphire of just over 24 carats,

And the other half yielded the above 19.67 carat Yellow.

Both of the cut stones, however, were bought back from the Thai Gem Merchant in the early 1970’s when the OPEC crisis disrupted the Thai Sapphire cutting industry.

The 24 carat Green Sapphire of exceptional clarity was some time later sold to a Japanese Gem Merchant.  

30319.1 -

15476.0 - 3.72 cts

7.70 x 6.80 x 5.98 mm

Gem:

RU = Ruby

SA = Sapphire

Org:

AF = Africa

AU = Australia

BU = Burma

MA = Madagascar

MO = Mozambique

SR = Sri Lanka (Ceylon)

TH = Thailand

UN = Unknown

Cut (shape):

CC = Cushion Cut

DC = Drop Cut

EC = Emerald Cut

LC = Octagonal Cut:

(Square Emerald Cut)

MC = Marquise Cut

(Navette Cut)

OC = Oval Cut

RC = Round Cut

Color:

BE = Blue

GN = Green

PI = Pink

RE = Red

YE = Yellow

BeGn = Blue/Green

GnYe = Green/Yellow

GnBe = Green/Blue

YeGn = Yellow/Green

(The dominant colour, when two colours are blended together, is the first colour indicated.)

PA = Parti Colour:

(One part of the stone is one colour, the other part is a different colour; the colours are not blended together as in a Blue/Green stone, for example.)

List of UNHEATED SAPPHIRES & RUBIES

Please note; In contrast to elsewhere, where very large Yellow Sapphires may be found by the “truck load”, this is not the case with Australian Yellows.

The rarity of these stones should therefore be born in mind when looking at the list below.

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See individual photos above for videos; top right corners.

NATURAL   SAPPHIRES & RUBIES

We do NOT stock

“Man Made”, “Lab Created”

or any other described synthetic.

All of our stones are dug out of the earth.

UNHEATED   SAPPHIRES & RUBIES

We carry a large stock of Sapphires.

Very few, and mostly larger sized stones as listed below, have been tested and certified as being UNHEATED.

If the requirement is for an unheated stone, and a suitable stone can not be found from the ones listed below, please give us some basic information, such as:

shape, size, colour etc..

This is to enable us to search our stock for stones that are close to the basic information provided by you.

We can then submit all stones found to a Gemological lab that will test if any of those stones are in fact unheated.

There is no fee or obligation on your part for this checking process.

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11665.1 - Kite Cut =1.34 cts

Round Cut = 3.07 cts

11076.2 - 5.75 cts

8.50 x 6.55 x 5.00 mm

11344.1 - 6.89 cts

 11.03 x 10.94 x 7.21 mm

(Cert: Natural, UnHeated)

11747.1 - 2.81 cts

8.14 x 8.14 x 5.66 mm

30790.2 - 5.77 cts

12.42 x 9.37 x 5.90 mm

16013.27 -

10994.1 - 4.09 cts

10.78 x 7.59 x 5.52 mm

10894.1 - 4.71 cts

11.55 x 8.48 x 5.44 mm

30691.- - 4EC=5.79 cts

8.0 x 5.1-8.9 x 5.2 mm

11969.01RC=8.00 cts

12.17 x 12.02 x 7.53 mm

Australian Black Star Sapphires

(Not BLACK, but rather as in the photo)

10950.1 - 19.67 cts

7.66 x 13.43 x 9.04 mm

“The Golden Boomerang”

Box B 88

7.00 x 6.63 x 4.09 mm

Australian Green Sapphire

Box B 93

6.99 x 5.70 x 3.30 mm

Australian Parti Coloured Sapphire

11000.1

6.63 x 4.92 x 3.81 mm

Australian Blue/Green Sapphire

(Teal Sapphire)

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