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so your latest video dropped and I am working on a nice stone that I decided to do after six pieces of Mintabe beginners chips, none of which were great, but I expected cracks(not disappointed there) and weak color bars that face better from the side(also not disappointed) but I need to have more experience with working the rough so I can tell better in the future what to expect. *thanks Riley Gunn, you NEVER disappoint. now this piece is from opal auctions and came from the VK Hatana shop. I bought 6 stones from them at the beginning of the year and this is the fourth one I have worked. I believe it is coober pedy, but might be andamooka, or maybe I am totally wrong. If it was noted in the auction I have forgotten, I should probably check (lol). Anyway, the piece cost 11 dollars, US, and after splitting the shipping and customs charge between the lot, it is a grand total of 15.40. I bet I get way more out of it when I sell it. it is currently sitting at 4.5 carats. I need to finish ridding this side of a tiny crack just at the tip. after that it will be ready for a polish (after I make sure that all the remaining facets and rough areas are gone). easily be four and a quarter plus carats. not bad honestly. but I have not a clue about the value. I estimate its a b2, so maybe a three hundred dollar stone. we will see after its polished. buy, yeah, keeping the stones you know will be good is a nice pick me up after the learning grind. CHEERS ALL! let me know what you think it is worth.

Final result: Gave up and ordered from US/Suva again.was scared when shipping was listed as USD 103, but that was apparently cause I was stupid enough to think I could add a little bit of aluminium oxide for polishing. Removing that, shipping was only USD 22. So, possible sellers in Europe: https://www.steinschleifmaschinen.at/ • All in German, if I understand it right, and you have to get a (professional?) account. https://www.gemmarum.it/en/ • Were out of stock for the sought after grits (may be temporary), but right now I can't even open the page for some reason. https://dk.lapidarytool.com/ • Not sure about them, maybe they closed down? It calculates shipping and all, but can't continue to payment options? Do anyone have other options? I should say that at the moment the RR-shop was out of stock, 53frogs didn't have the specific grits I was after, and I saw no recent info about any of the Fb-groups having them in stock, had a look there too of course (and again when that 100+ dollar shipping came up ;-) ).