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T minus 3 seconds....
... from lift off. I turned and suddenly it was gone.
Spent the next hour searching through the snow and underlying mulch for this color change spinel. After giving up and coming in for yet another change into dry clothes, it occurred to me to fill up a bucket with the snow and debris to melt in my utility sink, sifting through the wet muck for my favorite spinel. At the end I'd not found it. As I was dumping out the last of the water, there it lay in the sink bottom! (I don't call this series "adventures in gemstones" for nothing :-)
1.17cts color change blue/purple
T minus 3 seconds....
... from lift off. I turned and suddenly it was gone.
Spent the next hour searching through the snow and underlying mulch for this color change spinel. After giving up and coming in for yet another change into dry clothes, it occurred to me to fill up a bucket with the snow and debris to melt in my utility sink, sifting through the wet muck for my favorite spinel. At the end I'd not found it. As I was dumping out the last of the water, there it lay in the sink bottom! (I don't call this series "adventures in gemstones" for nothing :-)
1.17cts color change blue/purple