"Well just have to see, I do have about 300 Sapphires, but only a dozen or so would be worth fooling with I think. One time I was coming through areas where they were mining them and I stopped into a gem shop and in the back they had panning stations set up to do your own. Well I bought a couple bags and only found 15 or so and this one girl that was working there said it pretty slow right now lets look some of these bags over and I held them up and she put a lite up to them and out of about a couple dozen bags we picked out a couple. Man did I hit the jack pot there, I was able to walk away with about two dozen more and 3 of them were clear and over a karat each. I had a couple heat treated and cut and ended up giving them away to my sister. I did a silent aucton an won 3 viles full about 10 years ago for $10 bucks. I wonder what the biggest ones are that have been found around Mont. I heard of one down south that was like three inches long. DB"