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Gallery

Evidence, in pictures.

Every photograph below was taken by our own people — at the bench, on the claim, in the laboratory. This is not a mood board; it is a record.

The full record

The gallery

Macro photograph of a vivid green emerald on black velvet
The vault · Emerald, graded & sealed
Survey crew staking a boundary line at sunrise over sagebrush
Fieldwork · Boundary staking at dawn
Analyst logging XRF results beside a labelled specimen tray
Laboratory · XRF results logged
Round brilliant diamond throwing spectral fire on dark slate
The vault · Round brilliant, VVS1
Field geologist logging drill core boxes in a core shack
Fieldwork · Core logging, exploration program
Unheated ruby glowing on black silk under warm light
The vault · Mogok ruby, unheated
Gemologist grading a stone with tweezers over a black velvet bench pad
Laboratory · Grading against master stones
Crew taking soil samples with an auger on a building parcel at dawn
Fieldwork · Soil sampling, building parcel
Sorting tray of sapphires, spinels and garnets under the bench lamp
The vault · This month's sorting tray
XRF instrument reading a mineral sample in the Haldor laboratory
Laboratory · XRF assay in progress
Geologist mapping a mineralized outcrop with hand lens and hammer
Fieldwork · Outcrop mapping, prospect claim
Collector specimen of emerald crystal in host rock under a glass dome
The vault · Collector specimen, archived
Oval blue sapphire catching studio light on charcoal velvet
The vault · Ceylon sapphire, unheated
Gemologist examining inclusions through a binocular microscope
Laboratory · Inclusion study under microscope
Survey crew setting a total station on a boundary line at sunrise
Fieldwork · Boundary survey, total station setup
Parcel of loose garnets and spinels weighed on a jeweler's scale
The vault · Parcel weighing, witnessed
Rock core samples arranged and labeled for laboratory assay
Laboratory · Core samples logged for assay
Geologist recording GPS coordinates on a mineral claim at dusk
Fieldwork · Claim staking, GPS logged

Photographed by Haldor staff · Reproduction requires written permission

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