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New research could make it easier to find high-quality Canadian sapphires

MINING.com Editor | July 28, 2017 | 9:00 am Precious Metals Canada Gold 

Researchers from the University of British Columbia’s Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences discovered that it takes a fairly specific sequence of pressure and temperature events to create Beluga sapphires in Nunavut. “It’s essentially a recipe,” said Graduate Student...

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