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Name: Maine Loggers’ SparHawk Maine Tourmaline and Diamond Necklace

Style#: G4846

Precious Metal: 14K Yellow Gold

Gem: SparHawk Maine Tourmaline = 2.92 carats (12×5.7mm emerald-cut)

Gems: 35 Diamonds = .37 carat total weight

Measurement: 23mm (15/16″) from top of bail to bottom of necklace

Chain: 18″ 14 karat Yellow Gold

Price: $5,250

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Maine Loggers, SparHawk Maine Tourmaline & Diamond Necklace

Style #: G4846

When I was five, we had cottages on a white sand beach on a tidal creek in Scarborough, Maine. We had a dock and an 18-foot Lyman Morse boat with a mahogany deck, trim, and seats. Every Saturday in the summer, we went out to Richmond’s Island off Cape Elizabeth. Five-year-old’s are not expected to understand anything, but I absorbed everything visually because it was a new world.

On most of our boat trips, we went to Clam Cove on Richmond Island. Back in the 1950s, there were four-foot logs piled high along the high tide line of the beach on the island. The ends of the logs were painted red, orange, yellow, green, and blue. I didn’t know why. I was a five-year-old; I didn’t have to know why. I don’t remember asking about them, and I don’t believe I even wondered about the color or why there were hundreds of four-foot logs piled on the beach of the cove. Mixed in were lobster buoys, rope, and old wooden lobster traps. In those days, five-year-old’s were free to roam like cats and dogs, and I accepted everything in the world as I saw it.

I remember, back then, my dad navigating the boat and moving at low power to avoid hitting logs floating in the water. Logs in the 1950s were a natural hazard. We had a ten-horsepower motor and went slowly to avoid damage. The ocean hazards of the 1950s are still vivid in my memory. We even had logs with painted ends that washed up on our beach, but nothing like the numbers that piled up on the islands.

Where the Logs Came From

As an adult, I now know that years back, paper companies harvested trees in Maine forests along our large rivers. There were many companies that cut trees and limbed branches for the paper companies. They were cut into 4-foot lengths, and then the ends were painted to know to whom they belonged. They would throw the painted logs into the river and let the logs drift to the sea. Before the logs arrived at the sea, they would fish them out. They did the same with bigger trees for lumber, and there were teams of guys who had an excellent sense of balance and steel-tipped prongs to guide and move the logs along to their appropriate destination, where they were finally fished out of the river.

These river loggers were so good that they could walk across a moving river on floating logs. I was in my fifties when I learned what the stone pilings were along the Kennebec River. They were catch basins for logs of various companies. The river guys would direct the painted logs into the appropriate basin.

This Maine tourmaline necklace is called the Maine Logger’s necklace, evoking the era of wood, pulp, and logs floating down our major rivers and being pulled ashore before reaching the sea. The design is magic, a long, lean green Maine tourmaline in a custom-made mounting with diamonds surrounding.

Why were there so many logs out on Richmond Island when I was a kid? Because spring, summer, and fall storms would sweep in and the loggers would not be able to work and some of the logs would wash out to sea.

SparHawk Maine Tourmaline

The SparHawk Maine tourmaline discovery is one of the most important tourmaline finds in the world. Unique to this find are brilliant gemy green colors; light, lively, and full of the magic and mystery of life. We are delighted to offer this new natural Maine gem cut by Sean Sweeny of Bar Harbor, Maine, America’s best tourmaline cutter.

Why We Love This Necklace

The necklace is grand. The tourmaline was mined in our western mountains, just 25 minutes north of Portland. The center gem is green, the color of spring and summer, and is surrounded by 35 high-white, natural earth-mined, Ideal-Cut diamonds. The diamonds are the sparkly light on the water. This is a powerful symbol of the State of Maine.

A Secret Revealed
The Story of Our AU Numbers

As many of you are aware, the price of gold has been rising dramatically over the last year. In order to easily know what the price of gold was when we made and priced a piece, we have created a system using “AU” numbers. (AU is the chemical symbol for gold, derived from the Latin word aurum.)

On many of the pieces on our website and in our emails, you will see an AU number beneath the product information. The AU code tells us critical information about what the price of gold was when we made and priced the piece. For example, AU25 means the piece was made when gold was $2,500/oz. Because gold is currently in the range of $4,000/oz, you can see the advantage of studying the AU number.

Using the AU code lets you know what the price of gold was when the piece was priced, helping you gauge how great a value it is compared to what it might cost to make at today’s higher gold prices.

Summary

Name: Maine Loggers’ SparHawk Maine Tourmaline and Diamond Necklace

Style#: G4846

Precious Metal: 14K Yellow Gold

Gem: SparHawk Maine Tourmaline = 2.92 carats (12×5.7mm emerald-cut)

Gems: 35 Diamonds = .37 carat total weight

Measurement: 23mm (15/16″) from top of bail to bottom of necklace

Chain: 18″ 14 karat Yellow Gold

Price: $5,250

AU25

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SparHawk Maine Tourmaline

Now to the gem. It’s a native natural gem of Maine, SparHawk mint green teal Maine tourmaline. It’s from a gem mine 28 miles north of our store, cut by a Maine Irish guy who is totally obsessed with gem precision and perfection. There is symphony and harmony in the balance and flow of light within the gem. It’s color and brilliance whispers Celtic beginnings.

I’d like to go back 3,000 years and show the ring to one of my ancestors. They would get it. They’d understand. I’m absolutely certain they and everyone around would all approve of the ring, and if I said to a group of Celtic villagers my minimum price is 16 sheep, two rams, and 3 oxen, there would be stiff competition among all assembled.

Gem Find of a Lifetime Video

World Famous Discoveries

Treasure Trove of Gems

I’ve always dreamed of a gem find like this. To have this mine be so close to home, just 28 miles north of our store in the mountains of western Maine, is amazing. Gems so fine, so pure, with colors so vivid. It’s important someone documents this historic gem find here in Maine, because it’s a history-making discovery in the world of gems.

The video above is 1 minute, 43 seconds. It gives you a good idea of the excitement we feel for the gems we are discovering here in Maine.

Maine has been world-famous for the tourmaline gems mined here for over 200 years. The geology in our western mountains has yielded a treasure trove of world class gems. Cross Jewelers has been the Maine state leader, bringing fine Maine tourmaline jewelry to all of America for over 100 years.

We have over 200 pieces of Maine tourmaline jewelry from both the SparHawk mine and other Maine mines.

Maine’s Crescent of Gems

Consider this…If they found a tourmaline mine in 1820 that is still producing today; if they found $50-million worth of tourmaline on Plumbago Mountain in 1972 and thirty-seven years later, struck Eureka Blue tourmaline 250 feet away. What else is waiting to be found in Maine’s Crescent of Gems?

The SparHawk Tourmaline Mine is Just 25 Miles North of Portland

This is about the Silver Dollar Tourmaline Pocket

Saturday night.
Standing in line to buy a theater ticket. Phone rings .Voice says “this is Jeff, we hit a pocket this afternoon, thought you might like to come up.” I said “What time?” He said “8:30.”

Sunday Morning at the mine. The Silver Dollar Pocket
Day breaks gray, over cast 64 degrees, humid. Later, spots of blue sky appear. Some sun with shifting shade. First photographs of SparHawk Tourmaline and Watermelon Crystals and a 1924 silver dollar for size reference. After that the day just kept getting better.
A small crowd gathers, a scientist, a gem cutter, a jeweler, and five of the state’s best gem miners, drifting in and out throughout the day. Some stay all day. Sounds: jack hammer separating rock. Sounds: mine pump water washing rock and rubble clean. Every one looking for color. Talk: speculation. Talk: certainty. Talk: crystals held to the sky. Talk: wonder. Sounds: dogs barking, dogs running with sticks. Young guys working, old guys watching.

June 8 & 9, 2013

At the SparHawk Mine

As the day progressed the sky cleared and the gem mining proceeded. It was an awesome day.

On Another Day
I Was the First One There

I arrived at the mine early. I was not sure if I had misheard our meeting time or if Jeff was late. I liked the sense of space, the openness without any other consciousness to interfere. The space felt different than my years of visits with other people around. Thinking minds are so powerful that one can feel others’ thoughts guided by arrows and pre-established pathways. Here with nothing but cliffs and trees, it was just me with a pen and paper. I am not alone but free to see and sense.

I heard a plane take off from the airport several miles away. I heard the wind in the pines and spruce, faint and up high. The cliffs that surround, the rubble that litters, and the rock below are all frozen in time. I’ve seen what this place produces. I’ve seen the crystals loosened and pulled from the white clay. I’ve listened to the people who come for the unveiling. I’ve heard their gasps; I’ve seen their wonder. This moment, on this mountain, may be as close as anyone ever gets to true magic in their earthly existence. – R.H.P.

A Treasure Trove of Gems
Found Under the Road

We know we are lucky. We know that any jeweler in America so close to a buried treasure of gems would be so excited to have treasure so close and to have the opportunity to acquire cut gems and then offer finished jewelry to the public. It would be like a gift from heaven. The crystal shown above weighed 62 carats. The person holding the crystal is Sean Sweeney, who is America’s best tourmaline cutter. He was there that day at the mine. He excavated this gem from under the road leading into the gem mine.

The Cross Maine Tourmaline
SparHawk Collection

Yes, we have over 100 pieces of SparHawk Mint-Green-Teal Maine Tourmaline jewelry on our website. All of our Maine tourmaline was mined in Maine and therefore never has had a tariff. There will never be a tariff or duty imposed on any of our Maine tourmaline gems.

He Didn’t Know It at the Time…

His purchase of the land and this
lost gem mine would make world history.

Jeff bought the land. His original intent was for house lots. His research showed that a hundred years before, it had been a successful gem mine. So successful, it made national news for the tourmaline that had been found there. Others came, searched, and found little-to-nothing. Because he was in the foundation business, he had digging machines, had trucks, and knew about blasting rock and how to move rock. He decided on weekends to do some amateur exploring. He worked on and off for several years. Then he hit a soft place in solid rock that was filled with tourmaline, it was a fine green color with an open c-axis. The c-axis is jeweler talk for an outstanding property that makes the gems shine extra bright. If that was all that he found his discovery would have made the Maine gem mining history books, and his discovery would have been told in stories of legend and lore a hundred years later.
With this initial success, Jeff continued the search. Over the next dozen years he opened gem pocket after gem pocket. We, Cross named his new tourmaline color SparHawk Mint-Green-Teal. The open c-axis allows light to do some truly magical things.

Choose a Piece of Jewelry
From America’s National Treasure

Many Americans are choosing one of our own national gems. We are fortunate to be so close to Maine’s tourmaline mines. The gems are beautiful. The jewelry we create is exquisite and comes with our solid Cross Guarantee for performance and beauty.

Our goal is to make your selection easy and shipping a breeze. We ship to all of America – Fast, Safe, and Free.

Additional Information About Gems
From the SparHawk Tourmaline
Mine in Maine

A. Read the 32-page written story of one gem mining season at the SparHawk mine.

B. See seven videos showing gem mining at the SparHawk tourmaline mine . Running time: over 1/2 hour.

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Returns & Exchanges

Our year-round return period is 30 days.

Use the postage-paid/insured label included in your order for free returns and exchanges, or call for a free insured label for orders over $2,000. Our goal is to make your online shopping experience as easy and convenient as possible. Call us with any questions about returns or exchanges (Mon – Fri 9:30am – 5pm EST).

Jewelry must be returned to us in original condition, unused and unworn. Special orders made to a customer’s specifications are not returnable.

Returns are refunded in the form of the original payment: credit card to credit card, check to check. You may also choose to have the refund put on a Cross gift card for future jewelry shopping.

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