I must admit I was surprised: I'd expected him to come back with some useless ore instead. I think I still have 8 or 9 squirrelled away somewhere even after helping out the blind chap, though I've been waiting for the "ultimate" (? whichever is the top-tier one, anyway) jewellery and armour enchantments to make themselves known before I use them...
I do wonder if I was a bit hasty in not doing the save/reload thing with the three or four malachite seams I know about, but I still got four or give gems out of them in total so I figure I'm not doing too badly.
