Recent content by Matrix007

Name rings a bell if I catch up with him I will send your regards, most of us are isolating alot of covid around Roxby and in Mook, not much open in Mook Tucker box closed Opal hotel burnt down, IGA closed so bit quiet around town but noodling great.

Roxby downs and Andamooka cut off due to road washed out between Pimba and Woomera main street of Andamooka was flooded very much needed haven't had good rain s in Andamooka for several years 200 year old trees dead but the last few days have been good for the bush and animals very good noodling...

Thank you Jaros just gota work out how to use this phone last one ended up under the tracks of the excavator, was not accidental.

Just worked out how to send an email to myself, sucks getting old.

Still trying to get used to this new bloody phone and this site how do I get your email?

Hello Greg I finally found Lens book have taken some pics of places around my Crawford will post them when I work out how to resize and post them, I do remember there was a place with few trees and granite outcrops west side is a fence and a track where you should find garnets on the surface.

There is an old book by Len Dallow, Dellow ? He was from the Southern Rock Hounds he made lots of mud maps in this book it had places from all over South Australia including Mount Crawford, I and a friend used the book on many occasions and found some nice stones one place we found some small...

I agree with Goldie rocks it's dentrites or dentritic it's formed by minerals leeching through cracks in rocks starts at one point and radiates outward to form the Patton's on the rocks.

Gemmaster and cabking are good machines it's the wheels you need to look at carefully diamond Pacific are one of the best if you can afford them or there are others on the net that do a good job if you look after them and use them properly.

I would suggest joining a lapidary club in your area there are great people that will teach you all about all sorts of stones and you can learn how to cut gemstones, they also have trips or outings to find all sorts of stones, good luck on your journey into the world of stones and lapidary.

One of the better ways to fill small holes in Andamooka rainbow matrix after cutting and cooking is using star bond thin then repolish start at 600 - 1200 then final polish, I have polished rainbow matrix to #3000-14000 and still get good Finnish on the stone without any other glues or...

Fairy opal is boulder opal matrix, rainbow matrix is a sandstone matrix from Andamooka it was called cement or concrete now rainbow matrix, it some times has small stones or just sand cemented together with Opal, it can be treated with sugar and heat to turn the sugar to carbon, Andamooka matrix...