Recent content by Pat Hogen

Contact Tony Fitzgerald, Sydney, he owns the Facebook site Faceting Technical and makes sintered bronze laps and he probably made yours.

Good Job!

Wordle became a bit too monotonous, I got tired of guessing from a selection of 5 words with the first letter being the deciding factor as to whether I got it right or wrong. So now I am a Freecell Grandmaster, much more interesting - 🤔

I remember in '83 we could buy full opalised shells for five dollars, not chips or broken pieces of shell but full, unbroken, whole shells - and there they sat. I thought they were beautiful but I only gazed at them and wondered what I could do with them.

It is part of the spline of a largish shell.

I see they have a $600/ct teal sapphire for sale atm. Nice stone though heat treating and a slight inclusion will put some people off, nonetheless, a nice teal.

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If you contact me by msg on FB I could help you out. I do not live on the Gemfields at the moment, but I have people who do that could assist you.

Of course, no access on a working site.

..wondering what i could find around Merredin, WA area?." - half naked people getting up on the bar at the pub.

The "conventional theory" of all those chatters who sit around the campfire and talk the knowledge of the Wisdom of the Travellers. They can see in their mind's eye that a stone rolling along in the streams will be pitted and smoothed by the action of PachaMama (Mother Earth). 🤔

Yeah, that reminds me of the time I was up near Anthony's Lagoon and a night walk with a fluorescent torch illuminated all these small lights on the ground, so I grabbed a stick and scratch marked the ground for identification come daylight then I made a long scratch along the ground to direct...

If you found this on a beach then chances are that it is ambergris. Amber, when rubbed quickly against your pants or on fine sandpaper smells like the old woodworking rosin, it is distinctive, a tree resin if it is not petrified. Don't make too much noise about it if you found it on the beach...

"Just saying that some things just can't be explained..." , like Americans eat hotdogs, for some reason.

Barrington stones that I have found are small, but down below, on the hillsides are some excellent animal fossils on the road to Nowendoc.