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Smokey Quartz Crystals Hi all, This is my first crack at a fossicking video. Hope you enjoy!! Cheers Col

Hi all, I have had a long hiatus from the forum. Life seems to have gotten in the way of a hole bunch of things. I'd like to say, "G'day", to all members on the forum and I look forward to catching up with old friends and making some new ones. Cheers Col ;)

Selling my LS I bought this second hand just over 12 months ago. Reason for sale is I have barely used it. Lee and I seem to be a lot more into the gems and interesting rocks. I also bought two new coils. What you get 7"x 3" DD[/*] 8" inch Mono[/*] 10" x 14" DD[/*] 3 battery holders minus...

Lee and I spent the day ferreting around in the valley yesterday. What a spectacular little slice of the country. Petrified wood Jaspers The only piece of blood stone for the day Enjoy ;) Col

Thought I'd bung up a piccy of some Jasper from the creek. I have never cut it before but it's looking pretty specky with the hematite and quartz through it Cheers Col

Thought I'd stick up some pics of my first go at Cabbing :D First couple are petrified wood and the other is some black opal potch with a bit of colour in it when viewed from the side Cheers Col

Found this whilst ferreting around on the net, thought it might help a few with identifying stones ;) Be sure to Tare your scales with the paper clip empty http://johnbetts-fineminerals.com/jhbnyc/articles/specific_gravity.htm Hope it helps Cheers Col

Hi guy's Interested in buying a faceting machine and or other lapidary equipment Cheers C&L

Just a quick one Aldi have $99.99 detectors on sale on 04 January 2014. Not sure if they are any good,figure they would be a good bit of fun at the park on the coins etc. More interesting is the 8pc cast iron cooking set which we don't have yet :D . Cheers C&L

Lee and I are thinking about getting into faceting in the next year or two and we have started to do a bit of research. I figured the link below would help people with working out if their gems found or bought are worth faceting...

Hey guy's anyone known of any NSW deposits? Cheers in advance ;) Col

Trawling through the web the other day I can across a number of images of Silver nuggets and native Silver specs. I'm wondering do we get Silver nuggets in oz? do you find them in association with other minerals? do any of you get out with the detector looking for them? Cheers C&L

Couple of questions for you detecting gurus :D I've noticed a few of these popping up on Ebay are they PI? and would they find gold? or are they just a collectors thing...

Interesting read hope the link works :) http://archive.org/stream/mineralsnewsout00livegoog#page/n2/mode/2up Cheers C&L

Thought I'd start a gemstone show and tell thread off as we seem to be all over the place ans there's no shortage of folks with good stones to show. I 'll kick off with this beautiful little 3.4ct sapphire we found yesterday at GG, my heart stopped when I saw it on the end of the shovel. It's a...

Thought I'd show you some stones we just got back from Lamberts very very happy with the results :D :D :D Before After :D Zircons :D Needless to say we'll be sending more over once we get another collection together ;) Cheers C&L

Hi all, Just wanting to get a feel for how much outlet hose people generally carry when high banking. Reason I ask is I just received 25 meters of 1 1/2 inch lay flat hose and it's a huge roll. Cheers Col

Just a quick one, whats a bomb when people are talking Sapphires? are they cutable or chuckers? Cheers Colin :)

Got this in my change after I bought a coffee :D 1941 King George Sixpence Col :)

;) Cheers Col