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I haven't been out there for a few months now but the last time I was out there it was flooding pretty hard so I'll definitely be getting back out there some time soon to see if the water has freed up some nuggets :D .

That's surprising, I thought the magenta ones would be more sought after because that's all I could find photos of. I didn't expect Olivine in the area, I've only seen intrusive Igneous and Metamorphic rocks in the area. I'd post another photo but the blue stone now resides somewhere in the...

A tributary of the Nicholson, no where near as many Garnets as where I normally go at Bullumwaal/Merrijig, or gold so far.

That's good to know :D, I searched pink garnets before I posted but they were all a fair bit darker pink, are the lighter pink still better than the red?. Though the biggest Garnet so far has been almost 5mm and that's my first pink so I don't like my chances :/ . At first I was thinking...

While panning a new area I found this pink stone among the garnets, I was wondering if Garnets could be this colour? I've put a normal Garnet from the area in the photo to show the difference. It's only around 1mm but was easily seen in the pan. I also found this tiny green stone and one...

All good Beagleboy, happy to help :) .

It is :) , I just need to learn how to make things involving a little more skill now :rolleyes: . Thanks, they're nice and simple to make and there's plenty of different calibres to play with.

I've never been game enough to use oxalic acid, but I wonder if CLR would do the job?

Thanks everyone, glad you like it! I've been wanting to do that with a .223 cartridge but I can't facet, I'd love to learn though.

Here's a Quartz crystal pendant I made using an empty .30-06 cartridge. To make it I cut the end off the cartridge to make the holder then flattened the opening of it out to more of an oval shape to fit the crystal (crystal isn't evenly shaped). Next I popped the primer out and filed two...

Thanks for the advise, I remember that when I'm out there next. I could do with one of those :D .

There's more crevices there than you could poke a shovel at, so much exposed bedrock! You can keep following the bedrock upstream for ages, and it looks to be the same downstream. That does look similar, even the flora looks the same. No worries, it's reasonably close (depending on your...

Here are some photos of the campsite and area. I hope I can post this many photos :/ This is where I was working the other day (right near that campsite). If you're interested I can PM you a map with the site marked.

No worries. Do you have a map of the area?

If you have a 4x4 there's a good camping spot right on Prospect Creek, the track there is a bit rutted out but nothing extreme (the missus' Santa Fe with road tyres gets there no worries). I'll take some photo's next time I'm there.

It's mainly dirt road, but most of it is in pretty good condition, aside from the occasional pot hole/rocky patch. Most of places I go in the area are right next to the road too.

I managed to escape from renovating for a bit yesterday and decided to try a new creek that looked promising. I only managed to get a couple pans in before the biggest, dirtiest leeches I've seen decided to show up to try and ruin my day. Not a problem I thought, I'll just head to my usual spot...

I scored a free tile cutting saw which I'm planning on using the motor for a homemade rock slabbing saw, but I don't have access to an existing saw to work from. Does anyone have plans for one they'd be willing to share?

I thought so too :D . The woman at the counter said to me she'd only just put it up and that she didn't think it'd sell. I'd hate to think how much they bought it for.

I didn't find this myself but I picked up this pretty decent sized morion crystal from the local trading post for $4! They didn't think it was worth much because it wasn't clear :rolleyes: .