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    Good source of facet rough

    I have some clear beryl, green garnet and garnet from here in the nt. Have some Afghanite as well if you would like to cut a couple bits. The beryl and green garnet arent that big but should come up a treat
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    Cancellation of the Australian Gemboree in Albury

    Unfortunately we have months more of this to deal with until a vaccine is available. Hopefully everyone here is able to get what you need in between all the hoarders clearing out the shelves unnecessarily. Wish everyone well in the coming months
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    How to know if a stone is worth collecting

    It do both lw and sw? My sw blew on the weekend 8.( and need a new one
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    How to know if a stone is worth collecting

    Grab yourself a fluorescent light just a cheap torch one will give you the answers. Zircon is one gem that has fluorescence under a uv light
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    NT Garnet

    Hey everyone happened across this today 250ct fully formed garnet as well as a whole heap of smaller stuff. Found it in a dump pile in the host rock
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    Bullet identification

    Might be a projectile from a 6.5 x 52mm if so its come some way from Italy heres a cross section photo of a load
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    40E Permit's for WA - information and questions

    With the increase if people heading out looking I can understand the government trying to find extra money to pay for the monitoring as well as other associated costs. At the end of the day its bugger all comparable to the fines
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    Anybody know what these 2 are

    First one looks like yellow quartz
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    Grandidierite

    Wonder if the boss would mind me going for a look Sunday if theres nothing happening here its only a couple hours drive down the road although Im thinking about going out looking for some shiny yellow stuff just up the road Sunday
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    Grandidierite

    As far as I know its main source is Madagascar and has been found also in Sri Lanka. Nothing has been found in Australia thats been recorded yet
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    GPS

    Heres a couple of screenshots from the app I use it works better when not in service for the gps location and has some interesting map overlays for it as well
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    Help identifying a stone?

    You devide the weight of the stone by the weight of it suspended in water. Essentially its weight devided by its volume
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    Swag recommendations, information and questions

    Ive got the big daddy and theres loads of room inside and between the 70mm mattress and my sheep skin underlay its a pretty good nights sleep. Its a bit of a pain rolling back up hungover but if youre got a extra pair of hands its a pretty quick and easy job
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    Rigging of gold and silver markets

    Pity they dont do anything about the diamond dealers that have been manipulating the market for way too long with the price fixing. But that wont happen
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    Can You Help Me With An ID?

    Yeah thatll be it
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    Investing in a cars, machinery.

    Its not much of a muscle car but some of the zooped up Teslas are doing some serious numbers speed wise and 10 second passes on the drag strip
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    Investing in a cars, machinery.

    Vb to vg series commodores are commanding stupid prices atm. I think getting the non turbo ba red top motors may be an investment as theyre being turbocharged with big numbers resulting from the modifications. I saw a 90s mira for $7000 the other day as well :lol:
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    Tasmaniacs Trash 'N Treasure.

    Heres what I found with a quick search so may be one of these families
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    Cleaning & Cutting Quartz

    I soaked my quartz in 50/50 deck cleaning solution, I think I scrubbed them every 6 or so hours until they came out clean
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