Thanks Paul..lol, i love looking at his stones (and trying to find out what they are) that he has left me, all that he picked out of the ground over the years.
another view of the earlier one...i can take a picture of different angles and they all show a different color, even yellow....definitely not selling them, but out of curiosity, are they of any real value?
thanks kemjak a friend of mine described my dad (recently passed away) as a "quiet legend" lol, a very fitting description, the "little" things he left behind are exquisite I'm hoping next weekend to head out, and take one of his trusty gold detectors and give it a whirl...lol, first time ever for me
I was born in Gympie and was on dairy farms in the area with my family. I spent a bit of time there as a kid chasing whiting and bream around the jettys. It would have changed heaps since then but I have great memories from there.
I went and visited my dad in march ( he passed in july) I actually fed a dolphin, it's a beautiful area, though after living in sydney for most of my life, its, lol, very quiet
Sorry for your loss. I'm sure your dad will be with you always. Tin Can only had about 40 homes in it when I was there so it was veerry quiet then. Compared to Sydney it would be like a ghost town, [no offence to any any Tin Can Bayers]. Good to see you keen on having a shot at the gold hunting. Cheers, Rick
That seems to be another piece of Andamooka Matrix (from South Australia) that is still just as it was dug out, roughly shaped up and hasn't yet been died to darken the white matrix. Though I'm not really familiar with the dying process of Andamooka Matrix, I've heard that they used to achieve the darkening by boiling it in specific volumes of Honey and Sulphuric Acid.
I have three small pieces of Andamooka Matrix here that will show you just how it looks when died darker and polished.
they are lovely Shauno and thanks for the info...something to look into.. just a few more pics..lol, I'm getting a bit creative now, putting a few stoners into one pic makes it easier to post them...I love the little "tooth".....and Matt, possibly somewhere around sunny corner