Vegemite

That’s the biggest one I found there

This old thread may be of assistance...

I did have a look at that post, and that list seems to be pretty much the exact same as the list in the second book I quoted earlier...

Seems to be crown land and all good, was worried because I saw houses in each direction 😂 tho i would love a house somewhere like that 😂

Cheers mate will look into it, quick google shows it seems VERY close to town, hopefully I can still have a dig there! Will for sure...

Nah no worries cheers mate! You've helped me out plenty already, I've been searching far and wide but seems minimal info on gems in the...

Can't help either. Im sure you'll do well with all this research. Make sure you tell us how you do, there's many keen people who would...

Can't help there unfortunately, I'm more of a day tripper and dont end up digging deep. Good luck!

Thanks heaps mate! Kinda what I was thinking, been looking at old geology maps and am trying to pin point areas, I've found where the...

'Gold drifts' are the buried layers of gravel in which gold was deposited by erosion and stream/river action millenia ago - see more...

In all my research I have never heard of opal in Daylesford. The only place where traces were found in a granite quarry is Glenrowan...

Good to know, cheers mate! But did some more reading through a different 50 year old book and it says it’s wood opal in the gold drifts...

this is the one mate :) from 1967, but doesn’t say anything else about opal at Daylesford but that map

There are opals around a few places that you don't expect in Australia but it's more than likely to be common opal (potch) not gem opal.