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Thanks Hawkear! Definitely a lesson for me! 🤣 dunno if I would've found anything without all the help from past and present threads here, but the most learning I did was definitely on the creek, Now I'm thinking I'm gonna have to catch a bus back down there with the shitty cheap sluice ive...

Thanks man! Was pretty chuffed when I saw that big chunk in the pan on my last day 🤣 definitely plan faceting my gemstones eventually, but definitely more interested in just stocking up the collection for a few years :)

Oh and the gold I've shown in the clean up there isn't quite all of it, I put maybe 1/4 of what I found in this little jar for my mate to play with, also has my second best picker and second best sapphire in it, as well as all my cons with the fine gold so I don't have to deal with it with...

Here's a rough clean up, put of the whole trip im stoked with the green and blue sapphire and the big chunky sapphire the most 😍 and definitely can't complain about my first ever gold take, tho spent all but the last day looking for a good spot 😅 the two big pickers weigh .04 and .06 :)

Cheers man was bloody hard work! And if there's anything I know how to find its gemstones, just the yellow stuff I'm new at, every single bucket was sieved through a 5mm crystal sieve and only found 2 in the sieve, one sapphire one decent zircon, the rest were under 5mm and were in the bottom of...

Cheers for all your tips legends!! Ended up only finding a good spot on the last day (always the bloody way isn't it), was a beautiful place and am keen to get down again asap, You were right about the hard to find a sizeable stone, only a couple that got caught in the 5mm sieve, one being a...

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 (how to find Australian gemstones by Derrick and Doug Stone), even says opals at Daylesford as well 😂

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 post updates when I come back :)

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 GT compared to elsewhere, guess they just always focused on the gold 😅

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 upper, middle and lower gold drifts are in Pliocene and associated with some mines, but would you know which of the three would be better to find gemstones in the...

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, how would I hunt the “gold drifts”? is it impossible without full shaft sinking, am I limited to just find mine tailings to work?

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

Reading through another old gem book, Is there actually opals at Daylesford? Been trying to look into it, but can’t find anything about opals 😂 cheers!

Mate they are really nice crystals! The fact that not many are broken or waterworn I reckon you’re pretty close to their deposit, it might not be huge but it could be! I’d start cracking some rocks and digging down close by, follow any thin veins you might find, to hopefully a bigger thicker deposit

Thanks mate, I’ll chuck it on the list! :)

beaut cheers for that! I’ll pick that up next payday :) I’ve got a half a dozen old books I’ve been skimming through for parts I need, but would be good to have something updated in the last 30 years 😂

A wealth of knowledge this joint! Telling me more than google 😂 Thanks so much mate that’s awesome to know, will get on the geovic app and have a squizz, still learning how to use the bloody thing properly tho 😂

Ahh shame, I know they’re rarer down in Vic and SA anyway, just been on my mind as I’ve seen a lot of reports of a spot of blue in the sieve at daylesford, I don’t really care too much for cuttable stones, just one rock I love that’s eluded me so far on my hunts, and would love a few in the...

G’day guys! Veg here, veggin out 😁 heading up to Daylesford (probably Sailors creek) for a hiking trip in a week, but taking an extra 10kg of tools to have a hunt for some nice gemstones and hopefully pick up my first few pieces of gold 🤞 Usually just a crystal hunter with the sieves but...