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Metal Detecting for Gold
Beginners Detecting Mistake..."Walking away from gold too soon."
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<blockquote data-quote="WalnLiz" data-source="post: 654825" data-attributes="member: 147"><p>Quartz in some of its crystalline form can have a very bright lustre. On a trip many years ago we did a vid on the Nundle crystals, which are some of the clearest in Australia. Liz made reference to them as "Nundle Diamonds" and for some reason this description stuck with many within the Lapidary community, and they are now commonly referred to as "Nundle Diamonds." <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😮" title="Face with open mouth :open_mouth:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f62e.png" data-shortname=":open_mouth:" /> Similar story with the "Herkimer diamonds" which are found in the Herkimer County in the US. They are double terminated "Quartz " crystals, so although general Quartz is not of much interest, certain varieties are so special that they get a "Diamond " label.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😊" title="Smiling face with smiling eyes :blush:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60a.png" data-shortname=":blush:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WalnLiz, post: 654825, member: 147"] Quartz in some of its crystalline form can have a very bright lustre. On a trip many years ago we did a vid on the Nundle crystals, which are some of the clearest in Australia. Liz made reference to them as "Nundle Diamonds" and for some reason this description stuck with many within the Lapidary community, and they are now commonly referred to as "Nundle Diamonds." 😮 Similar story with the "Herkimer diamonds" which are found in the Herkimer County in the US. They are double terminated "Quartz " crystals, so although general Quartz is not of much interest, certain varieties are so special that they get a "Diamond " label.😊 [/QUOTE]
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Gold Prospecting
Metal Detecting for Gold
Beginners Detecting Mistake..."Walking away from gold too soon."
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