Sodabowski
Thomas Rodriguez
What a glorious blue 8)
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Digginholes
Greg
Awesome stone Heath and great job Barny !
That's a beautiful saphire
That's a beautiful saphire
Digginholes said:
Yeah I really love that stone Greg, picked it up yesterday from Barney and it looks 10 times better than the pic, couldn't be happier with it.
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When writing your post , then want to put an image in , look just above there is some font things and a image button ( blue) click on that . It should allow you to select an image from your files, get back if have more problems.Spunwild said:Hi,
Can someone please tell me how to upload pics? I have a few rocks found at my property in Goulburn NSW that I would love identified..
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TheFossickingKid
Angus Madden
Went to the Windsor Gem Show this weekend and bought a nice AquaMarine crystal.
Also one of our mates were there with gravel containing Zircon and Sapphire. There were sieves there so I had a bit of a go sieving for some stones.
Also one of our mates were there with gravel containing Zircon and Sapphire. There were sieves there so I had a bit of a go sieving for some stones.
Ohhh I'd love some aquamarine... *drool*
Sodabowski
Thomas Rodriguez
Nice Braz aqua FK
Sodabowski
Thomas Rodriguez
Well we too had a gem show this past weekend, so we went straight for the good stuff. As some of you might remember, our fellow GallicProspector had mentioned the French Sapphires that are found in the central part of the country (Auvergne). Well Mrs Sodabowski and I found a guy selling a few of these at the show, and we grabbed the best one he had. My current DSLR lenses really can't do anything decent as far as macro is concerned, so I made a shot with the webcam and the jeweler's loupe to show you guys what it's about here in the land of the Eiffel tawa... The bloke also dropped in a great lil piece of rough, so I have a specimen to add to my collection (yay!)
3,5 mm SRB, deep blue with the slight hint of gray that our saphs have. Natural untreated, precision-cut, will sit next to a diamond and an emmy. Gonna rock on gold. Now to go panning since we also have some decent gold here in France
3,5 mm SRB, deep blue with the slight hint of gray that our saphs have. Natural untreated, precision-cut, will sit next to a diamond and an emmy. Gonna rock on gold. Now to go panning since we also have some decent gold here in France
Sodabowski said:Well we too had a gem show this past weekend, so we went straight for the good stuff. As some of you might remember, our fellow GallicProspector had mentioned the French Sapphires that are found in the central part of the country (Auvergne). Well Mrs Sodabowski and I found a guy selling a few of these at the show, and we grabbed the best one he had. My current DSLR lenses really can't do anything decent as far as macro is concerned, so I made a shot with the webcam and the jeweler's loupe to show you guys what it's about here in the land of the Eiffel tawa... The bloke also dropped in a great lil piece of rough, so I have a specimen to add to my collection (yay!)
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/2712/1449595650_french_sapph.jpg
3,5 mm SRB, deep blue with the slight hint of gray that our saphs have. Natural untreated, precision-cut, will sit next to a diamond and an emmy. Gonna rock on gold. Now to go panning since we also have some decent gold here in France
Very nice stone mate, I never knew there were sapphs in France.
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Nice looking stone.
I think sapphires can be found in a great many locations but in only a tiny handful of them are they of sufficient size and quantity to be worth mining. Sapphires were found when they built the wall of the Callide dam near Biloela, about an hour's drive from Gladstone. They were also found in the river a half a k down the road from my home. The volcanics of the Boyne valley would have to have been the source but are they there in sufficent quantity to be worth digging for anywhere up there?
If anyone knows they haven't told me and probably wont
I think sapphires can be found in a great many locations but in only a tiny handful of them are they of sufficient size and quantity to be worth mining. Sapphires were found when they built the wall of the Callide dam near Biloela, about an hour's drive from Gladstone. They were also found in the river a half a k down the road from my home. The volcanics of the Boyne valley would have to have been the source but are they there in sufficent quantity to be worth digging for anywhere up there?
If anyone knows they haven't told me and probably wont
spatch - nice specimen of silicon
Soo many colors wally..love em
Soo many colors wally..love em
Wally69 said:Got out in the paddock at Glen Innes for a couple of hours and bagged a few coloured stones and went back to get a bucket of holiday fun before I left.
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Nice mate, I can't wait to get back up that way, won't be long and I will.
Colmaca
Colin
My Christmas day and Boxing day, Fullarton River 38 C Just right for digging garnet .
180 In this shot about 1/3 what I got the rest need more cleaning to see .
Now I got them what I do with them ?
180 In this shot about 1/3 what I got the rest need more cleaning to see .
Now I got them what I do with them ?
Nice finds Colmaca, well done. What are the sizes like, any big ones? Must be a few nice clear cutters in there.
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