Hi guys
Sorry to revive an old thread (for the second time)
But I have just started down the long road of fossicking and am dying to actually know what I'm doing!
My name is Emily and I'm a vet living in Sydney
My partner Tom studied geology at uni (but does something totally different these days) and loves his rocks and minerals, but we are both stumped when it comes to fossicking.
We were up in Wee Jasper yesterday, however I have no idea if we were even in the right spot
We followed some old instructions to Macpherson's swamp creek, but the area was very swampy and we only found two holes dug by previous visitors.
The blackberry problem is pretty insane but we managed to find a dry creek bed a little further up the road
How deep exactly is this wash layer that everyone speaks of?
I think we might have gone a bit high because the few little sieves that I did just showed up a lot of little 1/8 quartz and clay minerals
Do you have to dig deep in to the creek bed itself?
We were digging in to the wall just above what we think was clay
Anyway, we're heading out to Vulcan state next weekend and would like some pointers for two totally clueless people with a vague idea of what they're doing.
Honestly I wouldn't even know what I rough sapphire looked like in real life!
We have our two sieves, a gold pan, some tweezers and a magnifying glass
We're frequent campers/4WDers from Sydney so aren't afraid to get dirty and can byo our own water, tubs, etc if you guys have any pointers about where abouts to visit and dig!
Thank you so much in advance