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Lol LW I wouldn't care if it was shards of coloured glass, I've had fun discovering them and learnt/ refined techniques which will make sourcing and processing my own pay dirt even more rewarding. I'll look into Billabong Blue for sure. Still got another bag to go through yet :D This is what...

Done :Y: I see something shiney :gemstone: Works beautifully! :inlove: That was just the first handful. Many more to go :D

Just remembered I have some clear perspex left in my garage so I'll be making a little inverted table this weekend to view the coarse gravel on :Y:

Bloody awesome!

Great ideas fella's tyvm :Y: I'm sure my wife won't mind me using the fry pan lid, especially if she doesn't find out ;) :lol:

That's gorgeous! What an experience to be in there

And the concentrate I'm going to sluice Good fun, even if I don't find anything. It all adds up to experience eh

Ah cheers aussie I'll give it a go. The little stuff I've yet to go through The larger stuff I found the yellow gems in.

Probably topaz :lol:

Hehe :argh: They're not the best pics I reckon that bit of pyrite was thrown in there because I didn't find anymore traces of it

Is it cheating if I do this :8

Nw LoneWolf I'm only 1 away now :D

Didn't make it out this weekend due to weather, this coming weekend isn't looking good either. Itching to get out and fire up the GM..one day soon I hope

Alrighty cheers fella's, guess I'll be picking through the 1kg container of small stuff by hand. Only thing in my garage I can think of that would simulate a vertical pulse is my jigsaw mounted upside down :lol: something to think about. Currently making a small sluice so I'll post that up...

Hey everyone. So my mate at work kindly gave me a couple of bags of gravel from a Glen Innes Sapphire mine he bought near a decade ago. I've classified one bag down into 1/4", 1/8" and concentrate and found 3 yellowish sapphires out of the larger stuff, ones got a bit of pink in it and a few...