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Thanks Miguel, I'm very happy with them. These are some shots Doug took before he sent them to me.

Go all the way to the end of the beach, then about 100 to 200m around on the rocks. Be there for the bottom of the tide and look for small rock pools at the low tide mark. Hand digging may be required, so have some good gloves and be prepared to get wet. Some rock pools will have spiky sea...

Lefty, the spinel came from Arba Creek 3km east of Branxholm on the Tasman Hwy. it's a good creek for Zicon and black Spinel. It's by far the best pice of blackjack I have found to date.

19.1ct and 26.9ct Topaz cut by Doug Menadue in the " trouble with Tribbles" design 20.0ct black spinel cut in a "tuts pyramid" mounted as a pendant. Also cut by Doug Menadue of Bespoke Gems Very happy with the end results.

Killiecrankie topaz.

59.55ct black spinel rough.

Had two of the larger topaz cut from my Flinders trip. 19.1 and 26.9ct for pendants. :)

Yep had that thought a while back but its every second strand that creates the weave. If you removed every second wire you would be left with loose wires that just moved all over the place.

A man of your talents won't have to much trouble next time your over there. BTW the bloke at Deep Bite Cafe, known locally as deep pockets cafe wasn't being cagey, he honestly doesn't know anything about the fossicking. He's an ex-fisherman and going by the questions he hit me with after my...

Yep some good colour there, I'll be interested to see how the peach ones come out.

Got the crown covered too! :P

Yes they can be. 500+ct :cool:

Yep sounds about right. Well outside my price range. I have settled on exactly what I want, a 13" aluminium sided sieve with 3/16 sainless mesh. Reasonably widly available up until 6 months ago when they stoped making them in Australia. Now it's all imported stuff and they don't make that size...

I gave potsnplants a ring today after having trouble with their website. Sadly out of stock of 3/16" sieves and can't get anymore in as the Australian manufacturer stopped making them. They couldn't compete with imported products. This is the same story I got from the miners den about three...

Could it be........ The holy grail!!!!!!! :o

Yep Ex I hear you a 3.5 would take a little more care to centralise but there would be only half as much material to sort. I run a three sieve stak, 1/2",1/4" and 1/8". The 1/2" means I don't get a lot of stone in the 1/4" but it is all of a similar size and can be centred quite well with a...

Howdy Ex, Haven't seen them but they will probably be the standard 1/8 & 1/4 sieves. What I'm chasing is a mesh size half way between the two. Eg 3.5mm apature.

Thanks Miguel, some great info there. I'll let you know how I go. Good to here the 1/2" is working out.

Would the waders be of any benefit in the creek, are there deep holes?

Howdy Miguel, I'm off to Flinders on Saturday for the week and I had a few questions. Is it worth taking the 1/8 sieve or just the 1/2 and 1/4? Also should I stick to mine creek or would you give the bay/diamond gully prefrance? Thanks