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Hi Sneaky, Yes - that's what I intended to do - find an existing dig and extend it. However I didn't find any existing diggings. Thus my enquiry! Are the diggings (?) concentrated in a particular area which I may have missed? There is a very great contrast between - say - Glenalva in the...

Has anyone visited - and dug - at the Lava Plains fossicking site (North Queensland on the Kennedy Development road)? It's meant to be a good site for sapphires but when I visited it recently I could see no signs of diggings - just a grass covered site with scattered trees! The site is difficult...

I see in the Australian Gemstone Locality list (1933) posted by Joe that sapphires and zircons are recorded from Herberton, in the Atherton Highlands (Qld). Does anyone know more details of this because I cannot find any recent records of them being found there or any specific locality data...

Hi Frostoss and Lone Wolf, You both query the material of my rods. I just use bent coat hangers so I guess mild steel? My gut feeling is that, as aussiefarmer says, it depends more on the person than on the material the rods are made from. Hi Lefty, I'm not as far down Goana Flats as the...

Hi Folks I wondered whether to contribute to this thread because it seems to generate an amazing amount of ill temper in some folks about other peoples harmless beliefs and activities. Anyway I've decided to do so! I dig two surface claims in Rubyvale near Lefty's old family diggings. In this...

Lefty is quite right - many Australian stones are of good quality and do not need treatment before cutting. It is also true that the better quality greens can look very like glass - although any cutter should know the difference. I attach a picky of a clear green stone (3.5 carat) dug on Bedford...

HI Lefty, That's fine - we can arrange a meeting nearer the time. I'm lucky! The claims either side of me have to go down 20ft shafts to get to the wash. For me it's only 4-5 foot below the surface, I can work in the sunshine (when there is any - we have just had 2 days heavy rain and the...

Hi Lefty, I work a couple of claims in the Rubyvale field (on the right of Goana Flats rd, at end of Rivergum) and it would be good to meet up next time you're digging in Reward. I currently live near Emerald, but hope to move to Rubyvale soon to be nearer the claims. Bill Greenaway

Hi, I recently found - at Emerald Qld, what I am told is a very nice specimen of botryoidal chalcedony on chert. Brown, bumpy and rather nasty looking! If any mineral collector wants it - and is willing to pay the postage (weighs about 300g) - then he/she can have it for free! Cheers Bill...

Hi Folks, A while ago I received some excellent advice on the forum about the use of metal detectors whilst fitted with a heart pacemaker (I've got one). I'd appreciate some further advice/comments. I have been told not to use an electric drill because they are usually held hoizontally close...

Many thanks to everyone who has commented. Your're right Backcreek, I did not expect such a very good and informative response. My pacemaker was fitted very suddenly (and unexpectedly) in France and whereas I guess I was given plenty of advice at the time my French is very limited - so I didn't...

Thanks Tassie - that was exactly the sort of response that I was hoping for! I can now go ahead and detect my fortune!

I live at Emerald and would like to go metal detecting for gold at Clermont using a Minelab GPX series detector. However I am fitted with a heart pacemaker and some activities using machines which give out "radiations" are inadvisable (if your pacemaker stops then so do you!). My guess is that...