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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, 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...

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...