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    Some finds from Lowmead

    Has a fire been thru? Might go back down this weekend be good walking around if its all burnt out..iv found crystals all throughout lowmead including in the 3rd creek crossing coming from fingerboard road (granite creek) and uptowards rosedale. My self and lefty caught up about a week ago to go...
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    Some finds from Lowmead

    Keen for a helping hand rockhound! Im at tannum :)
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    Some finds from Lowmead

    Nice stuff ktm! :)
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    Some finds from Lowmead

    Good call lefty ;) Yes like a galaxy! The purple through it is nice in the sun hoping for some larger brighter purple, i wonder where the blue specs come? Blues a funny colour with minerals i find it hard to work out what it is.. copper based? Maybe why no blue quartz? Its lovely lefty! I...
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    Some finds from Lowmead

    Thats a cracker smokey!! And dirty digger the green looks like epidote also abit of calcite copper charlcopyrite by the looks of it, similer to what i get in the upper Burnett area. Been walking around the montains looking for some sort of hope.. mainly east of lowmead going off geological map...
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    Some finds from Lowmead

    Speaking of colour variation the "Purple Rain" pocket? thru 19 pieces of ametrine today... some cutters best iv seen from lowmead will take photos and upload when im home???
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    Some finds from Lowmead

    Heading down again today lefty will take some.photots also getting them out of.the clay hard floor new geological pick will breack it up better. Very strange about the colour varies but whis complaning. :)
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    Some finds from Lowmead

    Quick trip down the lowmead today and was one of the best amd shortest trips yet concentrating on spot thats hidden abit and wont stop throwing purple was there for 2 hours with 27 pieces of purple 6 cutters but majority of them had etchings and only amethyst no cintrine or smoky i found these...
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    Some finds from Lowmead

    Nothing of quality was more or less curious if anyone has got 'crystal' faces like these from the area? :cool:
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    Some finds from Lowmead

    Finally got uploading photo down pact! These 2 pieces come from lowmead a few trips ago. The only two pieces iv seen like it from the area i work and both where in the same pan. Both on a very obvious white milky quartz matrix
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    Upper Burnett Crystals

    Thanks silver! Worked out take photos from afar and zoom in later! :) I got a interesting piece from lowmead ill upload in the lowmead post now that i can upload photos haha :D
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    Upper Burnett Crystals

    The matrix is quiet soft i dont think ill try expose anymore epidote although i am interested to see how its formed through the matrix. Not sure ill have a look now! Has the right bright colour for Mercury :) it looks asthough it contains small white calcite and magnatite crystals aswell as...
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    Upper Burnett Crystals

    Look at me go now!! :D :cool:
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    Upper Burnett Crystals

    having troubles uploading photos will keep trying.. :(
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    Upper Burnett Crystals

    After hours and hours of research i finally made the hike up to privet property in the upper Burnett region. found these pieces of calcite crystal with epidote in the matrix that took the cake few other pieces, red banded stuff on pyrity looking bit has me stumped.. carnellian not known in the...
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    Some finds from Lowmead

    Accidently posted twice and cant figure out how to delete so had to edit!, so this is it haha better then a space.. seemed rude
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    Some finds from Lowmead

    I didn't end up poking up the valley today, headed out to Mt Larcom, im no geoligist but i struggle to understand why there isn't anything worth of interest in the area.. apart from gold! Iv located many shafts on the mountain before both vertical and horizontal shafts, and also one small...
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    Some finds from Lowmead

    I really need to start getting into this site abit more! :) Haha im on a lowmead patch now thats producing small flat pieces of a cavity coverd in amythest basically flat geods sorta looking havnt seen anything like em before this spot... as for diglum im heading up that way tommorow to a...
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