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My interest has recently been sparked by some amethyst finds other people have been having recently although I have no idea where they came from. Only thing I know is that its not terribly far from Sydney (4hours max). After looking around online I can see that both of these locations have...

Just wondering if anyone has had any luck chasing sapphires around there recently. I was at porters retreat today because in the past it's produced some nice stones but since then and now it seems to be pretty cleaned out, few zircons and a tiny sapphire chip. Only thing that gives me hope for...

Does anyone have advice to give on how I should go about doing this? I have about 50 or so with about 7 being baseball size, the rest smaller of course. They came from Mt. Tamborine but their cost for cutting them was simply too high. I remember in the past I had a few done with just an angle...

Hey all, I was at tuena creek today for my first official panning session (usually hunt sapphires) when I noticed a few rocks had a distinct red staining on them. Thinking back to a few things it reminds me a lot of cinnabar which is mercury sulphide I believe. Can anyone give input on this?

Hey guys, does anyone know if the at pro has a chance of finding nuggets? I've heard of a few people finding some but I imagine it would be difficult with such a machine. I have no experience with detecting for gold but would like to give it a shot, most likely in some place around Bathurst. I...

As the spots I usually go to are starting to go dry, new locations had to be found. Tried a new little park not too far from home today which seemed promising. No pre decimals which is a bit of a shame but there is a lot of evidence to suggest that they're there so I won't give up on them just...

Had no intention of getting anything today besides a few dollars but I was pleasantly surprised. I had been to this spot before and gotten about ten dollars or so and nothing else and I went there again today, oddly enough I found quite a few Pre-decimals. The total came to be 3 Pennies 3 Half...

Decided to head up to glen innes for a couple of days to participate in the field trips. Billabong blue and then yarrow creek. Yarrow creek was absolutely hammered and practically no one found anything but billabong blue produced like it has in the past. I was just digging in the pile and...

It really is quite interesting how much history certain places have that people just seem to completely look over. This park that I went to yesterday in particular was a prime example. Wasn't expecting much since I just assumed it would've been extensively detected in the past due to its...

This weekend I was up at Inverell and was planning on going to Billabong Blue, but I soon realized that it was closed for the weekend for some reason. So I ended up going to Seven Oaks for the Sat/Sunday and Billabong Blue on the Monday. This post is mainly about which I think is the better of...

Went fossicking last weekend at Porters Retreat for sapphires and zircons and such. It's quite a nifty little spot as the access isn't too bad and the nature around it is quite comforting. Didn't really find too much this time, only a few small zircons and sapphires but o well... Did find one...