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Sorry Heatho, I guess the photo doesn't help. I took another one here. I'm not worried though, it was just more so I have an idea what future stones might be, getting my eye in for ID. I appreciate you having a look though. Thanks for the tip Mungoman, its been washed pretty smooth, there...

I was going back through some of the quartz I'd picked out from my trip to Oberon, as I wasn't confident about identification, I kept anything that was clear. I found this stone which looks different to all the rocks I understand to be quartz. I had also found what members of the forum had...

Im so jealous seeing photos like this! nice work Peg! I'd be happy with just a couple of stones like these. I'll have to try and convince the missus to go back out and maybe see if I can get some help from a veteran on where to go and how to go about it :)

Thanks AtomRat! I'm still a little confused about where is good or not, so I went to Oberon and the tourist centre there pointed out some spots. I know they werent going to be the best, but just to jump into it for our first go was sufficient. I'll have to have another look at the state forest...

Thanks so much for your in depth reasoning Heatho :) I'm finding it difficult to locate information online for differentiating certain stones, such as quartz from sapphire for example. At the moment, I'm just trying to use minerals.net with images and their descriptions until I can get my eye...

Thanks so much Heatho! I potentially have found my first sapphire :D Even if it's not, I'll settle for the zircons. Just out of curiosity, so I can learn to pick out the gems and not have to rely on bothering everyone on the forums too often, what makes you say you think its a sapphire and not a...

I went through all the stuff my fiance and I picked out of our sieves and took a couple of photos. I assume its all quartz, even the things that I thought (more like hoped) were zircon. Though I did notice two stones that were different to everything else I picked. One of them looks yellow in...

I went out to Sapphire Bend yesterday, which was our first proper attempt at fossicking for sapphires. We didnt find anything. There were lots of clear stones in our sieves, which I can only assume were quartz. Some yellow and red varieties too... yellow I assume is quartz, the red not sure if...

Im not sure, this was the first time we went. We drove along Wee Jasper Rd until we got to Mcphersons Swamp Creek and pulled up to check it out. We tried following the creek south from there, but it was way too overgrown with blackberry for us. I can see on google maps that there is another rd...

I know it was said in an older post (2 years ago), I was hoping things had changed though... but went to Mcphersons swamp creek over the weekend and it was absolutely covered in blackberry. Not sure if we were at the same spot that Wal mentions in that older post, but we followed the road to...

Ah Thanks! Those were the maps I was checking out and it looks like anything south of Wee Jasper Rd is ok as long as I have a permit from forestry right? Is there anything else I should take note of while I'm there? Like I know to backfill any holes and I've read the forestry pdf on fossicking...

Hi all, I've been trying to look into fossicking for sapphires at Wee Jasper. I'm new to this so want to make sure im doing everything by the books and respecting the activity and other fossickers. I was reading in an old post about Wee Jasper that Mcphersons Swamp Creek is a good place to try...

Hi everyone, I'm completely new to fossicking and thought I should sign up so i can get lots of good advice from the veterans! I've been reading a few forum posts already and see that some newbies dont know what they are doing and destroy sites, so I really want to make sure that im doing...