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Well what can one say. I just threw up a pic of over 1000cts of Australian sapphire and most act like two year old children. Fact is that about 100cts was found by me in Tasmania.About 900 or so ct was brought off an old fella who found,cut and collected over 50 years.Thanks for the attacks but...

The Collection......

Gday everyone, good to see theres still people on the dig.As it happens ive moved back to south Australia for 3 years to get a new career up and running.Im a year up and two more left before I can hit the creeks of Tasmania again though I think ill be spending more time on the banks digging into...

Thanks everybody for your kind remarks.Firstly,not one of these stones came from the Weld or the main creek systems.Secondly they are selling like hotcakes to local jewellers.Thirdly I aint making enough to keep a cat eating well and last but not least, its bloody hard work finding these little...

her ya go

sorry guys ive been a bit quiet on the digging scene lately but the sun has come out.Let me just start by saying that I cant get a camera small enough to take pics of the pathetic return I got from lamberts.Sure I got a few cut and a few cabbed but I would make a laughing stock of myself by...

Gday fellow diggers and diggerettes,just an update on 160 sapphires sent to lamberts for cutting/cabbing earlier on in the year.Well as ive said in the past and is now confirmed I was clueless when starting my sapphire prospecting career.Earlier this year,late march if I recall right I sent what...

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Morrina golf club in NE Tasmania is 5 minutes within diggn in the Weld and a few other creeks with treasure in them.Ten bucks for a game of golf on a course you will probably have to yourself and then digging 5 minutes later.Five minutes from there and your in a dam catching huge trout and...

How the world turns..You know my old man used to take us camping slash fossicking in Nundle when we were kids mate.Im now pushing 50 and am still digging.Tomorrow on the creek I might spend a little longer smelling the roses because my childhood was great with the adventures we had with dad.Hope...

Thanks everyone, just loaded a few up for a pic to give you a look at what ive been finding.These are a few different shapes,sizes and colours ive been getting out of one creek.Gone into panic mode at the moment because not being an expert in gemstones I never had a set of scales until now.So...

Second from left at the bottom mate........80+cts on scale before batteries died

Gday,was wondering if anybody knew of a stone cutter in Tasmania.Not sure how much it costs to have a green sapphire weighing 7.5ct cut.Any ideas? might be prepared to ship interstate if all else fails.cheers.

So I'm headin up the creek when in the corner of my eye I spot a bit of water feeding in from the side.I exit stage left and find myself on a dirty little mud/sand filled creek 2 meters wide at its widest point.I find a rocky decent at the far end where its now cut off by a road and is fed by...

Any stone found is a win mate.Leeches? mate you should see how many I had on me the other day I was in a filthy little side creek looking for zircon legends.Final score was 100 leeches, 1x50ct zircon and about 100 other zircons weighing from 1-10cts.Ive moved back into the main creek now and...

Insult to injury..just been informed a fellow digger picked up a 50ct stone less than 200 meters away from me on the weekend.It was a bomb but still a 50ct ready for cabbing.Oh well, tomorrow is another day.

Gotta love that old quality gear..

Find a few stones and get them cut as cheap as you can into whatever sizes possible.Anybody know of somebody in the NE of Tasmania,i suppose it must be a gemologist that can do cheap stone valuations for a peasant backyard gemstone operation? any thoughts or ideas much appreciated.Cheers

No scales at the moment but picked up 37 stones today.Biggest is a nice blue cutter of at least 4-5 cts.Didnt hit snake alley because this hole I'm in just keeps giving.Got report today that yes indeed an old fella picked a 20ct blue cutter in Main creek,NE Tasmania Saturday.Apparently its a...